"Interlude III"

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 "What's _wrong_ with you?! Why are you _doing_ this?!" screamed Alexa. "It's like you've been _possessed_ by a Nazi ghost."
 
-"I'm sorry," said Mark. "I'm not sure if this will make sense to you, but I'm thinking of it as playing DEFECT against trans women—I genuinely regret that part and I'd be grateful if you could tell me if there's anything I can do to make it up to you-all collectively—in exchange for being able to DEFECT against the victimhood identity-politics mind-virus, to COOPERATE with closeted TERFy women who don't want people like me in their bathrooms but are too scared to say so out loud and might reward AGP males who say it for them with sex and intimacy, and—most importantly of all—to tell the truth about the beautiful feeling at the center of my life that has shaped me more than almost anything else. This is just too good of a deal for me to refuse unless it means literal physical violence or poverty."
+"I'm sorry," said Mark. "I'm not sure if this will make sense to you, but I'm thinking of it as playing _DEFECT_ against trans women—I genuinely regret that part and I'd be grateful if you could tell me if there's anything I can do to make it up to you-all collectively—in exchange for being able to _DEFECT_ against the victimhood identity-politics mind-virus, to _COOPERATE_ with closeted TERFy women who don't want people like me in their bathrooms but are too scared to say so out loud and might reward AGP males who say it for them with sex and intimacy, and—most importantly of all—to tell the truth about the beautiful feeling at the center of my life that has shaped me more than almost anything else. This is just too good of a deal for me to refuse unless it means literal physical violence or poverty."
 
 "_What?!_"
 

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+Title: Interlude III
+Date: 2017-05-05 20:18
+Category: fiction
+Tags: interlude
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+"Claiming that you don't care about anything but truthseeking may lead people to question whether your jokes were meant to convey that certain things were true. That line about 'cooperating with TERFy women who might reward me with sex and intimacy' in [your post the other month](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Mar/interlude-ii/) is something I strongly prefer to give the you the benefit of the doubt on by assuming that you're joking."
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+"Maybe you shouldn't! Like, I'm currently modeling one of the social functions of humor as a way to tacitly acknowledge truths that would break the consensus social narrative if taken literally, so ..."