Friday redemption block 6: Thellim follow-on ...

It's been a pretty mediocre writing day, and I said I would visit my
mother this evening. But it was better than yesterday; I just need to
keep stepping forwards.

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@@ -355,11 +355,19 @@ In [one of Yudkowsky's roleplaying fiction threads](https://www.glowfic.com/post
 
 When someone else doesn't see the problem with Jane Austen's characters, Thellim [redoubles her determination to explain the problem](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1592987#reply-1592987): "_She is not giving up that easily.  Not on an entire planet full of people._"
 
-Thellim's horror at the fictional world of Jane Austen is basically how I feel about real-world trans culture. It _actively discourages self-modeling!_ People who have cross-sex fantasies are encouraged to reify them into an gender identity which everyone else is supposed to unquestioningly accept. Politically-unfavorable critical questions about what's actually going on etiologically, what it means for an identity to be true, _&c._ are strongly discouraged as hateful, hurtful, distressing, _&c._
+Thellim's horror at the fictional world of Jane Austen is basically how I feel about real-world trans-activist culture. It _actively discourages self-modeling!_ People who have cross-sex fantasies are encouraged to reify them into an gender identity which everyone else is supposed to unquestioningly accept. Critical questions about what's actually going on etiologically, what it means for an identity to be true, _&c._ are strongly discouraged as hateful, hurtful, distressing, _&c._
 
+It's _not_ that I think there's anything wrong with having cross-sex fantasies—just as Thellim's problem with _Pride and Prejudice_ is not there being anything wrong with wanting to marry a suitable bachelor. On the contrary, I _like_ being autogynephilic. But I also like having the basic self-awareness to _notice_ that being an autogynephilic male is _not the same thing_ as being female. I don't need people to lie to me about that.
 
+I would have hoped Eliezer Yudkowsky would be _in favor_ of his faithful students having these very basic reflective capabilities.
 
+I would have hoped that he would care enough
 
+in the context of elite Anglosphere culture in 2016–2022, "Biological sex actually exists; "
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+He can't do it.
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+But his revealed preference seems to be that not getting in trouble with progressives is more important than teaching this skill.
 
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