X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;h=1e2369ed2d654ef1193baff2db0af60b3cf8f813;hp=a02ef492d9befbcb173bec2a9b473ad3c995755c;hb=59ffe844edda8637159f463ad0d13c445a67b20a;hpb=d7afca120f2d1021110e30f073e62e56803b4930 diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index a02ef49..1e2369e 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -13,15 +13,21 @@ Easy— Harder— * "I often wish some men/women would appreciate" * empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NLMo5FZWFFq652MNe/sympathetic-minds https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits -* "The Opposite Sex" (memoryholed, but there should be an archive) +* "The Opposite Sex" https://web.archive.org/web/20130216025508/http://lesswrong.com/lw/rp/the_opposite_sex/ * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) * wipe culturally defined values * finding things in the refrigerator +* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way +* I'm not actually very good at first-person visualization, which demonstrates something +* study evidence that this is actually common My ideological committment to psychological-sex-differences denialism made me uncomfortable when the topic of sex differences happened to come up on the blog—which wasn't particularly often, but in such a vast, sprawling body of work as the Sequences, it occasionally turned out to be relevant in a discussion of evolution or human values. -For example, +For example, an early explanation of why + +I ... need to write more about the phenomenology of this. I don't think the details are that important here? Maybe read the ["Man, I Feel Like a Woman" TV Tropes page](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManIFeelLikeAWoman) and consider that the page wouldn't have so many entries if some male writers didn't have a reason to be _extremely interested_ in _that particular fantasy scenario_. + "the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man, have not been cognitively derived from each other or from any other value." @@ -31,3 +37,13 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions "It is said that parents do all the things they tell their children not to do, which is how they know not to do them." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DwtYPRuCxpXTrzG9m/my-wild-and-reckless-youth "don't ask me how I know this, and I won't tell you" https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/AeBfaMZt7e7ye38Hw/open-thread-november-1-15-2012#comment-ib37xYqDnJgxE285R + +Men who _fantasize about_ being women, do not particularly rememble actual women? + +([Amanda Marcotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte) once described one of my comments as "cute"! It ... was not a compliment.) + +_Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand_ + +, like drugs and sex, it wasn't salient to me as something that actually happens in real life, rather than on television + +(Where "girls" are the ones with a vagina, breasts, _&c._)