Month: November 2013
Tobi Hill-Meyer, Autogynophilia pathologizes normal female behavior
Tobi Hill-Meyer: Autogynophilia pathologizes normal female behavior.
…they were cis women. No one is going to take away their womanhood for feeling sexy about lingerie and slinky dresses. This seems to be something cis women, particularly femmes, do all the time.
The bottom line is that the behavior classified as autogynophilia is normal female behavior. Charles Moser did a small study where he tried applying the criteria for it to cis women and found that 93% of cis women qualify as autogynophiles. So why are trans women subjected to this standard and often stigmatized, punished, or denied access to healthcare if they fit this criteria? And why is there no similar criteria for trans men?
It seems to me this is primarily about exerting the control doctors have over trans people to maintain male control over the sexuality of women.
SOLID UI: Bringing Development Thinking to User Interface Design
Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA
Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA, says data analysts are complaining about excessive surveillance creating too much “white noise”.
Bye bye Ford and Harper: Would their departure have any benefit for Canada’s Left?
Shawn Whitney at rabble.ca makes the case that Stephen Harper and Rob Ford are not being brought down by the left, but by capitalist elites, and looks at how more conservatives (Karen Stintz, Justin Trudeau) are being set up to replace them. “People need to sober up and take a look at who is putting in the knife and why.”
I mean, [Toronto police] released a report that doesn’t demonstrate any proof of illegal activity on the part of Ford. If they had any proof they would have arrested him. This is about destroying Rob Ford while there is still enough lead-time before the next municipal elections to rebuild the right wing on city council.
This is about giving Karen Stintz — who, coincidentally, announced her candidacy last week — a clear shot for the mayoralty. Stintz is also a Tory but one who knows how to work with city capitalists and who saved the transit plan from Rob Ford. And she doesn’t get drunk in public.
Bye bye Ford and Harper: Would their departure have any benefit for Canada’s Left? | rabble.ca.
All must be made equally complicated
Because the complicated relationships cannot be simplified, all must be made equally complicated.
This paper is talking about measuring the security of different encryption systems, but surely this applies to other things.
US law enforcement receiving military “hand-me downs”
In the fine print of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997, the “1033 program” was born. It allows the Defense Department to donate surplus military equipment to local police forces.
Though the program’s existed since the 1990s, it has expanded greatly in recent years, due, in part, to post-9/11 fears and sequestration budget cuts. The expanse, however, seems unnecessary given that the Department of Homeland Security has already handed out $34bn in “terrorism grants” to local polices forces – without oversight mind you – to fund counter-terrorism efforts.
America’s police are looking more and more like the military. via Adam.
