Tags: cathartic
Status: draft
+([Credit assignment](http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/contents/C/creditassign.html): [Will Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air), [_xkcd_](https://xkcd.com/464/))
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Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
-I'll tell you how I became convinced that the
+I'll tell you how I became convinced that I share the same underlying psychological variation that motivates males like me to become lesbian trans women, but am disturbed , and
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+(If [almost](http://unremediatedgender.space/2016/Dec/anne-lawrence-is-the-only-honest-human-wip/) everyone is lying to me about autogynephilia, maybe they're _also_ lying about whether humans actually need to sleep!)
> Can learn to be like you, too
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> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
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+> Yet each generation seems to accept the craziness of the past generation, even when balking at the craziness of the new generation. We think that in the past, academia was on track, and that those who opposed progress were crazy, right-wing nut-jobs. But we dissidents think that this time, this new generation–well–they have gone to far and have gone crazy. There is a certain Cthulian horror when suddenly you realize that many of the nut-jobs in the past were actually right. Many were slandered retroactively, not because they were wrong, or evil, not because they made bad predictions, but because they lost and the winners wrote the histories. There is a horror in realizing that you are just like them, this cycle has played out before, and that your children’s generation will see you as the nut-job.
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+> —[Devin Helton](http://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html)
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+Moliere on "dormative virtue"
+Fresh Princess
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+Worlds Collide
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+The Categories Were Made for Man, But It's Useful for Renegotiations of Category Boundaries to Emphasize Predictive Accuracy
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+Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies (this is an attempt to enforce social norms, not an attempt to inform; that makes sense if you want to be part of the coalition enforcing those norms, but those norms also make it impossible to talk about psychology)
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+People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
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The Aristocrats
A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase ()
HEAVY CORE POSTS—
Q Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
-Q Trans Infovism Against Trans Activism; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling "Wait! I Like the Concept, But the Execution Needs Work!"
+Q An Infovist's Not-a-Manifesto; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling, "Wait! I Like the Idea, But the Implementation Details Need Work!"
Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
Q The View From Nowhere
Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, You Can't Spell "Narcisstic Rage" Without "Cis": My Struggle to Keep It Charitable
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+Stop Expecting Social Reality to Make Sense
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re simple models are better: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/conservatives-over-generalize-liberals-under-generalize/
clumpy thingspace!— https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/race-and-realism-part-2/
+Michael Arc says: "some sort of discussion of the double standard while unambiguously attaching Trump and lampshading 'Locker Room Talk' would probably be valuable"
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Flipping the Frame
non-AGP fiction—
http://www.jaimieveale.com/publications/Masters.pdf (p. 82)
-Reply to Ozy on Lies to Cis People (this is an attempt to enforce social norms, not an attempt to inform; that makes sense if you want to be part of the coalition enforcing those norms, but those norms also make it impossible to talk about psychology)
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The Gender Czar's Compromise
AGP fiction—
not a masculine, macho man, but, you know, the biologically-male kind of man
https://transwidow.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-masculinity-of-mtf-transition/
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