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Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
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🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
From bionic enhancements to extreme body modifications, the lines are blurry between identity theory and queer theory. There is a complex interplay of incentives, ideological beliefs, optimized physical and mental wellness, and functionality within society - all reliant on quality medical care and support, but at whose financial expense?
And what is the purpose of medicine (particularly where it intersects with technological advancements)? Is medical care primarily about restoring health or is it also for fulfilling consumer preferences? There are many questions to be raised about the philosophical underpinnings behind medicine and personal/body autonomy.
"I don't think people are going to be getting the toaster [body] attachment because they feel like a toaster. I think they'll be getting it because they want to toast toast."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender A Wider Lens exclusive content. If you're a free listener, what you're about to hear is a preview of a bonus episode for our paid sub-stack subscribers. |
| 0:11.0 | If you'd like to hear the rest, go to widerlands pod.com and sign up for any of our paid membership |
| 0:16.8 | options. |
| 0:17.8 | And to all of our premium and founding member subscribers, thank you for the support. And here's the bonus conversation. |
| 0:27.0 | So Stella and I are back here with Sasha Bailey |
| 0:30.0 | and we got into this very interesting conversation ostensibly about the way medical technologies are going to change our relationships with our bodies and what limits we perceive exist in nature and you were talking about bionic arms and things like that so first of all what bionic body parts do you have and which do you recommend for us? |
| 0:53.0 | Or I'd love to have like extendable knives out there be good for cutting carrots. |
| 0:58.0 | Like Edward Scissorhands kind of stuff. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, exactly, it would be useful. |
| 1:02.0 | But no, I mean, I guess the example I was going to give, but it's better behind the paywall, is, you know, I don't think people would, in the future, I don't think when there is attachments or whatever, and you can be altered, I don't think when there is attachments or whatever and you could be altered I don't think people are going to be getting the toaster attachment because they feel like a toaster. I think they'll be getting it because they want to toast toast. Like that's what I mean from yeah this this argument over time yeah it becomes a lot more functional yeah yeah you're moving really from identity theory over to queer theory and queer theory is because I want it while identity theory is it is because it's within me and I feel compelled. |
| 1:37.0 | And queer theory is kind of winning the kind of the heart and minds of the people is it's the individual if they want |
| 1:46.8 | it's just it's not within me I just want it. |
| 1:51.1 | What's kind of the libertarian argument too is that it? It's just like it's it's all of that is just to do whatever you want. It's it's yeah as an adult. But yeah, I think that's that's the part of it which gets me as it really is. To me it always ends up boiling down to something cosmetic or |
| 2:05.3 | something permanent and I worry about that being accessible to kids and I can't |
| 2:09.6 | frame the argument in any way where I think that it's right for children to be successful. |
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