From 83ca5965bb65f5552dd02adef6dbe98f244dde3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 11:14:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] continuing to draft "Lesser Known Demand Curves" --- content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md b/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md index e3642bb..ba9af34 100644 --- a/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md +++ b/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Lesser-Known Demand Curves Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary -Tags: epistemology, Julia Serano +Tags: bullet-biting, epistemology, Julia Serano Status: draft In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_, Julia Serano argues that both trans and non-trans people's gender sentiments are rooted in _subconscious sex_, "a deep-rooted understanding of what sex their bodies should be." She writes: @@ -14,15 +14,13 @@ My question: why does Serano so blithely assume that _Yes_ respondents are just It's [not that self-reports must necessarily be interpreted literally](/2016/Sep/psychology-is-about-invalidating-peoples-identities/), nor that wiseasses don't exist, nor even that wiseass-Yeses are likely to be rarer than genuine-Yeses. -Rather, speaking as someone who has gender problems and is [interested in doing _something_ about them](/output/tag/not-a-transition/) while also having strong reservations about what actually-transitioning would do to my health and social life, I'm wary that conceptions of transness that model it as an atomic quality intrinsic to a person (gender identity, subconscious sex, _&c._) tend to +Rather, speaking as someone who has gender problems and is [interested in doing _something_ about them](/tag/not-a-transition/) while also having strong reservations about what actually-transitioning would do to my health and social life, I'm wary that conceptions of transness that model it as a preëxisting atomic quality intrinsic to a person (whether it's called _gender identity_, _subconscious sex_, or something else) tend to obscure the the reality that the act of transitioning is, necessarily, [_a choice_](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/1327/)—an _important_ choice that needs to be made on the basis of a careful consideration of _all_ the costs and benefits, including base, temporal concerns like personal finance. +POINTS TO HIT IN THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST— +* law of demand +* marginalism +* intrinsic identity is the special case when demand is highly inelastic +* $10M is a life-changing amount of money; not surprising that it could push people over the edge -maybe she has further evidence - -ponytail is a tell - - -It's common to conceive of transness (gender identity, subconscious sex, _&c._) as a quality intrinsic to a person, that exists whether or not - -https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/1327/ \ No newline at end of file +If you're trans, you _need_ to transition, and if you're not-trans, then you mustn't -- 2.17.1