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Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.
Some people have shared stories of suspicious āsales representativesā knocking on homes, asking about the home owners and who lives there, fishing for phone numbers, but do not provide business cards, company id, company phone numbers, etc when asked.
They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if theyāre not real sales people.
True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddlerās license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they donāt provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.
They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely donāt wear name tags and the Donāt provide id.
Tell them youāll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.
Actual sales reps also generally do follow āno solicitingā signs. Be aware, be safe, donāt give out your information or that of others under duplicitous means.
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A woman not shaving or wearing a dress or wearing makeup or wearing femme clothes or having styled or long hair or caring how she looks or using a masc name or whatever else is actually a neutral thing and not a sign of her being depressed or giving up or being sad or whatever
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
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What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
I blame him (at least partially) for the rise in anti-indian racism in the late 2010s to today and people look at me like I'm the friend who's too woke when I say that. But it's true
and youād be right to blame him. he normalized the rise in anti-indian and anti-desi racism through ājokes.ā it took me forever to take pride in my indian heritage bc of the culture he helped set up.
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if youāre not fat and have an ED you need to loudly support all fat people NOW especially fat comrades with eating disorders. like the only way we are getting out of this body fascist world alive is together. We abandon fat people, we fail, and everyone suffers.
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Not stupid! I have a bunch of overall āstructuralā complaints about the way these diagrams theorise sex/gender, and also a bunch of more minor/petty complaints about individual components. My overall critique is that they are transphobic and intersexist despite their (supposed) function to do the opposite.
First, I think itās important to state what the purpose of these diagrams are. They are an educational tool that act as a theoretical intervention into dominant societal conceptions of gender - ie, vagina = girl, penis = boy. The central way this intervention happens is by disaggregating various components of what usually get lumped together as āgenderā (but NOT sex, which is an important distinction I will return to later). This is meant to show people that gender is actually a lot more complicated than they might think, and by disaggregating these various gendered components, you can demonstrate how LGBTQ+ people āfit intoā these components.Ā
I think itās also important to talk about the visual tradition these diagrams are drawing from, which are anatomical diagrams of the human body shown to children and students for the purposes of teaching them about the human body. These āgender diagramsā metaphorise the concept of āanatomyā by superimposing non-anatomical traits onto various organs of an abstracted human form (bear/unicorn/gingerbread). The fact that they are animals or baked goods as opposed to human bodies is very important in their visual language - they are necessarily metaphorical. This āanatomy of genderā is aĀ socialĀ anatomy.
So whatās the problem with doing this? I donāt think thereās any inherent problem with this - for example, trans people often have to explain that sex is an assemblage of traits that are not binary, mutually exclusive, or immutable. You could make a āsex trait unicornā to show that sex isnāt ājustā genes or gametes or sexual organs or reproductive capacity or physical traits or birth certificates or etc, and I think that would probably be fine. But these specific diagrams are, perhaps contrary to their purpose, reaffirming this sex/gender aggregation through disaggregating them.
So, getting to the structural critique, I think the biggest theoretical problem with these diagrams are their āorgan-nessā - the heart is where sexuality is contained, the head is where identity is contained, and the⦠chromosomes between your legs are where sex is contained. It visually communicates that bodily organs are distinct containers for gendered/sexed traits. There are several problems with this, so letās go organ by organ:
(this is getting long so I'm putting the rest under a cut)
The brain š§ - this is where identity is āstoredā in the human body. Identity is a thing inside you that arises from your thoughts, the ācontentsā of your brain. If I were being really uncharitable towards these diagrams, they argue that gender identity is the delusion of how you see yourself that doesnāt interact with/reflect the rest of your body or person. I can āidentify as a manā while every other gendered component of myself āis a woman.ā Which like, I don't āidentifyā as a man, I am a man lol. More charitably, I think itās trying to communicate the fact that trans people discover that their gender identity is in conflict with the rest of themselves, and seek to address this conflict through various forms of transition.
Even taking the charitable view, I think this is still deeply problematic. Just using my own experience, I did not ādiscoverā my gender identity in my head, I discovered it socially - dissociating during sex, friction in romantic relationships, problems with family members, difficulty socialising, being ostracised by peers, forcible assignment of femininity by my parents and especially my mother, and so on. Placing gender identity in the brain visually argues that gender identity can be discovered/thought of in isolation to the social world, because it is a symptom that comes out of a discrete organ, the brain (this is the transmedicalist view of transgenderism - gender identity is a mental illness that needs to be medically treated). This is where the visual tradition of anatomical diagrams works against these gender diagrams, reinforcing the biological view of gender despite the attempts to challenge it.Ā
The heart ā¤ļø - Now this one is a bit more abstracted and āapolitical,ā because the diagrams all use the heart symbol ā¤ļø as opposed to the anatomical heart š«, but I think my criticism still stands, because it is part of the anatomical metaphor of the diagram. I donāt think you can extricate the fairly inoffensive visual association of heart = attraction from the rest of the diagram. The heart is the organ that stores sexuality and attraction, just like the brain is the organ that stores identity, and this sexuality/attraction can be isolated and identified from the rest of yourself. It is just as internal and divorced from the social world as identity is. Itās also bizarrely disaggregated in the unicorn and bear diagrams as physical and emotional attraction lol? What does emotional attraction even mean. I became emotionally āattractedā to all my friends after getting close to them even though Iām not physically attracted to most of them, so I guess Iām demi-pan-emotional? This feels like a more minor nitpick, but itās part of this containerisation of gendered traits, the idea that you can neatly divide emotional and physical attraction. They are āseparate symptomsā of the heart.
The chromosomes 𧬠- probably the easiest one to critique, and imo is the most egregious. Even mainstream pro-trans critiques of sex, which heavily rely on medical authority as the basis of their critique, argue that chromosomes are not āwhat sex is.ā As I laid out above, sex is an assemblage of things that are ideologically bundled together for the purposes of enforcing a set of social systems, such as patriarchy and cissexualism. Using chromosomes to represent sex is an argument that sex is an immutable facet of the body that cannot be changed - even if you take HRT, have surgery, change all of your sex markers on your documents, and live your life as your gender, your sex hasnāt changed because you didnāt āchangeā your chromosomes. You will always be a biological male or female. Sex, these diagrams argue, is a biological essence, and ābiologicalā is a stand-in for immutable, mutually exclusive, and unalterable.Ā
The other insidious part of this is that the chromosomes replace genitals in the diagram - you canāt show a penis or vagina to your audience, thatās icky and gross, so you use chromosomes instead. Itās the only place on the anatomical diagram where the organ is replaced by a non-organ, and the absence of genital organs only draws attention to the āgenitalityā (to use Butlerās term) of chromosomes as a stand-in for sex. It is straightforwardly a transphobic and intersexist depiction of sex. The associated graph with it is even worse, placing āintersexā in between āmaleā and āfemale,ā as if intersex is an undifferentiated amalgam of male/female sexual traits. It upholds the idea that intersex people are just sexually fucked up and have the āwrongā parts of M/F sex combined together, which again, canāt be altered. Which is ridiculous and contrary to reality! One of the core bases of intersexism is that doctors are very much invested in changing the sex of intersex infants, children, and adults through forced surgery and hormones to ācorrectā a pathological incongruence of sex to either an acceptable āmaleā or āfemaleā sex. This is what I meant earlier when I said this diagram might attempt to challenge was gender is, but not sex. It partitions sex off from gender as the stable immutable part of the body, which gender is then overlaid āon top ofā (Butler also critiques this view in Bodies That Matter), which is, again, a transphobic and transmedicalist view of sex and gender.Ā These diagrams beat you over the head with this point - the gender expression component is a dotted line traced over the body of the unicorn/bear/ginderbread. It is segmented and ephemeral in contrast to the solid lines of the body. Crucially, gender expression never touches their bodies. Gender expression is a thing that can be removed or changed, revealing the true biological essence of the body, which remains intact beneath its facade.
My more minor grievances are that these diagrams are visually ugly and infantilising. It is the queer equivalent of telling children to call a vagina a hoo-ha and a penis a ding-dong. I hate how infantilised and cutesy mainstream queer art and branding is. Iām an adult, Iām not a fucking unicorn or bear or āgingerbread person,ā use plain visual language in your educational guides for the love of god. Trans minors also deserve proper representation and education that isnāt this quirky horseshit. The amount of abstraction going on in these diagrams, coupled with the ugly-ass cutesy aesthetic, obfuscates what is trying to be communicated and ends up (imo) being a poor educational tool, even setting aside the many, many ideological problems with them.Ā
So I think these diagrams are deeply transphobic. They represent ācomponentsā of gender by assigning them to various organs, which re-inscribes gender as biological. They are also really ugly