"Sexual Dimorphism": drop in "Should Bad Boys Win?" tussle anecdote

diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
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@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Another one of the little song-fragments I wrote in my head a few years earlier
 
 Looking back with the outlook later acquired from my robot cult, this is _abhorrent_. You don't _casually wish death_ on someone just because you disagree with their views on psychology! (Also, casually wishing death on a woman for her views does not seem particularly pro-feminist?!) Even if it wasn't in a spirit of personal malice (this was a song I sung to myself, not an actual threat directed to Amy Alkon's inbox), the sentiment just _isn't done_. But at the time, I _didn't notice there was anything wrong with my song_. I hadn't yet been socialized into the refined ethos of "False ideas should be argued with, but heed that we too may have ideas that are false".
 
 
 Looking back with the outlook later acquired from my robot cult, this is _abhorrent_. You don't _casually wish death_ on someone just because you disagree with their views on psychology! (Also, casually wishing death on a woman for her views does not seem particularly pro-feminist?!) Even if it wasn't in a spirit of personal malice (this was a song I sung to myself, not an actual threat directed to Amy Alkon's inbox), the sentiment just _isn't done_. But at the time, I _didn't notice there was anything wrong with my song_. I hadn't yet been socialized into the refined ethos of "False ideas should be argued with, but heed that we too may have ideas that are false".
 

-[TODO Vassar anecdote]
+In the same vein of my not then understanding the difference between argument and demonizing the outgroup, there was one especially memorable occasion in the _Overcoming Bias_ comment section when [the soon-to-be-President of Yudkowsky's research nonprofit brought up the idea of banning me](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438) after [I said](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267387), "are you aware that this is exactly the sort of psychology that leads to rape?" in response to [another commenter's anecdote](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267368) that I construed as misogynistic. Coincidentally, this was actually the _same_ day as my first time ever crossdressing in front of other people (I having purchased a purple dress on Amazon and invited two friends over while my parents were away), only I couldn't enjoy it at all because I was so emotionally trashed from the ban threat.

 
 Sex differences would come up a couple more times in one of the last Sequences, on ["Fun Theory"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4aGvLnHvYgX9pZHS/the-fun-theory-sequence)—speculations on how life could be truly _good_ if the world were superintelligently optimized for human values, in contrast to the cruelty and tragedy of our precarious existence [in a world shaped only by blind evolutionary forces](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god).
 
 
 Sex differences would come up a couple more times in one of the last Sequences, on ["Fun Theory"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4aGvLnHvYgX9pZHS/the-fun-theory-sequence)—speculations on how life could be truly _good_ if the world were superintelligently optimized for human values, in contrast to the cruelty and tragedy of our precarious existence [in a world shaped only by blind evolutionary forces](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god).
 

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@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ Or there was the time I responded to [paraphrase P.G.'s comment] with [my commen
 _ Vassar clapback anecdote
 https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438
 
 _ Vassar clapback anecdote
 https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438
 

+I need a single paragraph that quickly hits these points:
+* not understanding the difference between reasoned argument and demonizing the outgroup
+* what G. said
+* what I said
+* Michael Vassar threatened to ban me: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438
+* this ruined my day crossdressing in front of Seanan and Katie
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