Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by kupiakos on Saturday September 08, 2018 @02:49PM (#17942184)

Being trans isn't limited to the bedroom. It's not related to sexuality, although there are correlations. The sort of "human playing a human" argument is exactly what is talked about in the Riddle scale. Watching cis people play trans characters feels like watching Hackers, the terrible 90's movie.

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by yorwba on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:20PM (#17942312)

> Watching cis people play trans characters feels like watching Hackers, the terrible 90's movie.

I think that's a great analogy. But two questions come to mind:

1. Are there any movies that are not terrible for people who know enough to compare them to reality? Gell-Mann amnesia comes to mind. Most productions focus on telling a story and will happily ignore constraints of the setting if that allows for more dramatic scenes.

2. What about trans people playing cis people? Maybe they would be better suited for the role because of spending more time as their preferred gender, but otherwise the argument feels pretty transphobic if you simply switch cis and trans.

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Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory... by js8 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:17PM (#17942296)

I find the Riddle scale weird, because I am completely indifferent to somebody being gay. It must be an American thing, because I work in an office with 300 other people, so statistically, some of them are gay. But I have no clue and it makes no difference for me whatsoever.

It's almost as if when you're an atheist and people who believe in god say that you're a believer or that you had a bad experience with religion etc. No, it is simply an indifference.

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