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+Title: Link: "Never Smile at an Autogynephile"
+Date: 2022-02-21 21:55
+Category: other
+Tags: linkpost, video, music
+
+<iframe width="460" height="260" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6vI6U0QJtPQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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+[This song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vI6U0QJtPQ) is an interesting cultural artifact of [the strategy of stigmatization](/2019/Dec/the-strategy-of-stigmatization/). Lyrics—
+
+> _Never smile at an autogynephile  
+> No you can't get friendly with an autogynephile  
+> Don't be taken in by his narcissist grin  
+> He's imagining how well he'll fit within your skin_  
+>
+> _Never smile at an autogynephile  
+> Never meet his eye or stay to talk a while  
+> Turn around, run away, do not join the games he'll play  
+> He wants your place, he'll take your face   
+> That autogynephile_  
+>
+> _[...]  
+> But please be rude and always mock  
+> Or he might show his lady cock  
+> Crossing boundaries makes him smile  
+> That autogynephile_
+
+In a purely descriptive sense, this would seem to qualify as "hate speech"—expressing antipathy for a group of people on the basis of sexual orientation. But if so, I count it as evidence for the case that, contrary to popular belief, hate speech _is_ free speech (that is, you can't just exclude "hate" without thereby excluding substantive content): from the standpoint of women [fighting a Total Culture War](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) to protect single-sex spaces and the very concept of womanhood itself, it makes _perfect sense_ to demonize the demographic that is, _in fact_, collectively responsible for your woes. (In a world where autogynephilia as a psychological phenomenon didn't exist "but everything else was the same", there would be no need for a special "gender-critical" resistance strain of feminism to exist; androphilic MtF transsexuals mostly just don't cause problems.)
+
+Just because it _makes sense_ for some people to hate (given the situation they're in) doesn't mean the situation itself isn't sad. [I think autogynephilia is a _better explanation_ than "gender identity" for people like me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)—while I haven't transitioned, I'm obviously _the type_ that would have, had I been born ten years later—and I think it's sad that most of the people who use  [_the word for the thing_](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) are ... people who hate us. (Never smile at an autogynephile! Never even meet his eye or stay to talk a while! Please be rude and always mock!)
+
+I don't think it _had_ to be this way. If the hatred is coming from disgust that "he's imagining how well he'll fit within your skin"—well, that doesn't seem negotiable. (We are, in fact, imagining it.) But if the issue is that "crossing boundaries makes him smile"—I don't think that's inherent! You could totally imagine a Society with a designated third-gender role for transsexuals that maintained boundaries for women in some contexts! I think that could be an good Society for everyone to live in (even if trans women from _our_ Society don't find the idea of compromise appealing, because our culture doesn't have the right concepts).

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-Title: Link: "Never Smile at an Autogynephile"
-Date: 2021-10-18 05:00
-Category: other
-Tags: linkpost, video
-Status: draft
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-<iframe width="460" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6vI6U0QJtPQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-
-[This song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vI6U0QJtPQ) is an interesting cultural artifact of [the strategy of stigmatization](/2019/Dec/the-strategy-of-stigmatization/). Lyrics—
-
-> _Never smile at an autogynephile  
-> No you can't get friendly with an autogynephile  
-> Don't be taken in by his narcissist grin  
-> He's imagining how well he'll fit within your skin_  
->
-> _Never smile at an autogynephile  
-> Never meet his eye or stay to talk a while  
-> Turn around, run away, do not join the games he'll play  
-> He wants your place, he'll take your face   
-> That autogynephile_  
->
-> _[...]  
-> But please be rude and always mock  
-> Or he might show his lady cock  
-> Crossing boundaries makes him smile  
-> That autogynephile_
-
-In a purely descriptive sense, this would seem to qualify as "hate speech"—expressing antipathy for a group of people on the basis of sexual orientation. But if so, I count it as evidence for the case that, contrary to popular belief, hate speech _is_ free speech (that is, you can't just exclude "hate" without thereby excluding substantive ideas): from the standpoint of women [fighting a Total Culture War](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) to protect single-sex spaces and the very concept of womanhood itself, it makes _perfect sense_ to demonize the demographic that is, _in fact_, collectively responsible for your woes. (In a world where autogynephilia as a psychological phenomenon didn't exist "but everything else was the same", there would be no need for a special "gender-critical" resistance strain of feminism to exist; androphilic MtF transsexuals mostly just don't cause problems.)
-
-Just because it _makes sense_ for some people to hate (given the situation they're in) doesn't mean the situation itself isn't sad, on multiple levels. [I think autogynephilia is a _better explanation_ than "gender identity" for people like me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)—while I haven't transitioned, I'm obviously _the type_ that would have, had I been born five years later—and I think it's sad most of the people who use  [_the word for the thing_](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) are ... people who hate us. (Never smile at an autogynephile! Never even meet his eye or stay to talk a while! Please be rude and always mock!)
-
-I don't think it _had_ to be this way.