[TODO: rephrase along the lines of, there might be situation where you might be quantitatively less surprised to see trans women behave in a way that is more common in males, than to see the same behavior in cis women, even if behavior never defines anyone's sex, because sex categories are attributed based on genetalia, secondary sex characteristics, &c.]
+[TODO: mention the rhetorical problem where I bring up psychology in discussions, because I can predict that if I said "You're not a woman because of your penis", ppl will say, "Oh, that's not what we meant"]
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That categories are clusters in a _high-dimensional_ space is relevant because of a statistical phenomenon perhaps most famously elucidated in [A. W. F. Edwards's critique of Richard Lewontin's critique of the concept of _race_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewontin's_Fallacy): groups that overlap along any _one_ particular measurement might be much more clearly distinguishable when you look at the conjunction of many different measurements.
[TODO: the standard diagram]
Tags: personal, software industry
Status: draft
-> _There's a heart that must be free
-> To fly
-> That burns with the need to know
-> The reason why
-> Why must we all conceal
-> What we think, how we feel?
-> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_
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-> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera)
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February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
bundling and marketing channels, negotiation for space; I can keep quiet in a particular venue, but "not in X space" becomes "shut up and die" if X encompasses all spaces
+psychological hazards of embracing the "evil" label
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+people just like me who read different books in a different order
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+"Everyone is entitled to her religion/belief" is a peace treaty
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+tempted to escalate to misgendering just as a protest against mind control (even though I wouldn't be inclined to fight about pronouns if I could get people to agree about the theory), but that's not a winning move
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+How strong is the hypothesized "if you ever gerrymander a category, then parsimony is ever after your enemy" effect?
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+clickthrough rates are bad, which is a point against the bundling strategy of writing good non-gender-war content under the same pseudonym
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+lack of a positive vision
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+so tempting to endlessly relitigate every minor point of conversation, when I should just let it go
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+the "rationalist" banner is a source of huge cognitive dissonance if the majority gets it wrong
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+cis women also get surgery / "seems fake" / 13th century word meanings
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+I can't be friends with people who are going to gaslight me this hard
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+important to notice that the ideological repression narrative is one of microaggressions/exclusion: should be a source of empathy!
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+reach for condescending rhetoric: "pretending to be stupid" is emotionally satisfying rhetoric that does point to a real problem, but it's not a precise formulation, and the meta-level "you're irrational" dicussion is already so fraught that it needs all the precision it can get (ridicule might help as a violent appeal to shared values, but you need a coalition for that)
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+the relevance of AGP is to provide a non-intersex mechanism for why males might want to be female; it's not "autoerotic people can't be female", to which claim "cis women are AGP too" would be a counterexample
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+my obsessive personality (being angry about school felt _just_ like this)
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+B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith
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+summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about private conversations
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+part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter
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+I didn't explain the Schelling point thing
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+at first I was upset about two-types in 2016/17, but that may have been premature; but now a recent flurry of activity about the hidden-Bayesian-structure-of-cognition thing
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+"Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is
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+trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post)
one woman's precautions against men: https://twitter.com/editingemily/status/1095853582346141697
telling the only woman in a karoke group: you're our only female vocalist, you should sing this part. I wouldn't say that if there was a trans woman in the room; it's a trivial example, but life is composed of these little things
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+https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/02/13/Is-language-influencing-your-beliefs-in-ways-you-dont-realize
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+re "All Debates Are Bravery Debates": the G. Mitchell "Human Sex Differences" book phrases things in a weird way
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+https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/819644/mum-of-supermarket-toilet-sex-assault-victim-warns-freed-attacker-could-strike-again/
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+Falsehood implies anything! https://twitter.com/Nespresso821/status/1097295455170555904
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+https://twitter.com/every_lesbian/status/1097649372752461824
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+http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/02/the-vagina-monologues-a-feminist-production-with-a-necessary-asterisk
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+https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-02-18/transgender-hormone-therapy-could-pose-heart-dangers I'm glad they at least named the journal (Circulation, Feb 18), but I wish they also included the article title for quick search
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+https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/transgender-insanity-police-now-jailing-people-for-laughing-at-men-in-women
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The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artefact
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Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
Dragon in Garage
It Was a Complement!
Trying to Be Explicit
"But It Doesn't Matter"
One-Way Trolls
+"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
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+in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
-Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies
People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
Q I Want to See You Be Brave
Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
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