Feynman?
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Replying to @CassidyGavin @graceelavery
His lectures on physics are highly recommended. Simple to understand. Straightforward. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
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Feynman's reputation for this is notable because it is rare There are many people just as smart as Feynman when it comes to science who are not as good at writing in a casual breezy tone as he was, and therefore are not as famous
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This I agree with. It takes special skill to write like that, which is why they are famous. But the number of times I've been told to "go read Butler you bigot!" is way too high, indicating that the best minds of this field are bad at communicating with the masses. Bit ironic
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So don't read her, that's fine Just don't fucking pop off about her being an idiot because you don't get it
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It says a lot about a field if the most recommended authors are bad at communicating.
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Replying to @DimorphicDiva @arthur_affect and
That's a ridiculously bad interpretation. Not writing for a lay audience != "bad at communicating."
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Replying to @JillTempered @arthur_affect and
If your field has better authors, why am I always told to go read Butler?
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Replying to @DimorphicDiva @JillTempered and
Anyway, I want to address this specific issue I have no idea why the specific people who told you to go read Butler told you to read Butler I kind of doubt this ever even actually happened - Butler being a favorite punching bag of people who want to mock queer theory and all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and
But assuming this is in earnest, it's probably because the idea of WHAT so-called "gender ideology" is is very simple, and you've already seen it hundreds of times Gender as a performance of internal identity and all that
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WHAT it is can be described and observed in very small and simple ways Respecting the pronouns in the bio "Trans women are women and trans men are men" "Transition is just letting the outside of me match who I am inside. I know I'm a woman, I just want to be treated like one"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and
The whole "read Butler" thing is about WHY (Although a lot of trans people have a lot of problems with Butler's take, the cool person to recommend on this topic now is Talia Bettcher) But WHY is a much more difficult problem, as it always is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and
"WHY are you a woman? HOW DO YOU KNOW you're a woman? WHAT REASON DO I HAVE to just go along with it? EXPLAIN TO ME EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN by words like 'woman' and 'man' in this context" Etc, etc
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