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khedronI’ve been following Naomi Wu on twitter for a while. It’s a case where I said, “yes, she has cartoonishly large breasts, but the tech content is good, and twitter is just like that, right?” This didn’t seem too far out of the norm; most of the time it seems like everyone in infosec twitter is queer, trans, or both, and so I just roll with it.
Well, the other day (year?) she posted in frustration that YouTube had marked one of her videos as adult material (effectively de-monetizing it) because it had a dressmaker’s doll that was shaped like her, and .. that was it, no other identified issues at all. And so she decided to tell the story of why she looks the way she does, and how it could be that this wasn’t a sexualized thing for her. I have to say, I don’t know what I expected, but I did not expect a history of the “One Child” policy in China, a clip of Dolly Parton explaining why she looks the way she does, expectations for being a “beard”, and an introduction to “Toms and Dees” in Thai gender identity.
Bonus praise for the girls at the boarding school who took her in when she was 16 and gave her dresses for the first time in her life, instead of shunning her for looking like a boy. You can tell that the experience could have totally gone another way and it would have been crushing.
Well, the other day (year?) she posted in frustration that YouTube had marked one of her videos as adult material (effectively de-monetizing it) because it had a dressmaker’s doll that was shaped like her, and .. that was it, no other identified issues at all. And so she decided to tell the story of why she looks the way she does, and how it could be that this wasn’t a sexualized thing for her. I have to say, I don’t know what I expected, but I did not expect a history of the “One Child” policy in China, a clip of Dolly Parton explaining why she looks the way she does, expectations for being a “beard”, and an introduction to “Toms and Dees” in Thai gender identity.
Bonus praise for the girls at the boarding school who took her in when she was 16 and gave her dresses for the first time in her life, instead of shunning her for looking like a boy. You can tell that the experience could have totally gone another way and it would have been crushing.
