ialdabaoth comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 27 November 2012 12:19:27AM 4 points [-]

You have an implicit assumption: that there are actions that you can take which assume that gender identity matches body, that do not enforce stereotypes and which cannot be co-opted to enforce stereotypes.

There is strong evidence to suggest that that is not true, within the current social landscape.

Comment author: MugaSofer 27 November 2012 12:44:35AM 3 points [-]

Referring to them by gendered pronouns, basically.