From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:18:33 +0000 (-0700) Subject: link Gwern's Death Note essay in "The Line in the Sand" X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d8abc47b40a81ec7ab6f0c5a6822fb35686accc6 link Gwern's Death Note essay in "The Line in the Sand" Maybe this kind of context-setting makes the "doesn't know information theory" remark clearer? --- diff --git a/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md b/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md index e5fd951..fdde16f 100644 --- a/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md +++ b/content/2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Tags: not-a-transition So, I'm facing a problem. -On the one hand, I really want to indulge my perverted narcissistic fantasy about being a woman, and I'm _really really jealous_ of all of the trans women friends (I still have friends!—[for now](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jan/the-counter/)) I've made since I moved to "Portland" (quotes because it might not actually be Portland, although you should know that I would still use quotes even if it is Portland, because I'm not some kind of idiot who doesn't know information theory). +On the one hand, I really want to indulge my perverted narcissistic fantasy about being a woman, and I'm _really really jealous_ of all of the trans women friends (I still have friends!—[for now](http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jan/the-counter/)) I've made since I moved to "Portland" (quotes because it might not actually be Portland, although you should know that I would still use quotes even if it is Portland, because I'm [not some kind of idiot who doesn't know information theory](https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity)). On the other hand, I don't want to become a trans woman myself, because I already have a perfectly functional social identity as a man named "'Mark'" (two sets of quotes: one for words-as-words, and another because it might not actually be "Mark", although you should know that _&c._) that I'm not going to throw away for the sake of my perverted narcissistic fantasy, particularly since the standard transition narrative looks so actively delusional to me that I can't possibly participate in it.