From ea27e3fe3e86c1e6919d24d305e055945527dce7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:56:59 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] note shuffling --- notes/notes.txt | 11 ++++------- notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md | 4 ++-- notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 7100a2d..084b2a8 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1946,9 +1946,6 @@ The one time I posted in /r/GenderCritical, I got a reply that said, "You are a ---- -"My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It" https://archive.is/FJNII -note, "My Son Wears Dresses", and not, "My Daughter Is Trans" - https://medium.com/@mary.leng/harry-potter-and-the-reverse-voltaire-4c7f3a07241 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rolltodisbelieve/2020/07/07/j-k-rowling-and-the-measuring-of-a-woman/ @@ -1975,9 +1972,6 @@ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/freedom-to-thin https://periodaisle.com/blogs/all/6-transgender-women-talk-menstruation -The time I told an older boy in summer camp that I wasn't into women with big boobs ... but the reality was that I just hadn't hit puberty yet. A parent in today's ideological environment might transition their three-year-old, thinking, "I don't know what the future holds ... but if she doesn't want to go through male puberty, it would be cruel to force her to." But the kid has no way to _know_ that puberty is going to be terrible in advance (I didn't know what it was going to be like, to like breasts), but if the social environment is grooming the kid to be trans, he's likely to _assume_ it's terrible. When I wasn't doing well at Santa Cruz at first, Mom suggested that I take time off or at DVC, and I said, "Are you _trying_ to sabotage my education?" Because I had been groomed to believe in education. - - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ndtb22KYBxpBsagpj/eliezer-yudkowsky-facts?commentId=Aq9eWJmK6Liivn8ND Never go in against Eliezer Yudkowsky when anything is on the line. @@ -2027,7 +2021,7 @@ Andrew Sullivan profile https://archive.is/qviCi "Fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71467-z -I want to be careful not to fall into the trap of being a generic social conservative. My gender crusade becomes much less interesting insofar as it can be explained simply by me being born too early and not getting "kids these days." It's not that cultural change is necessarily bad; it's that I want culture to innovate in the direction of "achieving godlike understanding of objective reality and optimizing the hell out of it" rather than "playing mind games on each other to make it artificially harder to notice that we don't actually live in a Total Morphological Freedom tech regime." +I want to be careful not to fall into the trap of being a generic social conservative. My gender crusade becomes much less interesting insofar as it can be explained simply by me being born too early and not getting "kids these days." It's not that cultural change is necessarily bad; Doctoral thesis on TG/TF fantasy! https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4codai/ @@ -2410,3 +2404,6 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/lk8abe/culture_war_roundup_for_the_we (paywalled) https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/20/little-is-known-about-the-effects-of-puberty-blockers + +(metered) +https://gen.medium.com/the-sports-arena-has-become-conservatives-favorite-anti-trans-battleground-8cc3adc533cf diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 9dc36c4..4e19087 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1049 Normal straight men also have positive-valence thoughts about women when they're not immediately horny. -NYT hit piece https://archive.is/0Ghdl - ----- +it's that I want culture to innovate in the direction of "achieving godlike understanding of objective reality and optimizing the hell out of it" rather than "playing mind games on each other to make it artificially harder to notice that we don't actually live in a Total Morphological Freedom tech regime." + (write script to extract links, with useful argparse, incl. dropping into a Python shell) ------ diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md index 78de60f..1d92890 100644 --- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md +++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md @@ -47,3 +47,8 @@ http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/davis_et_al-cultural_components_of_sex_di https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894 Kohlberg 1966 gender constancy (Maccoby p. 160) + +"My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It" https://archive.is/FJNII +note, "My Son Wears Dresses", and not, "My Daughter Is Trans" + +The time I told an older boy in summer camp that I wasn't into women with big boobs ... but the reality was that I just hadn't hit puberty yet. A parent in today's ideological environment might transition their three-year-old, thinking, "I don't know what the future holds ... but if she doesn't want to go through male puberty, it would be cruel to force her to." But the kid has no way to _know_ that puberty is going to be terrible in advance (I didn't know what it was going to be like, to like breasts), but if the social environment is grooming the kid to be trans, he's likely to _assume_ it's terrible. When I wasn't doing well at Santa Cruz at first, Mom suggested that I take time off or at DVC, and I said, "Are you _trying_ to sabotage my education?" Because I had been groomed to believe in education. -- 2.17.1