From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 03:35:03 +0000 (-0800) Subject: check in "Lesser Known" drafting X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba7e2cbb89d8035549830679d2accd04f5e6a6ce;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in "Lesser Known" drafting --- diff --git a/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md b/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md index ba9af34..b310435 100644 --- a/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md +++ b/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: commentary Tags: bullet-biting, epistemology, Julia Serano Status: draft -In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_, Julia Serano argues that both trans and non-trans people's gender sentiments are rooted in _subconscious sex_, "a deep-rooted understanding of what sex their bodies should be." She writes: +In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her book _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_, Julia Serano argues that both trans and non-trans people's gender sentiments are rooted in _subconscious sex_, "a deep-rooted understanding of what sex their bodies should be." She writes: > Many cissexual people seem to have a hard time accepting the idea that they too have a subconscious sex [...] I do believe that it is possible for cissexuals to catch a glimpse of their subconscious sex. When I do presentations on trans issues, I try to accomplish this by asking the audience a question: "If I offered you ten million dollars under the condition that you live as the other sex for the rest of your life, would you take me up on the offer?" **While there is often some wiseass in the audience who will say "Yes,"** the vast majority of people shake their heads to indicate "No." @@ -16,11 +16,15 @@ It's [not that self-reports must necessarily be interpreted literally](/2016/Sep Rather, speaking as someone who has gender problems and is [interested in doing _something_ about them](/tag/not-a-transition/) while also having strong reservations about what actually-transitioning would do to my health and social life, I'm wary that conceptions of transness that model it as a preëxisting atomic quality intrinsic to a person (whether it's called _gender identity_, _subconscious sex_, or something else) tend to obscure the the reality that the act of transitioning is, necessarily, [_a choice_](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/1327/)—an _important_ choice that needs to be made on the basis of a careful consideration of _all_ the costs and benefits, including base, temporal concerns like personal finance. -POINTS TO HIT IN THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST— +The logic of normative decisionmaking given limited resources is well-studied under the name _microeconomics_, one prominent feature of which is the _law of demand_: as something becomes cheaper, people demand more of it. The law of demand can be seen as a consequence of the principle of _marginalism_: decisions are made "on the margin", relative to an agent's current situation. Rather than needing or not-needing some good as a discrete binary, there exists a tension between the agent's need and its ability to do without, the balance between which is + + +If you're trans, you _need_ to transition, and if you're not-trans, then you mustn't -* law of demand -* marginalism +POINTS TO HIT IN THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST— * intrinsic identity is the special case when demand is highly inelastic * $10M is a life-changing amount of money; not surprising that it could push people over the edge -If you're trans, you _need_ to transition, and if you're not-trans, then you mustn't +TODO links: +* A. Grieve-Smith on spectrum of transition-need: https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2017/01/28/all-other-things-being-equal/ +* Econlib on marginalism: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Marginalism.html