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> Knowing his occupation and observing him briefly and superficially were sufficient, together, for me to guess confidently about aspects of Edwin's life that he never mentioned. I know what he was like as a boy. I know what kind of person he is sexually attracted to. I know what kinds of activities interest him and what kinds do not. I am least sure what he will look like five years from now.
>
> —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface

(Trans Infovism Against Trans Activism)
> 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

(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
> 
> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)

> I cannot believe my eyes
> How the world's filled with filth and lies
> But it's plain to see
> Evil inside of me
> Is on the rise
>
> —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_

> And believe me I am still alive
> I'm doing science and I'm still alive
> I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
> While you're dying I'll be still alive
> And when you're dead I will be still alive 
>
> —_Portal_ end credits song

(Review of Nevada)
> You sound so innocent
> All full of good intent
> You swear you know best
> But you expect me to
> Jump up on board with you
> And ride off into your delusional sunset
> 
> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles

(Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
> "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
>
> —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)

(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
> If you could only know  
> What we really are  
>
> —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)

> And since your history of silence
> Won't do you any good
> Did you think it would?
> Let your words be anything but empty
> Why don't you tell them the truth?
>
> Say what you want to say
> And let the words fall out
> Honestly
> I want to see you be brave
>
> —"Brave" by Sara Bareilles

> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
>
> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection

> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
>
> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"

(Reduce Gender Identities)
> And there's a fine, fine line
> Between what you wanted
> And what you got
> You've got to go after the things you want
> While you're still in your prime
> 
> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_

> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
>
> Well, they can't be grandfathers
> Or daddies
>
> —"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

(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women)
> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
>
> —Stan Kelly-Bootle

(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
> Because it's going to be the future soon
> And I won't always be this way
> When the things that make me weak and strange
> Get engineered away
> 
> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton

(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
> It's time to put an end to this deception
> But I'm afraid
> When the whole thing is at an end
> And you learn that it's just pretend
> You'll cry "Deception"
>
> —"Deception", _Jem_

> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
>
> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
>
> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
>
> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky

> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
> You see it's true, an ape like me
> Can learn to be like you, too
> 
> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_

> Yet each generation seems to accept the craziness of the past generation, even when balking at the craziness of the new generation. We think that in the past, academia was on track, and that those who opposed progress were crazy, right-wing nut-jobs. But we dissidents think that this time, this new generation–well–they have gone to far and have gone crazy. There is a certain Cthulian horror when suddenly you realize that many of the nut-jobs in the past were actually right. Many were slandered retroactively, not because they were wrong, or evil, not because they made bad predictions, but because they lost and the winners wrote the histories. There is a horror in realizing that you are just like them, this cycle has played out before, and that your children’s generation will see you as the nut-job.
>
> —[Devin Helton](http://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html)

Moliere on "dormative virtue"

> I don't want to sabotage you 
> But you see, I've got to try 
>
> —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_

(the story of my name??)
> Sometimes the things you want 
> Are not the things you need 
> And it was right there in front of me 
>
> —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_

> MUGATU  
> The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
>
> Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
>
> —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)

(This Is Worth a Fight)
> _I thought I was smart, I thought I was right  
> I thought it better not to fight, I thought  
> There was a virtue in always being cool  
> So when it came time to fight  
> I thought I'll just step aside  
> And that the time would prove you wrong  
> And that you  
> Would be the fool_  
>
> —"Fight Test" by the Flaming Lips

(quote "The Buried Life" re War on Optimization for Generalized Secrecy) http://www.bartleby.com/246/422.html

> I know there's more that's out there  
> And I just haven't found it yet  
> I know there's more that's out there  
> Another me I haven't met  
>
> —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_

> I don't give a damn about my reputation
> You're living in the past it's a new generation
> A girl can do what she wants to do
> And that's what I'm gonna do
>
> —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett