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  • When Symbols Start Bossing You Around

    When Symbols Start Bossing You Around

    On “Man”, 1/0, and the Power of Descriptions There’s a quiet horror to realizing this: The description “man” has more power over your life than you do as an actual, breathing, confused, specific male person. Same for “woman”, “mentally ill”, “genius”, “failure”, “addict”, “cis”, “trans”, “neurodivergent”, “citizen”, “terrorist”. At some point, the symbol stops being…