I cannot properly express how good I think this is!
"We need to be more critical about narratives of inclusion. It's just not true that inclusion is always good and exclusion is always bad... sometimes
... exclusion is a tool that can be used in the service of inclusion, and that will sometimes mean excluding men in order to further women's inclusion."
... it takes intellectual courage to take on the consecration of 'inclusion' these days, but this is required watching for anyone serious about the analysis of #EDI. ...
... very pleased that @aytchellesse will be giving a virtual talk to @OU_GCRN later this spring.
V much recommended...
...(fwiw, I agree completely with what Holly says about the limitations of my approach in my paper on this: I'll claim the 'there's only so much you can say in 7k words' defence, but, tbh, I hadn't straightened this out in my head.
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... there are different approaches, different pitches here, but they represent a *body of work* all published in the last 2-3 years, and I think that's important. There are two routes through which this is, and will be, manifested: the publishing industry and academia...
... the fact that these books have come out and done well signals a change. It may be that silly decisions in indvidual shops and chains put a bit of a dampener on sales, but, in the end, the market will out. People buy books in different ways, and it's very difficult ...
If you've got a dodgy argument to push, there are several rhetorical tricks and bits of sophistry that you can put to use.
Here are a couple, illustrated by means of a case study from that friend to charlatanry, the soi-disant *Honest Broker* @RogerPielkeJr...
... in an argument which will be presented in a book that's just been published...
... The two techniques that I have in mind have fancy tags: one is to present an *enthymeme* - a suppressed premise.
The second is the *argumentum ad temperantiam* or the fallacy of moderation...
In view of @sharrond62's courageous tweet earlier, and Coe's statement, I think it is important to be as clear as possilbe about the ethics of competiton with respect to Seyni, Masilingi and Mboma. So here is a thread...
... let's accept that there are three accounts of 'what sex is' - a chromosome account, a gamete account, and a homeostatic property cluster account...
...On all three accounts, Seyni, Masilingi and Mboma are *not female* in the relevant sense (which concerns bodies, not legal status etc)..
🧵In order to identify fairness in sport you need, as @noelplum points out, to compare apples against apples, not oranges...
...To do this proplerly you need a relevant category. Since sport is about bodies, they should be categories that are body-relevant...
...Joanna Harper's category of 'Meaningful Competition' is designed to show that T-reduction can lead to meaningful competition in the category of those who identify as women...
Often advocates for inclusion of male bodied athletes in female sport emphasise friendship, bonding, being part of a community or team as key features of sport that TW will lose out on, and they prioritise the costs of exclusion...🧵
...on this line of argument, the 'meaning' in sport arises from such values. 'Meaningful competition' then, is competition that generates these sorts of values. I think this is a mistake...
... sport has a *distinct* meaning and a distinct value, which is different from - singing in a choir, going to a reading group, clubbing, taking an OU course, and thousands of other practices, all of which generate communal values...
i) The ‘meaning’ in ‘meaningful competition’ seems to depend on the purpose of a competition.
ii) Plausibly that purpose is to find out who is the best at doing a certain rule-defined thing...
iii) Meaningful *competition* depends, then, on *success* at finding the best person in a certain class, at doing a certain rule-defined thing...
iv) Consider two classes, one defined by sex, and one defined by gender identity. In the case of the class defined by gender identity, let’s assume a series of handicaps are in place to secure a close result. (This could be low T, lead weights, delayed start etc.)...