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IME trans people only accidentally sound like they are employing gender essentialism because of the conflation of gender with what I have dubbed “bear...

Do you know about colors of noise? Warm and cool colors are analogous (or vice versa, really). Warm colors feature more low frequencies and are theref...

That is exactly what this thread is about. I'm proposing a new term or concept, "bearing", to distinguish the feelings about body stuff, in isolation,...

Sure thing. Which color is that though?

Thanks!

I guess I've been operating from a viewpoint that sees gender essentialism as obviously if not definitionally false (if it's something biological then...

I was playing off of your joke, and also being funny myself with "anti-".

Purple is red and blue combined, so you can't hate one more than the other. Identity and whatnot. But despite purple being the anti-green, it is also ...

It’s an interesting scientific question, but not of much philosophical interest, and I’m a little suspicious of putting too much emphasis on it for so...

I think that's close to logically equivalent to what I'm saying, but that seems a weird way to put it. The "close to" part is that bearing isn't just ...

I’m not sure we have any disagreement. You say I won’t “bracket the aetiology” but unless you mean something very different by that than I do, that’s ...

Grey is almost as acceptable as green.

Aristotle should agree that green is the best color because it's the (ironically) golden mean, the middle color, neither warm nor cool, but perfectly ...

By listening to people talk about it? I'm still not clear if by "socially mediated" you're talking about causation of bearing, or semantic complicatio...

I've never tried to be saying anything at all about aetiology, or particularly about intensity.

That all sounds good to me, although the way you use the term "phorics" seems a little odd to me. Etymologically, someone who is "dysphoric" isn't the...

I noticed it being green earlier. Green is objectively the best color. It should go back to that.

I've never disagreed with this. Comfort is transparent; if everything feels fine, it doesn't feel like much at all. I made the analogy earlier to race...

A little bit of history of my views of this, for illustration: when I was a teenager, and first talking to someone else about imagining what it would ...

I don't want to tell someone that they're "identifying wrongly" or anything, but your description of your feelings sound like textbook "agender". I th...

Yes, that's more or less what I'm thinking. I don't see there being any such thing as Bearing2; I see that as just ordinary gender identity in its str...

Disambiguation is inherently about reducing semantic confusion. What do you think "disambiguate" means? It means there's a word that has an imprecise,...

That is true, but entirely besides the point, and it feels like deliberately missing the point. You understand that I'm not talking about "feeling lik...

At this point I'm pretty sure you're just willfully misinterpreting everything so that you can continue being a bigoted asshat. I didn't say that ther...

Repeating the same incoherent nonsense isn't going to make it any more correct. People can have feelings about the shape of their bodies independent o...

Exactly, all of our observation of things besides the direct occasions of our experience are indirect. We have a sensory experience, we notice pattern...

Yes, because the concept of "gender" is used both to refer to the social stuff and to the feelings about your physical sex, and I want to disambiguate...

I’m curious to hear you elaborate on how my definition of access consciousness differs from Block’s because I wasn’t aiming to / didn’t realize I was ...

You’re talking about something unrelated to the topic of this thread. This isn’t about “identifying” or any other social thing, this is about having t...

Specifying which you mean with "verbal qualification" is important because there's two very different senses of the word "consciousness", one of which...

Are you talking about phenomenal consciousness or access consciousness? Very different things.

As the originator of the idea (of bearing): no, not really. It's meant to be about "sensations or senses of accord with one's body as it regards" sex,...

All memory is internal yes. Not all pain is in response to memory. Getting fixated on a memory of a passing painful thing is “internalizing” it, becau...

Not to disagree with anything you say but maybe to explain part of it: it’s always seemed to me that the language of “privilege” makes it inherently a...

Internalization is what makes it trauma: when the stimulus that prompted the bad feelings is gone but the bad feelings continue anyway, the stimulus n...

Current discourse differentiates between "sex" and "gender". But "gender" has several different meanings in different contexts, causing some confusion...

Next up on National Public Radio, sixty minutes of existential philosophy readings set to classical piano on: The Chopin Hour.

I've just started noticing the days getting shorter, and realizing the immanence of the winter time shift, of losing any light at the end of my days, ...

There is technically not anything logically impossible about an omnipotent being creating something that it then cannot move. That's just equivalent t...

Well put.

OP wrote "MT" and "N", which are shorthand for modus tollens and negation, the rules of inference used in the argument. On which point , the negation ...

This is once again just the free will theodicy and like all instances of it depends entirely upon an incompatibilist conception of free will. On a com...

Sounds like you can't even use an idiom correctly. Thank you for making it so clear who can be safely ignored around these parts.

I'm having a hard time understanding you, but to clarify myself in case there's a misunderstanding there: I'm not at all saying that bearing is about ...

Pretty much, yes. I've just come across situations where those don't line up, and think it's useful to be able to distinguish between them in those ci...

I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought I was before. Bearing is meant to be entirely about how you feel about your physical sex, independent of social...

Thank you for the constructive feedback. I did say in my OP that of course all three of these things have strong connections to each other, and elabor...

Mission accomplished.

You just said all trans people suffer from a mental disorder. I’m just taking your opinion at face value. You don’t want to look like a bigot, then ex...

Oh I see now. Swan thinks trans people are all just crazy. Nice to know I can safely disregard everything else he has to say from now on. @"Bitter Cra...