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“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics
“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics

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Something catches the eye—no, not something, somebody—but the passage from something to somebody takes a fraction of an instant. The familiarity of the person’s outline, and how they move through space, makes my inference to their personhood all but guaranteed. . . .

Something catches the eye—no, not something, somebody—but the passage from something to somebody takes a fraction of an instant. The familiarity of the person’s outline, and how they move through space, makes my inference to their personhood all but guaranteed. Yet, I have no grasp of the particularities of their person and, therefore, no knowledge […]

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