https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bullshit&oldid=868771273#Bullshit_asymmetry_principle
We could imagine an alternate universe designed by a loving God, where the people have the same physical forms as the women and men of our own world, but where rape and sexual harrassment and voyeurism are unknown, and in _that_ world, people with female bodies would have no particular reason to be wary of people with male bodies.[ref]Well, except for that _d_≈2.6 difference in muscle mass should a dispute escalate to physical fighting.[/ref] But in the Darwinian horrorscape of our world, well ...
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+I say, "I'm not sure what 'it's okay to not persue any medical transition options while still not identifying with your asab' is supposed to mean if it doesn't cash out to 'it's okay to enforce social norms preventing other people from admitting out loud that they have correctly noticed your biological sex'": K. replies that it's not clear that "You can change your name" is mostly about enforcing the social norm that other people can't notice your old name
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+https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/11/28/sex-revenge-and-the-social-fabric
-Title: The Writer's Room
+Title: A Writer's Room By Gaslight
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: commentary
Tags: epistemology, discourse, meta
>
> —["Putting It Together" as performed by Barbara Streisand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqNjNKQ0fM)
-I keep thinking of these snarky dialogues, but those won't actually help convince everyone who wasn't convinced of the non-snarky version, and returning readers have already heard the joke
+I keep coming up with still yet more of [these](/2017/Jan/if-the-gay-community-were-like-the-trans-community/) [snarky](/2017/Feb/if-other-fantasies-were-treated-like-crossdreaming/) [satirical](TODO: anchor link to Alice and Bob section in "Reply to the Unit") dialogues—really, they write themselves—that I'm slowly growing somewhat more reluctant to post.
-global warming
+<p class="flower-break">⁕ ⁕ ⁕</p>
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+<div class="dialogue">
+<p><span class="dialogue-character-label">Alice</span>: I'm really concerned about global warming!</p>
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+<p><span class="dialogue-character-label">Bob</span>: Global warming isn't happening.</p>
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+<p><span class="dialogue-character-label">Alice</span>Wait, what? If you look at this chart of global temperatures Celcius—</p>
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+<p><span class="dialogue-character-label">Bob</span>: Oh, _Celsius_. Around here, we _define_ global temperature [TODO: write the end of the line]</p>
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+<p><span class="dialogue-character-label">Alice</span>: ...</p>
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+</div>
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+<p class="flower-break">⁕ ⁕ ⁕</p>
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+"The emperor is naked!" a little child said.
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+"Silly child, the emperor is clothed," said the child's father.
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+The child looked skeptical.
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+"Okay, sure, he may not be wearing any garments—it would be pretty weird if we were claiming that—but it's desirable for the social construct of clothedness to not depend on whether one is wearing any garments, because doing otherwise would be really mean to people who don't have anything to wear."
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+<p class="flower-break">⁕ ⁕ ⁕</p>
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+It's not because the snarky satirical dialogues are _bad_. It's that new dialogues have sharply diminishing marginal utility: loyal readers of _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ already know the formula (take the reasoning used by trans activists and transpose it on any other situation, to hilarious and absurd effect), and hostile readers will always be able to invent an excuse
-Emperor's clothes
I want to flip a table and scream about being gaslighted, but that wouldn't help
The only thing to do is patiently explain the consequences
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+my narrative vs. the closeted trans woman narratiev
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+"Obviously I socially gender him as male as per his preference."
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+"I wouldn't call it a 'preference' exactly."
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+"I gender him male as per his philosophical commitments"
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