Title: As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and the Strategic Landscape Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: discourse Status: draft > Don't let them in > Don't let them see > Be the good girl you always have to be > Conceal, don't feel > Don't let them know > Well now they know > > —"Let It Go", _Frozen_ > Damn Julia Serano! Damn everyone who won't damn Julia Serano!! Damn everyone that won't put lights in her windows and sit up all night damning Julia Serano!!! > > —graffito observed circa 1795 (paraphrased) _Yes_, I'm upset. _Yes_, I'm angry. _Yes_, status heirarchy: you're just a pervert, we're actually women; I want to flip the status heirarchy on its head: you're delusional perverts; at least I'm self-aware about it You can't spell narcisstic rage without cis. http://web.archive.org/web/20200618164529/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/ my choosing to quit HRT makes me less legit V. ROUGH OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— * ideally, we should just seek the view from nowhere (backlink) * but our ability to reason is _built_ around coalitional politics: escaping the incentive gradients isn't going to be easy * because there's moralistic pressure to be on the Blue Team, people who aren't willing to play that game anymore are tempted to just slap a negative sign on the Blue message * obviously, this is really bad MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog. political spectra are dimensionality reductions the thrill of being an intellectual rebel: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7nffem/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_1/ds8krmb/ I've gotten praise from trans-activist-adj-types for "Lesser-Known Demand Curves", and from TERFs for "Don't Negotiate"; if I could just get them to praise the _same post_, then I know I will have succeeded as a writer