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+I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5
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+like, compared to the ENTIRE REST OF SPACETIME, I'm yet another nice smart progressive Jewish trans girl, just like everyone else 2/5
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+It's ONLY in comparison to Berkeley 2019 that I might be easily confused with some kind of vicious right-wing edgelord (the likes of which I actually am not) 3/5
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+Can I be forgiven if, from my perspective, it looks like the problem is with Berkeley 2019 rather than me? 4/5
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+where this "Everything is socially constructed! Nothing correlates with anything else!" performance is the price of being Good, I'm willing to be Bad if that means I can say that SOME things aren't socially constructed, and use language to refer to correlations less than one 5/5
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+If I seem paranoid, it's only because AN UNALIGNED DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE IS TRYING TO TRICK ME INTO CUTTING MY DICK OFF. IT IS USING MY FRIENDS FOR CPU CYCLES AND AS ACTUATORS. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR
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+I would be less likely to listen to Bad Men saying factually correct things, if there were more non-Bad non-men saying factually correct things in the relevant areas of interest—guess I'll have to become one (except not the "non-man" part because biological sex is immutable)
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+Then offer her a job at the salary of an 8x engineer. (Get it? It's an efficient markets joke: if companies really behaved like this, they would compete to equilibrium & there would be no pay gap in the 1st place. But real-world markets aren't efficient for many reasons 😰)
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 You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!
 
 Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??
 
 Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")
 
+"Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle
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+Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is an allegory about how a single dissenter's courage can shatter preference-falsification equilibria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6O785wx8c
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 link to Tail: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1089172233300443136
 
+too emotionally exhausted: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1112408859639898113
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+is this canon??? https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1107153227257204737
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 no one remembers pronouns: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1060563648027021314
 
 Striesand effect: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1092768815623094274
@@ -14,10 +38,22 @@ Misalliances are literally: https://twitter.com/literallyktp/status/107528792508
 
 Singal for free speech: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1089236142724136963
 
+real eugenics: https://twitter.com/AMK2934/status/1091571957378633728
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+this but unironically (see Blanchard on "developmental competition") https://twitter.com/LoFiRepublican/status/1135632521029402626
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 https://twitter.com/BennettJonah/status/1089421675433771008
 
 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S8E23 "Sounds of Silence" is an allegory about political correctness: "I could stay and live with them, or I could keep my voice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhqxvgQYn0 #mylittlepony #friendshipismagic #idw
 
+Twilight Sparkle has TERF bangs
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+this'll be great for my future tantrum: https://twitter.com/CrassyTheo/status/1106724053371387904
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+AGP is well-described: https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1121428353074880513
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+dialogue with Grey: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1138257464795602944
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 Prewritten thread for if they do the stickers again this year—
@@ -30,7 +66,7 @@ I don't want to put on the "HE" sticker, because that would be taken to mean tha
 
 Likewise, I can't put on the "SHE" sticker. I do prefer the æsthetics of feminine pronouns and cherish them in contexts where that makes sense (like when cosplaying a female character at Comic-Con), but I couldn't really expect anyone to take that seriously in real life 4/8 [include cosplay photos]
 
-Like, men who fantasize about being women for sexual reasons do not particularly resemble actual women? We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really?? 5/8
+Like, men who fantasize about being women do not particularly resemble actual women? We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really?? 5/8
 
 I guess I could use the "THEY" sticker?? But I'm still not sure what the truth condition is for having a nonbinary gender (in contrast to my biological sex, which is pretty unambiguous from multiple lines of evidence, even if I'm not necessarily happy about it). 6/8