+(Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
+> "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
+>
+> —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)
+
+(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
+> If you could only know
+> What we really are
+>
+> —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)
+
+> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
+>
+> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
+
+> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
+>
+> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
+
+(Reduce Gender Identities)
+> And there's a fine, fine line
+> Between what you wanted
+> And what you got
+> You've got to go after the things you want
+> While you're still in your prime
+>
+> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
+
+> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
+> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
+> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
+> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
+>
+> (Well, they can't be grandfathers
+> Or daddies!)
+>
+> —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
+
+> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
+>
+> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
+>
+> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
+
+(The Gender Czar's Compromise)
+> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
+>
+> —Stan Kelly-Bootle
+
+(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
+> Because it's going to be the future soon
+> And I won't always be this way
+> When the things that make me weak and strange
+> Get engineered away
+>
+> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
+
+(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
+> It's time to put an end to this deception
+> But I'm afraid
+> When the whole thing is at an end
+> And you learn that it's just pretend
+> You'll cry "Deception"
+>
+> —"Deception", _Jem_
+
+> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
+>
+> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
+>
+> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
+>
+> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
+> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
+> You see it's true, an ape like me
+> Can learn to be like you, too
+>
+> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
+
+Moliere on "dormative virtue"
+
+> I don't want to sabotage you
+> But you see, I've got to try
+>
+> —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
+
+(the story of my name??)
+> Sometimes the things you want
+> Are not the things you need
+> And it was right there in front of me
+>
+> —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
+
+> MUGATU
+> The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
+>
+> Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
+>
+> —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)
+
+> I knew the mass of men conceal'd
+> Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
+> They would by other men be met
+> With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd;
+> I knew they liv'd and mov'd
+> Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
+> Of men, and alien to themselves—and yet
+> The same heart beats in every human breast!
+>
+> "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
+
+> I know there's more that's out there
+> And I just haven't found it yet
+> I know there's more that's out there
+> Another me I haven't met
+>
+> —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
+
+> I don't give a damn about my reputation
+> You're living in the past it's a new generation
+> A girl can do what she wants to do
+> And that's what I'm gonna do
+>
+> —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett
+
+> All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
+>
+> —Thomas Jefferson
+
+http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
+
+(The Hand I Was Dealt)
+> This is the one that I had to write
+> It's like a letter of love with no love left out
+>
+> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
+
+(The Hand I Was Dealt)
+> I'll write my way out
+> Write everything down, far as I can see
+> I'll write my way out
+> Overwhelm them with honesty
+> This is the eye of the hurricane
+> This is the only way I can protect my legacy
+>
+> —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
+
+> If you could see
+> The other side of me
+> I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell
+> I hold the key
+> To both realities
+> The girl that I want you to know
+> If only I could show
+> The other side, the other side, the other side of me
+>
+> —"The Other Side of Me" by Hannah Montana
+
+> In another life
+> I would be your girl
+>
+> —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry