I think the core of my disgust with identity politics is that I always liked a worldview that firmly valued assuming nothing about a person on first glance. "Don't judge a book by its cover" was one of my early fav aphorisms as a kid
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I've lived lots of lives, in 7 states, mostly quite privately and quietly, at times so poor that I slept on the kitchen floor behind a screen & at other times living with full financial freedom. I've met all sorts of people, and not one could be reduced to demographic identifiers
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The last thing I want is for anyone to look at me and see "woman — probably harassed, probably mistreated at work or undervalued, maybe at some point raped." The very idea that individuals are to be known by their risk factors for oppression is unethical
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Someone pays that person to touch a keyboard.
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The label doesn't mean what it used to mean, and it doesn't mean the same thing to everybody. Gotta be careful with who gets called what and what those labels mean to everyone involved. Which is exhausting.
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