Venkatesh Rao

wassn’t sure I had parsed “trad” properly bc it’s super gender-y, and “rigidly/reductively/partially” didn’t seem “agender” to me, just kinda “a-fluidity”... and wokeism also seems kinda a-fluid RE gender categories too... so was p sure I was misunderstanding some axis or square

the professionalism x {capital, rent seeking} x {reproductive production RE gender} is EXCELLENT and I think I got kind of sniped staring at wokeism in that lens and being like “what is rent seeking here hmmmm mmm”

RIGHT, there is something dimensionality-reduced here, that confuses things. i wanted both anti-gender and a-gender, and i wanted to evoke more stuff about the tension between power and phenomenonlogy. there's more axes and polarities that are clearly there

oooh what I really want is “pro/anti-gender” and “pro/anti-fluidity” as like a... third axis (oh no) bc RE social justice, earlier feminist thought is pro-gender anti-fluidity anti-natal whereas modern queer social justice is pro-gender pro-fluidity anti-natal ...

“Artificial wombs for all” transhumanist is anti-gender pro-fluidity pro-natal...

congrats you’ve successfully sniped me utterly with this in a good way

a 2x2x2 is only eight boxes it can’t be that hard

@rothosphere we need a tool