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=900d99f34b6e8157e03e7c2c6730e0e9b57e4a21;hp=0dca4c513e7584cf1037999602f30e6889969a7c;hb=6c1311c3cf5646ebca12a34cfd8aec5550b7669f;hpb=a0419eed1f4a8e8e9c9a5011cf3acc613770a2ec diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 0dca4c5..900d99f 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jNAAZ9XNyt82CXosr/mirrors-and-paintings * not a theory of trans men -(Contrast to the early-onset type, which is what a brain-intersex condition _actually_ looks like.) - -[the autogynephilic analogue of romantic love](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) +* [the autogynephilic analogue of romantic love](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) (Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity [holonovel](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-novel_program) adaptation of _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ (Emma Watson having charged me [the standard licensing fee](/2019/Dec/comp/) to use a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!") @@ -63,6 +61,10 @@ https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1049 * If I want to stay aligned with women, then figuring out how to do that depends on the facts about actual sex differences; if I want to do the value-exchange suggested in +Normal straight men also have positive-valence thoughts about women when they're not immediately horny. + +NYT hit piece https://archive.is/0Ghdl + ------ no safe defense https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science @@ -86,14 +88,10 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JBFHzfPkXHB2XfDGj/evolution-of-modularity "Prenatal testosterone exposure is related to sexually dimorphic facial morphology in adulthood" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.1351 -> _Look in the mirror -> What's a white guy doing there? -> I'm just a spirit -> I'm just a spirit -> Floting in air, floating in air, floating in air!_ - the [Sara Bareilles tune I chose as the breakup song](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics) is probably etched deeper into my auditory cortex than my mother's voice + if my only choices of reading material are radfems who think I'm awful and trans activists who think I DON'T EXIST (!?!?!!?!), I actually feel better about the radfems + ----- people colluding to maintain a thin layer of social constructions; lies to cis people @@ -423,4 +421,6 @@ Cross-gender identity is a virtually sustained or intermittently occurring wishf twenty-one month Category War is as long as it took to write the Sequences https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9jF4zbZqz6DydJ5En/the-end-of-sequences -—a beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing, but also, separately, this erotic thing—but then they _somehow_ manage to interpret the beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing _literally_. +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.