About / Best-Of
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm
Suddenly I see (suddenly I see)
This is what I want to be
Suddenly I see (suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
—KT Tunstall, "Suddenly I See"
Seemingly hazardous but actually careful and humane thoughts about gender, social science, and epistemology, by a man who aspires to something more. Featuring a special focus on the phenomenon of autogynephilia ("love of oneself as a woman") in males, and the project of reformulating liberal-feminist and queer-theoretic goals for a universe where evolution actually happened, introspection doesn't work, and Bayesian reasoning continues to work even when some of the hypotheses are about people.
Sorry 'bout this.
A selection of some favorite posts—
- on the cognitive function of categorization in relation to sex and "gender":
- on political distortions of our collective understanding of human psychology:
- on the personal experience of autogynephilic "gender dysphoria":
- on all of the above:
This is a pseudonym for branding and market-segmentation purposes, because it seems like it's instrumentally useful for my gender blogging to take place under a different flag than my personal life and other work, but my real name probably isn't that hard to find.
I warmly welcome polite inquiries at ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com.
—M. T. S.-W.