content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md

   1 Title: There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
   2 Date: 2020-01-01
   3 Category: commentary
   4 Tags: discourse
   5 Status: draft
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   7 > If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to _make it so_, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ.
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   9 > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
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  11 We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want everyone to be judged
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  13 ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
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  16 There's this an empricial structure to the world that _doesn't go away_
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  19 Psychological sex differences are
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  21 http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
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  25 I _want_ to believe that sex differences in personality and interests are small-to-nonexistent. I _want_ to believe that trans women are women.
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  27 out of the three women present—
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  29 (or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
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  31 —they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
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  36 _I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
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  38 ... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first.