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@@ -279,3 +279,25 @@ Lying or gerrymandering an individual object-level category boundary is forgivab
 
 Another kind of asymmetric weapon: whether this narrative "looks worse" for me or my subjects depends on the audience (you can read it as a tale of betrayal of sacred principles, or a tale of personal mental illness)
 
+https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Lurkers_Support_Me_in_Email
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+still cited: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/d178n2/the_categories_were_made_for_man_not_man_for_the/
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+transitioning has _costs_; maybe you think some of those costs are illigitimate and should be game-theoretically resisted (Society's transphobia is a terrorirst who you shouldn't negotiate), but first of all, "People are good at noticing each other's sex" isn't transphobia, and second, even if you're doing game-theoretic defiance, you should make that explicit
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+double-perceception of bad faith: I don't believe "categories are arbitrary" is intellectually honest (and I'm right); my interlocutors don't believe that I'm really this upset about the philosophy of language
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+I have 3,405 users/7,172 sessions this year, S.'s prediction lists have been 50/50 on "At least one SSC post > 100,000 hits: 50%"
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+rhetorical superweapon: https://archive.is/6WGbk
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+"If I'm aching at the thought of them, what for? That's not me anymore."
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+"And I'm not the girl that I intend to be."
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+AGP blogging: "Somebody has to and noone else will."
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+notice the symmetry where _both_ E and I want to partition the discussion with "That's a policy question" ... I just think it's unfair to partition after "words don't have intrinsic defn's" rather than 37 ways
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+contract-drafting em, SSC blogroll is most of my traffic
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