I’m not actively using the humorous pseudonym “Social Justice Wizard” anymore, and correspondingly, decided to retire this blog in favor of one under my real name: Taylan’s Blag This may seem a bit weird; that I’m separating the blogs, yet not trying to hide the fact that “Social Justice Wizard” a.k.a. “that guy with the…
Printing HTML from Android via ZPL
Yup, another programming entry on this blog. My main professional activity is developing an Android app nowadays (and before that it was developing iOS apps) but that’s not a very exciting topic as you can find gazillions of guides on it on the web and most of the time it’s just… normal programming. But every…
Making a SOAP server from WSDL files
Normally I only use this blog for political topics but what I spent the last two days learning is so under-documented on the Internet that I just had to write about it and publish it somewhere. Step 0: Introduction to SOAP So you’ve been tasked with writing a server implementing some dinosaur communication protocol that…
On being kind or unkind
Some women say “screw being kind” in the face of a culture that expects them to be unrealistically gracious. I think kindness is a very high virtue and ideally everyone would be kind, but a lot of people have a problematic definition of kindness. Being kind should never require one to completely ignore one’s own…
Of COURSE sex is something “special”
Like, duh… Content warning: prostitution, pedophilia, incest, sexual violence Saturday was a bad day. First I found out that @shaun_jen, who I know from his videos pointing out the stupidity of Anita Sarkeesian “critics” (good work on that), is in support of your average porn-sick trans activist Zinnia Jones. Then I saw a tweet by…
Is biological sex a social construct?
What is even real anymore? I was intending to decrease my amount of writing on trans topics, and focus more on other issues that feel very important to me, like the fascism of pornography and prostitution, but the trans movement is only ever getting more absurd and aggressive, so here we are again. Besides, when…
Masculinity, anime, and gender dysphoria
An analysis of media-induced transgender identification Anyone who spends a lot of time with the transgender debate will notice sooner or later that there are a ton of young trans-identifying males who are into anime, using anime girls for their social media avatars, sharing memes related to cute anime girls, and so on. We don’t…
“Cisgender” normalizes male supremacism
Content warning: trigger warnings. Trigger warning: questioning of the validity of transgender identity. First of all, if one defines “transgender” as a manifestation of gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder that entails severe discomfort with sexual parts of one’s anatomy and a fixation with being seen as a member of the opposite sex, then my complaint…
Pornography – A manifesto
I’ve been meaning to write about pornography for as long as I’ve managed this blog, but never came around to do it because nothing that goes through my mind hasn’t already been written in a more eloquent and elaborate fashion by radical feminists. I can only recommend the works of Andrea Dworkin and other anti-pornography…
A science review on gender identity
If you can call that science, that is. I found the following PDF buried beneath many other files in my PC’s “temporary files” directory, where I put stuff that I intend to look into some day and am too lazy to archive somewhere proper: Evidence supporting the biological nature of gender identity It’s a meta…