X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fnotes.txt;h=9a6dde1f138bf2cacca042134f4c64d19aff74d8;hp=d9571dc2279b8218fbd89e1bd75c34bbfc82f08b;hb=966f6b504a644ad839b283725de0a7a9352bab1e;hpb=fd121b128eb36bca2bb059aaada0dab38f4c4e57 diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index d9571dc..9a6dde1 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1224,16 +1224,10 @@ a Facebook acquaintance (who didn't pass very well when we met in October): 'Of https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/12/radical-feminist-warned-refer-transgender-defendant-assault/ -"yeah in public we say 'cis women' but tran to tran we just say 'women,' we‘re not insane lol" -no transsexual is like 'from a young age all i ever wanted was to be.. cis' -https://twitter.com/theorygurl/status/1062451652836446208 - https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/bhulic/i_cant_do_this_any_more_i_need_to_divorce_my/ thanks for the marketing advice! I should _definitely_ take that into account if I ever decide to put more effort into "persuading people", which sounds like something that an aspiring instrumental rationalist would care about. Perhaps unfortunately, however, I'm an aspiring epistemic rationalist: all I can do is try to communicate what I actually think and feel using clear language (and standard rhetorical techniques like sarcasm, satire, &c. that people know how to interpret even if they wouldn't be clear if someone naïvely took the words literally). If other people aren't persuaded by this ... maybe they _shouldn't_ be! Maybe I can live with that! -You _can't_ optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you _can't_ optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding "A Human's Guide to Words." - I guess I can't argue with that, but I wish I knew what happened to my wallet https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/ray-blanchard-transgender-orthodoxy/