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Oh that’s explained earlier on: it was agreed to use only her first name and the pronoun “they“ for the avoidance of bias against her persecutors

a conspiracy which includes frank racism on the part of the conspirators (and apparently, the tribunal) who comfortably assimilate colleagues from “other cultures” as silent witnesses into whom they can just astrally project in front of a fucking legal tribunal

right, but presumably only insofar as we are “men” and therefore less likely to experience distress from violations of that right (per (2))

i mean these are the guys who believe all of the most extreme things a shockingly racist 19th century aristocrat could believe, so it’s well suited to the Telegraph i guess

so when Good was shot i went and checked out TheMotte.org, which is an outrageously mask off fascist racist plain bigoted spinoff of the rationalist community

curiously, this precise argument was being made there at that time, within a day or two of the murder

and how!

it’s also the actual lede of the article

i don’t think that lede is buried, it’s written in the headline

trans girl: i'm trans, i'll be starting transition soon

several dozen cis women: cool! i've got this old eyeliner which i don't wear because it looks like shit. also i had conjunctivitis. do you want it

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please condescend to me gently while i complain about how difficult ordinary life things is

yes. YES.

I think it’s insanely cool that the primary message the self-appointed avant-garde has to present the world is “are you jealous of my neurotic friends?”

yes but Nathan in our defense many of us were equally concerned about THE ORB