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=48a75f049ca12c860e59e4bbca18e0384d6edaca;hp=900d99f34b6e8157e03e7c2c6730e0e9b57e4a21;hb=f35367e417bffc3c6d310ee62b1c27798ecf59cd;hpb=6c1311c3cf5646ebca12a34cfd8aec5550b7669f diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 900d99f..48a75f0 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ What happens when every sensitive bookish male who thinks [it might be cool to b Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to become what they love."](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) But it's worse than that. We're men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to become _that_. + * "The Opposite Sex" * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) @@ -53,7 +54,6 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8 [TODO: my pseudobisexual moments (it's California in the year 2015) our analogues would make a good couple in a nearby alternate universe where at least one of us is female. "Exactly one," he said. "It's California in the year 2015," I said.] - https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/ "people who have sexual fetishes that can't possibly be realized using existing technology [...] like the guy who gets on by entropy decreasing in a closed system" @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Perhaps so. But back in 2009, **we did not anticipate that _whether or not I sho **To be fair, it's not obvious that I _shouldn't_ cut my dick off!** -I don't think I'm setting [my price for joining](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8evewZW5SeidLdbA/your-price-for-joining) particularly high here? + [cruelty to ordinary people, optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex] @@ -423,4 +423,6 @@ twenty-one month Category War is as long as it took to write the Sequences https Reading the things I do, and talking to the people I do, I see this pattern _over and over and over_ again, where non-exclusively-androphilic trans women will, in the right context, describe experiences that _sound_ a lot like mine—having this beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing about the idea of being female, but also, separately, this erotic thing on the same theme—but then _somehow_ manage to interpret the beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing as an inner "gender" and presumed brain-intersex condition, which I just—can't take seriously. (Even before contrasting to the early-onset type, which is what a brain-intersex condition _actually_ looks like.) -All I've been trying to say is that, _in particular_, the word "woman" is such a noun. Maybe trans women _are_ women! But if you want people to agree to that word usage, you need to be able to _argue_ for why it makes sense; you can't just _define_ it to be true, and this is a _general_ principle of how language works, not something I made up in order to stigmatize trans people. +All I've been trying to say is that, _in particular_, the word "woman" is such a noun. + +It _follows logically_ that, in particular, if _N_ := "woman", you can't define the word _woman_ any way you want. Maybe trans women _are_ women! But if you want people to agree to that word usage, you need to be able to _argue_ for why it makes sense; you can't just _define_ it to be true, and this is a _general_ principle of how language works, not something I made up on the spot in order to stigmatize trans people.