RE: Pronoun Backlash
April 7, 2021 at 11:48 am
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2021 at 11:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 6, 2021 at 10:23 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: "Normalizing" this kind of person might be something they'd object to. And for good reason. So I don't endorse that. What I endorse is "not pushing people to the desperate fringes." But I DON'T support "normalizing" anything or anyone. "Normalizing" gender issues is a superficial project. Sure, good comes of it. But I wouldn't double down on "normalizing" shit to fix our current problem. "Normalization" can only go so far, then it's utterly useless.
I agree that it's just a small slice of all problems.
I don't know that I could personally weight their fortunate discovery as being more worth our consideration that the pool of misery in which they insist to have found it, or insist they couldn't have found otherwise (if they do). The target of normalization isn't that person in the first place (that's just a turn of phrase). It's to change the consequential and negative views of others about their humanity - and even shared humanity..if we drill it all the way down.
You're giving it a short shrift as a problem solver, though. It can go pretty far, contact and familiarity, for example, can predict levels of ostracization and antipathy alone. Even imagined contact does this. Even when the target or recipient or consumer doesn't want it to. It's a powerful behavioral modifier. It can backfire too, ofc. Part of our recent unrest is down to precisely how effective all kinds of normalization in our society have been.
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