From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 05:54:00 +0000 (-0800) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3551ab78b0e6328e99d28d8543b3951f7a203ba;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md index daa60ee..5c8c0f3 100644 --- a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md +++ b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Status: draft > > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/) - +We socially-liberal people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself— ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought. diff --git a/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md b/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md index 43de970..2898622 100644 --- a/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md +++ b/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Yes, the Only Real Transwoman Is a Transitioned Transwoman +Title: Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: discourse, autogynephilia @@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ An interesting blog post titled ["I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am No _Yes_. Yes, I went there. Yes, I know how [offensive]() that is. But I have a point to make. -In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be a girl, +In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be female, and the fact that he's not causes him pain. This is a serious problem worthy of sympathy, respect, and—by far the most valuable psychological state one can occupy in the service of someone else's troubles—careful _thought_. + +Certainly, one possible solution to this problem—and an increasingly well-trodden path at this late date—would be to transition. Take estadiol, take Spiro, get new clothes, train your voice, pick a new name—I hear that a lot of people don't even get bottom surgery these days—and all of this having been accomplished, our heroine will have accomplished the feat of having _become_ a transwoman successfully occupying the social role of womanhood, and in an enlightened, liberal society, people will respect that, even if you don't quite pass. + + + He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title! @@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title! -Fantasizing about being a girl is _not the same thing_ as somehow already _literally_ being a girl in some unspecified metaphysical sense! It's good to have fantasies. It's good to make one's fantasies real with +Fantasizing about being a girl is _not the same thing_ as somehow already literally being a girl in some unspecified metaphysical sense! It's good to have fantasies. It's good to make one's fantasies real with But _distinguishing between fantasy and reality_ is kind of an important life skill! diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt index 564ccf0..ae74842 100644 --- a/post_ideas.txt +++ b/post_ideas.txt @@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ Grim Trigger; Or, the Parable of the Honest Man and the God of Marketing Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition) There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention Yalta (https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-essential-conflict/ "What's in it for me?" "You're the one who doesn't believe in personal identity—you should be happy for us") -O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us (school dysphoria) +O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us; Or, the Identity Dysphoria Trap (school dysphoria) +Fertility HEAVY CORE POSTS— Q Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings -Q Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman +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 +Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, My Struggle to Keep It Charitable Q Review of Nevada _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition -Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model +Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model * Mary's Room Q The Hand I Was Dealt Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? @@ -23,6 +24,11 @@ Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ------ +æ + +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/ non-AGP fiction— * Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels @@ -158,3 +164,6 @@ The Man With the Nonstandard Hormone Balance 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/ + + +