Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles — LessWrong
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> It was not the sight of Mitchum that made him sit still in horror. It was the realization that there was no one he could call to expose this thing…

content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    it’s stupid and i wouldn’t have brought it up if zack wasn’t such a fucking dick, but that’s fucking rich coming from someone who’s so high on their own completely misguided biological essentialism, at the exclusion of any social reality, that they think an apt and plausible way to pass as a woman in public is to use a full head silicone mask

    alas, too much of a transphobe to know better

    • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This is wild, there’s like multiple essays worth of text and subtext in there. It almost makes me sad for Zack and his severe brain worms

    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Until I came across a comics table hawking TransCat, the “first” (self-aware scare quotes included) transgender superhero. I had to stop and look: just the catchphrase promised an exemplar of everything I’m fighting—not out of hatred, but out of a shared love that I think I have the more faithful interpretation of. I opened the cover of one of the displayed issues to peek inside. The art quality was … not good. “There’s so much I could say that doesn’t fit in this context,” I said to the table’s proprietor, whose appearance I will not describe.

      a vile thing to write at any time, but to do so within this post in particular is just incredible

      • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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        9 months ago

        If you haven’t looked at the multipost silicone saga I’d personally avoid the guttingly sad combination of uncanny valley and dysphoric self-loathing and a weird amount of unexamined… well, I don’t want to say misogyny. But it ain’t great.