From c2869432246730238b9c6c29a272cc4ec8b8e3ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:37:54 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/2017/interlude-i.md | 3 ++- content/2017/interlude-ii.md | 1 + content/drafts/fresh-princess.md | 7 ++++++- epigraph_quotes.md | 6 ++++++ post_ideas.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2017/interlude-i.md b/content/2017/interlude-i.md index 7611aca..10ab9e7 100644 --- a/content/2017/interlude-i.md +++ b/content/2017/interlude-i.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ Title: Interlude I Date: 2017-03-01 18:56 -Category: fiction +Category: other +Tags: interlude "I continue to be loudly upset that people mostly use language to manipulate social reality rather than describe actual reality!" diff --git a/content/2017/interlude-ii.md b/content/2017/interlude-ii.md index 084dd22..2c119eb 100644 --- a/content/2017/interlude-ii.md +++ b/content/2017/interlude-ii.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ Title: Interlude II Date: 2017-03-02 19:48 Category: fiction +Tags: interlude "What's _wrong_ with you?! Why are you _doing_ this?!" screamed Alexa. "It's like you've been _possessed_ by a Nazi ghost." diff --git a/content/drafts/fresh-princess.md b/content/drafts/fresh-princess.md index 00f3738..f70165f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/fresh-princess.md +++ b/content/drafts/fresh-princess.md @@ -4,8 +4,13 @@ Category: other Tags: cathartic Status: draft +([Credit assignment](http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/contents/C/creditassign.html): [Will Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air), [_xkcd_](https://xkcd.com/464/)) + Now this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there -I'll tell you how I became convinced that the +I'll tell you how I became convinced that I share the same underlying psychological variation that motivates males like me to become lesbian trans women, but am disturbed , and + + +(If [almost](http://unremediatedgender.space/2016/Dec/anne-lawrence-is-the-only-honest-human-wip/) everyone is lying to me about autogynephilia, maybe they're _also_ lying about whether humans actually need to sleep!) diff --git a/epigraph_quotes.md b/epigraph_quotes.md index f1684d1..20d3728 100644 --- a/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -139,3 +139,9 @@ > Can learn to be like you, too > > —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_ + +> Yet each generation seems to accept the craziness of the past generation, even when balking at the craziness of the new generation. We think that in the past, academia was on track, and that those who opposed progress were crazy, right-wing nut-jobs. But we dissidents think that this time, this new generation–well–they have gone to far and have gone crazy. There is a certain Cthulian horror when suddenly you realize that many of the nut-jobs in the past were actually right. Many were slandered retroactively, not because they were wrong, or evil, not because they made bad predictions, but because they lost and the winners wrote the histories. There is a horror in realizing that you are just like them, this cycle has played out before, and that your children’s generation will see you as the nut-job. +> +> —[Devin Helton](http://devinhelton.com/historical-amnesia.html) + +Moliere on "dormative virtue" diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt index 7de891f..0ec3c10 100644 --- a/post_ideas.txt +++ b/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +Fresh Princess + +Worlds Collide + +The Categories Were Made for Man, But It's Useful for Renegotiations of Category Boundaries to Emphasize Predictive Accuracy + +Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies (this is an attempt to enforce social norms, not an attempt to inform; that makes sense if you want to be part of the coalition enforcing those norms, but those norms also make it impossible to talk about psychology) + +People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things + The Aristocrats A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase () @@ -11,7 +21,7 @@ Externalize Everything HEAVY CORE POSTS— Q Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings -Q Trans Infovism Against Trans Activism; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling "Wait! I Like the Concept, But the Execution Needs Work!" +Q An Infovist's Not-a-Manifesto; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling, "Wait! I Like the Idea, But the Implementation Details Need Work!" Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman Q The View From Nowhere Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, You Can't Spell "Narcisstic Rage" Without "Cis": My Struggle to Keep It Charitable @@ -28,11 +38,15 @@ Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ------ +Stop Expecting Social Reality to Make Sense + re simple models are better: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/conservatives-over-generalize-liberals-under-generalize/ clumpy thingspace!— https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/race-and-realism-part-2/ +Michael Arc says: "some sort of discussion of the double standard while unambiguously attaching Trump and lampshading 'Locker Room Talk' would probably be valuable" + Flipping the Frame non-AGP fiction— @@ -48,8 +62,6 @@ https://nelmit.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/bts.pdf http://www.jaimieveale.com/publications/Masters.pdf (p. 82) -Reply to Ozy on Lies to Cis People (this is an attempt to enforce social norms, not an attempt to inform; that makes sense if you want to be part of the coalition enforcing those norms, but those norms also make it impossible to talk about psychology) - The Gender Czar's Compromise AGP fiction— @@ -169,6 +181,3 @@ The Man With the Nonstandard Hormone Balance not a masculine, macho man, but, you know, the biologically-male kind of man https://transwidow.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-masculinity-of-mtf-transition/ - - - -- 2.17.1