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 Title: A Writer's Room By Gaslight
 Date: 2020-01-01
 Category: commentary
-Tags: epistemology, discourse, meta
+Tags: discourse, meta, procrastination
 Status: draft
 
 > _Be nice, girl!  
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 <p class="flower-break">⁕ ⁕ ⁕</p>
 
-It's not because the snarky satirical dialogues are _bad_. It's that new dialogues have sharply diminishing marginal utility: loyal readers of _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ already know the formula (take the reasoning used by trans activists and transpose it on any other situation, to hilarious and absurd effect), and hostile readers will always be able to invent an excuse 
+It's not because the snarky satirical dialogues are _bad_. It's that new dialogues have sharply diminishing marginal utility: loyal readers of _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ already know the formula (take the bad reasoning used by gender-identity theorists and transpose it on any other situation, to hilarious and absurd effect), and hostile readers will always be able to invent an excuse for why the analogy doesn't apply.
 
 
 I want to flip a table and scream about being gaslighted, but that wouldn't help
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 my narrative vs. the closeted trans woman narratiev
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-"Obviously I socially gender him as male as per his preference."
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-"I wouldn't call it a 'preference' exactly."
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-"I gender him male as per his philosophical commitments"