!oldstrags did you know Metafilter still exists? It does!
Did you know it's a giant circlejerk even more insular than reddit? Of course you did.
(For those who don't know, MeFi is an ancient internet forum that costs $5 to join. It's like SomethingAwful if it were never funny, or rdrama if you losers had jobs and could afford 5 dollars to keep out the thirdies)
Anyway, in 2014 they had a struggle session about thinking the unspeakable wrongs.
Wendy Carlos is a transwoman. Seriously, I mentioned this once and it got instadeleted because WTF? apparently some longstanding flame war of which I wasn't even aware.
I don't know who Wendy Carlos is, but I know that trans 
women are women . There's no such thing as a "transwoman".
Anyway, after few thousand comments the thread devolves into people getting their fee-fees hurt and demanding apologies
If you want a personal apology for a comment that was not directed at you then you might as well just come out and say so instead of continuing to harp on it despite the fact that sweetkid has explained her reasoning and sincerely apologized to the actual people involved.
Then later on, down the end there's a big argument about whether it's okay to dox a 27 year old dude 
who really really likes a 17 y/o 
This comment does not look to me like an apology or an expression of misunderstanding. It looks to me like an admission he googled the information and intentionally doxxed someone he was characterizing as a "libertarian" and "sexual predator."
So folks are free to read the actual MeTa I am recalling and decide for themselves whether or not I am wildly misremembering anything or mischaracterizing it.
Y'all can't behave!
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She did the soundtrack for Clockwork Orange. Not only was she musically groundbreaking, but she also pioneered the kind of unhinged
activism we see today.
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not really, she never claimed to "identify as" anything and she never demanded that zero-effort
s be given the same consideration as passoids. that's where the really unhinged stuff got rolling. also trying to abolish differential treatment of them (cargo culting what gays were doing at the time) with the mindset of a tiny elect class of people undergoing a ritually sanctified change in gender, even though their population was rapidly getting bigger and sloppier due to informed consent (i.e. dethroning doctors from hand-picking people who they thought would transition well).
read her playboy interview and while she has the exact same personality type that you see in high-IQ
s today, her brand of activism is far more genial and liberal. she also had to disappear for 10 years and live under an assumed identity like in the witness protection program before finally going public about having been Walter Carlos, something people don't do anymore.
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Thank you for correcting the record and I apologize for the sloppy assessment from the little tidbits i previously read a while ago.
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Oh, that's two reasons to love her!
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She also advocated stealthing so she could frick straight guys.
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Three!
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