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@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@ Thus, trans women are women, where by 'women' I mean people who identify as wome
 
 If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are better at tracking status than reality, then eventually dissidents either accept the narrative or destroy themselves.
 
-Autogynephilic males are better at coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by the patriarchy), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to have a goddamned _word_ to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological configuration space would win. And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
+Autogynephilic males are better at coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by the patriarchy), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to have a goddamned _word_ to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological configuration space would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
 
 Again, probably not literally: there probably really are biochemical facts of the matter as to what traits hormone replacement therapy does and does not change, and the biochemical facts aren't going to vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict (as far as I know).
 
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+[but I only know that estrogen exists because I'm trusting that scientists are doing their jobs right; I've never _seen_ an estrogen molecule]
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 successfully mindfucked affects what differences you can talk about, and what differences you can _notice_
 
 if you can mf everyone into beleiving that AGPs are really women, that actually does make it easier to transition
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 https://twitter.com/pangmeli/status/1079097805250224130
 
 Judiciously. As I do.
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+TODO: Vassar says women are better at politics, but with narrower scope