Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (evening)

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@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" a
 (for Elision vs. Choice)
 Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
 
+This is completely discrediting!!!
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/
+> they’re not necessarily rejecting the seriousness of child abuse, only saying it’s not the kind of thing they build their categories around.
 
 (My Identity Has a Better Brier Score)
 I'm skeptical of "ace"—I think it's just an identity label that can be successfully marketed to otherwise-ordinary people in the bottom-quartile of libido, by an ideology that wants to sell people identity labels to get them to join the coalition of sexual minorities