Hi! Yep, as others have said, you get three free articles a month on Medium. Alternatively, if you're a subscriber here, you get paywall free access to all my articles.
You get a few free reads every month. I just read the article and I do not pay Medim because the moment I write anything I get banned. No matter how mild or reasonable.
Try reaching out to Tony Stubblebine on Medium if you can (If you're a Premier member you can) and make a brief case for how you'd like to come back to Medium but you were tired of getting banned for X and Y and Z. I did, late last year, asking if Medium was less censoring now as I was critical of the transgender movement which is why I got banned. He replied back with a brainless 'transphobia has no place on Medium' response he must have cut and pasted from Pink News. Later, I clicked on a Medium link and realized the big red banner announcing my account was 'under investigation' (what, after a year and a half? :) was gone, so I am merely a free member now. I assume I could come back but since Tony is apparently a Trans Pod Person I won't return, since I will not be censored by children. It's worth a shot. If nothing else it'll send a message about what Medium is doing to hurt its own bottom line. Not sure how they're doing financially but before Ev Williams left it was really in the crapper.
Yeah "transphobia has no place on Medium," and nothing could possibly be more transphobic than biological fact.
But it's not just the "trans" shit; I wrote mostly about software and those articles are mud now. Horseshit about holding more effective meetings (I want no more than a half hour a week), idiotic junior programmers proferring advice on what it means to be a senior developer ("think outside the box").
It bewilders me how many people buy into this "trans" shit. People smart enough to know better actually believe the mass suicide nonsense, they believe the numbers, I think "pod person" nails it.
that's why I suggested telling him what you got banned for suspended or whatever for. "Some idiot claimed that my hack for a MySQL database error was racist; that hierarchized subroutines are inherently colonial and a 'dog whistle' to white supremacist software engineers; and that 'Agile methodology is blatantly ableist." Maybe Stubby will decide there *is*, after all, a place on Medium for coders who prefer fewer time-wasting meetings. You could test him with a quick piece on the efficiencies of ten-minute standup meetings, and if anyone complains about your endless coding ableism, you can argue you were talking about meetings that started with jokes, but none about trans people :)
As fate would have it, a Facebook status by me from 2017 before I retired just appeared. "Face to face collaboration at work. Disrupts the work I'm doing because others think their issues more important than mine. Causes me to remove the music in my ears and replace it with my hearing aids. Ram it where the sun don't shine."
Today I saw this astonishing article on Medium. I couldn't bring myself to read it to completion. Is there a clear definition of transphobia which is not [You disagree with the statement that "a transwoman is a woman PERIOD" and a qualifier for women of "a cis woman is a cis woman"]?
OMG. I couldn't get through it either. It's like reading a MAGA article about the BS of climate change or explaining in great detail how the election was 'stolen' from You Know Who.
Notice she didn't address *whether* sexual predators in the trans movement are pressuring lesbians to have sex, she complains they're being painted as sexual predators. This is exactly what I ran into on Twitter awhile back when I challenged the 'transwomen are sexually pure little angels' set. Instead they tried to divert my attention to the Catholic Church. So I said, "I'm glad you mentioned them, because the trans movement is shaping up to become the sexual predator SJ movement just as the Church has agreed to become the pedophile religion. Because they earned and deserved their reputation, and so, too, will the trans movement." Deal with it or truly become as marginalized as they fantasize themselves to be.
I pay it $5/month so if I grow weary of it, I can bail. I have started collecting enough pay per read subscriptions that I will ultimately have to rank their value to me and drop some. I foolishly paid for a one-year subscription on a Patron which turned out to be low value. I am no longer enticed by cheaper by the year except for my wife's SeeSanTV subscription which is of high value to her.
I wish I could read your article “The Trouble with Trans”, but I don’t want to pay Medium $50. Is it available anywhere else?
Hi! Yep, as others have said, you get three free articles a month on Medium. Alternatively, if you're a subscriber here, you get paywall free access to all my articles.
You get a few free reads every month. I just read the article and I do not pay Medim because the moment I write anything I get banned. No matter how mild or reasonable.
Try reaching out to Tony Stubblebine on Medium if you can (If you're a Premier member you can) and make a brief case for how you'd like to come back to Medium but you were tired of getting banned for X and Y and Z. I did, late last year, asking if Medium was less censoring now as I was critical of the transgender movement which is why I got banned. He replied back with a brainless 'transphobia has no place on Medium' response he must have cut and pasted from Pink News. Later, I clicked on a Medium link and realized the big red banner announcing my account was 'under investigation' (what, after a year and a half? :) was gone, so I am merely a free member now. I assume I could come back but since Tony is apparently a Trans Pod Person I won't return, since I will not be censored by children. It's worth a shot. If nothing else it'll send a message about what Medium is doing to hurt its own bottom line. Not sure how they're doing financially but before Ev Williams left it was really in the crapper.
Yeah "transphobia has no place on Medium," and nothing could possibly be more transphobic than biological fact.
But it's not just the "trans" shit; I wrote mostly about software and those articles are mud now. Horseshit about holding more effective meetings (I want no more than a half hour a week), idiotic junior programmers proferring advice on what it means to be a senior developer ("think outside the box").
It bewilders me how many people buy into this "trans" shit. People smart enough to know better actually believe the mass suicide nonsense, they believe the numbers, I think "pod person" nails it.
that's why I suggested telling him what you got banned for suspended or whatever for. "Some idiot claimed that my hack for a MySQL database error was racist; that hierarchized subroutines are inherently colonial and a 'dog whistle' to white supremacist software engineers; and that 'Agile methodology is blatantly ableist." Maybe Stubby will decide there *is*, after all, a place on Medium for coders who prefer fewer time-wasting meetings. You could test him with a quick piece on the efficiencies of ten-minute standup meetings, and if anyone complains about your endless coding ableism, you can argue you were talking about meetings that started with jokes, but none about trans people :)
As fate would have it, a Facebook status by me from 2017 before I retired just appeared. "Face to face collaboration at work. Disrupts the work I'm doing because others think their issues more important than mine. Causes me to remove the music in my ears and replace it with my hearing aids. Ram it where the sun don't shine."
We are kindred spirits ;0)
Today I saw this astonishing article on Medium. I couldn't bring myself to read it to completion. Is there a clear definition of transphobia which is not [You disagree with the statement that "a transwoman is a woman PERIOD" and a qualifier for women of "a cis woman is a cis woman"]?
https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs/is-j-k-rowling-transphobic-4d4639ea8398
OMG. I couldn't get through it either. It's like reading a MAGA article about the BS of climate change or explaining in great detail how the election was 'stolen' from You Know Who.
Notice she didn't address *whether* sexual predators in the trans movement are pressuring lesbians to have sex, she complains they're being painted as sexual predators. This is exactly what I ran into on Twitter awhile back when I challenged the 'transwomen are sexually pure little angels' set. Instead they tried to divert my attention to the Catholic Church. So I said, "I'm glad you mentioned them, because the trans movement is shaping up to become the sexual predator SJ movement just as the Church has agreed to become the pedophile religion. Because they earned and deserved their reputation, and so, too, will the trans movement." Deal with it or truly become as marginalized as they fantasize themselves to be.
These people are insane
I pay it $5/month so if I grow weary of it, I can bail. I have started collecting enough pay per read subscriptions that I will ultimately have to rank their value to me and drop some. I foolishly paid for a one-year subscription on a Patron which turned out to be low value. I am no longer enticed by cheaper by the year except for my wife's SeeSanTV subscription which is of high value to her.