some work on "Product Review: FaceApp"

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 [This app!](https://www.faceapp.com/) This app is _the uniquely best piece of software in the world_.
 
-Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces.
+Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image-processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces.
 
 Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you (or a friend, celebrity, _&c._) would look like if you (respectively they) were older, or younger. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material.
 
 Except! _There's a "Female" filter._
 
-Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that for a man who's fantasized about being female nearly every day of his life for the past sixteen years—
+Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... how do I put this?—weariness? _Ennui_? (... dysphoria?) A perpetual, aching disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved.
 
+One of the reasons I'm so glad that [there's a word for the thing](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) is that I find the leading alternative candidate words, _transvestite_ or _crossdresser_, to be deeply misleading as to the nature of the phenomenon.
 
-_transvestite_ or _crossdresser_, for two reasons.
+Namely: it's not about the clothes. Why would it be? Women with short hair, women who wear masculine clothing are still, noticeably, female—from their faces, from their voices, from their ... curvature—and thus, still the target of gynephilic male desire—and _therefore_, autogynephilic male envy.
 
-Firstly, it's not about the clothes.
+Moreover, crossdressing doesn't actually work.
 
+Facial and body hair can be shaved (or [shot with lasers](/2017/Nov/laser-1/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable.
 
-Women with short hair, women who wear masculine clothing are still, noticeably, female—
 
-—and thus, still the target of gynephilic male desire and autogynephilic male envy.
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-Secondly, crossdressing doesn't actually work.
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-When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is there to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_.
+Until ... this app! This app! When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is _there_ to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_.
 
 
 this is plausibly the best photo of me ever (I won't say the best crossdressing photo, because obviously all photographs of men are bad; only photographs of women or women-adj have the potential to be good)
@@ -45,9 +39,10 @@ in the glorious transhumanist future, there's also BrainApp that can do reversib
 
 Shut up! Shut up and take my money!
 
-POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST—
+OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST—
 
 * server lag?  
 * can see the horror of facial hair even though I wasn't patient enough to wait (/2017/Nov/laser-1/)
 * gallery vs. full-size mode, speculating about the reason
 * transhumanist fantasy
+* double-filter trick