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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and

      I'm very aware of Singal, my first exposure to him involved a housemate of mine having a paper subscription to the Atlantic - I read his cover story, and it read to me like a weird concern trolly mess which fundamentally misunderstood the subject.

      2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    2. Micha Shrine‏ @MichaShrine Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @AsaZernik and

      Do you feel that he failed to interview the right people? Do you believe he is anti-trans?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and

      I think he fell into a trap with journalism where being seen as a contrarian on some issue, of being seen as speaking "truth" to a perceived "cultural power", was a good beat for generating attention and so he inflated the clickbaity side of things

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    4. Micha Shrine‏ @MichaShrine Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @AsaZernik and

      So you are questioning his motives? Can you think of anyone who recently wrote published pieces on detransitioners, who did a good job on it?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and

      I'm not questioning his motives, I'm questioning his published article. I don't ultimately think it's that important what's in one guy's head, he's a working journalist and I think it's best to engage with his actual output. I'm criticizing the structure of his Atlantic article.

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. Micha Shrine‏ @MichaShrine Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @AsaZernik and

      Okay well he's been recently accused by blue-checkmark journalists of being anti-trans to the point of being responsible for suicides that happened. Does that seem reasonable to you?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and

      I mean I suspect the way I would model it was by doing some Fermi calculation - would start by estimating if his journalism caused a certain magnitude of shift in the willingness of some combination of families and doctors to support some number of trans kids

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and

      then I'd try to model the data around how much transition care for trans kids reduces their suicide probability in aggregate, and multiply them together, and subtract some (likely much smaller because of the numbers) reduction on the detransitioner side

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    9. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and

      and that would lead to some modeled actuarial value of how many suicides his work (not his motives, but his sort of body of work and public engagement as a working journalist) is responsible for, which could be substantially less than 1, or greater than 10, or some other number

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    10. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and

      that sort of calculation is what would indicate whether such a statement would be "reasonable", I presume, but I could imagine someone making a statistical argument that the number is greater than 2

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 2
      Replying to @life_minutiae @MichaShrine and

      I haven't seen anyone personally accuse Jesse of causing a specific death but I have seen personal accusations that his article derailed their lives and the lives of people they care about

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 2
          Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

          And honestly that's a good enough reason to hate him, even if you believe he had all the best intentions I can't believe the arrogance it would take to scold someone whose parents stopped them from transitioning because of this article not to blame Jesse

          1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 2
          Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

          Like to take a specific example when Jesse pulled that breathtakingly arrogant maneuver saying "Tim Faust secretly agrees with me and just can't say it" and Tim actually turned on him going "SHUT THE FUCK UP DUDE" and he's like "Yeah but it's true though"

          2 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
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