From b5c11aa4f6f86b6f5d9eb16509c2e302397c2f25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:17:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/2017/revised-taxonomy.md | 2 +- ...e-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md | 2 +- content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md | 13 +++++++++++++ ...-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md | 4 ++-- epigraph_quotes.md | 7 +++++++ post_ideas.txt | 11 ++++++----- 6 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md diff --git a/content/2017/revised-taxonomy.md b/content/2017/revised-taxonomy.md index b49daf1..4e5ab68 100644 --- a/content/2017/revised-taxonomy.md +++ b/content/2017/revised-taxonomy.md @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-01-28 17:02 Category: other Tags: cathartic, two-type taxonomy -"No, it turns out that there are actually _three_ types of male-to-female transsexualism—effeminate homosexuality, autogynephilia, and—by far the most common—the third type that we made up in order to keep our jobs." +"No, it turns out that there are actually _three_ types of male-to-female transsexualism: effeminate homosexuality, autogynephilia, and—by far the most common—the third type that we made up in order to keep our jobs."





diff --git a/content/drafts/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md b/content/drafts/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md index 34b5ece..c8b3919 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ Date: 2020-01-01 Category: other Tags: autogynephilia, personal -On August 6, 2006, I came across the \ No newline at end of file +On August 6, 2006, I came across the diff --git a/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md b/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..668afd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Title: As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: discourse +Status: draft + + +_Yes_, I'm upset. _Yes_, I'm angry. _Yes_, + + +"Damn Julia Serano! Damn everyone who won't damn Julia Serano!! Damn everyone that won't put lights in her windows and sit up all night damning Julia Serano!!!" + +http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/ \ No newline at end of file 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 7fd5746..43de970 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 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Status: draft > > —_Quarantine_ by Greg Egan -People who are concerned with social justice tend to be rightfully skeptical when privileged straight white men like me complain about identity politics. That's why, when the topic is misogyny or racism, I _shut up_—even if I might occasionally privately _think_ I might have something true and relevant to say about the costs of the culture of the political left teaching people to model themselves as helpless victims of a kyriarchical society, I also realize that _my opinion doesn't matter_. I'm not a woman or a racial minority; I don't have their lived experience; I _don't know what it's like_ to face the challenges they face. I don't have standing to speak. +People who are concerned with social justice tend to be rightfully skeptical when privileged straight white men like me complain about identity politics. That's why, when the topic is misogyny or racism, I generally _shut up_—even if I might occasionally privately _think_ I might have something true and relevant to say about the costs of the culture of the political left teaching people to model themselves as helpless victims of a kyriarchical society, I also realize that _my opinion doesn't matter_. I'm not a woman or a racial minority; I don't have their lived experience; I _don't know what it's like_ to face the challenges they face. I don't have standing to speak. But social progress marches on, and as old grievances recede into the mists of history, new ones take their place, and when the day comes to pass that the designated victim group of our age is _straight boys who wish they were girls_, then suddenly, _I have standing_. Girl, do _I have standing!_ And I will put an _end_ to this _toxic bullshit_, because I am nobody's victim. @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ 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 desperately wished to be a girl, and +In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be a girl, He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title! diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md index 6f2d37f..f7a6462 100644 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ > —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_ > "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?" +> > I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer." > > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan @@ -141,3 +142,9 @@ > Can learn to be like you, too > > —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_ + +> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with." +> +> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape." +> +> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt index e2a9e56..e96a5ec 100644 --- a/post_ideas.txt +++ b/post_ideas.txt @@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ The Gender Czar's Compromise 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") -concert Late-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Males - -push back against the global narrative without pushing back against any particular individual narrative - 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 @@ -37,8 +33,13 @@ non-AGP fiction— AGP fiction— * "Love Like You" +concert Late-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Males + +Servants of the Egregore; Or, the Joy of Static Analysis + + +push back against the global narrative without pushing back against any particular individual narrative -Servants of the Egregore; Or, the World Outside Your Skull Is a Constant Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies (Transgender Edition) -- 2.17.1