Title: Trying to Be Explicit Date: 2020-01-01 Category: fiction Tags: autogynephilia, nsfw, Emacs Status: draft > _Be nice, girl! > You have to pay a price, girl! > They like to give advice, girl! > Don't think about it twice, girl! > It's time to get to work!_ > > —["Putting It Together" as performed by Barbara Streisand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqNjNKQ0fM) [(Previously, two years ago.)](/2017/Jan/the-counter/) _How do fight a narrative?_ Mark wondered. _What do you strike when your enemy is less of a regime and more of a meme? How do you explain to anyone what you're trying to accomplish when you're not trying to get anyone to do anything different in particular, but to renounce their distorted way of thinking and speaking, after which you expect them to make better decisions, even if you can't say in advance what those decisions will be?_

Title: Interlude XVI
Date: 2020-01-01 
Category: other
Tags: discourse, gaslighting
Status: draft

"The emperor is naked!" [a little child said](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes).

"Silly child, the emperor is clothed," said the child's father.

The child looked skeptical.

"Okay, sure, he may not be wearing any garments—it would be pretty weird if we were claiming that!—but it's desirable for the social construct of clothedness to not depend on whether one is wearing any garments, because doing otherwise would be really mean to people who don't have anything to wear."
He thought he had [explained it very clearly](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/). fighting an entire Discord room bug in male sexuality (I've been told that I'm not using the word "gaslighting" correctly. Somehow no one seems to think I have the right to define that category boundary however I want.) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CEGnJBHmkcwPTysb7/lonely-dissent "I think that's more of a 'you' thing" And that's the moment where Mark wants to flip a table. He wants to scream, "How _dumb_ do you think I am? How dumb do you think I think _you_ are? Did you _look_ at the fucking photo? Are you fucking _blind_? _Stop gaslighting me, you sanctimonious lying bastards!_" He doesn't do it. Partially because that would be toxic masculinity, and therefore unbecoming. But mostly, because it's against the rules. gaslighting, Muscato maybe need to be more explicit about details of AGP experience, lest someone think "love of oneself as a woman" is akin to "dormative virtue" explain transmorgifier fantasy about boring high school couldve-been sweetheart grandmother neuron He has a lot of writing to do. ----- Age Progression example of the "it only works once" dodge: http://some-tg-caps.blogspot.com/2017/03/transplant.html I like fantasy stories in the genre of science fiction (explicit magic breaks my suspension of disbelief, but "hormones and surgery" stories do in another way)