it's not that performative speech is bad in all cases, but misrepresenting performative speech as descriptive speech is something i don't ever want to see. reading the former as the latter is massively unpleasant, and it's my default mode.
it's massively unpleasant because there is a whole bag of tricks that rely on exploiting one's performative speech being read as descriptive.
obviously, the the sane thing to do would not be to keep assuming descriptive, but to ignore the posts until one has proof they are descriptive. but i also think that cedes too much ground.
perhaps the crux of it is whether performative or descriptive should be the default. i don't think the people all too content to run roughshod over reality-tracking maps for the slightest sliver of political power should get their way.
idea inspired by people doing... i don't know what to call it... kink based identity roleplay in main
@lain more specifically, it came up in the context of mental health. since access to treatment is controlled by state-licensed doctors, FDA, shit like that, there is a lot of incentive to a) think in terms of what authority to petition and how b) get adversarial and try to get sorted into the category that is useful towards getting the desired treatment or whatever
@lain yeah. moreover, i've read speculation that a lot of the drama about labels exists because there is a background assumption of a a godlike state that provides the ontology
(and my own speculation is that it kind of seems like that is exactly what current year education is meant to get people used to, up to and including college)
@lain yeah. i forgot to add to the previous post that i think the idea that it belongs to you is relatively novel.
i like it in the context of the internet (screennames), but i think there are bad interactions: you own your name + you have one "real" name: you are entitled to dictate how others refer to you.
somehow normies and SJWs manage to create the worst of both worlds
@lain a somewhat related and interesting question is whether your name belongs to you, or to those who would refer to you. topical too, because people are basically having that fight over the "generic" names used to refer to people: pronouns
@Moon i am a card-carrying capitalist but i hate to listen to some corporate drone's ideas about what my cultural hot-buttons are. marketing was a mistake. @icedquinn@coolboymew