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ilovecharts: Yesterday we posted a chart to which some people took offense. One person took the time to write us directly with her anger about the chart. I took exception to her tone and disagreed with her assertions and regrettably fell into one of the more simple traps of poor communication, writing a response mostly aimed at the form of the message and not the substance. I cooled down, attempted to clarify, but the damage had been done.
Due to my lack of foresight, ThisGingerSnapsBack had to deal with a wave of misogyny and ignorance from commenters that is not only uncalled for but base, disgusting and depressing. By responding in public, I brought that on and I am extremely sorry. I don't condone the behavior of those commenters, even (especially) if they comment in defense of my point.
What's more, TGSB was right. There is a way to read the chart in which there is no other conclusion than that it is in support of rape culture. I missed that angle when I posted the chart, and still did not see it when responding to TGSB. I had a few things I needed to learn, and I am extremely thankful there were those willing to have civil conversation with me so that I could learn.
Reading the chart as supporting rape culture involves understanding how the terms "Friend Zone" and "Nice Guy" are used in discourse by different groups. This was a conversation of which I was unaware. To me, the Friend Zone is a classification for people feeling that somebody, due to shared history or comfort or habit, does not consider them a romantic possibility in any sense, be it "I'm attracted to this person" or "I'm not interested in this person." The possibility has not arisen or been contemplated; it is not even a "no" to the person, just a "never thought about it." There is certainly sadness about being in that position, but also real friendship and possibly a desire for more, hope for sparks, that I do not see as malevolent or detracting from the relationship.
The Friend Zone is not always used this way. From men, there can be a lot of anger involved in using the term. It is seen as a penalty for misdeeds, or worse for not being desirable enough. One gets "put" there as if it is in the woman's power to be attracted to the man but she refuses to do so just to punish him, or worse again because she only goes for the guys she can't be friends with: the dangerous, mysterious type. The blame is on the woman either for doling out punishment or for having "incorrect" standards of attraction, and so is born resentment and ultimately the Nice Guy. As in, nice guys finish last. As in, "woe is me, why am I always overlooked when I'm the person who is the real friend, not the attractive jerk?" And resentment turns to entitlement. "I'm the real one for her. How could she not see that? I've done so much for her. She owes this to me." And that entitlement undermines the original friendship (if indeed there even was real friendship involved and not just rejected courtship) and leads to general misogyny and possibly to dangerous behavior toward the woman.
And that's not even getting to the Nice Guy™, a term used for predatory men who consciously use the Friend Zone as an entry for sexual conquest. The Friend Zone is used in those circles as other Pickup Artist terms are used: a page from the playbook.
These terms (Friend Zone and Nice Guy, as outlined above) are used almost clinically in feminist conversation and in other circles. The signifier to signified is clear. And using language in that way, so too is the chart. It is at best Nice Guy anger and at worst, Nice Guy™ advice.
However, not everybody is involved in that conversation. I consider myself a feminist, have spent a lot of time thinking about the origins of misogyny and pointing out its presence in many facets of life, and I was unaware of those terms. That is where the conversation becomes difficult. While sticking up for people in my definition of the Friend Zone (just because a man want's to be seen as a romantic possibility, why must his goal be sex and why must his desires be vilified, especially all the way to rape?), I was unknowingly endorsing the concept of the Friend Zone as framed by entitled men. I was not speaking the same language as TGSB and so her criticisms were offensive in my construct and my criticisms were offensive in her construct.
It is my job as a curator to do my research and I failed in that regard. I went for tone without investigating content. To my read, I could rebuttal the content and that was enough. Well, my read doesn't matter. I did not treat TGSB like a person who was hurt, I treated her like a troll. And here is probably the crux of the issue.
It is easy to dehumanize on the Internet. And it is easy to assume that meaningful conversation cannot be had. One sees so much trolling and is subject to so much criticism that an escape through dehumanization is needed to stay sane. It is in that dehumanization where this problem arose. My reaction the TGSB was clearly a product of the cumulative frustration of being treated like the sum total of this blog and not as a person who runs it, frustration with the kind of comments I have been receiving in the last few months, a period in which the tone of conversation has noticeably shifted. I have been feeling dehumanized and made the mistake of paying that forward to TGSB and so the Internet rolls on…
I'm only guessing here, but perhaps this says something about the changing nature of Tumblr as it gets larger. It certainly says something about what it has meant for this blog to have gone from a mostly hardcore Tumblr following to one more broad. In many ways, I miss the smaller, more collaborative feel of this blog in its earlier forms. People talked to us more, submitted more personal work, reblogged with commentary more and "liked" less. I still love Tumblr, but differently. It was a small town then, with all the benefits of that lifestyle, and is now a city. There are big names, institutions and established franchises and incredible original material, but there are also the elements that harden those of us who live in cities. There are feelings of anonymity and loneliness. There is visible self-interest and constant competition. Mostly, there is anomie and subsequent dehumanization, which leads to generalizations, stereotypes and vitriolic exchanges between otherwise empathetic, rational people.
To have any meaningful change on any scale, we need better communication and re-humanization. That goes all the way from relationships to global politics. People need to talk more about their frustration and confusion, and do so especially when it is difficult. The Friend Zone resonates with a good many reasonable, kind people, but also with a good many angry, mal-intentioned people. It exists pretty broadly, but functions differently for different people. It can be very innocent, but can also be very dangerous, can be romanticized, can be exploited. It's a dumb term and one that I never actually use, but it is trying to describe something that should be talked about.
Better communication and re-humanization could have changed yesterday's events. TGSB did not approach me as a person and did not consider that I may not be either an idiot or a misogynist. She did not consider that I might not understand the terms in the same way she did or that there was another dialogue possible. She did not set out to write me hoping for conversation. And I don't blame her. She was pissed! And had every right to be. And had every right to unload and not be attacked for her opinion.
And beyond being pissed, what would compel her to think that, in the Land Of Trolls, anybody would be on the other side of that inbox willing to communicate? I Love Charts is an institution on Tumblr now. It has a book deal. It has about 100,000 followers. Why would it care? And why would it be any different than the army of trolls now populating her inbox with hate-speech I am responsible for? Well, I Love Charts is also still just two people, one of whom posts every day from his laptop and is happy to be a part of something so big but feels a little weird about his relationship with 100,000 people.
It is my job to communicate through action that I am here, I am responsive and I genuinely do not want to offend, bully, hurt or marginalize anybody. If I'm feeling dehumanized and want to change that, I need to start by re-humanizing myself.
The Internet is populated with real people. People who mean well, and hate hurting other people, and play 13 Dead End Drive and Monopoly all night while motoring through a bottle of Scotch to try and sort out their feelings, and wake up on the couch with a migraine and a computer on their chest with Louis CK staring at them from a paused frame of his most recent special. And ultimately, people who can and want to learn about other perspectives and can realize when they have been in the wrong.
Have a Happy New Year Everybody,
Paul Graham on Trolls
A user on Hacker News recently posted a comment that set me thinking:
Something about hacker culture that never really set well with me was this—the nastiness. … I just don't understand why people troll like they do.I've thought a lot over the last couple years about the problem of trolls. It's an old one, as old as forums, but we're still just learning what the causes are and how to address them.
There are two senses of the word "troll." In the original sense it meant someone, usually an outsider, who deliberately stirred up fights in a forum by saying controversial things. [1] For example, someone who didn't use a certain programming language might go to a forum for users of that language and make disparaging remarks about it, then sit back and watch as people rose to the bait. This sort of trolling was in the nature of a practical joke, like letting a bat loose in a room full of people.
The definition then spread to people who behaved like assholes in forums, whether intentionally or not. Now when people talk about trolls they usually mean this broader sense of the word. Though in a sense this is historically inaccurate, it is in other ways more accurate, because when someone is being an asshole it's usually uncertain even in their own mind how much is deliberate. That is arguably one of the defining qualities of an asshole.
I think trolling in the broader sense has four causes. The most important is distance. People will say things in anonymous forums that they'd never dare say to someone's face, just as they'll do things in cars that they'd never do as pedestrians—like tailgate people, or honk at them, or cut them off.
Trolling tends to be particularly bad in forums related to computers, and I think that's due to the kind of people you find there. Most of them (myself included) are more comfortable dealing with abstract ideas than with people. Hackers can be abrupt even in person. Put them on an anonymous forum, and the problem gets worse.
The third cause of trolling is incompetence. If you disagree with something, it's easier to say "you suck" than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. You're also safe that way from refutation. In this respect trolling is a lot like graffiti. Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world. [2]
The final contributing factor is the culture of the forum. Trolls are like children (many are children) in that they're capable of a wide range of behavior depending on what they think will be tolerated. In a place where rudeness isn't tolerated, most can be polite. But vice versa as well.
There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it. Which means that once trolling takes hold, it tends to become the dominant culture. That had already happened to Slashdot and Digg by the time I paid attention to comment threads there, but I watched it happen to Reddit.
News.YC is, among other things, an experiment to see if this fate can be avoided. The sites's guidelines explicitly ask people not to say things they wouldn't say face to face. If someone starts being rude, other users will step in and tell them to stop. And when people seem to be deliberately trolling, we ban them ruthlessly.
Technical tweaks may also help. On Reddit, votes on your comments don't affect your karma score, but they do on News.YC. And it does seem to influence people when they can see their reputation in the eyes of their peers drain away after making an asshole remark. Often users have second thoughts and delete such comments.
One might worry this would prevent people from expressing controversial ideas, but empirically that doesn't seem to be what happens. When people say something substantial that gets modded down, they stubbornly leave it up. What people delete are wisecracks, because they have less invested in them.
So far the experiment seems to be working. The level of conversation on News.YC is as high as on any forum I've seen. But we still only have about 8,000 uniques a day. The conversations on Reddit were good when it was that small. The challenge is whether we can keep things this way.
I'm optimistic we will. We're not depending just on technical tricks. The core users of News.YC are mostly refugees from other sites that were overrun by trolls. They feel about trolls roughly the way refugees from Cuba or Eastern Europe feel about dictatorships. So there are a lot of people working to keep this from happening again.
What Kanye West Got Right and Wrong With His First Paris Fashion Week Show
Somehow Kanye West's fashion show came to be the most hyped of the entire spring 2012 season, creating expectations that are often impossible to live up to, even for trained, established designers. The reviews of the show ranged from the kind ("baby Balmain," according to Style.com), to the optimistic ("one good-looking pair of color-blocked pants in blue and coral", according to the Times), to the merciless ("The only thing more painful than witnessing the dress was watching the model pitch down the runway in shoes so ill-fitting that her spike heels were bending at angles," writes The Wall Street Journal). Yes, there was a lot of wrong. But there was also some right, which we are biased in pointing out because Kanye West gave us a hug in exchange for not giving us an interview once, which is more than you get from most famous people who don't feel like giving you a sound bite. What Kanye Got Right • He's sat front row at enough fashion shows over the past five years or so years to ingratiate himself in the fashion crowd. "I did not want to miss it," Bergdorf fashion director Linda Fargo told the Times. She sat next to Kanye at a show once: "We had a running commentary throughout the whole show, and he was really into it. Everything I was reacting to, he was reacting to." What Kanye Got Wrong
• The critics. Every major one, from the Times, Style.com, the Telegraph, etc., were present to witness West's fashion line's debut. As much as they hated on the clothes he showed, they evidently took the show seriously enough to show up at all. After all, they could write equally unkind things about the Kardashians' Bebe collection, which showed in New York once, or Avril Lavigne's Abbey Dawn line, which showed in New York this season, but they don't waste their energy.
• The designers. Also populating West's front row was Azzedine Alaïa, DSquared2's Dean and Dan Caten, Olivier Theyskens, Jeremy Scott, and the Olsen twins. Sure, maybe they all went just to feel a little bit better about their own work as designers, but even so, Alaïa doesn't go to a fashion show for just anybody.
• That one pair of color-blocked pants. See intro paragraph above.
• The staging was "impeccable," according to Style.com. Which it ought to be, since Kanye's main job as a performer is to stage things well.
• He speaks in vagaries, as designers tend to. "I had a lot of ideas about colors and shapes I wanted to express," he told the Times.
• His inspiration was not the most popular among celebrity designers — "what I would wear." And you can't even say that's just because he made lady things, because he wears women's clothessometimes.
• He had a few all-white looks. At least he's on trend in that way!
• The model cast. He had Karlie Kloss, Anja Rubik, Chanel Iman, Izabel Goulart and many more of the best models working in the business.
• The show wasn't boring, and you can't always say that of many established designers.
• He didn't call it "Kanye's Kollection."
• The clothes did not fit. Maybe that's because he supposedly made them in three days with the help of Central St. Martins students in a makeshift atelier in London, which is a whole other set of problems.
• In their write-up of the show, The Wall Street Journal referenced Lindsay Lohan's disastrous debut at Emanuel Ungaro. To be fair, Kanye didn't show any glitter pasties in cutesy shapes or cry when he took his bow at the end.
• Well, according to the Telegraph: "Kanye West's fashion debut was like being subjected to an hour long MRI scan — but not as much fun."
• The collection didn't look like he allowed a real designer to do a bulk of the work for him. Lots of celebrities have real, trained designers designing their clothing lines behind the scenes. In fact, probably anyone who was an actress or singer before their name was on a clothing label does. The result for them is they get a collection that can sell and works as clothing normal people might actually want to wear. In this way, the clothing business isn't fair, since it's much more difficult for designers to flip careers and pretend to be rappers.
• The dresses with the deep, deep, deep plunging necklines. I'd guess the average woman with disposable income for high-end designer clothes is about as interested in showing that much skin as they are in being Snooki.
• Lindsay Lohan was at the show, wearing a truly unflattering blush-pink look.
• The metallic pants. No one can wear metallic pants and look good. Maybe Karlie Kloss and Anja Rubik can. So: no one.
The Creativity of Anger
Many of my favorite Steve Jobs stories feature his anger, as he unleashes his incisive temper on those who fail to meet his incredibly high standards. A few months ago, Adam Lashinsky had a fascinating article in Fortune describing life inside the sanctum of 1 Infinite Loop. The article begins with the following scene: In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched the first version of its iPhone that worked on third-generation mobile networks, it also debuted MobileMe, an e-mail system that was supposed to provide the seamless synchronization features that corporate users love about their BlackBerry smartphones. MobileMe was a dud. Users complained about lost e-mails, and syncing was spotty at best. Though reviewers gushed over the new iPhone, they panned the MobileMe service. Steve Jobs doesn't tolerate duds. Shortly after the launch event, he summoned the MobileMe team, gathering them in the Town Hall auditorium in Building 4 of Apple's campus, the venue the company uses for intimate product unveilings for journalists. According to a participant in the meeting, Jobs walked in, clad in his trademark black mock turtleneck and blue jeans, clasped his hands together, and asked a simple question: "Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Having received a satisfactory answer, he continued, "So why the fuck doesn't it do that?" For the next half-hour Jobs berated the group. "You've tarnished Apple's reputation," he told them. "You should hate each other for having let each other down." The public humiliation particularly infuriated Jobs. Walt Mossberg, the influential Wall Street Journal gadget columnist, had panned MobileMe. "Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us," Jobs said. On the spot, Jobs named a new executive to run the group. Brutal, right? But those flashes of intolerant anger have always been an important part of Jobs' management approach. He isn't shy about the confrontation of failure and he doesn't hold back negative feedback. He is blunt at all costs, a cultural habit that has permeated the company. Jonathan Ive, the lead designer at Apple, describes the tenor of group meetings as "brutally critical." At first glance, this cultivation of anger and criticism seems like a terrible idea. We assume that group collaboration requires niceties and affirmation, that we should always accentuate the positive. Just look at brainstorming, perhaps the most widely implemented creativity technique in the world. In the late 1940s, Alex Osborn, a founding partner of the advertising firm BBDO, outlined the virtues of brainstorming in a series of best-selling books. (He insisted that brainstorming could double the creative output of a group.) The most important principle, he said, was the total absence of criticism. According to Osborn, if people were worried about negative feedback, if they were concerned that their new ideas might get ridiculed by the group or the boss, then the brainstorming process would fail. "Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud," Osborn wrote in Your Creative Power. But maybe this is a big mistake. Maybe Steve Jobs was on to something when he refused to hide away his disappointment or displeasure. That, at least, is the takeaway of a new paper by Matthijs Baas, Carsten De Dreu, and Bernard Nijstad in The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Their first experiment was straightforward, demonstrating that anger was better at promoting "unstructured thinking" on a creativity task, at least when compared to sadness or a neutral mood. The second experiment elicited anger directly in the subjects, before asking them to brainstorm on ways to improve the condition of the natural environment. Once again, people who felt angry generated more ideas. These ideas were also deemed more original, as they were thought of by less than 1 percent of the subjects. Of course, this doesn't mean that anger is a cure-all, or that nastiness is always wise. For one thing, anger is exhausting and "resource depleting." Although angry subjects initially generated more ideas, their performance quickly declined. By the end of the idea-generation session, they were performing at roughly the same level as everyone else. Why does anger have this effect on the imagination? I think the answer is still unclear – we're only beginning to understand how moods influence cognition. But my own sense is that anger is deeply stimulating and energizing. It's a burst of adrenaline that allows us to dig a little deeper, to get beyond the usual superficial free-associations. In contrast, when our mood is neutral or content, there is no incentive to embrace unfamiliar possibilities, to engage in mental risks or brash new concepts. (Why rock the boat?) The absence of criticism has kept us in the same place. And this is why anger makes it easier to think different. The larger story here is about the surprising benefits of negative moods. While sad subjects in this new study underperformed on the creative generation task, previous research has demonstrated that sadness increases creative persistence, allowing subjects to work harder for extended periods of time. (In other words, melancholy is bad in the short-term, but good for the long haul.) Consider a recent paper, "The Dark Side of Creativity," led by Modupe Akinola. The setup was very clever: she asked subjects to give a short speech about their dream job. The students were randomly assigned to either a positive or negative feedback condition, in which their speech was greeted with smiles and vertical nods (positive) or frowns and horizontal shakes (negative). After the speech was over, the subjects were given glue, paper and colored felt and told to make a collage using the materials. Professional artists then evaluated each collage according to various metrics of creativity. Not surprisingly, the feedback impacted the mood of the subjects: Those who received smiles during their speeches reported feeling better than before, while frowns had the opposite effect. What's interesting is what happened next: Subjects in the negative feedback condition created much prettier collages. Their angst led to better art. As Akinola notes, this is largely because the sadness improved their focus, and made them more likely to persist with the creative challenge: Previous research has shown that negative feedback can lead to increased subsequent effort, as long as the task is not perceived as too difficult to be mastered (Locke & Latham, 1990). This is consistent with research indicating that when individuals experience negative affect in a situation that requires creativity, this negative affect may be interpreted as a signal that additional effort must be exerted for a creative solution to be discovered. In contrast, positive mood coupled with a situation that requires creativity may be an indication that the creative goal has been met, reducing the amount of effort exerted on the task. To be honest, I find this data a little depressing. I'd rather have a brain that, as Osborn believed, always performs best when content and carefree. Unfortunately, that's not the brain we've been stuck with. (Although don't forget that watching stand-up comedy can improve performance on insight puzzles. Happiness isn't completely useless.) I'm afraid the novelist J.M. Coetzee was at least partially right: "Always move towards pain when making art."


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Blanchard's transsexualism typology
Blanchard's transsexualism typology (also Blanchard autogynephilia theory (BAT) and Blanchard's taxonomy) is a psychological typology of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism created by Ray Blanchard through the 1980s and 1990s, building on the work of his colleague, Kurt Freund. Blanchard divided trans women into two different groups: so-called "homosexual transsexuals," whom Blanchard says seek sex reassignment surgery to romantically and sexually attract (ideally heterosexual) men, and "autogynephilic transsexuals" who purportedly are sexually aroused at the idea of having a normative female body. The typology suggests distinctions between MtF transsexuals, but does not speculate on the causes of transsexualism. The distinction is a recurring theme in scholarly literature on transsexualism.[1]
Supporters of the theory include J. Michael Bailey, Anne Lawrence, James Cantor, Kay Brown, and others who say that there are significant differences between the two proposed groups, including sexuality, age of transition, ethnicity, IQ, fetishism, and quality of adjustment. Criticism of the research and theory has come from John Bancroft, Jaimie Veale, Larry Nuttbrock, Charles Allen Moser, Julia Serano, Madeline Wyndzen, and others who say that the theory is poorly representative of trans women, reduces gender identity to a matter of attraction, is non-instructive, that the research cited in support of the theory has inadequate control groups or is contradicted by other data, and that its proponents routinely make statements that call into question the theory's falsifiability.
The theory has been the subject of protests in the transgender and larger LGBT community, which peaked among both trans women and clinicians with the publication of Bailey's The Man Who Would Be Queen in 2003. Following the publication of Bailey's book, Blanchard distinguished between the value of the theory as a behavioral description, versus as an explanation of transsexualism and that only further scientific research could resolve latter question.[1] The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) currently opposes the theory due to a lack of empirical evidence for it.[2][3]
The early history of the study of transsexualism is sparse; however, the concept of a categorization of transsexual people can be seen as early as 1923 with the work of Magnus Hirschfeld.[4] In 1966, Harry Benjamin wrote that researchers of his day thought that attraction to men, while feeling that oneself is a woman, was the factor that distinguished a transvestite from a transsexual.[5] In 1980 in the DSM-III, a new diagnosis was introduced, that of "302.5 Transsexualism" under "Other Psychosexual Disorders". This was an attempt to provide a diagnostic category for gender identity disorders.[6] The diagnostic category, transsexualism, was for gender dysphoric individuals who demonstrated at least two years of continuous interest in transforming their physical and social gender status.[7] The subtypes were asexual, homosexual (same "biological sex"), heterosexual (other "biological sex") and unspecified.[6] This was removed in the DSM-IV, in which gender identity disorder replaced transsexualism. Previous taxonomies, or systems of categorization, used the terms classic transsexual or true transsexual, terms once used in differential diagnoses.[5]
Sexologist Ray Blanchard coined the term autogynephilia in 1989 to describe MtF transsexuals who were sexually aroused by the idea of being women. He stated that while they lacked a specific term to describe the concept, there was evidence for the concept among clinicians of the early 20th century. Havelock Ellis used the terms eonism and sexo-aesthetic inversion to describe similar cross-gender feelings and behaviors.[8]
The clinical literature of Freund, Blanchard, and others has consistently divided male-to-female transsexuals into two distinct groups - "homosexual transsexuals," people who are sexually attracted to (ideally heterosexual) men and supposedly desire a normative female body to attract them, and "heterosexual fetishistic transvestites" in which the transsexual purportedly finds the idea of having a normative female body sexually arousing but desires a heterosexual female partner.[1] Kurt Freund first distinguished between these two proposed types in a 1982 research article, theorizing that the "homosexual" transsexuals were qualitatively different from the so-called "heterosexual males" with gender dysphoria.[9] Sexologist Ray Blanchard coined the term "autogynephilia" to describe this latter category of people.[1] In a 2005 article on the concept of Ray Blanchard noted that Freund was probably the first author to distinguish between the erotic arousal due to dressing as a woman (transvestism) versus erotic arousal due to physically transforming into a more typically female form (autogynephilia).[8]
Blanchard's observations at the Clarke Institute began by categorizing male-to-female transsexuals into four groups based off their supposed sexual orientations: "homosexual," "heterosexual," bisexual, and asexual (i.e. trans women attracted to men, women, both, or neither, respectively.)[10] Blanchard then conducted a series of studies on people assigned male at birth with gender dysphoria, including male-to-female transsexual people, and concluded that there existed only two distinct types.[10][11][12] Blanchard said that one type of gender dysphoria/transsexualism manifests itself in individuals who are exclusively attracted to men, whom he referred to as homosexual transsexuals, adopting Freund's terminology[11] The other type he defined as including those who are attracted to females (gynephilic), attracted to both males and females (bisexual), and attracted to neither males nor females (analloerotic or asexual); Blanchard referred to this latter set collectively as the non-homosexual transsexuals.[13][14] Blanchard says that the "non-homosexual" transsexuals (but not the "homosexual" transsexuals) exhibit autogynephilia,[11] which he defined as a paraphilic interest in having female anatomy.[12][15][16][17]
Criticism of the theory of "homosexual transsexuals" is generally focused in two categories: the use of the terms "homosexual" and "non-homosexual" to refer to MtF transsexuals by their assigned sex[18][19] and the data underlying the theory itself.[20][21][22][23] Harry Benjamin, in his seminal work The Transsexual Phenomenon, opined that the question "is a transsexual homosexual?" had both "yes" and "no" answers depending on whether sexual anatomy or gender identity was prioritised, and in cases of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals, describing them as "homosexual men" was against "common sense and reason".[19] The terminology has also been described as confusing and controversial among transsexuals seeking sexual reassignment,[24] archaic,[25] and demeaning.[26] In 2008 sexologist John Bancroft expressed regret for having used this terminology, which was standard when he used it, to refer to transsexual women, and that he now tries to use words more sensitively.[27]
Autogynephilia and autoandrophilia[edit]
Autogynephilia (/ˌɔːtoʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪliə/; from Greek "αὐτό-" (self), "γυνή" (woman) and "φιλία" (love) — "love of oneself as a woman") is a term coined in 1989 by Ray Blanchard, to refer to "a man's paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman."[12] Alternative terms proposed for this notion include automonosexuality, eonism, and sexo-aesthetic inversion.[28] The DSM-IV-TR includes an essentially equivalent definition, and recognizes autogynephilia as a common occurrence in the transvestic fetishism disorder, but does not classify autogynephilia as a disorder by itself.[29] The paraphilias working group on DSM 5 included autogynephilia and autoandrophilia as subtypes of transvestic disorder, a proposal that was opposed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) due to lack of empirical evidence for the theory.[2][3]
Autogynephilia is most notable for its use in Blanchard's taxonomy to explain the presence of gender dysphoria in "non-homosexual" (gynephilic) male-to-female transsexuals, in contrast to the gender dysphoria observed in "homosexual" (androphilic) transsexuals. Autogynephilia has also been suggested to pertain to romantic love as well as to sexual arousal patterns.[30]
Blanchard provides case examples to illustrate the autogynephilic sexual fantasies that people reported:[8]
Philip was a 38-year-old professional man referred to the author's clinic for assessment....Philip began masturbating at puberty, which occurred at age 12 or 13. The earliest sexual fantasy he could recall was that of having a woman's body. When he masturbated, he would imagine that he was a nude woman lying alone in her bed. His mental imagery would focus on his breasts, his vagina, the softness of his skin, and so on—all the characteristic features of the female physique. This remained his favorite sexual fantasy throughout his life.
According to Blanchard, "An autogynephile does not necessarily become sexually aroused every time he pictures himself as female or engages in feminine behavior, any more than a heterosexual man automatically gets an erection whenever he sees an attractive woman. Thus, the concept of autogynephilia—like that of heterosexuality, homosexuality, or pedophilia—refers to a potential for sexual excitation"[15] [emphasis in original].
Blanchard classified four subtypes of autogynephilic sexual fantasies, but noted that "All four types of autogynephilia tend to occur in combination with other types rather than alone."[15][31]
- Transvestic autogynephilia: arousal to the act or fantasy of wearing typically feminine clothing
- Behavioral autogynephilia: arousal to the act or fantasy of doing something regarded as feminine
- Physiologic autogynephilia: arousal to fantasies of body functions specific to people regarded as female
- Anatomic autogynephilia: arousal to the fantasy of having a normative woman's body, or parts of one
There also exist male assigned at birth people who report being sexually aroused by the image or idea of having some but not all normative female anatomy, such as having breasts but retaining their penis and testicles; Blanchard referred to this phenomenon as partial autogynephilia.[32][33]
To test the possibility that natal females can also experience autogynephilia, Moser (2009) created an Autogynephilia Scale for Women based on items used to categorize MTFs as autogynephilic in other studies. A questionnaire that included the ASW was distributed to a sample of 51 professional women employed at an urban hospital; 29 completed questionnaires were returned for analysis. By the common definition of ever having erotic arousal to the thought or image of oneself as a woman, 93% of the respondents would be classified as autogynephilic. Using a more rigorous definition of "frequent" arousal to multiple items, 28% would be classified as autogynephilic.[34] However, Lawrence (2009), in a comment on the study, criticized its methodology and conclusions, and asserted that genuine autogynephilia occurs rarely, if ever, in natal women.[35]
In DSM-5, published in 2013, With autogynephilia (sexual arousal by thoughts, images of self as a female) is a specifier to 302.3 Transvestic disorder (intense sexual arousal from cross-dressing fantasies, urges or behaviors); the other specifier is With fetishism (sexual arousal to fabrics, materials or garments).[36]
Autoandrophilia and autoandrophobia[edit]
The analogous term autoandrophilia refers to a person assigned female at birth who is sexually aroused by the thought or image of being a man.[37] It was classified as a type of transvestic fetishism in a proposed revision to the DSM-5[38] but not included in the final version. Less work has been done on autoandrophilia,[39] and in an interview with Vice, Blanchard stated "I proposed it simply in order not to be accused of sexism, because there are all these women who want to say women can rape too, women can be pedophiles too, women can be exhibitionists too." It's a perverse expression of feminism, and so, I thought, let me jump the gun on this. I don't think the phenomenon even exists."[40]
Autoandrophobia (from Greek "αὐτό-" (self), "άνδρας" (andras/man) and "φόβος" (phobos/fear) — "fear of oneself as a man") is a related but different term to autogynephilia which was coined by Moser (2010). Some male-to-female transsexual people in whom estrogen has been contraindicated (e.g., due to deep vein thrombosis) have found that antiandrogens alone were sufficient to relieve their gender dysphoria. This seems to suggest that some male-to-female transsexual people are not just motivated to transition by autogynephilia, but also due to a desire to block their masculine characteristics. Such a symptom is not characteristic of other paraphilias.[20]
A physician, Charles Allen Moser, criticized Blanchard's theory, stating that it uses an overly-broad definition of autogynephilia, is not sufficiently relevant to MtF transsexual patients, fails to account for all information on sexual and romantic interests of homosexual and transsexual people, relies too heavily on phallometry, and lacks supporting data.[20] A modified version of the typology was published in 2010 that proposed variances in gender identity were driven by biological and childhood socialization factors but personality and environment determine whether psychological defence mechanisms are employed to repress these variances. In the presence of defence mechanisms, the typology predicts cross-dressing or atypical transsexuality, while their absence results in drag artists or classic transsexuality.[41]
A biochemist and trans activist, Julia Serano, wrote that there were flaws in Blanchard's original papers, including that they were conducted among overlapping populations primarily at the Clarke Institute in Toronto without nontranssexual controls, that the subtypes were not empirically derived but instead were "begging the question that transsexuals fall into subtypes based on their sexual orientation," and that further research had found that a non-deterministic correlation between cross-gender arousal and sexual orientation.[42] She said that Blanchard did not discuss the idea that cross-gender arousal may be an effect, rather than a cause, of gender dysphoria, and that Blanchard assumed that correlation implied causation.[42] Serano also stated that the wider idea of cross-gender arousal was affected by the prominence of sexual objectification of women, accounting for both a relative lack of cross-gender arousal in transsexual men and similar patterns of gynephilic arousal in non-transsexual women.[42]
Serano also criticised proponents of the theory, claiming that they dismiss non-autogynephilic, non-androphilic transsexuals as misreporting or lying while not questioning androphilic transsexuals, describing it as "tantamount to hand-picking which evidence counts and which does not based upon how well it conforms to the model",[42] either making the theory unscientific due to its unfalsifiability, or invalid due to the nondeterministic correlation that later studies found.[42] Further criticisms alleged that the theory undermined lived experience of transsexual women, contributed to pathologisation and sexualisation of transsexual women, and the literature itself fed into the stereotype of transsexuals as "purposefully deceptive", which could be used to justify discrimination and violence against transsexuals.[42]
Transsexual community reaction[edit]
The concept began receiving attention outside of sexology when Anne Lawrence, a former anesthesiologist, who had to resign after sexually misusing an unconscious patient and self-identifies as autogynephilic,[43] published the concept on-line in the late 1990s.[44] When Bailey published The Man Who Would Be Queen in 2003, which based its portrayal of male-to-female transsexual people on Blanchard's taxonomy, an enormous controversy resulted.[45] Transsexual activist Lynn Conway started an investigation into the publication of Bailey's book by the United States National Academy of Sciences and along with other activists leveled accusations of misconduct against Bailey. Northwestern University investigated Bailey, but did not reveal the findings of that investigation and did not comment on whether or not Bailey had been punished.[46] According to a summary of the controversy written by intersex researcher and bioethics professor Alice Dreger, two of the four women who accused Bailey of misusing their stories were not mentioned anywhere in the book.[45]
According to Leavitt and Berger, "transsexuals, as a group, vehemently oppose the homosexual transsexual label and its pejorative baggage."[24] Trans man Aaron Devor wrote, "If what we really mean to say is attracted to males, then say 'attracted to males' or androphilic... I see absolutely no reason to continue with language that people find offensive when there is perfectly serviceable, in fact better, language that is not offensive."[47] Still other transsexual people are opposed to any and all models of diagnosis which allow medical professionals to prevent anyone from changing their sex, and seek their removal from the DSM.[48]
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Fetuin-B, a Liver-Derived Plasma Protein Is Essential for Fertilization
Fetuin-B, a Liver-Derived Plasma Protein Is Essential for Fertilization
Developmental Cell, Volume 25, Issue 1,
Pages 106-112,
Publication Date 04 April 2013
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.03.001
Eileen Dietzel
Jennifer Wessling
Julia Floehr
Cora Schäfer
Silke Ensslen
Bernd Denecke
Benjamin Rösing
Joseph Neulen
Thomas Veitinger
Marc Spehr
Tanja Tropartz
René Tolba
Thomas Renné
Angela Egert
Hubert Schorle
Yuliya Gottenbusch
André Hildebrand
Irene Yiallouros
Walter Stöcker
Ralf Weiskirchen
Willi Jahnen-Dechent
Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Biointerface Laboratory, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research IZKF Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Clinic for Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Biology II/Department of Chemosensation, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Institute of Pathology, Department of Developmental Biology, University of Bonn Medical School, 53127 Bonn, Germany
Institute of Zoology, Cell and Matrix Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Corresponding author
These authors contributed equally to this work
► Fetuin-B-deficient female mice are infertile despite normal ovary morphology ► Ovary transfer to wild-type females producing hepatic fetuin-B restores fertility ► Fetuin-B inhibits the protease that "hardens" the zona pellucida after fertilization ► Premature zona pellucida hardening accounts for Fetuin-B mutant female infertility
The zona pellucida (ZP) is a glycoprotein matrix surrounding mammalian oocytes. Upon fertilization, ZP hardening prevents sperm from binding to and penetrating the ZP. Here, we report that targeted gene deletion of the liver-derived plasma protein fetuin-B causes premature ZP hardening and, consequently, female infertility. Transplanting fetuin-B-deficient ovaries into wild-type recipients restores fertility, indicating that plasma fetuin-B is necessary and sufficient for fertilization. In vitro fertilization of oocytes from fetuin-B-deficient mice only worked after rendering the ZP penetrable by laser perforation. Mechanistically, fetuin-B sustains fertility by inhibiting ovastacin, a cortical granula protease known to trigger ZP hardening. Thus, plasma fetuin-B is necessary to restrain protease activity and thereby maintain ZP permeability until after gamete fusion. These results also show that premature ZP hardening can cause infertility in mice.


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This is Crash Course's first offering of a multi-week, online technical course; in this case, a series of 24 (actually, closer to 30 by now) lessons to gently introduce one to the joys and intricacies of basic Linux kernel programming. The first few lessons (and a number of others sprinkled throughout the course) are freely readable and shareable by anyone, while the remaining course lessons are available exclusively to subscribers for a course registration fee of only $39 (CAD) for the entire course. (That's not $39 per lesson, that's $39 for the entire course.)
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P.P.S. Let me emphasize that the lessons you see below are not the entire course. Check the course syllabus -- there's more to come. They're simply being posted as we complete them.
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Is or will your course cover device drivers?
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This course is meant to be an introduction to the basics of kernel programming; that is, it's going to cover the foundations of what every beginning kernel programmer needs to know in terms of kernel structure, configuring and building a new kernel, how to write loadable kernel modules, transferring data between user space and kernel space, simple debugging and so on. Clearly, none of that represents writing an actual device driver, but it's all essential information you'll need when you want to start writing specific types of drivers.
There are already plans for followup courses such as "How to write a PCI driver" and "How to write a USB driver", courses that will (probably) consist of perhaps a dozen lessons each and will cost about the same amount as this introductory course (or maybe slightly less, depending on length).
So if you feel that you already know kernel programming at a basic level, you can just wait for the driver course you're interested in. On the other hand, if you're truly new to kernel programming, you will probably need this intro course as a lead-in to the driver course.
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UPDATE: I should correct myself here -- this course will cover writing a simple character driver since a lot of hardware can be managed by such a driver. But more sophisticated driver programming will have to wait for a subsequent course.
Hello ! Can I get your course from Internet ?
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There are no followup courses for this course yet; in fact, this course isn't even finished, there are still several more lessons to come.
You can register for this course by following the "Register for Courses" link at the top of the page.
If I register for the full course content (that $39 for the whole course), can I assume that I will be able to access other modules for this course, that would be written in the future ?
Subscribers will always have immediate access to any additional course modules.
I think the $39 dollar is in terms of Candian dollar currency.
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These days, US and Canadian dollars are worth about the same. You just need to use a normal credit card, and the exchange rate will be factored in automatically.
Hi. I live in Guelph and want to know when the next course starts?
Is thier any chance of carrier in kernal.
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If we don't already have a course that addresses the topic you're interested in, drop us a note and we'll see what we can do -- our content providers can almost certainly put together a course that's precisely what you're after.
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I hear that there is a championship game coming up shortly. I love football, and I love college football. But it is January 7th, and I no longer care about bowls. They're supposed to end Jan 1. (I'll give you till the 3rd if it's a weekend.) It's playoff season now, you see? So I am sorry to tell you that I will not be watching your little title game. Maybe next year, if you keep it in the holidays where it's supposed to be, I will.
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Many computer artists who also teach hold the strong conviction that the real power of the computer as an instrument for leading us to a new aesthetic lies in the process of artist interaction with the computer in the development of an image. Artists have always changed their images as they evolved even when working in traditional media, but often the technical limitations of producing, for example, a painting, kept artists from making radical changes. With the computer, these limitations are removed, and the artist can work in a non-linear fashion, moving back and forth from simple to complex, adding and reducing elements, as well as modifying them, endlessly. In fact, the same initial image may end up as several finished images, or several finished images may give birth to a combined new work.
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The investigators' believe that it is important to medical practice to obtain information on how expandable metal stents work in a large group of patients who have metal stents placed in the gastrointestinal system. The purpose of this research study is to collect information on the stent placement in our facility and how the patients responded to the stent placement.
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Gastrointestinal Diseases |
Procedure: Self-expandable stent placement via endoscopy |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Case-Only Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Prospective Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of Endoscopically Placed Self-expandable Stents |
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- The purpose of this research study is to collect information on the stent placement in our facility and how the patients responded to the stent placement. [ Time Frame: at the time of stent placement ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
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Two teams looking to rebound after Week 1 losses will meet this afternoon at Price Field.
Westmont Hilltop dropped a one-sided contest to Forest Hills last week in Sidman, putting a blemish on the opening of Pat Barron's tenure as the Hilltoppers' coach.
Cambria Heights lost in a high-scoring affair to visiting Richland in what had been tabbed as a potential signature game for a much-improved program coming off a 5-5 season.
Each team is 0-1, but Westmont and Heights both hope to take a positive step in the 1 p.m. Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference match-up.
"The biggest thing is we need to keep getting better," said Cambria Heights coach Jarrod Lewis, whose team lost 38-20 to a Richland team that mixed the pass and run on offense and had five sacks on defense. "We've had a good few days of practice. The kids worked hard.
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Heights senior quarterback Nathan Bearer completed six passes, with half of those good for touchdowns.
Senior Andrew Brawley hauled in three catches for 124 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Senior running back Donnie Contorchick gained 84 yards on 12 carries. Brawley had an interception on defense.
"There were some encouraging things with our offense but we could be better," Lewis said. "We were missing assignments. People were going the wrong way. If we eliminate those things, we can be more balanced and the threat of big plays is there."
Westmont lost, 44-0, at Forest Hills as the Rangers limited Westmont's single-wing offense to 138 rushing yards. Lukas Kleinmeyer gained 62 yards on seven attempts, many of those coming on counters. Hilltop was able to move the ball on occasion, but couldn't put together a scoring drive.
"Offensively, I thought we moved the ball well at times. I thought the kids did pretty well with the offense," Barron said. "Coming out, we moved the ball and had two first downs and were in a third-and-1 to keep the chains moving. We didn't get it done. At the end of the first quarter, it was 10-0 and we had the ball on their 30-yard line and couldn't put points on the board.
"If we can keep Heights from making big plays and if we swarm to the football we can make it a battle this week."
Barron is wary of Heights' multiple threats on offense.
"You've got to be prepared for their trick plays," Barron said. "We're preaching fundamentals, proper tackling technique and swarming to the football.
"They use a lot of formations. (Former Westmont coach) Darren McLaurin is their offensive coordinator. I've played under him. I've run a lot of those trick plays in the past. They lull you to sleep and they go for the home run ball. Our defensive backs have to be ready. They run the ball the whole game and set you up, and then they take their shots."
Lewis has concerns about defending Westmont's single-wing.
"It's definitely an unconventional offense. It's difficult to prepare for," Lewis said. "Each week, they're going to understand it a little bit more and get a little bit better at it. They come right at you. They have a nice offensive line.
"They've got some really nice misdirection plays. Just about when you load up to stop the run, they'll come out and pass the ball too. They make you defend all areas of the field."
Barron supports the school district's decision to revive the traditional Saturday pregame parade in which the team buses are escorted to the field by fire trucks, police vehicles and ambulances during the drive from the high school to the middle school field.
"The kids have been talking about it. Hearing from parents, faculty and staff, they're excited about it," Barron said. "For these kids, it's showing them traditions of the past and how it's done. We're one of the few games on Saturday. A lot of people will come up and look at it. It's a great way to enter your stadium when you have the fire trucks blowing the whistles and the sirens."
Lewis said his team will adapt to playing an afternoon game.
"We didn't play a Saturday game last year," Lewis said. "You want to make sure your kids are prepared for it and ready to go.
"We're a veteran football team. The bottom line is it's still football. I think the kids will be motivated and ready to go."
North Star at Ferndale, 1 p.m.: North Star is stinging after a 13-10 upset loss to visiting Portage last week.
Ferndale officially is 0-0 because the Yellow Jackets' game at Conemaugh Valley was halted by a lightning delay with 7:35 left in the third quarter. The Blue Jays led 40-18 at that point, and play will resume on Sept. 18.
Thomas Miller rushed for 108 yards to pace North Star against Portage.
His touchdown from 5 yards out midway through the final quarter gave the Cougars their first lead of the night. But Portage used Chris Onder's 35-yard run on a reverse to the North Star 6-yard line to set up the game-winning touchdown. Mustangs quarterback Evan Price scored on a keeper.
Because of PIAA rules, North Star will miss quarterback Brantley Rice, who was ejected during the Portage game.
Ferndale quarterback Chad Eisenhuth ran the first play from scrimmage 80 yards for a touchdown Saturday at Conemaugh Valley.
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Taking their name from the 60's B-film of Satan's Sadists, the line up of Dave Pilgrim (guitar/ keyboards) Bobby Pilgrim (guitar), John Pilgrim (bass), Scott Pilgrim (guitar) and Ted Pilgrim (drums) got together in 1992 under the moniker of Satan's Pilgrams. With their matching vampire capes and nostalgia of lo-fi 60's surf, Empty Records debuted the quintets first full-length in 1995 with At Home With Satan's Pilgrams, followed by Soul Pilgrims that same year. Being compared to the Northwestern legends of The Ventures, The Sonics, The Wailers and the Kingsmen, the band continued their relationship with Empty as they released Around The World With... in 1997, while putting out Creature Feature on Estrus Records the following year. Their conveniently titled fifth album Satan's Pilgrims hit 1999. ~ Mike DaRonco
Plymouth Rock
Satan's Pilgrims


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