X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2017%2Fa-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md;h=fdb43ee688481c4b0c328b38cc9cc2bf68c51e75;hp=372ab2606137613bb049972dfe56fb00877aa324;hb=25685b868aff37c1b8a33fd8c65b61752b8bd504;hpb=03468d274f5f48fe5c89b46f1d4b4bd10d17da9b diff --git a/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md b/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md index 372ab26..fdb43ee 100644 --- a/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md +++ b/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ And: ![notebook: that I don't like ...]({filename}/images/getting_it_right_3.png) -My views on gender have changed a _lot_ over the past ten years—most notably, I'm not a psychological sex differences denialist anymore, so I'm afraid I can no longer endorse that "gender shouldn't exist" stance. (Given that sex differences exist and people aren't going to _pretend not to notice_, social-role defaults are inevitably going to accrete around them.) +My views on gender have changed a _lot_ over the past ten years—most notably, I'm not a psychological sex differences denialist anymore, so I'm afraid I can no longer endorse that "gender shouldn't exist" stance. (Given that sex differences exist and people aren't going to _pretend not to notice_, social-role defaults are inevitably going to accrete around them.) The funny part is that, in retrospect, it looks like a lot of the appeal to me of psychological sex differences denialism—besides its being ideologically fashionable—was an autogynephilia-inspired rationalization: _I didn't want to believe that girls were a different thing that I didn't understand_. (This theme is very explicit in my writings at the time. In the same notebook, I wrote: "Heterosexuality should already imply antisexism, as people don't generally want to slander their lovers.") And the "woman I truly am inside" gender-identity narrative that I so disdained _also_ looks like an autogynephilia-inspired rationalization, on the part of autogynephilic males (perhaps growing up in a less egalitarianist memetic environment than me) who took the _other_ route, of successfully deluding themselves into believing that they themselves are feminine, rather than my route of successfully deluding myself into believing that femininity isn't a real thing. (Contrast to androphilic "true" transsexuals who have just been really feminine their entire lives and don't need any delusions to justify their desire to be women.)