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diff --git a/content/2017/you-probably-havent-heard-of-them.md b/content/2017/you-probably-havent-heard-of-them.md
index 4bbffb8..8de56ed 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2017/you-probably-havent-heard-of-them.md
+++ b/content/2017/you-probably-havent-heard-of-them.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Title: You Probably Haven't Heard of Them
 Date: 2017-01-31 17:58
 Category: fiction
+Tags: cathartic
 
 "Hey Mark, a bunch of us are going to a concert tomorrow night: the Holograms are headlining at the Rose Garden, and I have an extra ticket. You want in?" offered Caleb.
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md b/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md
index 668afd3..9df6b12 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md
+++ b/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md
@@ -4,10 +4,26 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: discourse
 Status: draft
 
+> 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_
+
+> Damn Julia Serano! Damn everyone who won't damn Julia Serano!! Damn everyone that won't put lights in her windows and sit up all night damning Julia Serano!!!
+>
+> —graffito observed circa 1795 (paraphrased)
+
 
 _Yes_, I'm upset. _Yes_, I'm angry. _Yes_, 
 
 
-"Damn Julia Serano! Damn everyone who won't damn Julia Serano!! Damn everyone that won't put lights in her windows and sit up all night damning Julia Serano!!!"
+status heirarchy: you're just a pervert, we're actually women; I want to flip the status heirarchy on its head: you're delusional perverts; at least I'm self-aware about it
+
+You can't spell narcisstic rage without cis.
+
 
-http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/
\ No newline at end of file
+http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/

diff --git a/content/drafts/grim-trigger-or-the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-god-of-marketing.md b/content/drafts/grim-trigger-or-the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-god-of-marketing.md
index 1936d7a..3a908f4 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/grim-trigger-or-the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-god-of-marketing.md
+++ b/content/drafts/grim-trigger-or-the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-god-of-marketing.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ And the God of Marketing appeared before the tribe of Ageep and said, "Cooperate
 
 And the chief elder of the tribe of Ageep said, "That's not what happened. We stole those from Phem."
 
-And the God of Marketing said, "What is truth? Cooperate with me, and you will be despised no longer, and all the peoples of Gend will have sympathy for your struggles, and the king himself will favor you."
+And the God of Marketing said, "What is truth? Cooperate with me, and I will explain to all the peoples of Gend that you are of the same bloodline as Phem, and you will be despised no longer, and all the peoples of Gend will have sympathy for your struggles, and the king himself will favor you."
 
 And the chief elder of the tribe of Ageep looked at the God of Marketing and said, "Cooperate."
 
@@ -22,14 +22,19 @@ And the other elders of the tribe of Ageep looked at each other and said, "Coope
 
 And the people of the tribe of Ageep looked at each other and said, "Cooperate."
 
+
+
 And so it came to pass that the tribe of Ageep became the tribe of Matof.
 
 Now a lost son of the tribe of Ageep, an honest man, came to the kingdom after having been raised abroad, and he knew not his bloodline, but he bitterly envied the crafts and ways of the tribe of Phem, and in a strange way, that of Matof.
 
 
-
+[...]
 And the he came to stay with the tribe of Matof for a hundred days and a hundred nights, and observe their ways. 
 
+
+
+
 And the honest man saw what the God of Marketing had wrought, and the honest man saw that it was bad.
 
 And he climbed for three days and three nights to the peak of Mt. Memple, where the God of Marketing dwelt.

diff --git a/content/drafts/the-spirit-of-the-staircase-24-january-2009.md b/content/drafts/the-spirit-of-the-staircase-24-january-2009.md
index 6383141..2875939 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/the-spirit-of-the-staircase-24-january-2009.md
+++ b/content/drafts/the-spirit-of-the-staircase-24-january-2009.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Title: The Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009)
+Title: A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009)
 Date: 2020-01-01 
 Category: other
 Tags: two-type taxonomy

diff --git a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
index 5fed3e5..5f95c1f 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
+++ b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Status: draft
 
 Most disagreements are fake.
 
+
+
 Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criterion for applying the word _woman_ to something.
 
 You've 

diff --git a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md
index 1f4e588..daa60ee 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md
+++ b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md
@@ -13,6 +13,24 @@ Status: draft
 ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
 
 
+
+Psychological sex differences are 
+
+http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
+
+
+
+I _want_ to believe that sex differences in personality and interests are small-to-nonexistent. I _want_ to believe that trans women are women. 
+
+out of the three women present—
+
+(or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
+
+—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
+
+
+
+
 _I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
 
-... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first.
+... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first. 

diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md
index f7a6462..196bc68 100644 (file)
--- a/epigraph_quotes.md
+++ b/epigraph_quotes.md
@@ -7,16 +7,6 @@
 > 
 > —[@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

diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt
index e96a5ec..564ccf0 100644 (file)
--- a/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,29 +1,27 @@
-The Spirit of the Staircase
+A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase ()
 A Beacon Through the Darkness; Or, Getting It Right the First Time
 Grim Trigger; Or, the Parable of the Honest Man and the God of Marketing
 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
-The Gender Czar's Compromise
 There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
 Yalta (https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-essential-conflict/ "What's in it for me?" "You're the one who doesn't believe in personal identity—you should be happy for us")
+O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us (school dysphoria)
 
 HEAVY CORE POSTS—
 Q Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
 Q Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
 Q The View From Nowhere
 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb
-* "Love Like You"
 Q Review of Nevada
 _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
 * Mary's Room
-Q The Hand I Was Dealt; And, Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
+Q The Hand I Was Dealt
 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
 
 
-
 ------
 
 non-AGP fiction—
@@ -31,6 +29,18 @@ non-AGP fiction—
 * Blame Me for Trying
 * Blindspot
 
+* "Love Like You"
+
+
+Blanchardian Truth Serum— "Bayesian Truth Serum" scoring assigns more weight to "surprisingly popular" answers. Doesn't work when people are self-deceptive, I think?—in Veale's data, people think AGP applies to other people, not them
+https://nelmit.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/bts.pdf
+http://www.jaimieveale.com/publications/Masters.pdf (p. 82)
+
+
+Reply to Ozy on Lies to Cis People (this is an attempt to enforce social norms, not an attempt to inform; that makes sense if you want to be part of the coalition enforcing those norms, but those norms also make it impossible to talk about psychology)
+
+The Gender Czar's Compromise
+
 AGP fiction—
 * "Love Like You"
 concert Late-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Males