From 019e0514d4c1e8d4032f3ba89b87e089a41733a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 12:31:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/2017/laser-1.md | 2 +- .../imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md | 4 ++++ .../drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md | 3 +++ .../theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md | 2 +- notes/epigraph_quotes.md | 2 ++ notes/notes.txt | 2 ++ notes/tech_tasks.txt | 2 +- 7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2017/laser-1.md b/content/2017/laser-1.md index cf6d790..8d29c71 100644 --- a/content/2017/laser-1.md +++ b/content/2017/laser-1.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ I lasted about six days. Facial hair is just _gross_. My first session was Wednesday. The clinic—parlor, salon?—was in "Portland"'s historic gay district. I checked out a nearby bookstore beforehand. They had the _Hamilton_ soundtrack playing, and a table setup encouraging customers to write postcards to our Congresscritters to protest GOP villainy. -Meatspace bookstores never fail to conjure up a healthy sense of greed and ambition in me. O books O knowledge! O vastness of human thought, O connectedness of the readership graph! O _searing pain of wretched humiliation_ that I've been so slow and lacking in my own contributions to the graph. (Lest we forget, _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ is [more than a year old](/2016/Sep/apophenia/), and I've barely _begun_ the Sequence of things I've wanted to say for a long time.) +Meatspace bookstores never fail to conjure up a healthy sense of greed and ambition in me. O books O knowledge! O vastness of human thought, O connectedness of the readership graph! O _searing pain of wretched humiliation_ that I've been so slow and lacking in my own contributions to the graph. (Lest we forget, _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ is [_more than a year old_](/2016/Sep/apophenia/), and I've barely _begun_ the Sequence of things I've wanted to say for a long time.) I bought a copy of _Counterexamples in Topology_, and a short story collection with a 2017 copyright date, subtitled _The New Trans Erotic_ [_sic_]—research for the blog, I told myself; I should understand the competition, the bright young gender-dysphoric literary minds sworn into the service of the victimhood identity-politics mind-virus and accordingly shunted down the transition track, rather than the repression track or—whatever you want to call what I'm doing. (And if _they_ can write and produce a meatspace book, why can't I?) diff --git a/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md b/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md index e3b0be7..ec17983 100644 --- a/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md +++ b/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md @@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ Status: draft (a focused post explaining this slight _technical_ countercounterpoint to the morally-laudable "treat everyone as an individual" canard; use the example of guessing people's height on seeing them from afar; do the actual conjugate-prior calculation—maybe even in both directions) +> It should be stated at the outset that for nearly all of the sex differences described throughout this book, there is an overlap in the distributions of girls and boys and women and men. As a result, none of the implications described in this chapter (or in earlier chapters) can be used to make judgements about any individual boy, girl, man, or woman +> +> David Geary, _Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences_ + study material: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/courses/260-spring10/lectures/lecture5.pdf diff --git a/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md index acfe667..3084e7b 100644 --- a/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md +++ b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md @@ -24,3 +24,6 @@ Androphilic trans women and gynephilic trans men are, etiologically speaking > You can be butch and a trans lady and you are still a trans lady and not Really A Man. > Genderqueer people exist. + + +But bootstrapping is real, too: https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/nonbinary-gender/ \ No newline at end of file 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 6609bed..5dfc806 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 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ out of the three women present— —they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing. -Maybe [Good Is Dumb](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodIsDumb) doesn't have to be [Truth in Television](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision). +Maybe [Good Is Dumb](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodIsDumb) doesn't _have_ to be [Truth in Television](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision). _I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is— diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index 3ae86d1..ff9df38 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ looking for a use— > > —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_ +quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other + ---- (An Infovist's Advisory) diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index c4e4f4d..cac3839 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -254,3 +254,5 @@ Rya comes out as AGP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferdf6iRTOg ---- I really hope there's a way to use frequencies and Bayes nets to disprove dysphoria→AGP causal direction, particularly because then I'll be able to call the post "Algebraic Typology" + +I thought of this pun first/independently: https://twitter.com/WildStoryWoman/status/927514752405737474 diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt index b5bfa42..47a9964 100644 --- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt +++ b/notes/tech_tasks.txt @@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ favicon "Read more" breaks (problem: plugin for this uses fixed length cutoff) self-promotion: Reddit, Crossdreamers, Third Way Trans Git server! - +sheet music width -- 2.17.1