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[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I agree that it's not quite the same, and I'm finding it real interesting to ponder how that happens.

This comic and this comment section have been pretty thought provoking. (Heads up, this is overly abstract speculation from here): For example, here's a mathsy diagram This is a commutative diagram, and I'm not at the level of being able to explain it properly, but part of it is the idea of equivalence, the fact that there's two routes from A to D that are equivalent.

I'm thinking about this sort of analogous to what we're seeing in the comic and these comments. Like, the base experiences we're talking about (being spoken over when you're trying to share your experiences, for example) are fundamentally shared experiences, but the manner of experiencing them is different, because it's coloured by our own positionality (of which gender is a big part of). I think sometimes though, it's like discussions don't work because we get separated — some of us at B, and some at C. Like, it does matter that our experiences are different, but also, there's a sense in which it doesn't, because we need to head to the same place anyway.

I don't know what converging on D would be in this analogy. Solidarity perhaps? Which would, I suppose, involve recognising that the route you're on is different to the route other people are on, and that it's possible to be heading to the same place. I'm not sure, this is quite abstract, but you said the word "meta" and that seemed to catalyse this thought, so here's this comment. You're welcome/my apologies

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh hell yeah, Category Theory! LET'S GOOOOO!

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