3 > "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
5 > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
7 > "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
9 > 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."
11 > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
13 > She's AFAB enby but I'm not quite sure what that means
15 > —["Girl All the Bad Guys Want"](https://genius.com/Bowling-for-soup-girl-all-the-bad-guys-want-lyrics) by Bowling for Soup (paraphrased)
17 > What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
21 > I knew the mass of men conceal'd
22 > Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
23 > They would by other men be met
24 > With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd;
25 > I knew they liv'd and mov'd
26 > Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
27 > Of men, and alien to themselves—and yet
28 > The same heart beats in every human breast!
30 > "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
32 > All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
36 > Ultimately every examined life can be interpreted as a disaster; looking closely enough we can always discover psychological and social forces that provide fuel for unlimited rage. [...] But no life can transcend its own disasters unless it celebrates its uniqueness and contributes that which only it can contribute. Life is perverted if one is constantly reacting, never initiating, but always allowing rage to define it.
38 > —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_
42 (An Infovist's Advisory)
43 > I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
45 > "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
47 > —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
49 (Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
50 > The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
52 > —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)
54 (response to hate mail)
55 > And believe me I am still alive
56 > I'm doing science and I'm still alive
57 > I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
58 > While you're dying I'll be still alive
59 > And when you're dead I will be still alive
61 > —_Portal_ end credits song
64 > You sound so innocent
65 > All full of good intent
66 > You swear you know best
67 > But you expect me to
68 > Jump up on board with you
69 > And ride off into your delusional sunset
71 > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
73 (Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
74 > "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
76 > —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)
78 (Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
79 > If you could only know
82 > —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)
84 (sex differences are the right thing to deny)
85 > Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
86 > Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
87 > Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
88 > Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
90 > (Well, they can't be grandfathers
93 > —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
95 (The Gender Czar's Compromise)
96 > Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
100 (critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
101 > Because it's going to be the future soon
102 > And I won't always be this way
103 > When the things that make me weak and strange
104 > Get engineered away
106 > —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
108 (how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
109 > It's time to put an end to this deception
111 > When the whole thing is at an end
112 > And you learn that it's just pretend
113 > You'll cry "Deception"
115 > —"Deception", _Jem_
117 > Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
118 > I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
119 > You see it's true, an ape like me
120 > Can learn to be like you, too
122 > —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
125 Moliere on "dormative virtue"
127 (Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
129 > The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
131 > Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
133 > —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)
135 > Perhaps someday we [...] will be able to forthrightly acknowledge the paraphilic hand we were dealt and play that hand without equivocation or apology.
137 > —Anne Lawrence, _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_
139 (The Hand I Was Dealt)
140 > Well this is the one that I had to write, it's like a
141 > A letter of love with no love left out
143 > —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
145 (The Hand I Was Dealt?)
146 > I'll write my way out
147 > Write everything down, far as I can see
148 > I'll write my way out
149 > Overwhelm them with honesty
150 > This is the eye of the hurricane
151 > This is the only way I can protect my legacy
153 > —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
156 > The other side of me
157 > I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell
160 > The girl that I want you to know
161 > If only I could show
162 > The other side, the other side, the other side of me
164 > —"The Other Side of Me" by Hannah Montana
167 > I would be your girl
169 > —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry
173 Less obviously fitting—
175 > 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.
177 > —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface
179 > I cannot believe my eyes
180 > How the world's filled with filth and lies
181 > But it's plain to see
185 > —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_
187 > "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
189 > —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
191 > And there's a fine, fine line
192 > Between what you wanted
194 > You've got to go after the things you want
195 > While you're still in your prime
197 > —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
199 > I know there's more that's out there
200 > And I just haven't found it yet
201 > I know there's more that's out there
202 > Another me I haven't met
204 > —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
206 > I don't give a damn about my reputation
207 > You're living in the past it's a new generation
208 > A girl can do what she wants to do
209 > And that's what I'm gonna do
211 > —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett
213 > "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires. Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics. So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions. And then ... you will decide."
215 > —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
217 > 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.
219 > There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
221 > If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
223 > —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
225 > I don't want to sabotage you
226 > But you see, I've got to try
228 > —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
230 > Sometimes the things you want
231 > Are not the things you need
232 > And it was right there in front of me
234 > —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
236 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/