there's no actual neutral or default human condition, there's just people who fall in line with the status quo + its implicit assumptions
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all that saying that, for example, a trans person can't be an authority on gender does is favor the voices of privileged people
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and it also shuts out voices with actual expertise from actual lived experience
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i use gender as an example here because that's what i keep seeing people do this with
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but this happens on a ton of axes of marginalization and with a wide variety of experts
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and it's part of the same narrative that says that when you get emotional you lose-- because only people with skin in the game get emotional
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and of course it's magnified by stereotypes that demean the emotions and lived experiences of marginalized people
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this is the conversation thread that made me think about this stuff-- it's about shitty cis gatekeepers so tw https://twitter.com/NireBryce/status/716851343684673536 …
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anyway this is why i hate The Gender Discourse With Jesse Singal so much
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also in general like "i'm able to live my whole life without examining this thing, so i'm unbiased about it" fuck that
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