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+Title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: personal
+Status: draft
+
+> _And I tell myself to let the story end  
+> And my heart will rest in someone else's hand  
+> My 'why not me?' philosophy began  
+> And I say  
+> Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you?  
+> I'll be alright, just not tonight  
+> But someday_
+>
+> —Sara Barellies, ["Gonna Get Over You"](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics)
+
+So, I haven't been doing so well for the past four and a half months.
+
+Explaining this will require some context.
+
+I've spent basically my entire adult life
+
+believed our own propoganda
+
+Blanchard ... categories
+
+cognitive dissonance
+
+smart people clearly know
+
+
+I'll be alright. Just not tonight.

diff --git a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md
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@@ -149,3 +149,4 @@ most of the ill will is on my side
 
 From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it.
 
+Tail didn't even want to Tweet me?!?

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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@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ pinewood derby
 
 http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIBoys2005.html
 http://www.cifncs.org/sports/cross_country/History/2005/DivIIGirls2005.html
+
+https://patch.com/connecticut/hartford/courage-award-recipients-chosen-connecticut-sports-writers

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@@ -1229,3 +1229,9 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/itsafetish/comments/bb27gx/i_didnt_get_an_erection_when
 
 https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/11/234-house-democrats-2-republicans-co-sponsor-bill-forcing-schools-to-let-male-athletes-compete-on-girls-sports-teams/
 https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1006/text
+
+How do you know it wasn't just a straight friendship?? https://stevenuniversallyreviews.tumblr.com/post/184181025733/episode-108-future-boy-zoltron
+
+https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/lack-of-black-doctoral-students/587413/
+
+a Facebook acquaintance (who didn't pass very well when we met in October): 'Of course, those of you who know me on other platforms see me being very lesbian every day, to such a degree that I have been described as "the community gay"'

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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+"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
 Social Strategy Notes
-Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
-Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
 LW Question: How might one unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
+"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
 How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
 Research Question: Complicity
-Dragon in Garage
-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
+The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
 Trying to Be Explicit
 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
+
+
 Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal"
 
 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)
 
+In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
 
+Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
+Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
 It Was a Complement!
 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ Willie McCovington
 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
 "But It Doesn't Matter"
 One-Way Trolls
-"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
+
 
 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
 

diff --git a/notes/tweet_pad.txt b/notes/tweet_pad.txt
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@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ Twilight Sparkle has TERF bangs
 
 this'll be great for my future tantrum: https://twitter.com/CrassyTheo/status/1106724053371387904
 
+AGP is well-described: https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1121428353074880513
+
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 Prewritten thread for if they do the stickers again this year—