From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 03:00:51 +0000 (-0800) Subject: getting a few ideas down X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=inline;h=765ff4b5188737db222d9ce4bf113c7f069b566e;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git getting a few ideas down --- diff --git a/content/drafts/could-self-reports-really-be-that-wrong.md b/content/drafts/could-self-reports-really-be-that-wrong.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1583e08 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/could-self-reports-really-be-that-wrong.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Title: Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? +Date: 2020-10-01 05:00 +Category: commentary +Tags: autogynephilia +Status: draft + +picking the gift on the right + +"Becoming What We Love" + +two fictional case studies: one with childhood AGP and interpersonal fantasy, another like me (Ranma 1/2, transformation fantasies, sex differences denial, encountering AGP first) + +when they meet in Berkeley, Mark is like "You lying bastards!" and the first is like "You poor, soul, misled by the BBL lies" + +but the real takeaway is that everyone should be more skeptical of why they think they do what they do diff --git a/content/drafts/stereotypes-models-and-cognition.md b/content/drafts/stereotypes-models-and-cognition.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edd722b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/stereotypes-models-and-cognition.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Title: Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: epistemology +Status: draft + +fine-grained stereotypes + +If someone says of me, "Taylor Saotome-Westlake? Oh, he's a _man_, you know what _they're_ like," I would be offended—I mean, I would if I still believed that getting offended ever helps with anything. (It _never helps_.) I'm _not_ like typical men, I _don't like_ typical men, and I don't want to be confused with them. + +But if someone says, "Taylor Saotome-Westlake? Oh, he's one of those IQ 130, mid-to-low [Conscientiousness and Agreeableness, high Openness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits), left-libertarian autogynephilic American Ashkenazi male computer programmers; you know what _they're_ like," my response is to nod and say, "Yeah, pretty much." diff --git a/content/drafts/the-neglect-of-probability-fallacy.md b/content/drafts/the-neglect-of-probability-fallacy.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e728e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/the-neglect-of-probability-fallacy.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Title: The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition +Date: 2020-01-01 05:00 +Category: commentary +Tags: epistemology +Status: draft + +["I'm a Transgender Woman, and this is What It's Like"](https://www.bustle.com/articles/7727-im-a-transgender-woman-and-this-is-what-its-like): + +> How am I not [a "real woman"]? Is it because of my chromosomes? I don’t think that’s fair, as neither you nor I know what my chromosomes even are. Someone who makes this argument assume they're XY, but I don't even know that for certain, as I’ve never had a karyotype test. It’s probably a safe bet that my detractor hasn't had a karyotype test, either. Even if I do have a Y chromosome, that doesn't mean anything. There are a number of women with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, sometimes giving them an XY set of chromosomes, which, typically, would be associated with men. Are they not women? + +So, I actually have gotten genotyped (by [23andMe](https://www.23andme.com/)). My results came back with a Y chromosome. This was not a surpise. diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt index 297f7a6..f6f5eec 100644 --- a/post_ideas.txt +++ b/post_ideas.txt @@ -4,19 +4,20 @@ Blame Me for Trying core commentary— High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts -Stereotypes, Models, and Coherence +Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves -Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer -Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? Or, What It Means to Have a Fetish So Powerful It Controls Your Life But Also Be Consciously Unaware of It (http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/152670777061/multiheaded1793-okay-i-cant-keep-silent-on) My Story -Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See -Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone) +Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? +Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer other commentary— Faster Than Science (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...) psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient +Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See +Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone) + criticism— Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6) @@ -26,10 +27,12 @@ Time Travel Isn't Real Lesser-Known Demand Curves satire/shitposting— -Tone and the Cathartic Tag +This Blog Is Not a Safe Space Napoleon 70s denialists had it right +pages— +compile papers ----