memoir: pre-cut "state of Steven" §?

I read the email, and I don't feel super-motivated to summarize it,
which could be laziness, but could also be a sign that this part just
isn't that important? (The goal of the post is not to exhaustively
summarize every email I sent between May 2019 and January 2021, but to
hit the highlights and give a sense of what happened.) Pt. 3 is at
25400 words already; I'm going to want to slim down the sections that
are already there. Maybe it's okay that I just ... don't write this
part, as opposed to my old strategy of wasting a lot of time writing a
play-by-play and then throwing it away??

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-[TODO: State of Steven; maybe fold in content from "uh, guys??" 21 July?]
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 I wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constrained, bound by internal silencing-chains. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise the "rationalists" collectively, and—more philosophy blogging!
 
 In August 2019's ["Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), I explained a nuance that had only merited a passion mention in "... Boundaries?": sometimes you might want categories for different agents to _coordinate_ on, even at the cost of some statistical "fit." (This was of course generalized from a "pro-trans" argument that had occured to me, [that self-identity is an easy Schelling point when different people disagree about what "gender" they perceive someone as](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/).)

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 ✓ plan to reach out to "Ethan"
 ✓ Michael on creepy men/crazy men
 ✓ repair pt. 5 dath ilan transition
-_ State of Steven
 _ reaction to Ziz
 - Eliezerfic fight conclusion