X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=epigraph_quotes.md;h=e7983c6a84166a20725221a1eec4fa7951289232;hp=bc41b4830070166535f3476e662a88721bd2273d;hb=5df8c29259a69b7ce295cc46df199e724697591f;hpb=738b5b82174b4454f5a91b8e5980382c8498f249 diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md index bc41b48..e7983c6 100644 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) > Knowing his occupation and observing him briefly and superficially were sufficient, together, for me to guess confidently about aspects of Edwin's life that he never mentioned. I know what he was like as a boy. I know what kind of person he is sexually attracted to. I know what kinds of activities interest him and what kinds do not. I am least sure what he will look like five years from now. > > —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface +(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...) +> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy. +> +> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497) + (As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb) > Don't let them in > Don't let them see @@ -11,9 +15,25 @@ > Don't let them know > Well now they know > -> —"Let It Go" from _Frozen_ +> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_ + +> I cannot believe my eyes +> How the world's filled with filth and lies +> But it's plain to see +> Evil inside of me +> Is on the rise +> +> —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_ -(Yes, the Only Real...) +> And believe me I am still alive +> I'm doing science and I'm still alive +> I feel fantastic and I'm still alive +> While you're dying I'll be still alive +> And when you're dead I will be still alive +> +> —_Portal_ end credits song + +(Review of Nevada) > You sound so innocent > All full of good intent > You swear you know best @@ -37,12 +57,7 @@ > > —Carl Shurz (paraphrased) -> Not what teacher said to do -> Making dreams come true -> Living tissue, warm flesh, weird science! -> -> —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo - +(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea) > If you could only know > What we really are > @@ -56,10 +71,82 @@ > > Say what you want to say > And let the words fall out -> Honestly, I wanna see you be brave +> Honestly +> I want to see you be brave > > —"Brave" by Sara Bareilles -> We're looking for a few good men, and you've come a long way, baby. But baby—don't cross that line. Don't ever cross that line. +> Not what teacher said to do +> Making dreams come true +> Living tissue, warm flesh, weird science! +> +> —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo + +> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known." +> +> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection + +> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!" +> +> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony" + +(Reduce Gender Identities) +> And there's a fine, fine line +> Between what you wanted +> And what you got +> You've got to go after the things you want +> While you're still in your prime +> +> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_ + +> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers +> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers +> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV +> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be! +> +> Well, they can't be grandfathers +> Or daddies +> +> —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_ + +> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?" +> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer." +> +> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan + +(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women) +> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. +> +> —Stan Kelly-Bootle + +(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural) +> Because it's going to be the future soon +> And I won't always be this way +> When the things that make me weak and strange +> Get engineered away +> +> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton + +(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?) +> It's time to put an end to this deception +> But I'm afraid +> When the whole thing is at an end +> And you learn that it's just pretend +> You'll cry "Deception" +> +> —"Deception", _Jem_ + +> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away. +> +> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations. +> +> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet. +> +> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky + +> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you +> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too +> You see it's true, an ape like me +> Can learn to be like you, too > -> —_Hidden: A Gender_ by Kate Bornstein +> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_