+++ /dev/null
-> 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
-
-(An Infovist's Advisory)
-> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
->
-> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
->
-> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
-
-(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
-> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
->
-> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)
-
-> I cannot believe my eyes
-> How the world's filled with filth and lies
-> But it's plain to see
-> Evil inside of me
-> Is on the rise
->
-> —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_
-
-(response to hate mail)
-> And believe me I am still alive
-> I'm doing science and I'm still alive
-> I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
-> While you're dying I'll be still alive
-> And when you're dead I will be still alive
->
-> —_Portal_ end credits song
-
-(Review of Nevada)
-> You sound so innocent
-> All full of good intent
-> You swear you know best
-> But you expect me to
-> Jump up on board with you
-> And ride off into your delusional sunset
->
-> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
-
-(Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
-> "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
->
-> —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)
-
-(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
-> If you could only know
-> What we really are
->
-> —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)
-
-> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
->
-> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
-
-> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
->
-> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
-
-(Reduce Gender Identities)
-> And there's a fine, fine line
-> Between what you wanted
-> And what you got
-> You've got to go after the things you want
-> While you're still in your prime
->
-> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
-
-> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
-> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
-> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
-> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
->
-> (Well, they can't be grandfathers
-> Or daddies!)
->
-> —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
-
-> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
->
-> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
->
-> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
-
-(The Gender Czar's Compromise)
-> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
->
-> —Stan Kelly-Bootle
-
-(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
-> Because it's going to be the future soon
-> And I won't always be this way
-> When the things that make me weak and strange
-> Get engineered away
->
-> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
-
-(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
-> It's time to put an end to this deception
-> But I'm afraid
-> When the whole thing is at an end
-> And you learn that it's just pretend
-> You'll cry "Deception"
->
-> —"Deception", _Jem_
-
-> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
->
-> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
->
-> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
->
-> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
-
-> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
-> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
-> You see it's true, an ape like me
-> Can learn to be like you, too
->
-> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
-
-Moliere on "dormative virtue"
-
-> I don't want to sabotage you
-> But you see, I've got to try
->
-> —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
-
-(the story of my name??)
-> Sometimes the things you want
-> Are not the things you need
-> And it was right there in front of me
->
-> —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
-
-> MUGATU
-> The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
->
-> Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
->
-> —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)
-
-> I knew the mass of men conceal'd
-> Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
-> They would by other men be met
-> With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd;
-> I knew they liv'd and mov'd
-> Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
-> Of men, and alien to themselves—and yet
-> The same heart beats in every human breast!
->
-> "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
-
-> I know there's more that's out there
-> And I just haven't found it yet
-> I know there's more that's out there
-> Another me I haven't met
->
-> —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
-
-> I don't give a damn about my reputation
-> You're living in the past it's a new generation
-> A girl can do what she wants to do
-> And that's what I'm gonna do
->
-> —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett
-
-> All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
->
-> —Thomas Jefferson
-
-http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
-
-(The Hand I Was Dealt)
-> This is the one that I had to write
-> It's like a letter of love with no love left out
->
-> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
-
-(The Hand I Was Dealt)
-> I'll write my way out
-> Write everything down, far as I can see
-> I'll write my way out
-> Overwhelm them with honesty
-> This is the eye of the hurricane
-> This is the only way I can protect my legacy
->
-> —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
-
-> If you could see
-> The other side of me
-> I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell
-> I hold the key
-> To both realities
-> The girl that I want you to know
-> If only I could show
-> The other side, the other side, the other side of me
->
-> —"The Other Side of Me" by Hannah Montana
-
-> In another life
-> I would be your girl
->
-> —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry
projects / Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git / blobdiff