X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2023%2Fblanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md;h=f43837f3e383c6ddf72e7bd504190340256b8f3d;hb=f03793f9c25ece7351b11503b9de64a264681aa6;hp=9b1cece0be118986ea52727a87fd116e82833e41;hpb=7fac2653f98876a7b89bb4ea627d1beb3c3aee3b;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md b/content/2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md index 9b1cece..f43837f 100644 --- a/content/2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md +++ b/content/2023/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ But [the fuzzy low-resolution model is _way too good_](https://surveyanon.wordpr I _do_ have a lot of uncertainty about what the True Causal Graph looks like, even if it seems obvious that the two-type taxonomy coarsely approximates it. Gay femininity and autogynephilia are important nodes in the True Graph, but there's going to be more detail to the whole story: what _other_ factors influence people's decision to transition, including [incentives](/2017/Dec/lesser-known-demand-curves/) and cultural factors specific to a given place and time? -In our feminist era, cultural attitudes towards men and maleness differ markedly from the overt patriarchy of our ancestors. It feels gauche to say so, but as a result, conscientious boys taught to disdain the crimes of men may pick up an internalized misandry. I remember one night at the University in Santa Cruz back in 'aught-seven, I had the insight that it was possible to make generalizations about groups of people while allowing for exceptions—in contrast to my previous stance that generalizations about people were _always morally wrong_—and immediately, eagerly proclaimed that _men are terrible_. +In our feminist era, cultural attitudes towards men and maleness differ markedly from the overt patriarchy of our ancestors. It feels gauche to say so, but as a result, conscientious boys taught to disdain the crimes of men may pick up an internalized misandry. I remember one night at the University in Santa Cruz back in 'aught-seven, I had the insight that it was possible to make generalizations about groups of people while allowing for exceptions—in contrast to my previous stance that generalizations about people were _always morally wrong_—and immediately, eagerly proclaimed that _men are terrible_. Or consider computer scientist Scott Aaronson's [account](https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664) that his "recurring fantasy, through this period, was to have been born a woman, or a gay man [...] [a]nything, really, other than the curse of having been born a heterosexual male, which [...] meant being consumed by desires that one couldn't act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness."