So eg if in complex space of possibilities many people taking up few regions in this space, those may (again) be(come) seen as norms.
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To me this view seems flawed, nothing inherently normative in the "most frequent". Says more about human psychology,
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but important to consider in math / formal approach as per your and Butler's warnings.
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Yeah, many of my friends are trans and I need to remind myself normies/cis ppl have no clue about gender sometimes.
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Makes sense, low exposure to diversity. Psychology of human categorisation can explain, I think, why cis' concepts of gender may tend to be
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different (bold conjecture: lower average Kolmogorov complexity) than from trans people, or those otherwise outside the binary/gender norms.
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Yeah, many trans women, although I am not speaking for them, tend to open especially cis men's eyes to the possibility that straight and gay
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make no sense if one was defining then using binarism.
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Replying to @o_guest @JCSkewesDK and
I can see that. Now wondering if outside the binary it does make sense, ultimately. Not arguing against self-identification (I do too!),
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just not sure our gender/sex concepts are always internally consistent (stable) in the end.
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Yep, so much muddies the waters. Femmephobia is another huge issue too within LGBT and feminist spaces, as well as more widely.
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Replying to @o_guest @JCSkewesDK and
Thanks for pointing this out. I read up on femmephobia and how it works (here: http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/femmephobia-queer-community/ …) Recognize it, yes, sadly.
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