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i think it's cool that being a cocktease is just something you can pretty much do forever without facing any consequences

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I keep thinking this! very frustrating
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Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like āhe was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handoutsā and I wanted to be like⦠okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
Thatās an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people donāt know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, weāve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless theyāre talking about political theory and philosophy, so itās easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. Itās the difference between āyouāre a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell itā and āyouāre Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.ā There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

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Iām a professional GenAI and LLM hater but I think we often run the risk of shoving everything labeled AI into the same box as those and I think this might be a case of that.
Because explain to me like Iām 5 how this is any different than the kind of typing tools weāve had on phones, tablets, and writing programs for a good long while now.
Like it feels a little telling that in the original post, they completely cropped out the actual functions and it doesnāt seem like anyone bothered to look at them when going to turn off this feature.
And like, turn it off if you want. ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ idk if itās as helpful on your computer than it is a phone, but this feels like a fear-mongering thing. Itās like how every time a website updates their policies, someone makes a post about how theyāre stealing your content because the poster doesnāt understand copyright or hosting rights
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If staff reformed the ban system to stop banning trans women and used the resulting good will to re-introduce pornography, this site would become a juggernaut. It would swallow Twitter whole.
staff hates trans women so much they'll sink this website over it

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Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis
Further Reading
Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case - Volume 56 Issue 4
Resources on the history and lived experiences of queer people in Nazi Germany.
The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative dedicated to researching the experiences of queer and trans people in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
This series features conversations about the Nazisā persecution of LGBTQI+ people, how this legacy reverberates in our contemporary society,
A YouTube playlist of lectures from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Queensborough Community College.
Abstract. Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close r
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
On the Institute for Sexual Research
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadnāt fallen victim to Nazi ideology
The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dmd.8
The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
Forever recommending How Sex Changed as a nonfiction reference book, which goes over Hirschfeld, Lili Elbe, Harry Benjamin, Christine Jorgenson, Lou Sullivan, WPATH, and more:
'How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States' by Joanne Meyerowitz
Also important context to the services Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science provided: testosterone was first isolated as a compound in 1927, and first synthesized in 1935. The looting and shutdown of the institute happened in 1933.
so iām 19% through whipping girl and like. serano says this:
and i donāt really know what to think of it?
so, does julia serano not understand gender as a social construct or especially sex as a social construct? this kind of confuses me, because a lot of transfeminists that build on seranoās work tend to see both gender and sex as constructed, so how do they reconcile this?
i donāt think the part about hormonal predispositions being real is untrue, but serano seems to characterise gender and ābiological sexā as not constructed, but instead exaggerated, so for instance, it seems like she would say that it is bad to claim that āall women are more emotionalā but she would say that āwomen in general are more emotionalā for instance, where she acknowledges that there is not universality, but at no point in this does she question the way that emotionality is typically operationalised in misogynistic ways? like earlier she talks about crying more and not being able to stop after going on HRT, and this is the stereotypical way to operationalise emotion, as a woman sniffling, as opposed to a man getting angry at a sports game or smth. like, she abides by the patriarchal metrics of something like emotion, if that makes sense? she also doesnāt question the androcentrism in operationalising āstrengthā as muscle mass and brute force (presumably, as she links her becoming āweakerā to going on E). she also states that typical women are āfeminineā and typical men are āmasculineā and posits āmasculine womenā and āfeminine menā as outliers. and by viewing it this way, she seems to legitimise and naturalise the categories of male and female, whereas transfeminists seem to understand those categories as inherently the product of patriarchy, in the sense argued by Monique Wittig. Iāve also heard of sexgender described as a set of labour relations, for example, by transfeminists.
if anyone has any explanation or response to my confusion, i would appreciate it, especially if youāre more well read than me about transfeminist theory and sex deconstruction
Hi! I saw this a post a while ago but didn't have the energy to answer your question, but now I do, so let's do this.
Generally, Serano's conception of gender isn't great. It's not like, particularly offensive, and it had some real advantages over it's contemporaries, but it's not exactly sophisticated or airtight. (In fairness, this is a press book for a general audience)
The reason for this was that neither of the theories of gender which existed at the time in which she wrote Whipping Girl could at all account for a transgendered experience. On one hand, you had gender essentialists like Luce Irigaray who explicitly thought that trans women were men, and on the other, you had social constructionists in queer theory like Judith Butler, who created a theory of gender which was totally unable to account for our lived experiences, if they were a lot nicer to us.
I'll note briefly that many new materialist feminists had acknowledged and corrected this mistake, a lot of them using trans women's memoirs and experiences in doing so.
This might sound surprising, considering the normal way this gets taught is that the evil gender essentialists were wrong and transphobic and the righteous social constructivists were correct and trans-inclusive, but this was never the case. I have another post about Butler you can check out if you want to learn more (or go read Jay Prosser's Second Skins), but the jist is that, when one places gender entirely outside of the body and in the social sphere, and when you, as Butler did, reduce gender to being an effect of a performance, it becomes impossible to understand gender as a goal, as telos. (thank you Prosser for that btw)
If gender is just an effect of performance, if it is entirely a socially constructed phenomena, why do I want to be a girl? Why do I get dysphoria? Why do I smile and blush when I go spinny in a skirt?
okay back to Serano
What Serano is doing here is pulling some of the social construction back into the body. Rather than having gender be entirely post-social and post-political, Serano sees some part of one's gender as existing prior to the social sphere. Later academics will persuasively argue that this is also wrong, and place the both the body and the social as working at the same time in a process of inter-implication, but this intervention on Serano is rather minor, and smaller than the one she is making on gender theorists in queer theory and cisfeminism.
Serano's basic point is that diversity in human behaviour doesn't require a special explanation. I like the colour purple, at least in part, just because I just do, the fact that some people like green and some people like purple doesn't require some theory of colour-attraction or whatever, people are just different. Diversity does not require explanation because it is the norm. In fact, we would be shocked if everyone liked the same colour, that actually would require special explanation.
Given this diversity, some people are just bodily more likely to prefer expressing themselves socially as men or as women, (or as neither or something entirely different, provided that is an option, which it usually isn't) and so when one of these people are not able to do that because of coercive gender assignment, gender dysphoria is the result.
A good example for this is the one she used, crying. All people could be put on a spectrum of how often/strongly they cry. If you then overlaid that spectrum with their gender, you'd see that men tend to cry less and women tend to cry more. Crucially, the reasons for this are both that men will be expected/pressured to cry less and women will be expected/pressured to cry more, and that some people who just naturally cry a lot will start identifying as women, and some people who naturally cry less will start identifying as men. (obviously, crying is a small and single example which would probably never be enough to, on it's own, make someone transition, but a bunch of more important things combined together could) Gender isn't responsible for the existence of the diversity in how much humans cry, it just exaggerates what is already present.
These are the advantages of her theory, and I've steelwomaned her here and there to provide a better and more airtight case for it, in part because Whipping Girl is a press book, not an academic dissertation on gender. It's worth noting that Jay Prosser's Second Skins, who I mentioned before, is the text which really originates a lot of this, and so in places I've chosen to fill in Serano's theory with his, given that she read and cited his book in Whipping Girl.
As you correctly point out though, Serano doesn't do this very cleanly. She ends up reinforcing aspects of the sex binary, promoting ideas like "brain sex", and nonsense about hormones. She even says that "certain aspects of femininity (and masculinity as well) transcend both socialization and biological sex", which just doesn't make sense. Like where does it come from then girl.
It's worth pointing out these flaws, but we should acknowledge that she (well, Prosser honestly) is really working with theories of gender which completely fail to account for her experiences, but that she manages to nevertheless create one. One which was a significant improvement over the existing cisfeminist and queer theories, if it still had significant and harmful problems.
If you'd like to see a transfeminist text which takes a lot of Serano's analysis and applies it within an updated, more academic theoretical framework, and which has several other notable improvements over Serano besides that, I would highly recommend Emma Heaney's introduction to Feminism Against Cisness.