Victor-Victoria Problem: Difference between revisions

|content='''"The Pre/Trans Fallacy"''' is the new Prisoner's Dilemma: A seemingly minor point that, once pointed out, appears to bedevil nearly everything.

'''Eric Weinstein:''' ''Another thing that I think we worked up together but has another name, sometimes people call it the Pre-Trans Fallacy. I used to call it the '''Victor-Victoria Problem''' because of this movie Victor-Victoria, the story of a woman playing a man playing a woman. And so the problem was, is that if you saw a woman, did you see a female impersonator, or did you see a woman playing a female impersonator? Right? And so Bret's version of this is the one that I use the most because I think it's the best, which is, "'''Is a whale a fish?'''". It's a very innocuous question, and almost everyone who is educated gives you this—