alrite im answering allen. and heckler in one shot, and since my original statement has been moved so far from its original posture i am going to also clarify my original stance. so if you don't want to deal with a diatribe in this thread-- just skip this block of text.
part 1.
i disagree with the premise that skateboarding has a shape nor that its "political." i'm pretty sure in another thread i said that the act of skateboarding is radically apolitical. For the same reasons skateboarding is apoltical, it has no shape. it has no hierarchy, no rules, no dogma, no goals, no objective, no purpose, it doesn't further anything, there are no interests beyond the act itself, there is nothing practical about it. its just a fun thing to do (and watch). i'm genuinely curious to know what you think the shape of skateboarding is and whats political about it. is the act of kayaking political? is playing with dominoes political? building ships in a bottle? Fly fishing is dominated by white men-- do women of color need to carve out their own niche in the fly fishing community-- or can they just go fly fishing?
part 2.
I have no issue with freedom of association. There is a place in society for men’s barber shops, a place for women’s gyms, a place for gay bars, a place for obese yoga classes. I generally (there are obviously limits) have no issue with people adopting identifiers and wearing them proudly. People have a right to identify themselves and be who they are. However, I do take issue with the notion that being a member of one of these associations, or identifying in a particular way, endows someone a unique right to be an unquestioned arbiter of morality and culture. More specific to Jordan Maxham’s premise- I disagree with the idea that the subject has the right to dictate how the witness perceives them. The individual is allowed to see a pair of half cabs with a hole by the pinky toe before they see the upside-down rainbow triangle pin. Moving it to a more personal level- if I see a trans person at my gym wearing a pair of boxing gloves I’m interested in, I’m going to ask them about how the boxing gloves perform and not ask them what its like boxing while trans. I am most likely just going to see them as a member of my gym and not a freedom fighter seeking their niche, I am morally allowed to do that. there is nothing objectively negative about that interaction. If I am skating a park I am allowed to see where someone stands in the lineup to drop in without noticing anything about them beyond whether or not its my turn. If a bunch of people who identify nonbinary want to meet up at the park other skateboarders are allowed to think that’s nothing more or less than 'just fine.' if that groups wants to stick to one side of the park because that makes them comfortable-- that's fine too but no one is obligated to see them as anything other than people at skate park. i am not obligated to go out of my way to understand how their experience differs than mine because really i'm just there to finally land a bs 270 to regular over the hip.
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