Agreed it's not 1:1. Regardless, I wish the letter to the professor had been unflinching in its denunciation.
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A closer analogy might have been him insisting on calling his Japanese/Chinese/Indian students only "Asians."
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in fact I think it would be assholish of me to insist others devote brain cycles to distinctions that matter to me at all times
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On the other hand, students of his are being made to devote cycles to fit themselves into his small boxes. Constant self-monitoring.
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and so are ALL the students with illegible identity dimensions that are subject to that kind of rough handling
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every other time I order at a take-out or Starbucks I have to repeat/spell my name. So be it. I shave before flights. So be it.
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So long as people aren't being actively threatened with bodily harm or death for visible identity markers they can't control...
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...it's best left for people to work out situationally rather than being legislated into a cognitive tax for everybody
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I'd argue we need those laws as procedural/precedental defenses against laws that do the opposite.
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Looking at the recent bathroom laws that inspired men to follow women - already justifiably paranoid - into bathrooms.
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there are SJ issues I think are more important than people not being addressed by preferred pronouns, like cops killing blacks
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Conversely, transgender black women are one of the most murdered populations, AFAIK, so there's overlap.
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