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diff --git a/content/drafts/trying-to-be-explicit.md b/content/drafts/trying-to-be-explicit.md
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-Title: "Portland" By Gaslight; Or, Trying to Be Explicit
+Title: Trying to Be Explicit
 Date: 2020-01-01 
 Category: fiction
-Tags: autogynephilia
+Tags: autogynephilia, nsfw, Emacs
 Status: draft
 
-[(Previously.)]
+> _Be nice, girl!  
+> You have to pay a price, girl!  
+> They like to give advice, girl!  
+> Don't think about it twice, girl!  
+> It's time to get to work!_
+>
+> —["Putting It Together" as performed by Barbara Streisand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqNjNKQ0fM)
 
-_How do fight a narrative?_ Mark wondered.
+[(Previously, two years ago.)](/2017/Jan/the-counter/)
 
-when your enemy is less of a regime and more of a meme? How do you explain to anyone what you're trying to accomplish when you're not trying to get anyone to do anything different in particular, but to renounce their distorted way of thinking and speaking, after which you expect them to make better decisions, even if you can't say in advance what those decisions will be?
+_How do fight a narrative?_ Mark wondered. _What do you strike when your enemy is less of a regime and more of a meme? How do you explain to anyone what you're trying to accomplish when you're not trying to get anyone to do anything different in particular, but to renounce their distorted way of thinking and speaking, after which you expect them to make better decisions, even if you can't say in advance what those decisions will be?_
 
-He thought he had explained it very clearly
+<pre><code>
+Title: Interlude XVI
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: other
+Tags: discourse, gaslighting
+Status: draft
+
+"The emperor is naked!" [a little child said](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes).
+
+"Silly child, the emperor is clothed," said the child's father.
+
+The child looked skeptical.
+
+"Okay, sure, he may not be wearing any garments—it would be pretty weird if we were claiming that!—but it's desirable for the social construct of clothedness to not depend on whether one is wearing any garments, because doing otherwise would be really mean to people who don't have anything to wear."
+</code></pre>
+
+He thought he had [explained it very clearly](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/).
 
 fighting an entire Discord room
 
+bug in male sexuality
+
+(I've been told that I'm not using the word "gaslighting" correctly. Somehow no one seems to think I have the right to define that category boundary however I want.)
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CEGnJBHmkcwPTysb7/lonely-dissent
 
 "I think that's more of a 'you' thing"
 
-wanting flipping a table, How dumb do you think I am? How dumb do you think I think you are?
+
+And that's the moment where Mark wants to flip a table. He wants to scream, "How _dumb_ do you think I am? How dumb do you think I think _you_ are? Did you _look_ at the fucking photo? Are you fucking _blind_? _Stop gaslighting me, you sanctimonious lying bastards!_"
+
+He doesn't do it. Partially because that would be toxic masculinity, and therefore unbecoming. But mostly, because it's against the rules.
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+
 
 gaslighting, Muscato
 
@@ -28,3 +68,11 @@ explain transmorgifier fantasy about boring high school couldve-been sweetheart
 grandmother neuron
 
 He has a lot of writing to do.
+
+-----
+
+Age Progression
+
+example of the "it only works once" dodge: http://some-tg-caps.blogspot.com/2017/03/transplant.html
+
+I like fantasy stories in the genre of science fiction (explicit magic breaks my suspension of disbelief, but "hormones and surgery" stories do in another way)

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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--- a/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -927,3 +927,11 @@ CAIS in sport: https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1070097483408248835
 the evolutionarily ancient process of noticing secondary sex characteristics is less legitimate than "Because I said so"
 
 https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/zmynd9/stop-gendering-your-baby?utm_campaign=sharebutton
+
+https://twitter.com/terristrange/status/1068887491812290560
+
+------
+
+New from me: ["Trying to Be Explicit"](), a short story that starts out being about the frustration of trying to be objective about a hot-button social issue and facing what one believes to be bad-faith criticism while simultanously acknowledging that _everyone_ thinks their critics are acting in bad faith, but then degenerates into specialized erotica interspersed with commentary on how the details of the erotic fantasy have important implications for the hot-button social issue.
+
+... I don't know, guys. I'm really sorry.

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@
-personal track—
-_ Trying to Be Explicit
-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-
-serious track—
-_ I Mean, Yes
-_ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
-_ Against Fully Consensual Gender (working title)
-
+_ Trying to Be Explicit (deadline 2 Jan 2019)
+_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
 
 
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+_ Laser 11
 
-_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But (maybe not needed after)
 
+_ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection