X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-notes.txt;h=6cca7661a535a4f6744854a474e2e2b669085ce8;hp=5ab581bea1cf939b4a589f750ae6097d240bcc92;hb=51e613cc6ff11b38c869824433c2ed774d85ad8e;hpb=9f21b5ee172be96363f7b8b084ec7e549b8bfb51 diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt index 5ab581b..6cca766 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt @@ -236,8 +236,6 @@ getting a reversal was improbable, but: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/st7DiQP2 TWAW is a positive-valence instance of the worst-argument-in-the-world, but it's still the SAME THING; if you can't see that, you're dumb -[I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking) - I just don't _know how_ to tell the true tale of personal heartbreak without expressing some degree of disappointment in some people's characters. It is written that ["almost no one is evil; almost everything is broken."](https://blog.jaibot.com/). And [the _first_ step](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uHYYA32CKgKT3FagE/hold-off-on-proposing-solutions) towards fixing that which is broken, is _describing the problem_.) The "I can define the word 'woman' any way I want" argument is bullshit. All the actually-smart people know that it's bullshit at _some_ level, perhaps semi-consciously buried under a lot of cognitive dissonance. But it's _socially load-bearing_ bullshit that _not only_ does almost no one have an incentive to correct—