drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

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 * finding things in the refrigerator
 *  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-and-rationality
 
+Be careful to phrase the early part as about _me_, and only point fingers at trans women in the coda
 
 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.
 
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure gr
 
 Yudkowsky says trans rights!
 
+This doesn't pass the smell test. This doesn't pass the _laugh_ test.
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMTbQj9XB5ah2maup/similarity-clusters
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definition
@@ -167,3 +169,8 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity
 "I'm not from around here; I'm from another dimension"
 
 activity group selecting on T ...
+
+But the angle between the line between me and my sister, and the line between me and my female analogue, is the [arctangent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_functions) of the difference-between-same-sex-siblings and the difference-between-sexes, which is small if sex differences are a lot larger than same-sex sibling differences (with respect to whatever metric on personspace we're using).
+
+[the direction of causality](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/)
+http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/
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