I tried reading this. But I got stuck on the dehumanisation and ridiculing of non-binary people.https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-gender-is-a-spectrum-is-a-new-gender-prison …
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The piece pretends to make a philosophical argument (reductio ad absurdum). It fails. It argues for the absurdity of non-binary identity based on the fallacious idea that a non-binary notion of gender would imply everyone is non-binary. It doesn’t imply that at all.
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I’m quite troubled to see colleague scientists retweeting this piece and seemingly not catching the transphobe undertone of the text and fallacious argument.
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Let me just end with a reference to this: https://twitter.com/irisvanrooij/status/1017523278804668417?s=21 … If you want to read something, pick this latter piece and *not* the one in the OP. Or if you want, read both.
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It's also really racist of course!
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