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Did Singal put the Atlantic on blast for misrepresenting his work with a dangerous and illegitimate packaging strategy? Or is this concern about never blurring the difference between adults and minors a retcon now that things are turning out exactly the way his critics predicted?
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Whether Singal personally art-directed the Atlantic cover—let alone whether in the abstract a hypothetical generic writer might have zero control over the packaging of their work—is not the point. His own editors, his original readers, didn't draw this supposedly essential line.
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Singal is claiming now that there's a real and visible boundary between his legitimate question-asking about trans care for children and Trump's illegitimate bashing of trans care for everyone, but the Atlantic ignored any boundary between kids and adults from the very beginning
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The progression from “don’t” to “might not” here is basically the rhetorical strategy around the trans care coverage itself—including the part where it sidesteps the whole central issue in the first place
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you know that writers don't get to pick the cover model. they don't pick the headline. they might not have any say in the editorial process depending on the publication, the topic, where they are in their career. as far i know, glenn greenwald is the only writer i've seen have
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Trump saw it on your mom’s nightstand
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What's the line of causation from that cover to Trump's announcement? I don't care, but your claim is quite shaky .
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“Looked like they were 13” jfc
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“Dishonest” is such a go-to for these dorks, as if the conflation of kids and adults in the packaging of his own work couldn’t possibly be germane to the same conflation he denounces when it’s coming from Trump
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this is an impressively dishonest representation of that cover - as if the cover secretly was advocating/being conserned about/for 22 year olds by using a model that looked like they were 13, and that that lead to this trump decision or whatever. twitter.com/tomscocca/stat…
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Your big breakout Atlantic story on youth gender medicine had a huge photo of a 22-year-old on it with the headline “She’s 13.”
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INDIGNITY -- INDIGNITY VOL. 3, NO. 9: Point of order.
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Tag urself, I'm the absence of essayistic pieces of writing
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Fearlessly weighing in on a controversy that was put to bed three weeks ago
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It’s important in analyzing the new terrible Pamela Paul column not to lose sight of the fact that her most defining feature is not “trapped in a reactionary discourse bubble” or “hopelessly self-important” but just “stale”
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INDIGNITY -- Indignity Morning Podcast No. 3: Aggressive weirdos in Congress.
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The Mr. Wrong Column is now on Indignity!
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INDIGNITY -- Indignity Vol. 3, No. 8: Wrong Place, Wrong Time indignity.substack.com/p/indignity-vo
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Started / going
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Muphry’s Law remains undefeated
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Dude, the proper way to say it was "fanbase is comprised of complete idiots", but apparently you're too enthralled trying to nerf dunk on randos than admit you're wrong lol.
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“Fanbase” takes a singular verb here; you wouldn’t say “The source of the smell were several turds that had missed the bowl” or “The wave of stupidity in my mentions were Jesse Singal fans.”
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"...fanbase is complete idiots" he said unironically with improper grammar. You're an editor??
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[Taps sign] twitter.com/tomscocca/stat
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Replying to @willmenaker @jessesingal and @tomscocca
What a disgustingly cheap, intellectually vacuous piece of rhetoric.
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You misspelled “caliper”
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Gonna have to agree to disagree
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Not gonna RT them into the orc pit but someone recently proposed that Singal isn't fanatically transphobic by transphobe standards, he's just latched onto the subject as his source of authority and he's broken-brained about being disrespected
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You don't know anything about this issue, and you wrote a scathing piece indicting other journalists' work on it without familiarizing yourself with even the basics. All you've got in your bag is juvenile bullshit and NO I DIDN'T WANT *THIS* KIND OF ATTENTION.
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Go away
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What's your actual response to the substance of my argument? If it'll make you feel better imagine it was delivered to you by a servant on Harvard Law School letterhead.
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Usually these people shit their pants with rage if you put quotation marks around a disparaging paraphrase but go ahead, keep getting the entire point wrong
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"they didn't cover this"
evidence that they did
"they didn't cover this ENOUGH"
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Anyway
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What if reactionary liberals could "transition" into covering literally any other topic
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One thing that's weird about the people who take the Singal path is how they never seem to pause and notice that their new fanbase is complete idiots
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Looks like the NYT ran fewer front-page stories on Accutane in the last 40 years than it did on trans care in the past eight months
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2/ There's hackery, and there's hackery so severe that you refuse to do even basic googling
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Oh boy, going Chart Brut now
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A brief, single-GIF response to @tomscocca's screed against journalists covering the youth gender debate, which was headlined "Why Is the New York Times So Obsessed With Trans Kids?"
In his defense, it is VERY hard to find publicly posted government reports and BBC articles
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Ilya Shapiro got so canceled by those law students that he is now apparently the New York Times go-to source for the “conservative” viewpoint on Black History Month
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Welcome to the first day of Black History Month, featuring Ilya Shapiro naming Some of the Good Ones
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Every journalist should read 's thorough and devastating critique of the New York Times' "old-fashioned newspaper crusade" against young trans people:
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What would these Good Liberals have said if you told them 30 years ago that there was going to be an honest-to-God book-banning anti-liberal ideological crusade sweeping the country and that this is what they would be doing in response
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Stop humping Michael Powell stories from last year and get on with your damn life
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If you don't like the language wars then stop waging them jfc
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Some incremental professional news
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INDIGNITY -- INDIGNITY VOL. 3, NO. 7: Here comes Indigni2y! indignity.substack.com/p/indignity-vo
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