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> But if you're a guy wearing a dress in public, ... recognize that you're spending your weirdness points fighting lookism, which means less weirdness points to

• TomMckenny 7y ago
  I think the article's claim is that bigotry against appearances is so strong that it uses up people's ability to keep an open mind on any other topic of discussion. Which is to say, we live in a world at the moment where when someone meets a transgender person, much of the time the only challenging topics they can think about are transgender related: for example they will have trouble concentrating on arguments concerning cryogenics. Not to say this is a good or fair thing. But if true, it is a data point to keep in mind and maybe even fix. So the suggested remedy concerning appearances, has to be re-thought in some cases.
  • throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
    Hm, I think that’s a good observation. Likely rooted in how a lot of our opinions are consensus based rather than reason based. If a weird person says something you’ll write it off as them being them. If a normal (or god forbid a popular person) says it, you’ll probably assimilate it into your beliefs. No particular bigotry required. I kind of hate this about human behavior. It’s not easy to suppress. We’re very eager to parrot opinions on whether things are good or bad based on who gave the opinion.
• sullyj3 7y ago
  I think you might have accidentally typed news.ycombinator.com instead of twitter.com