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diff --git a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Title: Social Strategy Notes, February 2019
+Title: Social Strategy Notes, March 2019
 Date: 2020-01-01
 Category: commentary
 Tags: personal, software industry
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ my obsessive personality (being angry about school felt _just_ like this)
 
 B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith
 
-summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about private conversations
+summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about non-public conversations
 
 part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter
 
@@ -110,3 +110,25 @@ at first I was upset about two-types in 2016/17, but that may have been prematur
 "Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is
 
 trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post)
+
+"We're not actually doing the bad reasoning you're accusing us of" dodge is not credible; we had a whole goddamned sequence on this
+
+https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/
+
+pulling my punches somewhat "Why can't we define 'woman' that way?" I was trying to be conciliatory with, "You can, but sometimes I want to use the word in other ways", but maybe that just got read as a sign of weakness; a more aggressive stance would have been "Because [37 Ways Words Can Be Wrong], that's fucking why"
+
+https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/
+
+"Beatrice"'s disavowal
+
+embarrassing myself
+
+rationalists are _really good_ at free speech norms
+
+progressive virtue signaling—but when I say it, it's not just a sneer; it's a
+
+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1084628483748184064
+
+test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
+
+https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php

diff --git a/content/drafts/trans-activisms-new-target-is-the-world.md b/content/drafts/trans-activisms-new-target-is-the-world.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Title: Untitled Sports Post
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: autogynephilia
+Status: draft
+
+https://www.thenation.com/article/trans-runner-daily-caller-terry-miller-andraya-yearwood-martina-navratilova/
+
+I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but—I thought The Nation was pretty reputable among mainstream liberal magazines? Is biological sex denialism (!!!) ACTUALLY MAINSTREAM now??
+
+My so-called "rationalist" friends think they can get away with these clever definition-hacking word games ("Oh, but we're just defining words in this way; we're not implying any particular false proposition"). Maybe it even works for us, because we're sufficiently smart and sufficiently science-literate to deftly rationalize around our own belief-in-belief!
+
+in a sane world, we would actually talk about effect sizes
+
+Cohen's d
+
+I got it from Janet Hyde but it should just be mainstream
+
+pinewood derby
+
+http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIBoys2005.html
+http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIGirls2005.html

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index a5eeafc..d79d49d 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -1135,6 +1135,8 @@ he/him lesbian also pissed off at trans community: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gend
 
 "damn one extremely bad way to start my day is having the receptionist at slack say I look like a male celebrity [...] I'm so mad. wow. like. I look like this right now, how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say???" (It was a compliment, dummy!!) https://twitter.com/esten/status/1092472430465929216
 
+"what the hell is it gonna take to get you all to stop calling me a dude? like fucking seriously? I'm changing my name, my pronouns have been different for a year and a half, I've been on HRT for 14 months, and a friend just misgendered me" https://twitter.com/esten/status/1098450396102615040
+
 another UK arrest: https://twitter.com/BustedWench/status/1092435717555437569
 
 https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/why-are-the-police-stopping-a-74-year-old-tweeting-about-transgenderism/
@@ -1180,3 +1182,14 @@ https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-02-18/transgender-hormone-
 https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/transgender-insanity-police-now-jailing-people-for-laughing-at-men-in-women
 https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/man-who-says-hes-female-enters-womens-bathroom-sexually-assaults-10-year-ol
 
+https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xnwed/facial-recognition-software-regularly-misgenders-trans-people
+
+https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/
+
+more obvious AGP: https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1100865940986703880
+
+https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/180522920951/tumblr-is-brainwashing-a-generation-of-autistic
+
+"Got a job interview for a coffee shop. I look like I could be the hot lesbian barista, right?" https://twitter.com/isbeisbeisbe/status/1104007825116811264 But, but "hot lesbian" seems like the kind of thing men who objectify lesbians say, not actual lesbians—not with Probability One, but in balance
+
+more self-gaslighting: "it's because i've actually done the work in my head to internalize that they're not men." https://twitter.com/Anarcho_Vampire/status/1104607455466545152

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ Social Strategy Notes
 I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
 The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artefact
+Trying to Be Explicit
 
+Sex Differences and Commonsense Priors (I have parsimony intuitions that make "AGP is caused by pollution" or "AGP is normal in cis women" or "hormone receptors distributions are the same" seem not worth considering)
 
 
 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
@@ -12,7 +14,6 @@ Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
 Willie McCovington
 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-Trying to Be Explicit
 "But It Doesn't Matter"
 One-Way Trolls
 "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"