The idea of "safe spaces" seems to reflect a bizarre new kind of segregationist logic. I wonder what these spaces actually look like.
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Speaking from experience: Often places where a few mainstream behaviors are policed so that many other behaviors can flourish.
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The policing of masculinity is itself policed in some spaces, e.g., freeing those otherwise excluded to assert that identity.
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In non-sardonic usage, it's often very literal: To be visibly trans is a good way to get *murdered* in some public spaces.
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In short, the Venn diagram representing segregationists' and sardonic definitions of "safe spaces" is nearly a single circle.
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I suspect theirs/ours in could be a distinction without a difference in the long term, though it may be valuable in short term

