-Title: As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb
+Title: As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and the Strategic Landscape
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: commentary
Tags: discourse
Status: draft
+> Don't let them in
+> Don't let them see
+> Be the good girl you always have to be
+> Conceal, don't feel
+> Don't let them know
+> Well now they know
+>
+> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
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+> 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!!!
+>
+> —graffito observed circa 1795 (paraphrased)
+
_Yes_, I'm upset. _Yes_, I'm angry. _Yes_,
-"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!!!"
+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
+
+You can't spell narcisstic rage without cis.
+
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+http://web.archive.org/web/20200618164529/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/
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+my choosing to quit HRT makes me less legit
+
+V. ROUGH OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
+
+ * ideally, we should just seek the view from nowhere (backlink)
+ * but our ability to reason is _built_ around coalitional politics: escaping the incentive gradients isn't going to be easy
+ * 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
+ * obviously, this is really bad
+
+MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
+
+political spectra are dimensionality reductions
+
+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/
-http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/
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+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