X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=epigraph_quotes.md;h=7401ffe0740701fb7f0318a0c90a041daa176ac4;hb=e234176a1e048097ef30176e6a55acd540435b51;hp=3cc8755eca2246c93d94cf74c7fac3ddaa8e0358;hpb=e43ac03ca8565ab4144057d83e02e8383c9afeae;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md index 3cc8755..7401ffe 100644 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) > 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 +(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) +> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy. +> +> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497) + (As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb) > Don't let them in > Don't let them see @@ -11,9 +15,25 @@ > Don't let them know > Well now they know > -> —"Let It Go" from _Frozen_ +> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_ + +> 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_ + +> 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 -(Yes, the Only Real...) +(Review of Nevada) > You sound so innocent > All full of good intent > You swear you know best @@ -43,7 +63,80 @@ > > —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo +(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea) > If you could only know > What we really are > > —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s) + +> And since your history of silence +> Won't do you any good +> Did you think it would? +> Let your words be anything but empty +> Why don't you tell them the truth? +> +> Say what you want to say +> And let the words fall out +> Honestly +> I want to see you be brave +> +> —"Brave" by Sara Bareilles + +(on "weirdly androgynous man and occasional transvestite" being a better plan) +> We're looking for a few good men, and you've come a long way, baby. But baby—don't cross that line. Don't ever cross that line. +> +> —_Hidden: A Gender_ by Kate Bornstein + +> "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 + +(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women) +> 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_