X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=epigraph_quotes.md;h=dee318b3f0acafe5c671544414284c5ee943d3f6;hb=1a879e9d686d6a7d0dd22cf2fa6a0ad6d15eef54;hp=6f2d37f391dab888aba60560971e33e6cdc2ae23;hpb=fee03812a13866f861dc912b8fa962b5115b58d3;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md index 6f2d37f..dee318b 100644 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -2,21 +2,18 @@ > > —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface +(Trans Infovism Against Trans Activism) +> 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) -(As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb) -> Don't let them in -> Don't let them see -> Be the good girl you always have to be -> Conceal, don't feel -> Don't let them know -> Well now they know -> -> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_ - > I cannot believe my eyes > How the world's filled with filth and lies > But it's plain to see @@ -25,6 +22,7 @@ > > —"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 @@ -54,25 +52,6 @@ > > —[_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 - -> Not what teacher said to do -> Making dreams come true -> Living tissue, warm flesh, weird science! -> -> —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo - > "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 @@ -95,17 +74,18 @@ > 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 +> (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) +(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 @@ -141,3 +121,62 @@ > 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) + +(quote "The Buried Life" re War on Optimization for Generalized Secrecy) http://www.bartleby.com/246/422.html + +> 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_