X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-sections.md;h=431a86c0ff091c559f8fc4eba13a50f54f24a70d;hb=6d0292475b02dc1d523ac893eacd9aabfe46bb41;hp=614d0fd442ce9a3c8f7becf9046ff0d040665a17;hpb=766f92d27caeb914774ffdf225b75b4bc95d60e9;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md index 614d0fd..431a86c 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ ["Changing Emotions"] +http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-September/008924.html +[it's hard to overstate the impact this one post had on me (I've already linked it 8 times on this blog)] + ----- Men who wish they were women do not particularly resemble actual women! We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really? @@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ An aside: being famous must _suck_. I haven't experienced this myself, but I'm s Oh, sure, it's nice to see your work get read and appreciated by people—I've experienced that much. (Shout-out to my loyal fans—all three of you![^fans]) But when you're _famous_, everybody wants a piece of you. The fact that your work influences _so many_ people, makes you a _target_ for anyone who wants to indirectly wield your power for their own ends. Every new author wants you to review their book; every ideologue wants you on their side ... -And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that impinges on their interests, they might spend an _unreasonable_ amount of effort obsessively trying to argue with you about it. +And when a crazy person in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that impinges on their interests, they might spend an _unreasonable_ amount of effort obsessively trying to argue with you about it. [^fans]: I'm specifically thinking of W.E., R.S., and [Sophia](http://unremediatedgender.space/author/sophia/). @@ -29,4 +32,4 @@ And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that [if I agree that pronouns aren't lies, why was I so freaked out] -[pronouns do have truth conditions, cruelty to ordinary people] +[pronouns do have truth conditions, Weak Men recenter category boundaries, cruelty to ordinary people]