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@@ -73,3 +73,17 @@ I guess I could use the "THEY" sticker?? But I'm still not sure what the truth c
 I'm also somewhat unnerved by the implication that the subconscious process by which the brain notices ppl's secondary sex characteristics is somehow illegitimate? I'm happy to use the indicated pronouns, but am I also supposed to override my perception of physical reality? 7/8
 
 Although I happily concede that the pronoun stickers may be a useful stopgap while we're waiting for deep-learning powered surgery robots (written in @rustlang?!) to make facial feminization surgery affordable for everyone!! :sparkling_heart: :money_with_wings: END/8
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+I was fantasizing about voting Trump out of spite (at "the libs" for trying to trick me into cutting my dick off independently of the facts that determine whether or not cutting my dick off is a good idea), but I probably won't actually go through with it. Probably. 1/6
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+Like, if my choices are "pathologically lying serial-sexual-abuser con man", or the party of de-facto BIOLOGICAL SEX DENIALISM (!?!?!?!) ... you know, tough call, right? 2/6 https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1230577418559270913
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+Okay, so it's a little bit subtler than that. There are very few out-and-out sex denialists; it's just this moral culture where it's implicitly considered incredibly gauche to refer to, or reason about, the concept of biological sex using language. 3/6
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+It's SO DEPRESSING, because cross-sex hormone replacement therapy is actually a REALLY COOL transhumanist body-mod tech that I personally benefitted from trying out! I just wish we could talk about it AS body-mod luxury rather than playing these social-reality mind-control games 4/6
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+I try not to talk about it too much under this name (I have a separate pen name specifically to try to avoid politics eating my life), but the situation is sufficiently dire that I'm at the point of Total Culture War (losing friends, thinking about fleeing Berkeley, &c.) 5/6
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+Anyway, this is a terrible, soul-destroying website and I shouldn't be using it ... for this topic. Come back tomorrow for my commentary on the #RapunzelsTangledAdventure pre-finale! 6/6