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Replying to @0x49fa98
Hungary's absolutist enforcement of the sex binary. It's not even scientifically valid, and it's morally reprehensible. As a related aside, when I visited Hungary for TedX, I asked the head of protocol at the University what Hungary's main industry was. His answer? Corruption.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @0x49fa98
even if one thinks biological sex is binary (which i dont) how could one make an argument for legal enforcement of sexuality?
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A not-insignificant amount of law regulates sexuality already, I don't see how this case is different.
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Regulating sex is bad enough, except in cases where you are protecting vulnerable people (e.g. outlawing rape/statutory rape) But if you are regulating identity, this is a deep oppression, & will ultimately lash out. If you are not yourself trans, this is likely Dunning Kreuger
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I am simply working from first principles here, from the notion that "the essence of law [is] to divide up, distribute, or reattribute everything that counts as enjoyment (jouissance)". Sexuality and identity are forms of enjoyment in this sense and are thus subject to law.
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Replying to @simpolism @DanielleFong and
Even Foucault was opposed to the notion of identity qua sexuality. He believed identity was a part of the "Faustian Pact" of modern Western culture, and that we should oppose it if we opposite the deployment of sexuality by powers against us.pic.twitter.com/0NxPTHUrMD
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Replying to @simpolism @DanielleFong and
Yeah, I think that when something becomes an identity, it becomes institutionalized, brittle over time, even eventually oppressive in its own right. I’ve heard there’s sometimes negative treatment of bisexual people in some gay circles.
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Replying to @ResonantPyre @simpolism and
It’s not hard to understand that identities also become a rallying point, a point of unity and a tool against the enemy. But I think I probably agree w Foucault that true liberation is also liberation from identity to a great extent.
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Replying to @ResonantPyre @simpolism and
These men are Foucauldian heroespic.twitter.com/CZmOsiKx1S
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these are great
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