Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 6)

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@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ What happens when every sensitive bookish male who thinks [it might be cool to b
 Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to become what they love."](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) But it's worse than that. We're men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to become _that_.
 
 
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 * "The Opposite Sex" 
 
 * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite)
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 [TODO: my pseudobisexual moments (it's California in the year 2015)
 our analogues would make a good couple in a nearby alternate universe where at least one of us is female. "Exactly one," he said. "It's California in the year 2015," I said.]
 
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 https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/
 
 "people who have sexual fetishes that can't possibly be realized using existing technology [...] like the guy who gets on by entropy decreasing in a closed system"
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Perhaps so. But back in 2009, **we did not anticipate that _whether or not I sho
 
 **To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off!**
 
-I don't think I'm setting [my price for joining](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8evewZW5SeidLdbA/your-price-for-joining) particularly high here?
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 [cruelty to ordinary people, optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex]
 
@@ -423,4 +423,6 @@ twenty-one month Category War is as long as it took to write the Sequences https
 
 Reading the things I do, and talking to the people I do, I see this pattern _over and over and over_ again, where non-exclusively-androphilic trans women will, in the right context, describe experiences that _sound_ a lot like mine—having this beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing about the idea of being female, but also, separately, this erotic thing on the same theme—but then _somehow_ manage to interpret the beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing as an inner "gender" and presumed brain-intersex condition, which I just—can't take seriously. (Even before contrasting to the early-onset type, which is what a brain-intersex condition _actually_ looks like.)
 
-All I've been trying to say is that, _in particular_, the word "woman" is such a noun. Maybe trans women _are_ women! But if you want people to agree to that word usage, you need to be able to _argue_ for why it makes sense; you can't just _define_ it to be true, and this is a _general_ principle of how language works, not something I made up in order to stigmatize trans people.
+All I've been trying to say is that, _in particular_, the word "woman" is such a noun.
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+It _follows logically_ that, in particular, if _N_ := "woman", you can't define the word _woman_ any way you want. Maybe trans women _are_ women! But if you want people to agree to that word usage, you need to be able to _argue_ for why it makes sense; you can't just _define_ it to be true, and this is a _general_ principle of how language works, not something I made up on the spot in order to stigmatize trans people.