Time to launch the Patreon.
I tested it on Facebook the other day to see if I’d done it right and people started pledging right then but this is the actual launch.
I’m back at the original B&W, with NO ADS and no fatuous people announcing that I’m a transphobe because I have my own ideas about gender. I earned a little income blogging at Freethought Blogs and I need to replace that. Think of me as like a public radio station but without voices and without the “you owe us, please call now” drives. You don’t owe me. Don’t donate unless it’s easy for you and you want to. I like doing this and I like having readers; donating is entirely voluntary.
If you do decide to, you can do it
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32 responses to “I’m back”
Welcome back!
Yay!
I can log in. Yay!
Good to see y’all!
Yay!
Bookmark changed.
Welcome home.
Bienvenida!!!
Gracias!
Checking in.
Velkommen hjem.
And on the plus side, I can now comment on your blog. Yay!
B&W was the first site I ever commented on. Glad it’s back.
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*waves*
Okay then. To new beginnings.
Good to see you — anywhere.
Ooh, now I can see comments! Welcome back!
First!
No, wait…
Glad to see that you’re back – and without ads to clutter things up.
Also glad to see that you stuck to your guns on “your ideas” about gender. While I think you could probably have elaborated on your positions somewhat, I quite agree that it is a rather nebulous if not incoherent concept. And one that many if not most of your erstwhile colleagues seemed unwilling to discuss. And which seemed to have been based on a rather dogmatic insistence on conflating gender and sex. I figure the only sensible construction to that question that was put to you is, “do you believe that transwomen (the gender) are women (the sex), yes or no?” The only reasonable answer to which seems to be a flat “no”.
Steppenwolf, I think gender is in the category of an “essentially contested concept”, not just polysemous.
John Morales: certainly a contested concept. Although it seems that most people, including many feminists, agree on the broad outlines of it. From the Wikipedi article on gender:
And since that definition clearly argues that “biological sex” is merely an element or a component of gender – the same way that a transmission is a component of a car – I think it is incoherent and “most illogical” to argue that a particular gender is identically equal to a particular sex: a car is not a transmission. Ex falso quodlibet, “from a falsehood, anything follows”
Nice digs! I may not comment much but I’m always reading and learning. I hope to be able to comment more in future now that there seems to be more breathing room and an air of discussion instead of being wide open to attacks.
I’ve mostly been playing catch-up with posts but I’m happy to help make this place thrive.
And now I’m off to wander about the site!
Welcome back Ophelia!
Woohoo! Nice digs!
Welcome “home”!
Welcome back.
Oh, here you are!
*proffers housewarming gift:
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Ahhhhhh. Nice to be back.
Well it’s about time. I thought you were going to stay over there forever.
Hello? *tap* *tap* Is this thing on?
I don’t expect to be contributing much, but I figured out how to get the comments in RSS, so maybe once in a while.
I went by Elephantasy on FTB, but I decided to change it. The venue switch is a good opportunity.
Best wishes on the new old digs. I should make a casserole or something.
Yes you should, because then you would get to eat it.
Sackbut is a nice name. I like Tudor-period music.
Hee.
I’m struck by how easy it was.
Not sure if I ever mentioned this, but I could never sign in at your blog at FTB – I had to go to another, sign in, then return and comment.
Also, this doesn’t feel like…hostile territory, which had become an issue for me there long before this latest business.
And I have fond memories.
Even if the impetus was unhappy, I’m happy you’re back here.
I do have fond memories as well, SC…
Left some in hostile territory too, though, truth be told.
Some dust on them now, granted. And not the only such territory. And what can ya do. The red advance of life and all. This being a thing, you’d figure, of any age.
Yeah, I do think any, and lately I’ve been flirting with the notion that maybe the only really notable thing that’s changed with the technology is the cadence at which those who fight monsters become them. But then I’m almost pathologically suspicious of all simplification (I’d still maintain, mind, it’s probably a more useful fear than the converse, and that simplification especially is probably a bit unfair in the context, too, even almost certainly, if a bit of a promising place to start from, I guess)… Anyway, and then I get to thinking I should just take a little more time offline. And not just so I stop thinking that (or at least think other things besides). As much, rather, because I expect I’m far from immune.
I do feel you (and all involved) did everyone a huge service, airing things out a bit with Hungerford, for the record, though. Figure I’ll say it here, as it would have seemed somehow cheap, there, her leaving, too.
Anyway, again, it’s good to see everyone.