-(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
> 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
+(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
+> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
+>
+> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)
+
(As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb)
> Don't let them in
> Don't let them see
> Don't let them know
> Well now they know
>
-> —"Let It Go" from _Frozen_
+> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
+
+> 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_
-(Yes, the Only Real...)
+> 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
>
> —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)
-> Not what teacher said to do
-> Making dreams come true
-> Living tissue, warm flesh, weird science!
->
-> —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo
-
+(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
> If you could only know
> What we really are
>
>
> Say what you want to say
> And let the words fall out
-> Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
+> Honestly
+> I want to see you be brave
>
> —"Brave" by Sara Bareilles
-> We're looking for a few good men, and you've come a long way, baby. But baby—don't cross that line. Don't ever cross that line.
+> Not what teacher said to do
+> Making dreams come true
+> Living tissue, warm flesh, weird science!
+>
+> —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo
+
+> "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
+
+(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women)
+> 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
>
-> —_Hidden: A Gender_ by Kate Bornstein
+> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
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