-(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
-(As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb)
-> Don't let them in
-> Don't let them see
-> Be the good girl you always have to be
-> Conceal, don't feel
-> Don't let them know
-> Well now they know
+(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."
>
-> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
+> —_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
>
> —"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
>
> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
-> If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to make it so, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ.
->
-> —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
-
-(The View From Nowhere)
-> "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires. Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics. So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions. And then ... you will decide."
->
-> —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
-
(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)
-> 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
>
> —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)
-> And since your history of silence
-> Won't do you any good
-> Did you think it would?
-> Let your words be anything but empty
-> Why don't you tell them the truth?
->
-> Say what you want to say
-> And let the words fall out
-> 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.
->
-> —_Hidden: A Gender_ by Kate Bornstein
-
> "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
>
> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
-(Yes, the Only Real ...)
-> I'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly be the first time I've found myself in the vulnerable position of sharing the brain-damaged prophet's impairment, down to the last neuron.
->
-> —_Quarantine_ by Greg Egan
-
+(Reduce Gender Identities)
> And there's a fine, fine line
> Between what you wanted
> And what you got
> 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
+> (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)
+(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
> 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
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