X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;fp=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;h=d9124462b82f4dd7541231dd3f64b40f7db4e458;hp=8ebff6045d2b5e38e2bc6af13d14e957d3d5a2a2;hb=b940ce29ea5da3bbbf9fb78fb7e6e73e926da2b5;hpb=06330dc2c1e5032ddca5fb41d064c807ee7e42c7 diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 8ebff60..d912446 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -197,13 +197,6 @@ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/ This is the eye of the hurricane; this is the only way I can [protect](/2019/Jul/the-source-of-our-power/) -cosplay— -/2019/Aug/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control/ -/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/ -/2016/Dec/joined/ - - - even after taking into account that the phrase "once you know what to look for" is a 20-meter fire-truck-red flag for [confirmation bias](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rmAbiEKQDpDnZzcRf/positive-bias-look-into-the-dark). Why not just say "cis" women? I do, often, depending on the audience and the context of what I'm trying to say. I can [code-switch](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/code-switching-i/); I can entertain multiple frames—different maps that reflect different aspects of the same territory. I can even be polite, when being polite is _cheap_. But it's important to at least _acknowledge_ that "cis" and "actual" do not _convey the same meaning_. (Sufficiently advanced neuroscience would be able to confirm this by examining patterns of brain activity on hearing each word.) The _fact_ that they don't convey the same meaning is _why_ the latter is offensive—the source of controversy isn't that people love words that start with _c_ and hate words that that start with a vowel sound. Not being allowed to use the word "actual" in this context makes it harder to encode the _empirical hypothesis_ I'm trying to communicate, that "trans" isn't just pointing to a subcluster within the "woman" cluster (like "young woman" or "Japanese woman"), it's actually denoting a subcluster within the _male_ cluster in the subspace of dimensions corresponding to [developmental sex](http://unremediatedgender.space/2019/Sep/terminology-proposal-developmental-sex/)-related traits that—unfortunately, heartbreakingly—we don't know how to change with current technology.