Victoria Hart, commonly known as Vi Hart, is a self-described “recreational mathemusician” who is most known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube. She clearly goes a bit beyond "cis by default" because she experiences discomfort at being labeled a "woman". Music Section: improvisation and earworms. It also doesn't support the assumption that trans people are just lying or delusional or otherwise not really the gender they transition to. It is not as simple as everyone having a singular identity, as we have multiple biases and we can identify with multiple things. In other words: no, we shouldn't just take people at their word. Although designated a man, I relate to almost everything in this video, and I am trying to decide if it worth it to "come out" as agender. It's very possible to view everybody as sincere, but also temper it with 'this may change over time'. If they are, then what? This list may not reflect recent changes ( … * chuckle *. The interactive post focuses on the issues and segregation that occur when even just a small amount of “shapism” exists in society. Or... rebel? For everything a box, a box for everything. True, and she also elicits the distinction between matters of identity and accidental qualities (I think I'm using this term right?) http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/39ylta/vihart_on_gender/. So what to people think Vihart meant by not being agender but not having a gender? Vi Hart is a "recreational mathemusician" with a site and a Youtube channel.She really gained her fame when John Green discovered her as part of The Station Is Watching You, and has since gotten herself over a million subscribers on Youtube. I'm also a bit confused by the idea that gender has solely to do with the apparently unanalyzable criterion of identification and nothing to do with actually being male or female, which seems to me to be the most sensible way of looking at things. Some biologically female trandgender people actually feel a penis between their legs. Vi Hart’s style is different. She is a woman, although she's not strongly attached to being a woman and would apparently be okay with no longer being a woman. I mean, kids like to experiment with that sort of thing, especially in online anonymous forums, and with some people being pretty 'anti-people-who-are-okay-with-the-gender-they-were-born', it gives them a place to vent. Some biologically female trandgender people actually feel a penis between their legs. While at the same time our culture is trying to outgrow gender roles and identity. It's a mental disorder marked by the brains' physical makeup. Eventually this clued me in that people are different and gender identity is real. Therefore, he decided to stop being a man, to relieve this agony, and became a woman and was renamed Caitlyn. Maybe if adults started accepting and being less judgemental, they would chill the fuck out? Posted in gender equality | Tagged gender equality, scishow, the brain scoop, vihart, women in medicine, women in science, women in STEM, women on YouTube | Leave a reply. Hart is the child of mathematical sculptor George W. Hart, and received a degree in music at Stony Brook University. A big problem that propels the other problems and compounds them is the harassment and mockery that goes along with the criticism of the groups, movements and people that explore these things. People walking into a "room" and declaring their sex and/or gender, often threw me off. Are they the ones policing you, and is it really a loss of freedom (?) 1. This does have the conclusion that a lot of philosophers and trans activists wish to avoid, namely that transgender people were once actually the gender they were born as, but it actually grounds gender in something and it does seem to speak to trans people's desire to have the body of the gender they feel they are. It isn't just gender, but the general difficulty (and perhaps impossibility) of considering paradigms other than our own. (wtf?) I simply can not relate with transgenders at all. why is fashionable for people who are interested in these concepts to use the word "folk", New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Their views on gender agnosticism were discussed in a viral video in 2015 to massive Twitter and Tumblr support. Some of Hart's videos in 2016 covered political topics like the shooting of Christina Grimmie and Black Lives Matter. If I have a strong male identity then what I believe 'male' is, will have a influence on the expectations of myself. Hart is a Principal Investigator at the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC). We’re currently in process of confirming all details … I'd have a conversation with the guy at least, and it would probably be interesting. Too much political correctness is a bad thing. Now at this point, if you’re still reading I hope you’re with me. If someone is only really truly "themselves" when they're, say, female (or male) - I don't know, it seems to me to be a shot against universalism. We make assumptions that 'X' group does 'Y.'. We cede the field to bad actors every single time. In any event, I don't agree with her 'typical minded' or 'same minded' theory. Perhaps she simply does not care about her lack of a gender enough to ask other people to stop calling her a woman and start using gender-neutral pronouns? This looks suspiciously like making a decision about an unknown based on the convenience of either possibility rather than the likelihood of either's validity. I have sexual preference, you have sexual preference, but that preference is different. So what to people think Vihart meant by not being agender but not having a gender? If my worldview allows for folks who have a confused self identity as well as folks who know exactly who they are, then no matter what they say or do, my behavior is appropriate. Reply. We are most often rationing rather than rational beings, and I see no compelling reason why a person acting (to all external observers) as a manipulative monster cannot reflexively rationalize sympathetic justifications for their behavior. It just means (to use the popular example of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner) that at one point, Bruce Jenner was a man, but that being a man caused him intense pain and misery. It is necessary to define what you are for some, and it may happen that you are not a man or woman and not someone that identifies as some middle ground or something completely different. I think policing behaviors only really happens when the recipient doesn't have a balanced worldview. Transgender people also have had their brains analyzed in brain scans, showing their brains have similar characteristics to what they feel they are. Also: Happy Holidays everyone! While she mostly focuses on her own experience, other people who have had similar experiences will resonate with her thoughts. I don't have an overly strong identity (were I to wake up tomorrow magically a woman, it would be confusing and unfamiliar, but not necessarily a cause of anguish), but clearly, I am a man, because it's just the fact of the matter based on my body and who I am as a member of the species. But I'm wary that it's open to abuse. Its fun to see younger people developing their own identities. That's because the latter isn't what this video is about. While what I'm saying might sound harsh, after doing the research I now understand. Vi Hart – entertaining math nerdiness by . She is speaking to an audience, but a YouTube audience is not a classroom. >Hart identifies as "gender agnostic";[10] in a video released in 2015, they spoke about their lack ... - "/sci/ - Science & Math" is 4chan's board for the discussion of science and math. Polygons was created by Nicky Case and Vi Hart. On a second YouTube channel, they released multiple videos of a microwave counting down to much confusion and delight from artists. Thats as silly as dismissing math as a linguistic game. I don't really know what it means to say "I don't have a gender, but I'm also not agender.". Thank you young new yorkers! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I don't understand what she means by "..I'm also not agender" either, it makes me think she's just confused by the definition. It can be an easy form of control for people, who sometimes don't realize it, but like the power trip. But this game can also be be used to explore things like gender disparity in tech. Now she can live out the rest of her days in peace, or at least free from the suffering she experienced while a man. It's a very confusing topic. I'm pretty sure trans people who suffer dysphoria are being sincere about it, and like Vi Hart, it took me a while to come around to this because I was committing this 'typical mind fallacy' as well. But I'm still pretty sure that a lot of tumblr denizens are extremely confused about what it means to make something a part of your identity, and I'm not sure that all the labels they attach to themselves are 'identities' in the same way that most people historically have felt identity. The brains of men and women look and function somewhat differently. So VI who actually got that part right. This week’s weekly Vi Hart news includes the following topics that have been in my brain this week, gathered here for your Vi Hart news consumption experience: music/improv/earworms, VR stuff, Caitlyn Jenner, and this week’s book reviews. Posted on September 24, 2015 by fish. If they are not, you are free to be unchanged. Like many youtubers, the incomparable, fast-talking, sharpie-doodling mathematician Vi Hart (previously) was stunned by the Orlando shooting of Christina Grimmie, a Youtube singing star who broke o… Transgender on the otherhand is kinda like saying I'm right handed, but I feel like I'm left handed. We use cookies on our websites for a number of purposes, including analytics and performance, functionality and advertising. Posted on September 24, 2015 by fish. To specifically state, the harassment is not part of every criticism, but there is a contingent party of people that enjoy lowering others because they are minimally different and advocate for minimally different things. Learn more about Reddit’s use of cookies. She also used … It’s a project created by Vi Hart and Nicky Case called a “playable blog post.” It’s a sort-of game, sort-of blog post, sort-of math modelling presentation, sort-of social comment. This is all terribly confusing, and I'm trying to work out some kind of theory that isn't horribly cruel to anyone yet still makes sense of what I see around me and what common sense apparently demands. This is what really interested me, because questions of identity have some really profound implications. I also feel this so strongly it sends me into a state of depression. There have been irresponsible uses of the terminology here notably from the otherkin and "trans-racial" crowd. I heard someone make an analogy that it's like not being able to relate with someone who is left handed if you're right handed. Vi Hart. The full conversation is about the identity of self and others. However, similar to Vi Hart, his fictionalization has never once been identified as non-binary. This is especially true, I think, when being insincere gets you special treatment or gets you into an 'exclusive' club where it's 'us vs. them'. Still, I like labeling things. The same is true for Vi Hart. Vihart (Vi Hart) did an amazing speech in which they identified as nonbinary and said that for the longest time they didn't believe people who claimed to feel more male than female or vice versa. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. She made one song, but it never appeared within the game. The problem is that once you assume everyone is being sincere, people can abuse that by knowing they will be treated as sincere even though they're not. Undoubtedly there are some who think the way you described (my life is awful, it must be my gender's fault! Press J to jump to the feed. 3 BREAK Oct. 19 NO CLASS (Columbus Day) Oct. 12 NO CLASS 6. We use bias to categories people and ourselves into groups in which they fit. I think the trick is to develop a level of respect for everybody that means you have room for both possibilities. When we build an identity for ourselves we use these biases to build expectations for ourselves. September 25, 2015; Jaynes Bicameral Video Experiment September 21, 2015; Infinite Binary Trees September 15, 2015; 360 Video for Tau Day June 28, 2015; Vi Hart … They (Vi) didn't feel that way, and had never felt any different, and so couldn't imagine anybody could.