>
> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
+(This is Worth a Fight?)
> "—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."
+> 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 happens, 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
+> She's AFAB enby but I'm not quite sure what that means
+>
+> —["Girl All the Bad Guys Want"](https://genius.com/Bowling-for-soup-girl-all-the-bad-guys-want-lyrics) by Bowling for Soup (paraphrased)
+
+> What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
+>
+> —Susan Sontag
+
> I knew the mass of men conceal'd
> Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
> They would by other men be met
>
> —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_
+quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other
+
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>
> —_Portal_ end credits song
-(Review of Nevada)
-> You sound so innocent
-> All full of good intent
-> You swear you know best
-> But you expect me to
-> Jump up on board with you
-> And ride off into your delusional sunset
->
-> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
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(Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
> "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
>
>
> —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry
+> He once said, "None of the other Rationals I've ever met have anything but an empty-head for an Emotional. I'm lucky." She had said, "But the other Rationals seem to like empty-heads. Why are you different from them, Odeen?" Odeen did not deny that the other Rationals liked empty-heads. He just said, "I've never figured it out and I don't think it's important that I do. I'm pleased with you and I'm pleased that I'm pleased."
+>
+> —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov
+
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Less obviously fitting—