…conversation around the Christmas dinner table peters out, here’s something to get it going again.
-Mark J. Perry, Venn Master. Carpe Diem
If that isn’t enough to generate polite dialog (for example, if any of your fellow diners don’t immediately grasp why situational enforcement of mutually exclusive authoritarian diktat is intellectually bankrupt and morally deplorable), just propose a debate with the proposition: Venn diagrams show math is racist.
Still no chit-chat? Point out that while they need not be binary, a majority of Venn diagrams are. So aren’t they also transphobic?
As I think about it there are problems with a Venn diagram displaying however many genders may be momentarily asserted. I’ve never seen a Venn diagram with nearly a hundred circles.
I have no idea what the label in the intersection should be. I can think of nothing charitable.
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I notice I used the word “fellow”. Haven’t seen that attacked yet, but it’s obvious why it will be. Or has been, outside my notice.
Substitute “comrade”.
I also apologize in advance for “peters”, “diktat”, “Master”, “debate” (two sides), And I’m abjectly sorry for using the word “think”.
In Chess there are (partial list): Masters, National Masters, International Masters, Candidate Masters, Women’s Masters, Grandmasters, and Women’s Grandmasters.
Managed by an international body (FIDE) and played everywhere in the world, it will be interesting to see if whatever substitutes become enforced in the former United States catch on elsewhere.