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Expert in Orthopedics.
Rhys goes on to claim he once had a mysterious soft-tissue infection ("with a fuck-tonne of pus") that almost costed his life. Where do you bet the abscess was, if the ER doc felt unsure about treating it?
I'm not sure whether it is appropriate to treat a "life-threatening infection" with out-patient antibiotics. Speaking of, I cannot think of an i.v. antibiotic that can be given q24h. Empirical treatments for abscesses, such as beta-lactams and aminoglycosides, are given every 6 or 8 hours.
From an urgent life-threatening issue to... an even more urgent and life-threatening issue: PRONOUNS!!!
Don't forget Rhys is a fatso, and as such suffers a double whammy of medical discrimination.
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By Royal decree, cis people are no longer allowed to tell tranny jokes.
(The joke that offends Rhys this time is "Don't ask, don't tuck".)
Yup. "Respect and dignity" is the answer. When a man starts to identify as female, he loses respect and dignity.
Japanese. Rhys is so good at Japanese he even offers to criticize JSL courses:
Poker:
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Christa Peterson. Is she talking about us again?
Nope!
So next time some troon accuses KF of "stalking", just tell xir, "We are just doing a project".
More academia dumbness, this time about feminist praxis, deconstructionism, and the origin of the "word" misogynoir. I'll just put Rhys's reply in paragraph form:
Paper! Does anyone need paper?
General grouching about higher ed. Rhys worries he can't do Law School because of his....PTSD!
Rhys goes on to claim he once had a mysterious soft-tissue infection ("with a fuck-tonne of pus") that almost costed his life. Where do you bet the abscess was, if the ER doc felt unsure about treating it?
I'm not sure whether it is appropriate to treat a "life-threatening infection" with out-patient antibiotics. Speaking of, I cannot think of an i.v. antibiotic that can be given q24h. Empirical treatments for abscesses, such as beta-lactams and aminoglycosides, are given every 6 or 8 hours.
From an urgent life-threatening issue to... an even more urgent and life-threatening issue: PRONOUNS!!!
Don't forget Rhys is a fatso, and as such suffers a double whammy of medical discrimination.
+ + + +
By Royal decree, cis people are no longer allowed to tell tranny jokes.
(The joke that offends Rhys this time is "Don't ask, don't tuck".)
Yup. "Respect and dignity" is the answer. When a man starts to identify as female, he loses respect and dignity.
Japanese. Rhys is so good at Japanese he even offers to criticize JSL courses:
Poker:
+ + + +
Christa Peterson. Is she talking about us again?
Nope!
So next time some troon accuses KF of "stalking", just tell xir, "We are just doing a project".
More academia dumbness, this time about feminist praxis, deconstructionism, and the origin of the "word" misogynoir. I'll just put Rhys's reply in paragraph form:
Aside: how can one claim to be a good writer when he abuses single-sentence paragraphs like Rhys does? It is not just in his tweets; I notice that in his "papers" too. And don't get me started on his filler "like".Please just never have this take.
Everyone is developing on what came before...and we apply new tools today to what came before.
It's happened to me and my work on gaslighting. You know what I did? I took it on board and evolved my views in light of the criticism.
One of Safiya's complaint (against a grad student with <200 twitter followers btw) was that the student used the concept of 'misogynoir' which wasn't 'availaible in 2012' when Safia finished a work. But this is what we're always doing, especially in the 'leftie' academic sub-disciplines. Trans studies is now picking apart queer studies.
Yeah, trans studies wouldn't exist w/o queer studies.
But that doesn't mean that we can't legitimately take our newly developed hermeneutical resources (SEE WHAT I DID THERE) and sharply criticize what came before those resources were developed.
In fact, it's pretty terrible feminist praxis NOT to!
This strikes me as a take that expects some amount of veneration and kumbaya in feminist discourse that...has NEVER existed...basically as a matter of feminit praxis!
That's what deconstructionism *is*: to take the old gods and destroy them with the tools of the present.
Like, if you ever refer to younger academics as 'woke' then...woah...RED FLAG time to stop and have a think.
Like, a lot of current trans studies is taking queer studies and just...reconsidering it through a transfeminist lens and sharply pointing out where it just utterly fails.
A great example of this is Sally Haslanger's view on gender.
Trans people have been uneasy with it for YEARS...but only recently has our field been emerging as something that people would dare publish...that our critiques came out...
Sally is an EXTREMELY powerful figure within academic feminism, and feminist philosophy especially. She could have lashed out.
She didn't.
She took it in...over time. And updated her views. She now disavows that view that was once CENTRAL to feminist work on gender!
Transfeminism just didn't 'exist' per se when Sally wrote that famous paper/chapter.
It's so easy to achieve prominence and think that it guarantees one some level of reverence and 'respect'
Fuuuuuck that. No one is off limits.
There was basically an ENTIRE conference on THAT topic...and it was seriously an entire conference that ended up being about where my view was lacking.
And it can be hard to hear it...especially IN PERSON. But...mostly I was like, YEAH, FUCK THAT VIEW! GET 'ER!
These colleagues (almost all of whom I knew, some I did not) were critically engaging in my work and showing shortcomings. I agreed so much that in my follow-up article on gaslighting as a cause of PTSD I prefaced the entire paper with corrections to my earlier paper
And explicitly gave credit to people at that conference for helping me refine and develop my view further. I learned a LOT those two days.
I suspect this is the paper that has caused the Twitter backlash... https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09869.pdf… I mean...this is what applying more radical frameworks just looks like a lot of the time.
Look, if you didn't adopt a radical Black feminist lens (or, goddess forbid, a radical Black transfeminist lens) for your view...your view is going to come out the other side REALLY different...and it may not feel good to be on the receiving end when YOU thought you were radical
If I had to diagnose what's going on here, I bet that's it.
Safiya took herself to be doing something radical (she was), but someone doing something even more disruptive and radical is scary and 'unkind,' and not 'constructive,' but mere 'destructive.'
...and...well, that's kinda literally radical Black feminism's point!!
That intersectionality fucking matters and that multimarg people's critiques are treated more harshly than those with more social power.
Like, YOU'RE DOING THE THING that a radical Black feminist lens predicts you will...
...sooooo...QED??!
got this shit ALL THE TIME as an up-and-coming radical transfeminist.
ALL. THE. TIME.
But then I got famous and people started giving me way more respect. They're far more likely to actually sit with the hurt that I might be causing through my analysis.
Paper! Does anyone need paper?
General grouching about higher ed. Rhys worries he can't do Law School because of his....PTSD!
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