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A view of transmeds, tucutes, gender critics, queer leftists, cultish practices, and it not being that hard to just respect people
Between my spending a lot of time in queer spaces, the shitshow in professional philosophy, and, at this point, just popular discourse, I decided to try to understand the positions different groups who concern themselves with transness. Primarily I’m looking for the positions held and the arguments and evidence for those positions. Seconardily I’m looking… Continue reading
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Sex discrimination inherently includes discrimination on homosexuality, transsexualism, etc.
I’ve been saying this for years, but hey, looks like the courts are getting on board. The linked article includes some statements in opposition, but they’re generally terrible. First, a brief argument for the statement in the title of this post. If you’re going to support equality across sexes, then you’re going to support that… Continue reading
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The Fight We Have Left
On the /r/TumblrInAction subreddit, in a comment, /u/Be3Al2Si6O18 said > The problem now is that we have a generation with very little to fight for I disagree, which I think makes the problem you outline worse. Has the battle been won for a lot of groups’ legal rights and at least popular opinion? For the… Continue reading
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Some People Following the Crowd Doesn’t Diminish the Reasons Behind the Movement (A response to Hans Fiene)
Hans Fiene says the move to legalize gay marriage is merely the result of a desire to imitate the Civil Rights Movement. His article has a number of issues, from making false claims to false equivocations, but it can be taken in sequence. He first establishes that the current generation learned about the greatness of… Continue reading
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