From 8fca4abc897f466f7cc83324de25f6c3b17a3706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:59:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md | 3 +++ .../challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md | 9 +++++---- content/drafts/link-never-smile-at-an-autogynephile.md | 6 ++++-- notes/blanchards-dangerous-idea-sections.md | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index 2341ded..31021c2 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -262,3 +262,6 @@ https://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1441997339309314049 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/10/09/the-art-institute-of-chicago-fires-all-122-of-its-unpaid-and-volunteer-docents-because-they-arent-sufficiently-diverse/ + +NCAA Task Force Recommends Students No Longer Submit SAT, ACT Scores To Promote 'Racial Equity' +https://archive.ph/QerlW diff --git a/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md b/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md index 559e1bd..7f4c818 100644 --- a/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md +++ b/content/drafts/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md @@ -73,18 +73,19 @@ Bad language design? I mean, maybe! You could argue that! You could probably get The "default for those-who-haven't-asked [going] by gamete size" part of Yudkowsky's proposal is _trying_ to deal with the backwards-compatibility problem by being backwards-compatible—recommending the same behavior in the vast majority of cases—but in doing so, it fails to accomplish its stated purpose of de-gendering the language. To _actually_ de-gender English, you'd need to _actually_ shatter the correlation between pronouns and sex/gender, such that a person's pronouns _were_ just an arbitrary extra piece of data—nothing to do with gender—that you needed to remember in the same way you have to remember people's names. +[TODO— + * Given that sex-category information _is_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point + * And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper +] - - +Me neither. [OUTLINE of remainder— * The attempted backwards compatibility measure doesn't work; if people's behavior is still the same, then sex-category information is still being transfered; and, again, that was the motivation for the reform effort all along; in order to _actually_ de-gender language, you have to break the correlation: either go all-in on singular _they_, or somehow get people to establish and declare pronoun preferences that aren't about gender (which isn't what's going on in our world) - * Given that sex-category information _is_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point - * And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper * Yudkowsky's response to all this?—apparently, to play dumb!! * "I don't know what it's like in you head for a pronoun to map onto more than 'doesn't look like an Oliver'"—lies * Gumball example diff --git a/content/drafts/link-never-smile-at-an-autogynephile.md b/content/drafts/link-never-smile-at-an-autogynephile.md index fbae283..f3fd361 100644 --- a/content/drafts/link-never-smile-at-an-autogynephile.md +++ b/content/drafts/link-never-smile-at-an-autogynephile.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: other Tags: linkpost, video Status: draft - + [This song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vI6U0QJtPQ) is an interesting cultural artifact of [the strategy of stigmatization](/2019/Dec/the-strategy-of-stigmatization/). Lyrics— @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Status: draft > Crossing boundaries makes him smile > That autogynephile_ -In a purely descriptive sense, this would seem to qualify as "hate speech"—expressing antipathy for a group of people on the basis of sexual orientation. But if so, I count it as evidence for the case that, contrary to popular belief, hate speech _is_ free speech (that is, you can't just exclude "hate" without any substantive ideas): from the standpoint of women [fighting a Total Culture War](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) to protect single-sex spaces and the very concept of womanhood itself, it makes _perfect sense_ to demonize the demographic that is, _in fact_, collectively responsible for your woes. (In a world where autogynephilia as a psychological phenomenon didn't exist "but everything else was the same", there would be no reason for a special "gender-critical" resistance strain of feminism to exist; androphilic MtF transsexuals mostly just don't cause problems.) +In a purely descriptive sense, this would seem to qualify as "hate speech"—expressing antipathy for a group of people on the basis of sexual orientation. But if so, I count it as evidence for the case that, contrary to popular belief, hate speech _is_ free speech (that is, you can't just exclude "hate" without thereby excluding substantive ideas): from the standpoint of women [fighting a Total Culture War](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) to protect single-sex spaces and the very concept of womanhood itself, it makes _perfect sense_ to demonize the demographic that is, _in fact_, collectively responsible for your woes. (In a world where autogynephilia as a psychological phenomenon didn't exist "but everything else was the same", there would be no need for a special "gender-critical" resistance strain of feminism to exist; androphilic MtF transsexuals mostly just don't cause problems.) Just because it _makes sense_ for some people to hate (given the situation they're in) doesn't mean the situation itself isn't sad, on multiple levels. [I think autogynephilia is a _better explanation_ than "gender identity" for people like me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)—while I haven't transitioned, I'm obviously _the type_ that would have, had I been born five years later—and I think it's sad most of the people who use [_the word for the thing_](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) are ... people who hate us. (Never smile at an autogynephile! Never even meet his eye or stay to talk a while! Please be rude and always mock!) + +I don't think it _had_ to be this way. diff --git a/notes/blanchards-dangerous-idea-sections.md b/notes/blanchards-dangerous-idea-sections.md index 4c27372..1f183c4 100644 --- a/notes/blanchards-dangerous-idea-sections.md +++ b/notes/blanchards-dangerous-idea-sections.md @@ -325,3 +325,5 @@ https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/a-dataset-of-common-agp-aap-fantasie this is what ETLE looks like for people for whom it's actually about clothes: http://onceiwasaman.blogspot.com/ +How to get over feeling like I'm fetishizing womanhood? +https://archive.ph/6l1W8 -- 2.17.1