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I know a lot of people not active on twitter have missed a lot of what's been going on with philosophy's anti-trans wave, so here's a little metathread of some of my threads about it. I'm sometimes a bit sharp! I think bigotry is... very bad, even when it pretends to be feminist.
A thread about the Daily Nous's "'TERF' is a slur and we are the real victims" post. It was really bad! I have an unpublished blog post that further elaborates on this that I can share with people interested. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1034265107927195649
(Unfortunately the link in that thread to another blog post is broken because I'm a dummy and forgot to renew my domain, if you want to read it I can get it for you.)
A little thread about how a supposed prior commitment to radical feminism is used to legitimize trans exclusion, and how it's not an accurate picture of the genesis of most of these people's views. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1059546854273122304
A little bit about whether the common old school radical feminist view of womanhood would entail trans exclusion even if you did have a weirdly rigid prior commitment to it. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1047153564227797000
JCJ is one of the Daily Nous letter writers. In the replies to the last tweet there's an example of how engaging with these people tends to go. It doesn't really resemble normal philosophical disagreement! https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1046912813493407745
Some further Engagement that stemmed from there https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1047364219602067457
Thread about needing new theoretical frameworks to render yourself interpretable to others and people acting like your experiences and existence aren't legitimate unless you can offer a full rational reconstruction https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1047948012062826496
A little thread about the campaign against @nathanoseroff for disagreeing with Kathleen Stock. These philosophers have repeatedly retaliated against people that disagree with them. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1043562094216409088
A bit more of the campaign against Nathan https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1043667807487946753
Thread about Leiter trying to dox someone he thought was a student for criticizing one of Kathleen Stock's pieces. Also a good example of these philosophers' shared habit of pretending substantive criticism is a personal attack. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1044251888105869312
This was the first thing I tweeted about this stuff and the first thing Leiter got mad at me about; it's probably the least substantive, because I hadn't realized this stuff was going to be A Thing yet. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/997204111408836608
Thread about Alex Byrne's recent anti-gender identity piece. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1083807103402205184
This is the end of the same thread, but some more general thoughts about this stuff. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1083914296474533888
I don't have a lot about Kathleen Stock's pieces because I was writing something more substantive I also didn't end up doing anything with, but this is kind of illustrative of their quality, I think https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1040014333525127168
Philosophers would probably not be as credulous of their "gender critical" colleagues' claims that they're Just Trying To Have A Conversation if they read more of their tweets. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1042085999583453186
Some nice Engagement where Holly Lawford-Smith accuses me of random stuff https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1044332781965258752
Another example of The Discourse, this time with Holly Lawford-Smith and Kathleen Stock announcing that MAP looks like a pedophile organization https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1087467644087726080
Thread of distress about the lack of substantial pushback within philosophy; this is what Leiter was reacting to when he told "adult gatekeepers" to "man the gates" against me :\\ https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1089284974866358272
I posted the longer response to the Daily Nous post here. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1090328701789597696
About HLS’s feminism being... not so long standing https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1090737408851664897?s=21
Thread responding to Stock’s challenge to find instances of Holly Lawford Smith personally targeting people (spoiler: there’s lots) https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1114967794783666177?s=21
Thread about the lack of serious scholarship https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1153812646388305922?s=21
More on the not serious scholarship note, SEVEN of them (Sophie Allen, Finneron-Burns, JCJ, HLS, Mary Leng, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, & R.J. Simpson) cowrote a paper that involves this truly wild account of one of the most famous second wave feminist papers https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1131707311674675200
puck: as a trans person I no longer feel welcome in philosophy.
holly: how do you think that gender critical feminists feel??
holly: also this only shows your ignorance of the literature
https://twitter.com/puckspicer/status/1115680868541112322
holly: how do you think that gender critical feminists feel??
holly: also this only shows your ignorance of the literature
https://twitter.com/puckspicer/status/1115680868541112322
Some of my comments on Stock’s Aristotelian Society talk https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1121249367384440833?s=21
