3 O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us; Or, the Identity Dysphoria Trap (school dysphoria)
5 Reuknighted (C. being really curious about my hair "It's complicated." "I think it sets me apart from other guys." Were we ever really living in the same world?)
7 reanalysis of Lawrence data!!!
9 Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies (Transgender Edition)
10 (Eugenics Is Really Important, You Delusional Bastards)
12 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")
14 Externalize Everything
15 "I Will Fight for the Place Where I'm Free"; Or, Stop Praising Steven Universe for LGBT Representation
18 El Goonish Shive (http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2328 http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1895)
22 "The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029265
24 Stop Expecting Social Reality to Make Sense
26 re simple models are better: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/conservatives-over-generalize-liberals-under-generalize/
28 clumpy thingspace!— https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/race-and-realism-part-2/
30 Michael Arc says: "some sort of discussion of the double standard while unambiguously attaching Trump and lampshading 'Locker Room Talk' would probably be valuable"
32 Micahel Arc on nerds anchoring on explicit norms: http://lesswrong.com/lw/sq/a_genius_for_destruction/m5g
36 Blanchardian Truth Serum— "Bayesian Truth Serum" scoring assigns more weight to "surprisingly popular" answers. Doesn't work when people are self-deceptive, I think?—in Veale's data, people think AGP applies to other people, not them
37 https://nelmit.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/bts.pdf
38 http://www.jaimieveale.com/publications/Masters.pdf (p. 82)
41 push back against the global narrative without pushing back against any particular individual narrative
45 * The View From Nowhere
46 * As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb (polarizing tribal forces—because only bad ppl talk about AGP, you need to be very DGAF about politics in order to not be locked out of the correct explanation—and even then, socialization forces might turn you against your own ppl, something I have to be wary of)
47 * The Spirit of Compromise; you can't take away transition technology; if you say it can only be used for dysphoria and not fetish, that creates an enormous incentive for self-delusion; even if someone like Kay would prefer that AGPs don't transition, at least getting ppl to admit that there are two types is a next step; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional; "partial autogynephilia" may be partially GAMP, but a lot of it is compromise
49 you delusional bastards—
50 * I Want to See You Be Brave
51 * Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6)
55 * Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
56 * Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
57 * Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ("trans" vs. "cis" only makes sense if the gradient between full-transition intervention and no intervention is sufficiently sharp)
60 * The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
61 * (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...)
62 * High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
63 * Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
64 * Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity", or "sexual orientation" (ref pseudobisexuality); the map is not the territory)
65 * Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model (because personal identity doesn't exist, comparing notes with other people and being able to learn from _their_ mistakes is more useful than just saying "everyone has their own experience")
69 psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient
70 Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone)
71 horror story about trans activists being pro-porn, &c. indicating how aliens would analyze them as a subtype of males
72 * Engineering possibilities (Anne Lawrence identitfy early); people say they wish they could have transitioned younger if they knew it were possible (https://twitter.com/argumentshop/status/815633404943183872), but part of the reason people don't know it's possible is because AGP fantasy is the strongest diagnostic criterion and everyone is lying about this
73 rachet effect (http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-slippery-slope/) (I can't imagine self with short hair)
75 * Collective Debt, Collective Shame (what I wanted to say to /r/GenderCritical, why it didn't work, even if they're not so hostile towards Miranda Yardley or the androphilic MtTs who post)
76 * Someone Has To Say It
77 * Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd)
78 * critique Julia Serano on nature: of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
79 * wait, even Julia Serano can't find cis women to date?? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/the-struggle-to-find-trans-love-in-san-francisco.html (I would expect the status boost of being a B-list activist would help; less high-status trans women have even less of a chance)
80 * the intellectually-honest, transhumanist version of trans rights
81 * "Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies": https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/gender-identity-exists-to-create-special-framework-for-health-insurance-payments/
84 Gender of the Gaps (you can always propose an essence when people knock down your ludicrous rationalization)
85 Time Travel Isn't Real
89 70s denialists had it right
97 Getting It Right the First Time
98 Psychological Theories Predict Behavior, Not Just Self-Reports
99 My Delusional Paraphilia Is the Best Delusional Paraphilia in the World
100 Dual-Role Transvestism for the 21st Century
101 (I pass as college educated)
104 my upsetness at trans activists not respecting _my_ lived experience as AGP is reminicent of narcisstic rage in ppl hwo
106 at some point, I want to work in the idea that AGP is a good thing because it's a pro-androgyny force in a world that is otherwise way too gendered for my tastes
110 because we're not narcissists http://elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=2270
112 euphoric effects of E are a placebo effect! https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/about/#comment-155
114 very vague childhood memory of wanting to play with my pecs? Is it real??
116 I'm happy for people to rebuild their lives around a paraphilia. I'm not happy for people to rebuild their lives around a _bad explanation_.
118 The Girl in the Mirror
120 A Man With a Transfeminine Side
121 The Man With the Nonstandard Hormone Balance
123 not a masculine, macho man, but, you know, the biologically-male kind of man
125 https://transwidow.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-masculinity-of-mtf-transition/
127 Blanchard tweets me: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/830580552562524160
129 the story about being on the Portland MAX train and talking to Dap, and then saying hi to the woman
131 marketing opportunity? https://bannedbytrans.wordpress.com/speaking-out-against-transactivist-silencing-tactics/
133 _Someone_ has to be _that asshole_ who says the true thing that everyone else is too cowardly to say, and I guess it's going to have to be me, Taylor Saotome-Westlake.
135 tailcalled's survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/comments/6hp72p/are_agps_misogynist_results_from_a_survey/
137 "I was already presenting as female online, and in the pretty niche stuff I was playing around with it seemed like I was a novelty to devs. I got more than a few questions about how I was a girl – who liked computers! The tone was always friendly, but the undertone was clear: I was weird." https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/there-and-back-again (The devs' surprise is making a _correct prediction_)
139 sorry Dad https://twitter.com/HandOnHilt/status/876880147152072704
141 http://www.translucidcomic.com/comic/the-pair/
143 too picky http://pbfcomics.com/comics/matched/
145 (early play behavior predicts later aggression) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-1005-6
146 (empathizing and systematizing) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031661
148 https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/883902728849809409 "being nice to people with a weird disorder but not so nice you forget you're just humoring them" (Yes, exactly)
150 women do worse on Asch; in contrast, trans women are _selected_ for nonconformity
152 original research post?— the Hsu–Bailey autopedophilia paper finds a much higher rate of ETLE in pedophiles than in normal men (they say they found 15% AGP in the Mechanical Turk sample gathered for their earlier psychometrics-of-AGP work, but oddly, the psychometrics-of-AGP paper doesn't seem to mention this?? Maybe ask Bailey to clarify sometime??); could this be evidence for the developmental competition effect? (Pedophiles thankfully don't get to actualize their desires, so they fall into ETLI instead?) Similarly, concerning the high IQ of AGP trans women not just being a selection effect: maybe it's because smart people don't get laid (remember that study about a huge fraction of MIT grad students being virgins)
154 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118329
156 Inherent Trade-Offs in risk scoring https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807 (via https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6xkyyu/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_following/dmk92dw/)
158 prental T and gynephilia in women and women-adj https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/905572666332987392 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X16301222
160 http://www.misfile.com/?date=2007-07-05
162 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0120-x
164 body measurements dist'ns http://anthro.cs.uni-freiburg.de/#colx=100&coly=6
166 same-sex couples do less assortative mating! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843104/
168 On Mar 4, 2017 3:23 PM, "Zack M. Davis" <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
170 Genocide is murder of a class of people. Can you be more specific about the class of people you see being murdered (nerdy men?) and what you think is murdering them (the political-correctness memeplex that evolved as a social-control mechanism to prevent the United States from becoming Yugoslavia)?
172 I'm guessing you see a picture where the underlying bug in male sexual psychology that leads to AGP would be far less likely to progress to "gender dysphoria"/actually-doing-something-about-it in a world where it was socially-acceptable for highly-verbal 13-year-old boys to seek out sex instead of taking the you're-not-allowed-to-try verbal rules seriously? I agree with this; Blanchard calls this "developmental competition." It's notable that Robert Heinlein's novels have some very strong AGP themes, but I'm not aware of any evidence that he actually did anything about it real life, whereas I, growing up 80 years later, am about to and feel like it's the right choice on reflection given my historically-anomalous developmental trajectory, even though it probably looks like ideologically-driven self-harm from the perspective of normal men.
174 And you think that if the forces of political correctness win and "trans" becomes an entrenched cultural practice, that's like genociding future generations of Robert Heinlein analogues? Whereas from inside the trans-rights social-reality bubble, it looks like you're trying to genocide future generations of Julia Serano analogues. (Julia Serano is a prominent trans activist and author of one of the standard articles that get cited to try to "debunk" autogynephilia.) And from inside my Zack-M.-Davis-personal-eclectic-ideology-bubble, I want to rescue the Julia Serano aesthetic in a way that's compatible with knowledge of science and history. (Robert Heinlein was scientifically- and historically-literate, and Julia Serano is an ignorant ideologue, but Robert Heinlein was a manly man who was OK with being a manly man as his social identity and that's just not my style.)
176 On 2017-03-04 14:12, Michael Vassar wrote:
177 > The ACLU needs to address how plausible the arguments for censorship are. People accepting censorship need to address arguments about how real the harms are. As far as I can tell, you are three maximally concrete and articulate case of a person harness by PC in a context where an impartial summary would call it attempted genocide
179 "Years before that, two different transwomen I knew had pressured me into sending nude photos of my breasts to them." https://4thwavenow.com/2016/04/27/shrinking-to-survive-a-former-trans-man-reports-on-life-inside-queer-youth-culture/
184 Cut from quitting-hormones post (too repetitive given the rest of the blog?)—
186 I think I would prefer not to say it. But given [cultural](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManIFeelLikeAWoman) and [scholarly]((https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15859369)) evidence that the underlying psychological phenomenon is not that uncommon, and given that trans rights is perhaps _the_ culture war issue of our time, of which the psychological phenomenon is of some relevance to, _someone has to say it_.
188 And I guess it's going to have to be me, Taylor Saotome-Westlake.
192 Tail: "zack logic: I don't want an AGP wife because they act too male and that'd be insufficiently female-aligned, I want a cis wife who acts like an AGP wife instead
193 have you considered just giving in to the AGP life?"
195 'conditional on "we somehow eliminate all homophobia and bullying of gnc people and so on", how realistic does the following sound?
196 Gay men no longer repress their GNC, which means they end up socially a lot more like HSTS trans women. (Exactly like HSTS trans women? Or would they be different because lower h on average?) This switches the west to """transgender homosexuality""", as, uh, the newHSTSs (that is, the HSTS-spectrum people who're now feminine in that society but aren't in ours) are now less attractive to each other but more attractive to straight men, and the straight men are less opposed to having sex with them because less homophobia. The newHSTSs are probably going to use HRT, if nothing else then because it makes them more attractive to straight men
197 because that's the impression I got from TMWWBQ'
201 The problem is not social engineering! The problem is _incompetent_ social engineering! The problem is not experimenting on children! The problem is experimenting on children in the service of an ideological crusade rather than in the service of finding out what happens!
205 > And in the online communities I encountered on my journey, and still follow today, I see the same question, repeated over and over, as sweet scared humans pour their vulnerability into a text box, entrusting a group of strangers to help them make the decision of a lifetime:
207 > What if this is just a fetish?
209 > —https://medium.com/gender-shrug/just-1b8c09a11f18
211 https://player.fm/series/opening-up-behind-the-scenes-of-our-open-marriage/8-johns-kink-with-consequences
214 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/72vi36/foia_request_for_wansink_emails_show_how_an_ivy/dnmp0q9/ (relate to Conchran on lost knowledge?)
217 Vee String review: still ... noticeably not part of my body.
219 (That was the same thing I thought about breastforms. Considering how that escalted, maybe it would be better for my health and bodily integrity to not pursue this line of thinking ...)
223 tail: secretly, all AGP trans women are clockable because you can just look at the hobbies
225 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/78zw2h/how_many_of_you_were_confused_by_a_transformation/
227 He has a wife and kids to support (if this is 1998) or her FFS bill to pay off (if this is (2018)
229 etymology fun fact: "male" comes from the Latin malus, meaning "bad"
233 on a Facebook thread about female-dominated gym classes, a female acquaintance writes, "My class focuses on weightlifting and it's still all women (including one trans, oddly enough)." (You wouldn't say "oddly enough" if you actually believed that trans women are women!)
235 This is so great (super-AGP 13th century Jewish narrative)
236 http://www.on1foot.org/text/even-bochan-kalonymus-ben-kalonymus
237 http://www.transtorah.org/PDFs/On-Becoming-A-Woman.pdf
239 https://theestablishment.co/yes-trans-women-can-get-period-symptoms-e43a43979e8c
241 Rya comes out as AGP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferdf6iRTOg
245 I really hope there's a way to use frequencies and Bayes nets to disprove dysphoria→AGP causal direction, particularly because then I'll be able to call the post "Algebraic Typology"
247 I thought of this pun first/independently: https://twitter.com/WildStoryWoman/status/927514752405737474
249 BIID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28711223/?i=1&from=body%20integrity%20identity%20disorder
251 the heartbreaking misogyny of my native subculture (not that I'm any different): https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7bjywe/wellness_wednesday_8th_november_2017/dpitpnu/
253 Christian AGP repressor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG7sNHEv-HMKwGQE9RS2byQ
255 Binnie-ism: https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/928664101013790720
260 but now I'm watching TV
261 and I have a new actress crush
263 maybe it's just the character she's playing, but she seems slightly facially masculinized?
266 America Ferrera is also in this show
267 I remember her from Ugly Betty, which I would watch at the University in 2007
268 before the personality-altering nervous breadown that led me to quit
269 there was a trans woman character on that show, but she was played by Rebecca Romijn
270 there was a poignant line (you know it's poignant when you can remember a line from a TV show you saw ten years ago) where she says to her brother, "Look into my eyes, Danny; it's the only thing they couldn't change"
271 and how do I put this
272 my blog would sound a lot less transphobic if we had the technology to make AGPs look like Rebecca Romijn
273 Trent - Today at 11:17 PM
274 it would sound more transphobic, no? you'd have transitioned, so you wouldn't be concerned with some of the signalling you do now (e.g. woman as a gender rather than transwoman as one) and may indeed be actively signalling that you haven't signed the contract, Yardley-style; the idea it'd be less transphobic assumes becoming Romijn would put you more in line with trans topics as well
275 (unless I'm misinterpreting something, which is a reasonable assumption)
276 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 11:19 PM
277 you're right; I wasn't taking the hypothetical seriously enough
279 > ("Since I was 5, I felt like I've been dropped in the wrong skin. This is about correcting a mistake." "Oh, is that all it is? Really?" "That's the fast version.")
281 sex diffs in paraphilias: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/669634/pdf
283 malpractice lawsuit (can't find better public info): https://detransitionedwomenresistadf.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/first-blog-post/
285 transition didn't change crime rate: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
287 "... your identity is supposed to describe the problems you face in your life, not manufacture them": http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/167070168982/old-school-butch-neat-dyke-something-that
289 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/162258180487/on-being-a-young-butch-lesbian-at-pride-2017
291 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/154578646192/negative-social-effects-of-my-mastectomy
293 productivity lifehacks: do excellent work in an extremely low-status field that you'd be mortified to be primarily known for, thus forcing yourself to also do excellent work in another area in order to rescue your reputation
295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757667
296 https://clarissasblog.com/2014/05/14/i-dont-want-to-hire-women/
298 drawn by a cis woman?? http://weknowmemes.com/2013/11/perks-of-being-a-woman/
300 "Impact of Using Non-Birth Sex on the Interpretation of Spirometry Data in Subjects With Air-Flow Obstruction": http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2017/11/28/respcare.05586
302 decrease in IQ on puberty suppression: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00528/full
304 AGP pride flag origin: https://4archive.org/board/lgbt/thread/8628058/attached-image-is-the-agp-pride-flag-black-represents-the-r
306 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/6uc18b/has_any_of_you_felt_horny_when_using_a_packer_for/
308 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kbxw7v/i-was-robbed-of-my-transgender-childhood
310 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/4ltxc1/does_anyone_else_get_really_turned_on_checking/
312 https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/7iqcaf/told_my_wife_i_want_to_transition/
314 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/5axie2/nsfw_im_mtf_i_feel_like_my_body_is_aroused_and/
316 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/7vdw5u/arousal_is_really_messing_with_my_head/
318 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/7yfyp2/anybody_discover_they_were_trans_though_sissy_porn/
320 https://np.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/8hob8i/why_do_i_do_this_nsfw/
322 Lindsay Shepherd/James Damore shipfic
324 Brazillian woman moves to Sweeden and cherished egalitarian culture: https://medium.com/@sayhellotovanessa/the-oddities-of-being-an-invisible-woman-8570394caa0d
326 most of men's attractiveness is cues of upper-body strength: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1869/20171819
328 > In the psychiatric evaluation, Johnson reveals that Kaczynski had persistent and intense sexual fantasies about being a woman. While he was a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 1967, he went to a psychiatrist to discuss his wishes for a sex change operation. But in the waiting room, he decided he could not go forward. Instead, he told the psychiatrist he was depressed about the possibility of being drafted.
330 > — https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/09/12/gender-confusion-sex-change-idea-fueled-kaczynskis-rage-report-says/eb33b946-8595-427d-af4c-9ccaada45935/?utm_term=.6222611253f6
332 so I'm watching more of the retail comedy with :hearts:♡ Lauren Ash ♡:hearts:, and I think it's just _sociologically fascinating_ how the writers are playing Culture War (guest star character is pro-bathroom bill, and our protagonists are sneeringly like, "Wow, that's so bigoted")
333 like, this is how social change happens
334 with a conspiracy of NBC comedy writers conspiring to hamfistedly socially intimidate their viewers into not believing anything uncool
335 that's my second thought, anyway
337 OMG ★♡ Lauren Ash ♡★ I want to be ~~with~~ her
339 https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/erik-soderstrom/2016/09/23/superstore-goes-strike-mocks-bigots-against-transgender
341 > Garrett: Hey, nik-nik-nikki. I had a quick just, like, silly question for you. Uh, how serious are you about all this sort of trans bathroom stuff?
342 Nikki: What do you mean?
343 Garrett: I mean, like, is it the only thing you think about or is it more like one of those barely talk about it, just how you were raised, opinion could change if you surrounded yourself with a cooler, more diverse group of friends type deals?
345 (it's interesting that there's one other (semi-) widely-recognized expansion of that initialism)
347 the "husband and provider and guardian of a small AI" game looks fun, that I would be so good at it that the thought isn't worth dropping just because you deserve Bob and Alice doesn't want me and Carol doesn't want me and Edith quietly detests me and Georgia belongs to Dave and the owners of OKCupid have pissed themselves laughing about how much money I'm paying them for the privilege of knowing that _ and _ haven't read my poem
349 "You women and your risk-aversion (compared to men) due to lower reproductive variance (than men) in the environment of evolutionary adaptiveness" is what my analogue who is not forbidden from such thoughts would say
351 I like her as a person but am very conscious of the extent to which I am currently on her good side due to luck and carefully deceptive handling
353 (I don't even think I know what I use internally; my blog says "trans women" as two words so as not to pile insult onto injury) but my model, under whatever word, is "guys like me"
355 like many bottom-80-percentile males, I'm ambiguous on the sign of the poly thing
358 suffering is the chisel God uses to shape us into our true selves
360 suffering is bad in general, but I've already used up my please-take-care-of-me-I'm-hurt quota for the year, which means I have to enthusiastically endorse any emotional pain that happens to me today
362 everyone already knows to be cynical about cola commercials, but somehow people expect "Seek medical care if you're concerned" to be taken literally
364 "We have so much in common!" I said. "Too much," she said.
365 the cognitive dissonance that makes "all trans women" and "all closet crossdressers" the only stable equilibria for social circles of AGP males in a culture without a public concept of AGP
366 https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-essential-conflict/
368 at JCC camp, I remember saying that I wasn't the kind of guy who was interested in big breasts. "Well, then you're not a guy," I was told. But actually I just hadn't hit puberty yet
370 Like, I used to tack the word "aspiring" in front as my preferred means of indicating that we don't think we've already solved rationality. Nowadays, I just reach for the scare quotes.
372 While I agree that words can be used in many ways depending on context, I claim that sometimes it's useful to use this top-20 noun to refer strictly to the same thing it's always referred to for the past 200,000 years since language evolved, even if we have reasonably chosen to broaden the extension of that noun to also include other, relevantly similar things in most day-to-day contexts! Given that people are capable of inferring what is meant from the relevant context, this won't confuse anyone, and we can continue peacefully using language to describe reality. Then, we can use those descriptions of reality to formulate plans! Plans that will steer the universe into regions of configuration space that rank higher in our individual and collective preference orderings!
374 NRx-inspired (sigh ... yes, unfortunately) points—
376 (most of this should probably be split into a separate post even if I'm happening to do some outlining in this file; evil speculation shouldn't contaminate the solid "Infovism" idea/slogan)—
378 * democracy is government by whichever memes happen to be the most virulent
379 * outcomes of the long run of a one-dimensional conflict can be classified, roughly something like: Left total victory, right total victory, mutually assured destruction, and program equilibrium
380 * program equilibrium isn't easy/possible for humans
381 * the key point here is that "grant this demand, deny all others" isn't a
382 defensible Schelling point; if you yield here, the _same algorithm_ is
383 going to be running the next time
384 * "Berkeley 2009 morality was just right, but this Berkeley 2017 bullshit has
386 * If I were dictator, (Berkeley, 2009) could be made to work, but everyone has her own (city, year) pair
387 * for some reason I thought this was analogous to something from the
388 Coherent Extrapolated Volition document: Dennis thinks he should own
389 the world, but fairness requires that Dennis's name be erased from any
390 such request, and "some X should own the world" is underspecified"
391 * remember my conversation with a certain female bio-/psychologist studying at
392 Harvard who told me that "Trans women are men with a mental illness" made
393 more sense, but that she was afraid to even think that within the privacy of
396 * Moldbug, "The True Meaning of Diversity": "Certainly not every party member
397 is an [X]. Most of them, in fact, are not. Nor is it absolutely guaranteed
398 that every single [X] will be a party member. But most of them, in fact,
399 are"—thus, requiring representaiton of Xes benefits the party
400 * practice of deferring to designated-victim trans women _makes the trans
401 women worse people_: if you know that you can win a dispute by playing the
402 transphobia card, that incentive shapes your life (Moldbug: discussion of
403 "ignoble privilege" in "Gentle Introduction" pt. 3)
404 * kind of like how _the right to be sued_ is an important part of legal
405 personhood: the possibility of recourse is necessary for trust
408 feminists are masculinized: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158978/
410 APA pronoun stickers: https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/950052584416595969
411 (original is https://twitter.com/Lucia_A_Schwarz/status/949315365842116608 )
413 women's voices allegedly getting deeper?!— https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/949530603342454784
415 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/7py0ic/fetishizing_yourself/
417 https://medium.com/eden-the-cat/please-stop-making-me-come-out-as-non-binary-at-work-ab72e17abbcc
418 https://medium.com/eden-the-cat/i-came-out-as-non-binary-a-year-ago-here-is-my-experience-177f74fc553e
420 Tailcalled: "The five genders, chad, male, enby, female, stacy"
422 https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/7s4bu2/as_a_lesbian_in_university_i_feel_increasingly/
424 https://theestablishment.co/japanese-cartoon-porn-helped-me-understand-my-trans-identity-d5bba16cdaf3
426 AAP: https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/comments/7s8twd/do_trans_natal_males_fetishize_teenage_girlhood/dt3ea2n/
428 the conjunction of anti-transphobia and anti-Islamophobia is very strange
430 https://voices.avoiceformen.com/j4mb/2018/01/15/terrified-patient-treated-like-transphobic-bigot/ —this is a compelling fiction prompt! Sad that a male author like me would be needed to fill in the "evolutionary radfem" niche—have the protagonist be hyperaware of the Rotherdam betrayal
432 Zucker et al. study that's one of the sources of "majority desist" claims ("Demographics, behavior problems, and psychosexual characteristics of adolescents with gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism") https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22390530
435 Old: A*P is caused by internalized sexism, thinking that you have to be a boy to be masculine and have to be a girl to be feminine
436 Bold: A*P is caused by lack of sexism, thinking that you can be masculine/nerdy as a girl and feminine/sensitive as a boy
438 https://pasunhomme.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/crossdressing-and-the-untransy-valley/
442 * transitioning and passing (or passing-adj) as a good outcome
443 * transitioning and not-passing as a bad outcome,
444 * soft body mods (e.g. my breasts)/occasional transvestism without social transition as a good outcome
445 * nonbinary-but-unwilling-to-explain-what-that-means-because-MIGI as a bad outcome (because people are still going to notice your biological sex and make probabilistic inferences about it, but feel socially obligated to pretend that they aren't, and ubiquitous socially-obligatory lies are bad), and
446 * NB-adj transfeminine or transmasculine as an explicit third-gender role as a good outcome, but a very tricky social-engineering problem to establish that niche where it doesn't already exist
448 https://twitter.com/KJ_Harrison/status/958435696359993345
450 distinguish between two types of culture war: when you're demonizing the enemy as orcs, and when you're fighting for the outcome of what happens to people _just like you_
452 it won't look like that for me due to ideological factors
453 "No, I'm not transitioning; I just want to get back on HRT again, for Science"
455 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 7:48 PM
456 "No, it's not facial feminization surgery; it's just a different cosmetic procedure that happens to be performed by the same doctor"
458 (on the phone during supermarket checkout) "No, it's just a brain transplant into a artificial vat-grown female body." (store clerk says, "Have a good day, ma'am") "That's very kind of you to say, but—"
460 I need to write a magical-realism short story pushing on the analogies between dating as a hot girl and job-searching as a good programmer. Specifically, a story a world in which all engineers are female and all businesspeople are male, dwelling on the theme that on the one hand, it's nice to protected and valued and be taken care of, but on the other hand, it's exploitative that the class of protectors is freeloading off the creative labor of your class, which they could never produce on their own (smash capitalism/the patriarchy!!)
462 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 12:00 AM
463 "I totally agree with [one-sentence literal summary of the movement's goals], I just disagree with [every other belief and instrumental strategy connotationally associated with the movement]"
464 ... actually, this generalized situation (meeting the criteria of a simple verbal definition, but not being part of that cluster in configuration space along most dimensions) sounds awfully familiar
465 ... I'm pro-trans in the same sense that AGP trans women are women
466 vaticidalprophet - Today at 12:02 AM
467 I get the feeling ever saying those words invalidates you from all definitions of 'pro-trans' even if they are strictly speaking correct
468 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 12:03 AM
469 but Treeeeent, the bullet-biting æsthetic
470 vaticidalprophet - Today at 12:03 AM
471 jesus, Oberlo is taking a long time to update the prices on my sketchy streetwear dropshipping store
472 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 12:03 AM
473 you can tell I'm serious about it because I bothered to grab the æ ligatrue
474 vaticidalprophet - Today at 12:04 AM
475 I can tell you're pretentious because you bothered to grab it, that's orthogonal
476 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 12:04 AM
477 "... ligatrue?" "Yes."
481 to say on FB after "The Categories" is finished??
483 So, hopefully this version is a lot clearer and less needlessly dramatic than my kamikaze halt-melt-catch-fire public tantrum/mental-breakdown of this time last year: [blog link]
489 https://www.wired.com/2009/03/designerdebate/
490 cellular-level sex differences http://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpcell.00281.2013
492 Effects of prenatal androgens on rhesus monkeys https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146061/
494 https://theestablishment.co/why-we-must-stop-calling-menstruation-a-womens-issue-a9c58c677f7c
496 https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/969660864641953792
498 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/9-things-people-get-wrong-about-being-non-binary
500 60,000 likes for "Some men have a uterus": https://twitter.com/PPIndKentucky/status/969384341636861952
502 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_flank_effect
504 demography: https://twitter.com/conradhackett/status/974750991756283904
506 http://sinesalvatorem.tumblr.com/post/172312442416/trying-to-talk-to-trans-people-about-their-sexual any scale that involves "pretending you’re a woman" in the instructions is OK by me
508 http://sinesalvatorem.tumblr.com/post/172395616411/explanations-for-distinct-clusters-of-transgender
510 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blood-boundaries-should-transfusions-be-matched-by-sex/
512 Nothing we haven't seen before, but God Herself above, this fucking poll and thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/89nw0w/did_you_have_a_genderbody_swaptransformation/
514 https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/89s93d/getting_so_much_transierthanthou_flak_for_being/
516 Culture War gem mining, traditionalism for the family: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/88zgv0/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_april_2_2018/dwt8kjb/
518 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/biohacking-siren-song/557849/
522 A female commenter on one of Giego's posts—
524 "When I do experience strong attraction, it feels like being scared of the power of attraction itself. It's pleasantly thrilling rather than aversive, but the fear is real, and it's just as compelling as any other fear. This feeling is what produces my coy behaviors like smiling and looking away.
526 "In this way, I literally *feel* whatever this delay mating instinct is.
528 "I can't just decide not to feel it. I will feel it no matter what.
530 "Also, I enjoy the thrill. I don't *want* to get rid of it. I would prefer to experience more of it. If you want to talk about sheer hedonism, I would definitely want to keep this feeling if I were to re-engineer my brain. The feeling of anticipation or suspense is very enjoyable for me."
534 fake implies artificial (but not vice versa)
536 Cut from "Reply to The Unit" (too far afield, not sure what point I'm trying to make): speculating about unproven sex differences isn't _quite_ as prejudicial as it sounds: if a 19th century scholar, knowing nothing of sex chromosomes, had reasoned, "Whatever the physical mechanism of heredity turns out to be, it probably distinguishes between males and females". (Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination a counterexample or the dreaded "example that proves the rule" like pipefish or the Eurasian dotterel?)
538 the ultimate AGP weekend project (like crossdressing, but with more code): http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/
540 "right"-aligned folk like to say the IAT is "pseudoscientific bullshit", but what if those failed replications are just committing Goldberg's "fallacy of the irrelevant experiment"? Here's a pro-IAT _and_ pro-stereotype-accuracy take: "blacks are violent" stereotype strength varies with local crime rates http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550617753522 (via https://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/983338239221293057)
542 want to get around to watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDDIWGlBt3o
544 Tips for arguing with libtards:
545 * They don't like the "Don't negotiate with terrorists" frame because they don't understand analogies; need to find gentler frames
546 * They'll believe that you're AGP, but they don't want you to say that other people are AGP because they don't understand that the self is still a part of objective reality; need to explain why it matters
548 Consider an illustrative diagram in which there is a hard line in the combined height–weight configuration space, but the line isn't describable in terms of height or weight alone. If there were sufficiently many more traits/dimensions, we could imagine "not describable in terms of some small number of variables n" starting to look more like "not explicitly describable by humans."
550 (not gender-related but I don't have a good notes system): E. Weinstein on IQ: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/987833935185952768
552 "Prenatal endocrine influences on sexual orientation and on sexually differentiated childhood behavior" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296090/
554 The sad thing is, not only is AGP not the same thing as what women feel, a lot of woman are disgusted by it: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/8e9gd6/what_men_find_behind_female_masks/dxtgrcp/
556 https://feminina.eu/2017/12/28/my-current-philosophical-struggles/
558 http://strip.villainette.com/20180205
560 Yes, my Friendship Problems are proof of my female MIGI: "The overall rates of friendship conflict did not differ between men and women, but women were more likely to clash with close friends, to express feelings of anguish over the breakup, and to be more demanding of evidence of remorse before reconciling." — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/science/friendship-discrimination.html
562 women Cooperate less in Prisoner's Dilemma?! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691817305917
564 degrees of FBOE and GNC https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-0980-y
566 T. accurately psychoanalyzes me: "she doesn't want men and women to be different, and spends a lot of time minimizing these differences, except when she's trying to be more ego-syntonic about the decision to live as male
567 in which case she writes giant blog posts on how real and massive it is"
569 "women drivers" stereotype vs. car insurance acturaries
571 "as we all know the two genders are math and pregnant" https://rationalists-out-of-context.tumblr.com/post/171916119173/as-we-all-know-the-two-genders-are-math-and?is_related_post=1#notes
573 _Dumbing of Age_ Carla "There's a _reason_ for that" http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/purpleandskates/
575 how does the "women like close-knit friends, whereas men like large, loose coalitions" interact with sex-segregated spaces?—would seem to imply _less_ demand for female-only than male-only quasi-public spaces
577 another crime list: http://appropriately-inappropriate.tumblr.com/post/161606755575/the-tip-of-the-iceberg-please-add-to-this-list
579 https://www.autostraddle.com/how-to-have-trans-woman-lesbian-sex-with-a-penis-414839/
582 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 9:07 AM
583 @tail (Richard) "LG doesn't belong with T because" this needs to be blogged; should I credit you?
584 tail (Richard) - Today at 9:07 AM
585 :spray: you need to stop being TERFy :thunk:
586 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 9:08 AM
587 then TERFs should stop having such good jokes
588 tail (Richard) - Today at 9:08 AM
589 (this is a significant TERF controversy - not sure if you've heard of it :thunk: )
592 the argument that LG and T don't belong are TERFs
593 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 9:10 AM
594 I guess I should have quoted the whole thing; I was familiar with the talking point, but it's funny that a naive observer should say, "Um, you mean that the other way around, right? Trans is the intersex condition, LG is sexual orientation" and then the speaker would say "No"
595 tail (Richard) - Today at 9:10 AM
596 ah ok, thought you cut off the joke because you were referring to the talking point
598 tail (Richard) - Today at 9:12 AM
599 mm, I don't care that much about getting credited but it'd probably be nice (as long as the credit doesn't make me look TERFy :V)
601 https://www.reddit.com/r/Blanchardianism/comments/8izbbj/prevalence_of_the_wish_to_be_of_the_opposite/
603 I wasn't brave enough to take a she/her sticker, but it would have been in character, Twilight Sparkle
605 I've heard of fake geek girls, but this is ridiculous
607 big brain sex differences study with pretty pictures and d-values: https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhy109/4996558
609 body horror: https://girl-unashamed.tumblr.com/post/174051510579/parthenogenon-billnihilism-also-i-have-had
611 the recording here also has stop-recording exchange: https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/degenderettes-qa-san-francisco-5-12-2018/
613 Blanchard on the record about "homosexual" terminology: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/999680624817508352
615 http://abc30.com/homeless-women-harassed-in-shower-lawsuit-says/3514544/
617 https://medium.com/@maybekatz/on-the-design-of-womens-spaces-72bf8f396dc0
619 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5799375/Anti-HPV-jab-given-teenage-boys-identify-girls.html
621 Yaaaaaay eugenics https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40592-018-0081-2
623 Hilarious http://skeletonclaw.com/post/102911594023
625 https://femsplain.com/on-being-non-binary-in-female-spaces-12d5980e7f0c
627 "Genome-wide association study reveals sex-specific genetic architecture of facial attractiveness" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/06/339226
629 Connecticut farce gets worse: https://twitter.com/GameTimeCT/status/1003739370736816129
631 Gnon dislikes too much sexual dimorphism!! (HT Hanson) http://www.kokkonuts.org/wp-content/uploads/Kokko.pdf
633 Any% run: https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/6o3gve/cyberdemon531_makes_a_drunk_idiot_of_herself/dkecra4/
635 https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sex-change-killer-to-be-free-as-a-bird/news-story/b1fecc9a9a4717607de6e980980e0ba5?sv=e95663cd723e2f8ffa0caa3329e03203
637 "The Masculine Woman’s War on Gender Roles" http://www.ericwulff.com/blog/?p=1861
639 https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/sexism-racism-never-diminishes-even-everyone-becomes-less-sexist-racist.html
641 http://theweek.com/articles/715794/how-single-men-women-are-making-politics-more-extreme
643 https://twitter.com/goldmansachs/status/747834825831292928?lang=en
646 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/991707514294194176.html
647 https://mashable.com/2018/06/23/charlotte-clymer-twitter-thread-cuba-libre/#HzX3Kmpl3PqB
648 https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/06/transgender-woman-says-she-was-kicked-out-of-popular-d-c-restaurant-for-using-womens-restroom/
649 https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton/status/1010596357093117953
651 "It’s officially impossible to find regular real lesbians unless you happen to stumble upon them in the wild ..."
652 https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/8mahdy/peak_trans_vii_tell_your_story_here/e1jtuqz/
654 https://medium.com/@dtwps/all-these-black-characters-and-0-done-right-how-steven-universe-fails-its-black-fanbase-part-i-81e0b0b8c3fe
656 4 for 4 https://twitter.com/InnerCityFish/status/1015203128885567493
658 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/08/government-drops-doctor-says-gender-given-birth/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1531034286
660 https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1015755975687430145
662 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/ "Literally all they have to say is 'I'm not physically attracted to every woman in the world'" (But that's not their True Rejection! Are you really in favor of Universal Socially-Mandatory Lies?!)
664 https://where.coraline.codes/blog/oscon/
666 https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/06/changing-the-concept-of-woman-will-cause-unintended-harms
668 Riley is in the rewriting-her-past stage (just like all the other lesbians, I thought I had to like boys because of heteronormativity—and, "want her or be her" fantasy—only a brief mention that TERFs suck): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H34a-EIzSIs
671 What moral should we derive from the experience of breaking a condom inside of a Fleshlight?
672 It's like running over a pedestrian in a driving simulator
673 You'd think it would teach you that such a tiny mistake could have such enormous, life-altering consequences
674 Except for the context in which there are no consequences
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