replacement notebook scans for "A Beacon Through the Darkness"
authorM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:43:28 +0000 (00:43 -0800)
committerM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:43:28 +0000 (00:43 -0800)
I don't like original phone-as-copy-camera images—for one thing, they ended
up too redshifted. When I was at the copy shop the other week, I actually
made a scan; I want to retrofit them into the post now, especially given
that I'm expecting a traffic bump soon ...

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@@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ I wrote in my notebook:
 
 > THERE'S A WORD FOR IT. _There's a word for it._ I don't know whether to be happy that there's an adjective for what I have, or sad that other men have it, & that it's not mine, & only mine. Bless Wikipedia for showing me [...] But still, after all emotions have fitted themselves away, there is the word. "Autogynephilia." So simple; I know all the foreign roots; I should have thought of it.  "Autogynephilic." That's what I am.
 
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 And:
 
 > Scarcity is a _metaphysical_ fact, so why am I hurt when my word (which I didn't invent & only discovered a few hours ago) has so many connotations attached to it that I don't like? The dictionary definition is perfect for me, but all the exposition after that has to do with transsexualism, which annoys me, although thinking of it now, I suppose it would seem to be a logical extension to some. I'm autogynephilic _without_ being gender-dysphoric—_or am I?_ _If_ transitioning cheap & fast & painless & perfect—wouldn't I at least be tempted? What I can't stand is transsexuals who want to express the man/woman they "truly are inside"—because I don't think there's any such thing. It _has_ to be about sex—because gender shouldn't exist.
 
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 My views on gender have changed a _lot_ over the past ten years—most notably, I'm not a psychological sex differences denialist anymore, so I'm afraid I can no longer endorse that "gender shouldn't exist" stance. (Given that sex differences exist and people aren't going to _pretend not to notice_, social-role defaults are inevitably going to accrete around them.)
 
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