The topic of Getting Things Done came up this week. I've been a fan for almost twenty years now, and have helped various clients and friends try out the basics.
The methodology is hardware and software agnostic, and I think that basic paper is the simplest way to learn it, but Evernote is a common and powerful, cross-platform tool.
TSW is an elegant implementation of GTD with the Evernote tools, for those who like @Evernote.
Evernote "tags" are a key element in TSW, thesecretweapon.org/the-secret-wea…, and their choice of tags and labels is very well thought out.
If you use GTD elsewhere, that is still worth looking at.
I am old enough to have seen "purity politics" disembowel a variety of movements over relatively small things: eating meat, maintaining old friendships, owning a car, working for a particular corporation, looking at dirty pictures, etcetera.
These rarely made anything stronger.
And what is "the far right?"
Any member of a certain organization or church? Someone who was seen at one of their events? An elderly relative or one's brother in the military? A niece who works at the local police department? A friend's lover who owns six guns?
"[W]e suffer a lot for not having catchy phrases. That we we really could do with some slogans. I know that people would say that our points are too complex for them to be distilled, but I think it's essential."
#SexNotGender is a key phrase and slogan for me, which cuts straight through the sophistry to the core issue of sex class as the material basis of patriarchal oppression.
Sex ≠ gender ≠ identity ≠ personality or preference.
If you can't sex, you can't see sexism.
#AllMalesAreMale cuts straight to sex in keeping with #SexNotGender, because most of this is not about "identity" claims or preferences.
Few care about a male's "gender identity" claims when he is colonizing female spaces, and it is entirely irrelevant.
Got kicked out of another leftish group this week, after what looks a young male made an accusation of "transphobia," so presume a few of those involved will have heard of it and be looking here.
🧵 A thread…
Accusation of "transphobia" are always vague and intended as thought-terminating "kill shots."
Those making them usually intend misdirection toward another goal. Look for what that might be.
After years of thoughtful engagement on this topic, I have come to the conclusion that hegemonic "trans" ideology is deeply sexist, homophobic, anti-feminist and sex-negative.
I can explain this position in great detail, but only to those who will listen, and are open to grow.