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 …
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@kate_manne’s incredible work on misogyny can be explicitly extended to diagnose this type of behaviour in response to treating others with the bare minimum of respect, since I see a lot of parallels.1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
This isn’t the first time I have heard of people objecting to the use of pronouns on name tags or feeling as if they are personally attacked by being politely asked to use other people’s correct pronouns.
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Some people (like Jordan Peterson) have made lucrative careers out of their histrionics in response to being asked to treat trans and nonbinary people as equally deserving of respect as cis people.
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Other academics with regressive attitudes towards entrenched gender roles and gender norms have tried to appeal to Peterson’s fanbase by engaging in similar histrionics, usually relying on propagandistic talking-points about ‘academic freedom’ to misgender others.
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And many popular individuals on the far-right outside academia also employ the same tactics of refusing to consider the testimony of others as containing any merit—thus the conservative attempt at ‘humour’: ‘well then *I* identify as an attack helicopter’.
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"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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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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No a critique of a specific theory of gender. It's just saying that view proves too much.
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