1 Title: As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and the Strategic Landscape
9 > Be the good girl you always have to be
14 > —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
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18 > Damn Julia Serano! Damn everyone who won't damn Julia Serano!! Damn everyone that won't put lights in her windows and sit up all night damning Julia Serano!!!
20 > —graffito observed circa 1795 (paraphrased)
23 _Yes_, I'm upset. _Yes_, I'm angry. _Yes_,
26 status heirarchy: you're just a pervert, we're actually women; I want to flip the status heirarchy on its head: you're delusional perverts; at least I'm self-aware about it
28 You can't spell narcisstic rage without cis.
31 http://web.archive.org/web/20200618164529/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/
33 my choosing to quit HRT makes me less legit
35 V. ROUGH OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
37 * ideally, we should just seek the view from nowhere (backlink)
38 * but our ability to reason is _built_ around coalitional politics: escaping the incentive gradients isn't going to be easy
39 * because there's moralistic pressure to be on the Blue Team, people who aren't willing to play that game anymore are tempted to just slap a negative sign on the Blue message
40 * obviously, this is really bad
42 MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
44 political spectra are dimensionality reductions
46 the thrill of being an intellectual rebel: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7nffem/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_1/ds8krmb/
48 I've gotten praise from trans-activist-adj-types for "Lesser-Known Demand Curves", and from TERFs for "Don't Negotiate"; if I could just get them to praise the _same post_, then I know I will have succeeded as a writer