Congrats on a successful CGR! Maybe I'll be able to make it to a future one.
Regarding Kate Bornstein: I don't know much about the specific matters, but it does touch on something I've thought a lot about recently: namely, when a person comes to decide or feel that she is representative of her group. This is problematic on both a communal and a personal basis. On the communal basis, it often happens that the wrong person decides that she is representative, and starts to cause damage as a result. Why does this happen, and how can a community respond to negate the damage? Kate Bornstein looks like an example of this phenomenon, particularly with her attempt (which you criticized) to establish a relationship with her entire community, one that goes beyond belonging or even representation. And on a personal basis, I do sometimes find myself taking myself to be representative, say of furries or of physicists or of philosophers. How can I make, why am I making such a claim? It seems like an awful gap in self-knowledge...
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Regarding Kate Bornstein: I don't know much about the specific matters, but it does touch on something I've thought a lot about recently: namely, when a person comes to decide or feel that she is representative of her group. This is problematic on both a communal and a personal basis. On the communal basis, it often happens that the wrong person decides that she is representative, and starts to cause damage as a result. Why does this happen, and how can a community respond to negate the damage? Kate Bornstein looks like an example of this phenomenon, particularly with her attempt (which you criticized) to establish a relationship with her entire community, one that goes beyond belonging or even representation. And on a personal basis, I do sometimes find myself taking myself to be representative, say of furries or of physicists or of philosophers. How can I make, why am I making such a claim? It seems like an awful gap in self-knowledge...