Good #news. Like, LOTS of them.
I did not “discard” her opinion. I said I was sceptical that anyone's subjective experience is very meaningful per se in these matters. That's why we have peer-reviewed studies, surveys and statistics in the social sciences. If you think I “discarded” her opinion, well, you are now “discarding” mine by expressing disagreement, too.
I did not criticised her opinion “because she's pretty”. That is clear to anyone who read my article without prejudice. No-one is responsible for the genes they were dealt, and physique is obviously orthogonal to moral authority and to the quality of one's reasoning.
What I did is calling attention to the hypocrisy of denouncing that #girls are unjustly expected to be pretty while at the same time
* basing one's career, success and popularity as a woman on always appearing as pretty as possible everywhere (own web site, MSM, SM, LI) through clothing (or lack thereof), make-up, lighting, suggestive poses and careful post production,
* participating in beauty contests, which as I pointed out are at the very least controversial among #feminists, and definitely an area with _enormous_ #inequality between the sexes, where girls (and _only_ girls) are indeed expected to be (extremely) pretty, _by definition_,
* focusing her more recent work (as a coach) around #BeautyPageants, targeting women exclusively and explicitly, and glorifying that career option with her language and promotional material.
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The Award of the " Most Dystopian Photo Of The Year " goes to #Amazon (Tijuana, Mexico) 🤢 (cf. https://restofworld.org/2021/amazon-warehouse-tijuana)
I think #DenisVilleneuve is my new #DannyBoyle, in the sense that his motifs and aesthetics resonate so much with me that I can count on loving almost any new film by him!
You are right. That obsession with “blackface”, “cultural appropriation”, and the innocuous words denoting the absence of colour in languages other than English that far predate the founding of the #USA (ie, in Spanish, _“negro”_) is a distinctively American illness.
#Blackface can be innocent or even cute in many circumstances (why can't a child dress up and apply makeup to emulate their favourite fictional character or historical figure?). But all context is ignored.
#CulturalAppropriation is an absurd idea; almost everything surrounding us is cultural, and _every_ culture ever borrowed, imitated, and recycled all the time.
Again: _“Obama fue el primer presidente #negro de Estados Unidos”_. Get over it.
/cc @zens@merveilles.town @aral
> _“Boys form the vast majority of all short suspensions (75.4%) and long suspensions (73.9%). […] This appalling reporting bias in the article ignores not only the predominate suspension of #boys from Australian schools, but the impact of this on the disengagement of boys from a hostile and misandrist Australian education system, reflected in the year 7-12 retention rate for female students of 88.0%, compared to 79.3% for boys (again based on NSW government schools 2019 data).”_
> _“This erasure of boys from an analysis that should have acknowledged the extreme gendered nature of exclusion from #schools is consistent with the erasure of men and boys from other extremely gendered issues (suicide prevention, health, family) by ideologically biased academics, policy makers and service providers, and the erasure and abandonment of men and boys from humanitarian programs run by the UN, WHO, UNICEF and NGOs (i.e. Gates Foundation).”_
> _“So, when we see […] the decreasing enrolments of young #men in universities and colleges, we must be aware, not just that the #misandry of our #education systems begins from pre-school education and continues through-out boys education experience, but that this is just one part of a larger endemic trend of erasing men and boys from analyses that should be identifying their urgent needs. An erasure that pretends issues that predominately impact men and boys are #gender neutral, or paradoxically impact women and girl more.”_
I take your word about rollout not being _that_ complex (I don't know the technical details).
> _“The risks aren't really that big. It's mostly just about payments, and if they fail, then so be it. Just revert to USD for single failed payments and that's it.”_
That's the thing. If this is not a clear success, it'll be dishonestly used as a cautionary tale and an embarrassing mistake made by the #crypto community at large.
If there is low adoption in #ElSalvador, or a few cases of governmental/contractor corruption, or a few citizens complain about lost keys or lost funds… unfair as it will be, #bitcoin slanderers and #MSM will exploit it to their advantage, and the masses will draw the conclusion that #BTC is a scam, too risky, or not ready yet.
That's why I'm concerned about the PR consequences of this hasty experiment, widely advertised by a country that does not even qualify as a flawed democracy.
> _“Where exactly in this story does the shady corporate advisor fit in?”_
I don't know. I don't have certainty, it's only reasonable suspicion given the results I've seen so far, and the alignment of some incentives.
In your other toot you say that
> _“people from within the bitcoin community [had] to make this happen within their crazy time limit of just 90 days.”_
I would ask: _who exactly_ is “they” in “their crazy time limit”? Who had an interest in rushing such a risky, complex, nation-wide rollout? #Bukele for selfish PR/electoral reasons? Him alone?
As [I always said](https://qoto.org/@tripu/105196744728247284):
A proprietary implementation of #E2EE? Distrust by default!
I already predicted (in private #crypto circles and with friends) that the #BTC experiment in #ElSalvador would go awry and end up being a net loss in PR for crypto in general.
This is my new prediction:
**Before the end of this year, we will have evidence that at least one relevant person or organisation with an anti-bitcoin agenda in the short term (ill-)advised the Salvadorean government or their contractors, or actively worked on this new legislation or its technical implementation, with the goal of damaging the reputation of #bitcoin, causing a price drop, or delaying/preventing endorsement or adoption by other governments or by big companies.**
This could be (eg): a financial regulator or watchdog in a developed country with an interest in preserving the status quo, an investment fund trying to groom the market before going all in, a “whale” who is short (even privately) on BTC, a large bank with an interest in boycotting, some resourceful think tank or non-profit with a strong conservative or progressive bent, etc.
