> What we think, how we feel?
> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_
>
-> —"Reflection", from _Mulan_
+> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera)
-I took half a week of vacation from my dayjob recently to crash with a friend in another city and attend the conference associated with an open-source technology I've been pretty involved with lately! It was really fun and inspiring, getting to hear all the talks and putting faces to usernames! I thought I'd write a blog post about all the exciting technical things I learned.
+_(Attention conservation notice: rambling Diary-like post that I felt like writing anyway for psychological reasons; probably not worth your time.)_
-This is not that post. By cowardice and convention, this is someone else's story on someone else's blog, about "Taylor Saotome-Westlake" visiting his friend "Jerrica" in "San Francisco" to attend the conference about this software called "[Blerp](https://xkcd.com/1692/)-d9aa89fd".
+I took half a week of vacation from my dayjob recently to crash with a friend in another city and attend the conference associated with an open-source technology I've been pretty involved with lately! It was really fun and inspiring, getting to hear all the talks and putting faces to usernames! I thought I'd write a blog post about the experience and all the exciting technical things I learned!
-Again, the conference was great, and I had a lot of fun, but—I don't know. Some aspects of it induced me to feel a bit stressed and a little bit sad, even though that's entirely my own fault and entirely my own problem.
+This is not that post. By cowardice and convention, we speak in accordance with the paper-thin pretense that this is someone else's story on someone else's blog, about "Taylor Saotome-Westlake" visiting his friend "Jerrica" in "San Francisco" to attend the conference about this software called "[Blerp](https://xkcd.com/1692/)-d9aa89fd".
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+Again, the conference was great, and I had a lot of fun, but—I don't know. Some aspects of it induced me to feel a little bit stressed and a little bit sad, even though that's entirely my own fault and entirely my own problem.
<a href="/images/blerp-d9aa89fd_pronoun_stickers.jpg"><img src="/images/blerp-d9aa89fd_pronoun_stickers.jpg" width="300" style="float: right;"></a>
It started with the pronoun stickers.
+This year, there were pronoun stickers in everyone's conference swag bags ("[...] so we can all help each other get things right. Wear them in solidarity with others too. Help us make [the conference] welcoming and inclusive for all"). Leaving aside [philosophical objections](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/#anchor-pronoun-sticker-discourse) for the moment,
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+https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/172800552516/so-i-havent-posted-about-this-since-college
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Opal guy said trans people are delusional
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+"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole and they're showing you the door"
think I'm an asshole and are showing me the door https://xkcd.com/1357/
the Uber driver who picked me up from the airport was named Omar and was from Mexico
he did not know any nonbinary people
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+"peering through reverent fingers"
+"but the situation is fraught"
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+"There are views we have decided are unacceptable and we will ostracize you for having them." https://twitter.com/seldo/status/714272018976284672
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