I submitted this review to the 2024 ACX book review contest, but it didn't make the cut, so I'm putting it here instead for posterity.

Conspiracy theories are fun because of how they make everything fit together, and scratch the unbearable itch some of us get when there are little details of a narrative that just don’t make sense. The problem is they tend to have a few issues, like requiring one to posit expansive perfectly coordinated infosecurity, demanding inaccessible or running contrary to existing evidence, and generally making you look weird for believing them.

We can get our connecting-the-dots high while avoiding social stigma and epistemic demerits by instead foraging in the verdant jungle of “new conceptual frameworks for intractable debates.” Arguments about gender tend to devolve, not just for lack of a shared conceptual framework, but because the dominant frameworks used by both defenders and [...]

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First published:
September 1st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/guCf9vDqAH6zSbL8D/book-review-what-even-is-gender

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“Book Review: What Even Is Gender? ” by Joey Marcellino

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“Book Review: What Even Is Gender? ” by Joey Marcellino