1/ People who argue against "the gender binary" are like people who say there's no species bc horse + zebra interbreeding. @ClareYChen
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2/ it's TECHNICALLY correct that there are not absolute lines, but in practice it's far better to pretend 99.999% = 100%
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@MorlockP@ClareYChen In practice it's far better to recognize 99.999% = 99.999%. But humans below +2 SD just can't fucking do it. - Show replies
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3/ term "disorder" inherently assumes Platonic truth. We're all messy evolved stews of proteins water. DNA is a hack >
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4/ the miracle is that it works at all. All sorts of "disorders" either arise from adaptive changes or are eng fails.
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5/ to label things as "fail", tho, is to medicalize standard variation. Prob good for XYY weirdness, but a bad habit >
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A dangerous road. If we admit the validity of curing human variation, feminists will want to cure manly men, etc.
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That said, I'm extropian. If parents want to edit out schizophrenia, homosexuality, sickle cell, that seems reasonable
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My philosophical point is that engineering practice has "defects" bc there is a defined goal; evolution does not bc blind, no teleology
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@RiverC@ClareYChen Colloquially: you're soaking in it. I'd rather live in a world where Google makes a place for@JustineTunney than not.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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