Tags: anecdotal, cosplay, Steven Universe
Status: draft
+_(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing today. If you're here for the insight porn, come back tomorrow. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.)_
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> ROSE: [...] we can't both exist. I'm going to become half of you. And I need you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me, loving you, and loving _being_ you.
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> —_Steven Universe_, "Lion 3: Straight to Video"
-I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) the other month! It was fun, I think! I guess?
+I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) on Saturday at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) the other month! It was fun, I think! I guess?
-I'm not really sure what other people get out of fandom conventions.
+I'm not really sure what other people get out of fandom conventions. There are panels, but pop-culture analysis is better in blog form than live discussion. There are autographs, but there
For me, it's my one socially-acceptable excuse for crossdressing in public.
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+colorful sandals
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[thousand-dollar ultra-realistic mask](https://www.creafx.com/en/special-make-up-effects/taylor-silicone-mask/)
That I don't feel comfortable cross-dressing is important to notice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTKL9LokHg (wait for the reveal at 0:44!)
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(_I will fight for the place where I'm free!_)
(_I will fight for the world I was made in!_)
-We're all about, like, science and rationality and stuff, right? And so if there's a theory that's been sitting in the psychology literature for twenty years, that looks _correct_ (or at least, ah, less wrong than the mainstream view), that's _directly_ relevant to a _lot_ of people around here, that seems like the sort of thing
+We're all about, like, science and rationality and stuff, right? And so if there's a theory that's been sitting in the psychology literature for twenty years, that looks _correct_ (or at least, ah, [less wrong](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleDrop) than the mainstream view), that's _directly_ relevant to a _lot_ of people around here, that seems like the sort of thing
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9KvefburLia7ptEE3/the-correct-contrarian-cluster
If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are better at [tracking](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about-info.html) [status](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/12/forged-by-status.html) than [reality](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/06/doing-good-being-good.html), then eventually dissidents either accept [the narrative](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/resisting-the-narrative/) or destroy themselves.
-[Autogynephilic males](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) are better at large-scale coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by [the patriarchy](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/patriarchy-is-the-problem/)), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to [have a goddamned _word_](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological [configuration space](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBw8dDkAWohFjWQSk/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace) would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
+[Autogynephilic males](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) are better at large-scale coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by [the patriarchy](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/patriarchy-is-the-problem/)), so once a political conflict arose between an [intransigent minority](https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15) of AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to [have a goddamned _word_](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological [configuration space](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBw8dDkAWohFjWQSk/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace) would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
Again, probably not literally: there probably really are biochemical facts of the matter as to what traits hormone replacement therapy does and does not change, and the biochemical facts aren't going to vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict—as far as I know. (I've never _seen_ an estrogen molecule, have you?)
-What _does_ vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict are which facts you can _talk_ about—and thus, [in the long run](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/), which facts you can even _notice_. If you successfully mindfuck everyone into believing that AGPs are really women, then they _really are_. I mean, you can't say they're not.
+What _does_ vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict are which facts you can _talk_ about—and thus, [in the long run](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/), which facts you can even _notice_. If you _successfully_ mindfuck everyone into believing that AGPs are really women, then _they really are_.
-Once, perhaps, in the hateful and bigoted days of our ancestors,
+Once, in the hateful and bigoted days of our ancestors, people noticed whether babies were female or male, acculturated them into different social roles (childbearing and war being more relevant to their cultural systems then those of today's [barren](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/), [pacified](TODO: linky authoritarian submission) elites), and had [short, simple words](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/soQX8yXLbKy7cFvy8/entropy-and-short-codes) for the resulting types of people: girls and boys, women and men. This is the first, initial stage of [the precession of simulacra](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/). Medical transsexualism of the 20th-century West is a mixture of simulacrum levels 1 (to the extent that hormones and surgery constitute a successful [sex change](http://lesswrong.com/lw/xe/changing_emotions/)) and 2 (to the extent that they don't, and transitioning consists of [lying](TODO: blatant lies) about one's sex).
+But the ancestors, in choosing the words to carve _their_ reality at the joints, didn't distinguish between the fact of sex, and social sex _roles_—from _within_ a given society, there was no reason to make that distinction. For a brief, beautiful moment in the West, 2nd-wave feminism did, giving us the sex/gender split. That incentive lasted about forty years:
+the LGBT activist machinery wasn't going to peacefully disband after its crowning victory in _Obergefell v. Hodges_
+pried apart at such painstaking cost by their feminist cousins
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I have a recurring dream
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but maybe you could get the good result without mfing???
left to just study it. Judiciously. As I do.
+/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/
https://www.gwern.net/docs/philo/2012-sistery-tryingtoseethrough.html
-https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-symbolic-representation-of-the-thing/
-http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-intelligent-social-web
-https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
+https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-symbolic-representation-of-the-thing/
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-intelligent-social-web
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/
https://status451.com/2018/07/01/the-importance-of-having-your-pain-be-legible/
-(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing today and tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.)
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_ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
-_ Tue: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
-_ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+_ Tue: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
_ Mon: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
_ Tue: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
+Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
(in response to Kosoy's objection)
Research Question: Complicity
The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
Trying to Be Explicit
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
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Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
+.@LessWrong has the brains, @Quillette has the courage, social justice has the heart. What heroine or hero among us can unite these three virtues and shepherd us home to a Nice Place to Live??
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+Shared mass-blocklists might help here? Although that does, unfortunately, put the onus of the trivial inconvenience [TODO linky] on the reader. Not sure what else to suggest (in the face of disagreements on what Tweets constitute "harm"), sorry. [cold sweat]
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+Less-harsh rephrasing: passing (and especially passing-for-cis) has a large effect on social outcomes for "deep" structural reasons; more anti-transphobia political activism won't solve this problem (but, e.g., cheaper facial feminization surgery might!)
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+There's a sense in which cis is the default—cis (non-trans) bodies are what you get in the absence of exogenous hormone replacement therapy. (There were some permanent effects after my 5-month 2017 HRT experiment, so I'm "less" cis than I would otherwise be in a way??)
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+Trans people are a sufficiently small minority that I wouldn't be surprised if medical science doesn't yet know what things are due to developmental sex and what to current hormone levels—it would be great to see more research on this! [female scientist emoji]
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+I guess I'm not sure what the truth condition is for being nonbinary? ("NBs are people who say they're NB" seems too much like circular reasoning.) I could start to become a trans woman by getting back on HRT, but I'm not sure what the process is for being NB [include hormones photo]
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+I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5
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+like, compared to the ENTIRE REST OF SPACETIME, I'm yet another nice smart progressive Jewish trans girl, just like everyone else 2/5
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+It's ONLY in comparison to Berkeley 2019 that I might be easily confused with some kind of vicious right-wing edgelord (the likes of which I actually am not) 3/5
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+Can I be forgiven if, from my perspective, it looks like the problem is with Berkeley 2019 rather than me? 4/5
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+where this "Everything is socially constructed! Nothing correlates with anything else!" performance is the price of being Good, I'm willing to be Bad if that means I can say that SOME things aren't socially constructed, and use language to refer to correlations less than one 5/5
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Then offer her a job at the salary of an 8x engineer. (Get it? It's an efficient markets joke: if companies really behaved like this, they would compete to equilibrium & there would be no pay gap in the 1st place. But real-world markets aren't efficient for many reasons 😰)
You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!
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