Like many youtubers, the incomparable, fast-talking, sharpie-doodling mathematician Vi Hart (previously) was stunned by the Orlando shooting of Christina Grimmie, a Youtube singing star who broke o⦠That's because the latter isn't what this video is about. Implicit Bias Oct. 16 Complete IATs on Race and Gender/Career at Project Implicit Chris Mooney - "The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men" Vihart (Vi Hart) did an amazing speech in which they identified as nonbinary and said that for the longest time they didn't believe people who claimed to feel more male than female or vice versa. I feel like this might be something that is prevalent with young adults/teens (non-sincerity), but only because that demographic has a severe need to prove themselves or be heard in any way possible. That would seem to imply that if you merely put a badge and you say some stuff, but you don't actually change your behavior and "live the life" of what you're saying that you are, then there's not that much of a point in it. It isn't just gender, but the general difficulty (and perhaps impossibility) of considering paradigms other than our own. This list may not reflect recent changes ( ⦠If my worldview allows for folks who have a confused self identity as well as folks who know exactly who they are, then no matter what they say or do, my behavior is appropriate. This weekâs weekly Vi Hart news includes the following topics that have been in my brain this week, gathered here for your Vi Hart news consumption experience: music/improv/earworms, VR stuff, Caitlyn Jenner, and this weekâs book reviews. I have a dexterous hand, you have a dexterous hand, but they are different hands. The problem I see with accepting this argument is that you can take it too far. As they have less of these inner identities those which they associate with are normally more pronounced, so the way they act or dress seems more extreme. (maybe "sense of normal") you were actually entitled to, or is it the actual moral implications resulting from that discovery? That kind of analogy works with something like homosexuality. A subreddit for agender, genderless and neutrois people. 3 BREAK Oct. 19 NO CLASS (Columbus Day) Oct. 12 NO CLASS 6. Sure, a kid can say that he has a "wolf inside of him from another life", and if the guy actually walked into the woods and hunted and howled and felt compelled to live like a wolf, welp, I wouldn't agree with the "previous lives" bit but I'd certainly agree that he is participating in the "wolf experience" to some extent! The concept of identity is immutable and natural in a way that makes it really really hard to change or even to comprehend what it means to change, that's why it means something when someone feels they have the wrong identity. Depending on our perspective we may weigh things like gender, nationality, religion or occupation to categories. http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/39ylta/vihart_on_gender/. Now at this point, if youâre still reading I hope youâre with me. While Vi Hart published her YouTube videos in the first half of the 2010s, those videos remain impressive. I watched Vi Hartâs âOn Genderâ video a few months ago, and it clicked for me that although I am a woman and I have no interest in identifying as anything else, I donât feel really attached to any sexual orientation labels. They (Vi) didn't feel that way, and had never felt any different, and so couldn't imagine anybody could. I mean, kids like to experiment with that sort of thing, especially in online anonymous forums, and with some people being pretty 'anti-people-who-are-okay-with-the-gender-they-were-born', it gives them a place to vent. Vi did her videos in an animation style that could be called whiteboard on notebook paper. I can't tell for sure whether that is already happening, or whether I'm just committing this fallacy when I think it looks like it is. Perhaps she simply does not care about her lack of a gender enough to ask other people to stop calling her a woman and start using gender-neutral pronouns? So much yes. Some biologically female trandgender people actually feel a penis between their legs. As a male I personally would be very distressed if I were to wake up as a female. This is what really interested me, because questions of identity have some really profound implications. Undoubtedly there are some who think the way you described (my life is awful, it must be my gender's fault! And if I assume I'm just typical minding again and decide I should treat them as if they are sincere, it leads to them having power over me to police my behaviour, or to argue for affirmative action or whatnot. This is all terribly confusing, and I'm trying to work out some kind of theory that isn't horribly cruel to anyone yet still makes sense of what I see around me and what common sense apparently demands. Pages in category "People with non-binary gender identities" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. Or... rebel? Well said in most regards. To specifically state, the harassment is not part of every criticism, but there is a contingent party of people that enjoy lowering others because they are minimally different and advocate for minimally different things. Posted on September 24, 2015 by fish. If I have a strong male identity then what I believe 'male' is, will have a influence on the expectations of myself. It can be an easy form of control for people, who sometimes don't realize it, but like the power trip. I <3 Vi Hart, and one can never go wrong watching her stuff. But when a doofus behind his computer tells me he is a wolf because his tumblr background is a wolf and he really really likes the moon, then I scoff at his notion of "identity". I don't really know what it means to say "I don't have a gender, but I'm also not agender.". Vi Hart â entertaining math nerdiness by . Its fun to see younger people developing their own identities. I think policing behaviors only really happens when the recipient doesn't have a balanced worldview. True, and she also elicits the distinction between matters of identity and accidental qualities (I think I'm using this term right?) This makes sense to me. She clearly goes a bit beyond "cis by default" because she experiences discomfort at being labeled a "woman". Transgender people also have had their brains analyzed in brain scans, showing their brains have similar characteristics to what they feel they are. Thats as silly as dismissing math as a linguistic game. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. The full conversation is about the identity of self and others. In transgendered individuals(who aren't fakers) their brains resemble the gender they identify with. (wtf?) This looks suspiciously like making a decision about an unknown based on the convenience of either possibility rather than the likelihood of either's validity. Posted on September 24, 2015 by fish. I have sexual preference, you have sexual preference, but that preference is different. This section is first so that you can hit ⦠* chuckle *. I really liked this video because I could relate with not particularly identifying as a gender. You, like ViHart, just may be gender neutral. I think the trick is to develop a level of respect for everybody that means you have room for both possibilities. The problem is that once you assume everyone is being sincere, people can abuse that by knowing they will be treated as sincere even though they're not. why is fashionable for people who are interested in these concepts to use the word "folk", New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Learn more about Redditâs use of cookies. The same is true for Vi Hart. Though my own experience differed, many core motivations/feels are similar to what Vihart said. I wanted to see what it would be like to draw a mathematic pine cone, however it was much harder than I thought it would be to get the spirals ⦠We are most often rationing rather than rational beings, and I see no compelling reason why a person acting (to all external observers) as a manipulative monster cannot reflexively rationalize sympathetic justifications for their behavior. Also: Happy Holidays everyone! However, similar to Vi Hart, his fictionalization has never once been identified as non-binary. She also used ⦠Thank you. Itâs a project created by Vi Hart and Nicky Case called a âplayable blog post.â Itâs a sort-of game, sort-of blog post, sort-of math modelling presentation, sort-of social comment. Unknown. If they are not, you are free to be unchanged. Posted in gender equality | Tagged gender equality, scishow, the brain scoop, vihart, women in medicine, women in science, women in STEM, women on YouTube | Leave a reply. I'm pretty sure trans people who suffer dysphoria are being sincere about it, and like Vi Hart, it took me a while to come around to this because I was committing this 'typical mind fallacy' as well. It also squares with my experience (here I might be returning to the identity criterion, not sure). I don't have an overly strong identity (were I to wake up tomorrow magically a woman, it would be confusing and unfamiliar, but not necessarily a cause of anguish), but clearly, I am a man, because it's just the fact of the matter based on my body and who I am as a member of the species. They might identify with a certain type of music, sports or vampires. For everything a box, a box for everything. I think the best we can hope for is to acknowledge and accept that there are other views and that they are not necessarily wrong simply because they conflict with ours. I think watching that video and internalizing the line of reasoning Vi Hart uses can help those that are cisgender but not strongly attached to the concepts or expectations of gender. Theyâre not afraid to tackle gender issues either. I can't even really describe why, other than it would just feel wrong. Vi Hart (mathematician) On Gender â YouTube. So why not ⦠A big problem that propels the other problems and compounds them is the harassment and mockery that goes along with the criticism of the groups, movements and people that explore these things. It just means (to use the popular example of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner) that at one point, Bruce Jenner was a man, but that being a man caused him intense pain and misery. Scarier still: conscious knowledge of their manipulative bad faith behavior is not a prerequisite for the existence of that behavior. When we build an identity for ourselves we use these biases to build expectations for ourselves. Hart is a Principal Investigator at the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC). People who are truly trans don't see it as changing their identity, they see it as correcting an error in their person that does not reflect their identity. These feels, I cannot hold all of them. She is a woman, although she's not strongly attached to being a woman and would apparently be okay with no longer being a woman. Now she can live out the rest of her days in peace, or at least free from the suffering she experienced while a man. I think watching that video and internalizing the line of reasoning Vi Hart uses can help those that are cisgender but not strongly attached to the concepts or expectations of gender. People walking into a "room" and declaring their sex and/or gender, often threw me off. She is a woman, although she's not strongly attached to being a woman and would apparently be okay with no longer being a woman. We use bias to categories people and ourselves into groups in which they fit. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Agender/Transfemme | HRT since 2016/05/26 :). Note that i think identity politics are necessary from my own positions politically and philosophically. We use cookies on our websites for a number of purposes, including analytics and performance, functionality and advertising. Vi Hart â âOn Genderâ Hart eloquently and succinctly describes her experience growing up as a genderless/agender person in a gendered society. Doesn't this go beyond just gender? While at the same time our culture is trying to outgrow gender roles and identity. On a second YouTube channel, they released multiple videos of a microwave counting down to much confusion and delight from artists. It's very possible to view everybody as sincere, but also temper it with 'this may change over time'. Their views on gender agnosticism were discussed in a viral video in 2015 to massive Twitter and Tumblr support. We make assumptions that 'X' group does 'Y.'. Vi Hart. I guess that for her, the lack of label represents the lack of gender better than being 'something '. Some biologically female trandgender people actually feel a penis between their legs. What is necessary to combat the tumblr fanaticism over identity politics is a larger voice for the theory around all of this. 1. Vi Hart was a helper forKingly Gameswho was originally supposed to make music for Eden. Hart identifies as "gender agnostic"; in a video released in 2015, they spoke about their lack of gender identityâincluding lacking non-binaryidentities such as agenderâand their attitude to gendered terms such as pronouns as a "linguistic game" that they were not interested in playing. All these -kin are confused on the meaning. Though, thankfully, she seems to have moved (somewhat?) Vi Hart is a "recreational mathemusician" with a site and a Youtube channel.She really gained her fame when John Green discovered her as part of The Station Is Watching You, and has since gotten herself over a million subscribers on Youtube. It also doesn't support the assumption that trans people are just lying or delusional or otherwise not really the gender they transition to. While she mostly focuses on her own experience, other people who have had similar experiences will resonate with her thoughts. Vi Hartâs Fibonacci videos suggest that what may appear to be almost eerie can also have a perfectly reasonable, down-to-earth explanation; the only premise to be accepted is the idea that, given time, the evolutionary development of living beings will tend towards maximization of use of resources that are important for survival ⦠Polygons was created by Nicky Case and Vi Hart. While what I'm saying might sound harsh, after doing the research I now understand. Now at this point, if youâre still reading I ⦠Vi Hartâs style is different. In other words: no, we shouldn't just take people at their word. So what to people think Vihart meant by not being agender but not having a gender? We cede the field to bad actors every single time. Although designated a man, I relate to almost everything in this video, and I am trying to decide if it worth it to "come out" as agender. Oh and then there are fakers who do it strictly for the attention. It's a mental disorder marked by the brains' physical makeup. So why not "agender"? There have been irresponsible uses of the terminology here notably from the otherkin and "trans-racial" crowd. Gender roles [ edit | edit source ] In addition to the enforcement of male and female genders and the relationships between them, there is also the idea that male and female characters are predisposed to act in a certain way. Thank you young new yorkers! So you cannot know if they are sincere or not. I simply can not relate with transgenders at all. Too much political correctness is a bad thing. Vi Hart's best work on ⦠But I'm wary that it's open to abuse. A different perspective on the 2016 presidential election, based on statistics in context. I'd have a conversation with the guy at least, and it would probably be interesting. The only way to cure this depression is if people tell me I'm left handed, I start using my left hand for things, and I surgically reattach my right hand onto my left. Posted in Learning, Movies, Story Telling | Tagged gender, mathematics, vi hart | Leave a reply Young New Yorkers Revive Contra Dancing â WSJ. From this I gather that a lot of people who read my posts (though not necessarily Saathi or any particular individual who sent this video) think Iâm a well-meaning cis person who, like young!Vi Hart, disbelieves in gender, disapproves of othersâ gender, and/or is just thinking about gender ⦠It is not as simple as everyone having a singular identity, as we have multiple biases and we can identify with multiple things. Reply. I love this video. Weâre currently in process of confirming all details ⦠They indica⦠I'm also a bit confused by the idea that gender has solely to do with the apparently unanalyzable criterion of identification and nothing to do with actually being male or female, which seems to me to be the most sensible way of looking at things. It's a very confusing topic. Vi Hart. She is a well known youtuber that makes both music and math related videos. So I understand what's going on there now, but it's so far removed and so uncommon it's something I can't relate or empathize with. Did you ever hear of "phantom phalluses"? This is all terribly confusing, and I'm trying to work out some kind of theory that isn't horribly cruel to anyone yet still makes sense of what I see around me and what ⦠Therefore, he decided to stop being a man, to relieve this agony, and became a woman and was renamed Caitlyn. The amount of publicity it's been getting lately makes me super suspicious about people being truthful about it or not. Vi Hart drew lines on the pinecones to see how many spirals there were and she then went backwards and first drew spirals on paper and then drew a mathematic pine cone out of the spirals. I also feel this so strongly it sends me into a state of depression. In any event, I don't agree with her 'typical minded' or 'same minded' theory. Eventually this clued me in that people are different and gender identity is real. She made one song, but it never appeared within the game. Or even how kids section themselves into groups during recess. But I'm still pretty sure that a lot of tumblr denizens are extremely confused about what it means to make something a part of your identity, and I'm not sure that all the labels they attach to themselves are 'identities' in the same way that most people historically have felt identity. She clearly goes a bit beyond "cis by default" because she experiences discomfort at being labeled a "woman". Maybe if adults started accepting and being less judgemental, they would chill the fuck out? And if I assume I'm just typical minding again and decide I should treat them as if they are sincere, it leads to them having power over me to police my behaviour. Vi Hartâs height and weight. Reply. Further, I think an argument can be made that the capacity to routinely rationalize bad faith behavior is a necessary condition for that behavior to thrive. September 25, 2015; Jaynes Bicameral Video Experiment September 21, 2015; Infinite Binary Trees September 15, 2015; 360 Video for Tau Day June 28, 2015; Vi Hart ⦠I F***ing Love Science, hosted by Elise Andrew . But this game can also be be used to explore things like gender disparity in tech. Are they the ones policing you, and is it really a loss of freedom (?)