Can't believe I respected this guy at one point

[tim]

"I recently consulted with my friend Jessica, a brilliant astrologer-psychic, and one of the things she told me was that my job was preventing me from expressing my gender." -- Dean $pade, first sentence of "Undermining Gender Regulation" in _Nobody Passes_ (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore ed.)

What a douchebag.

Comments

[miang]

Wait, what?

[tim]

You can see the context, but it doesn't clarify much AFAICT.

(Also evident in his essay: his degendering of trans women by using "trans people" to refer to issues that primarily affect trans people who were CAMAB, slyly suggesting that white graduates of historically-women's colleges who now hold faculty jobs, like himself, are just as oppressed as low-income trans women of color who do sex work for a living.)

[miang]

No, no, my brain broke at "brilliant astrologer-psychic" and still hasn't quite come back online.

[tim]

That was more or less my reaction when I read it. And I was high on Percocet at the time, too.

(Also keep in mind that the guy who wrote "brilliant astrologer-psychic" teaches law at an accredited university.)

[kaberett]

... uh, wow, I read this post SEVERAL TIMES wondering what was wrong... and EVERY SINGLE TIME I misparsed that as astrophysicist. So it was obviously still faily, but not as immediately obviously *him* failing!

[tim]

Now, if an astrophysicist had told him his job was preventing him from expressing his gender, that *might* be the start of an interesting essay rather than a WTFy one :-D