day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

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 * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite)
 * wipe culturally defined values
 * finding things in the refrigerator
-*  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way
+*  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-and-rationality
+* Vassar slapping me down
+* "Mr. Davis"
+
+* I'm not actually very good at first-person visualization, which demonstrates something
+* study evidence that this is actually common
 
 My ideological committment to psychological-sex-differences denialism made me uncomfortable when the topic of sex differences happened to come up on the blog—which wasn't particularly often, but in such a vast, sprawling body of work as the Sequences, it occasionally turned out to be relevant in a discussion of evolution or human values.
 
-For example, an early explanation of why 
+I ... need to write more about the phenomenology of this. I don't think the details are that important here? Maybe read the ["Man, I Feel Like a Woman" TV Tropes page](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManIFeelLikeAWoman) and consider that the page wouldn't have so many entries if some male writers didn't have a reason to be _extremely interested_ in _that particular fantasy scenario_.
+
+"It is said that parents do all the things they tell their children not to do, which is how they know not to do them."  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DwtYPRuCxpXTrzG9m/my-wild-and-reckless-youth
 
+"don't ask me how I know this, and I won't tell you" https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/AeBfaMZt7e7ye38Hw/open-thread-november-1-15-2012#comment-ib37xYqDnJgxE285R
 
- "the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man, have not been cognitively derived from each other or from any other value."
+Men who _fantasize about_ being women, do not particularly rememble actual women?
 
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions
+([Amanda Marcotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte) once described one of my comments as "cute"! It ... was not a compliment.)
 
+_Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand_
 
-"It is said that parents do all the things they tell their children not to do, which is how they know not to do them."  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DwtYPRuCxpXTrzG9m/my-wild-and-reckless-youth
+, like drugs and sex, it wasn't salient to me as something that actually happens in real life, rather than on television
 
-"don't ask me how I know this, and I won't tell you" https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/AeBfaMZt7e7ye38Hw/open-thread-november-1-15-2012#comment-ib37xYqDnJgxE285R
+(Where "girls" are the ones with a vagina, breasts, _&c._)