This is indicative of a general trend both inside and outside academia of a lack of basic respect for trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people that violate deeply-entrenched and regressive gender norms and gender roles.https://twitter.com/WhySharksMatter/status/1154371193912172545 …
"I identify as an attack helicopter" is a way to counterargue the view that self-identity is how we should assign labels. It's a reductio for a certain theory of gender. I think we should use self ID, but you characterization of why they say that is wrong.
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But it isn’t a reductio.
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Even it's not formally a reductio. It's in the spirit of a reductio to say, "If we assume your theory is true, it implies all sorts of false things."
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