chodetown Buffet

Imo people have in general been misusing the term male privilege

Maybe its because the word "male" is in it without enough reflection to not be bio- or genderessencialist or that its a cisfeminst piece of framework that is uncritically applied to trans people but i often see people just Say this or that group of trans people has male privilege... without explaining what that actually means? Like male privilege includes Everything (emplyment, housing, (sexual) violence, education, political, medical,...) and only minorly includes "more interpersonal politeness/respect", unless specified your saying that your preferred trans target group experiences priviliges in All those areas

these are two entirely contradictory lines of logic, but they lead to the same conclusion. because the conclusion is the point. its a backformed theory of gender. people believe, for whatever reason, that "trans guys have it easier" is an objective fact, and then storytell an explanation for why that is that sounds right to them. and this isn't necessarily something that's done maliciously, which is key. its not about people twiddling their fingers and thinking about how to contribute to a massive conspiracy against transmascs. its about people just feeling, on a gut level, that trans guys must have it easier, by which they really mean, transmasculine suffering isn't socially visible, and it isn't natural for me to imagine it, therefore it must not exist; yet, trans suffering in general clearly exists, so there must be some reason that transmasculine suffering feels so abstract and immaterial to me and others.

The scenario asks ths students to looks at the data showing the likelihood of catastrophic engine failure based on ambient temperature and make a go/no go decision. Most students look at the data presented and make the decision to go ahead. Vanishingly few recognise the flaw with the dataset they've been given: the missing data points - the days the engine didn't fail - indicate a 100% chance of failure on race day.

The scenario is not about a racing car. It's about the Challenger disaster.

The point of the case study is to illustrate how missing data can give you a wildly inaccurate idea of reality and to underline the importance of looking at all of the data, not just the bits you think are relevant.

If you don't see trans men in the data - in trans history, communities, obituaries - the intellectually honest response is to ask "am I missing something?". Men are ~50% of the global population, logically we should be ~50% of the trans community. Where are we? Does that data exist? If not, why not?

If you go around making conclusions based on incomplete data, you're more likely to be wrong than you are anything else. You don't have to design studies and fill in the gaps by yourself, but you have to be mindful that an absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence and that, maybe, something important is being missed.