You may want to consider organizing a “watch party”, since it’s most fun to watch a debate with other people. Here’s how:
Figure out how to get your TV or a friend’s to show YouTube (many of today’s smart TVs have the functionality built right in). Or, if your computer has a giant MIT-alum-style monitor, you can use that.
Invite a friend, or a dozen friends, to join you. In doing this, you may consider inviting someone with a wall-sized TV or projector and then suggesting that they host the event at their place.
Buy lots of potato chips, beer, bourbon, and soft drinks in various permutations of caffeinated, diet, and fizzy.
Watch the show Wednesday night!
If you’re short on friends to watch with, let us know and we’ll send you the emails of some MFSA members in your locale whom you can invite. Feel free to contact me at erasmuse61@gmail.com.
As usual for MFSA, this will be a real debate. Both sides have top-notch people–no ringers here. All four debaters and the moderator are eminently googleable. Aaron Kimberly has a fascinating story from his upbringing in a small Canadian farming community. Holly Lawford-Smith is from New Zealand and teaches in Australia, bringing a kiwi-inflected perspective on how these controversies have played out in her hemisphere. Alex Byrne is an MIT Philosophy professor who has just written a book titled Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions. Alice Dreger's work on intersex studies includes three books plus a TEDx talk viewed over a million times. Nadine Strossen you will know from her superb moderation of MFSA’s last two debates.
We hope you’ll join us and bring some friends along for the ride.
Regards,
Eric Rasmusen, Ph.D. ‘84
MFSA Director and Chair, MFSA Communications Committee