X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=epigraph_quotes.md;fp=epigraph_quotes.md;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=06dde34a63300ca251c4057f8df42c184a23bdef;hp=fb4a0b2b92de146708825d73fb6a5d135d7ad6c9;hpb=07a6bcc7574900337d6870172199fa80ae93ea1b;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md deleted file mode 100644 index fb4a0b2..0000000 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,207 +0,0 @@ -> Knowing his occupation and observing him briefly and superficially were sufficient, together, for me to guess confidently about aspects of Edwin's life that he never mentioned. I know what he was like as a boy. I know what kind of person he is sexually attracted to. I know what kinds of activities interest him and what kinds do not. I am least sure what he will look like five years from now. -> -> —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface - -(An Infovist's Advisory) -> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with." -> -> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape." -> -> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan - -(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) -> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy. -> -> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497) - -> I cannot believe my eyes -> How the world's filled with filth and lies -> But it's plain to see -> Evil inside of me -> Is on the rise -> -> —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_ - -(response to hate mail) -> And believe me I am still alive -> I'm doing science and I'm still alive -> I feel fantastic and I'm still alive -> While you're dying I'll be still alive -> And when you're dead I will be still alive -> -> —_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 - -(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