Interesting Links for 19-01-2015

[andrewducker]

• Women (and black people) less likely to go into professions perceived to require innate talent
  (tags: women race jobs )
• Steven Soderbergh, copyright hypocrite
  (tags: copyright movies )
• Scottish law on assisted suicide is intolerably unclear
  (tags: suicide Scotland law )
• Does anyone know of a barber in Edinburgh who will give a gent's haircut to a

Comments

[cmcmck]

As ever, the transgender piece assumes we all transition late. Some people may have these experiences, not all do.

I was fifteen, so my experience of what we laughingly call 'the world of work' is much the same as any other woman's (with the same long term desire to kick the patriarchy in a rather tender portion of its collective anatomy)!

[apostle_of_eris]

I read it as considering people who transitioned in mid life as having experience from both situations. If someone transitioned earlier, they wouldn't have the experiences to compare.

[cmcmck]

True, but the assumption that a majority of trans people transition late is one of those 'what everybody knows' tropes and it happens to be wrong and its becoming wronger (if that's a word :o) as attitudes toward treatment change for the better.

They should maybe have said 'some transgender people' rather than 'transgender people'.

[andrewducker]

This is a common theme - and something that people argue back and forth about a lot.

Hence, for instance, #NotAllMen.

[cmcmck]

I was once moved to write a fairly lengthy piece deconstructing 'what everybody knows' about trans people.

It's something of a bete noire for obvious reasons! :o)

[cmcmck]

Just so!

This article really doesn't address the complexities involved at all.