fiction— Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels Blame Me for Trying core sequence— * 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 * 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" * Faster Than Science (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...) * 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) * Review of Nevada * Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings * Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves * "Love Like You" * Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? * High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts * Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition * 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 Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition * Using a Simple But Flawed Model Is Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model * 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) other commentary— psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd) Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone) Someone Has To Say It God, I hope it's just a coincidence that Steven Goldberg gets the fact/value thing right and everyone else gets it wrong horror story about trans activists being pro-porn, &c. indicating how aliens would analyze them as a subtype of males Engineering possibilities (Anne Lawrence identitfy early) rachet effect (http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-slippery-slope/) (I can't imagine self with short hair) My Story criticism— Gender of the Gaps (you can always propose an essence when people knock down your ludicrous rationalization) Time Travel Isn't Real Lesser-Known Demand Curves cathartic— Napoleon 70s denialists had it right pages— compile papers web chores— What's going on with caching behavior?? Is everything getting an index page that should? How do I measure traffic? configure server with user configure scheduled posting with cron Git mirror on server ---- Getting It Right the First Time Psychological Theories Predict Behavior, Not Just Self-Reports My Delusional Paraphilia Is the Best Delusional Paraphilia in the World Dual-Role Transvestism for the 21st Century Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing (I pass as college educated) All Men Benefit From Patriarchy game-theory; 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; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional > If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to make it so, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ. https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/ my upsetness at trans activists not respecting _my_ lived experience as AGP is reminicent of narcisstic rage in ppl hwo > 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 because we're not narcissists http://elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=2270 euphoric effects of E are a placebo effect! https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/about/#comment-155 quote Frozen on not being the right person to write this blog 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