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Sam Killermann
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Sam Killermann writes It's Pronounced Metrosexual, a personal blog at itspronouncedmetrosexual.com about culture and writing. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Learn about gender, sexuality, & social justice with Sam Killermann. Your free online resource for everything from genderbread people to LGBTQ vocabulary.
Most-linked posts?
- /wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Genderbread-2.1.jpg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-11
What Hacker News says?
> It takes 15 seconds to check. HN isn't an anonymous messageboard. t is not the time it takes which is relevant, it is the interpretation of what is white supremacy and similar labels which I'm talking about. I checked his history and noticed a number of what I interpret as trollish comments from a number of years ago. That's not white supremacy but trolling - not something I prefer to see on this site but also not…
Comment linking /2019/07/maybe-we-should-stop-using-white-supremacist-and-bad-interchangeably/
on “Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements”- Mz · 2014-07-25
Submitted Solution for the “Confusing” Gender Neutral Toilet Sign Issue as a story · 3 points
HN discussion I have no idea whether the parent poster is guilty of the things you accuse him of and it is actually hard to know what it actually takes to be accused of white supremacist sentiments [1] nowadays since that term has been bandied around by the usual suspects so much. The problem I see is that this site has started to look like /pol/ more or less since Trump 1 when the 'ban' on political posts was seemingly lifted as…
Comment linking /2019/07/maybe-we-should-stop-using-white-supremacist-and-bad-interchangeably/
on “Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements”I like this way of explaining things the best: http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/03/the-genderbread-...
Comment linking /2012/03/the-genderbread-person-v2-0/
on “Male, female or custom? Facebook adds options for users to self-identify”And with one fell blow, you ignore the entire existence of transgenders. Good job! http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/...
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on “You Can Give a Boy a Doll, but You Can't Make Him Play With It”Once you open your self up to all the conceivable permutations of identity, your logic starts to get really hairy. Consider the GenderBread Person: http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/... That shows 8 axises of identity determination, compared to the traditional binary. Does a FTM 2-spirit pansexual want to buy tampons? Beats me but I know women might and men probably don't. Where do you draw…
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on “I Am Tired of Hearing Programmers Defend Gender Essentialism”