check in

(Re the blogroll drop: why do Blogger blogs get deleted sometimes? If
you made a sexology blog good enough that I wanted to blogroll it, why
wouldn't you just leave it up? Or was this Google being evil?)

diff --git a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md b/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md
index 675266f..e7b4c78 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/if-clarity-seems-like-death-to-them.md
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@@ -583,13 +583,9 @@ My response (more vehemently when thinking on it a few hours later) was that thi
 
 ------
 
-On 10 February 2020, Scott Alexander published ["Autogenderphilia Is Common and Not Especially Related to Transgender"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/), an analysis of the results of the autogynephilia/autoandrophilia questions on the recent _Slate Star Codex_ survey.
+On 10 February 2020, Scott Alexander published ["Autogenderphilia Is Common and Not Especially Related to Transgender"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/), an analysis of the results of the autogynephilia/autoandrophilia questions on the recent _Slate Star Codex_ survey. Based on eyeballing the survey data, Alexander proposed "if you identify as a gender, and you're attracted to that gender, it's a natural leap to be attracted to yourself being that gender" as a "very boring" theory.
 
-I appreciated the endeavor of getting real data, but I was deeply unimpressed with Alexander's analysis for reasons that I found difficult to write up in a timely manner. Three and a half years later, I eventually got around to [polishing my draft and throwing it up as a standalone post](/2023/Dec/reply-to-scott-alexander-on-autogenderphilia/).
-
-Based on eyeballing the survey data, Alexander proposes "if you identify as a gender, and you're attracted to that gender, it's a natural leap to be attracted to yourself being that gender" as a "very boring" theory.
-
-I can see how it looks like a natural leap if you're verbally reasoning about "gender", but on my worldview, a hypothesis that puts "gay people (cis and trans)" in the antecedent is not boring and takes on a big complexity penalty, because that group is heterogenous with respect to the underlying mechanisms of sexuality. I already don't have much use for "if you are a sex, and you're attracted to that sex" as a category of analytical interest, because I think gay men and lesbians are different things that need to be studied separately. Given that, "if you identify as a gender, and you're attracted to that gender" (with respect to "gender", not sex) comes off even worse: it's grouping together lesbians, and gay men, and heterosexual males with a female gender identity, and heterosexual females with a male gender identity. What causal mechanism could that correspond to?
+I appreciated the endeavor of getting real data, but I was deeply unimpressed with Alexander's analysis for reasons that I found difficult to write up in a timely manner; I've only just now gotten around to [polishing my draft and throwing it up as a standalone post](/2023/Dec/reply-to-scott-alexander-on-autogenderphilia/). Briefly, I can see how it looks like a natural leap if you're verbally reasoning about "gender", but on my worldview, a hypothesis that puts "gay people (cis and trans)" in the antecedent is not boring and takes on a big complexity penalty, because that group is heterogenous with respect to the underlying mechanisms of sexuality. I already don't have much use for "if you are a sex, and you're attracted to that sex" as a category of analytical interest, because I think gay men and lesbians are different things that need to be studied separately. Given that, "if you identify as a gender, and you're attracted to that gender" (with respect to "gender", not sex) comes off even worse: it's grouping together lesbians, and gay men, and heterosexual males with a female gender identity, and heterosexual females with a male gender identity. What causal mechanism could that correspond to?
 
 (I do like the [hypernym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponymy_and_hypernymy) _autogenderphilia_.)
 

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diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
index 2a09e35..c72a40f 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
+++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md
@@ -12,16 +12,16 @@ time-sensitive globals TODOs—
 ✓ rephrase "everyone-yelling operation" in pt. 5
 ✓ clear with Michael/Ben/Jessica
 ✓ Kelsey won't elaborate on statutes of limitations
-- clear with Steven
-- consult Anna
-- finish and ship "Hrunkner Unnerby"
+✓ clear with Steven
 ✓ revise gender section
+✓ finish and ship "Hrunkner Unnerby"
 
-_ revise FTX footnote
+- consult Anna
+- revise FTX footnote
+- consult Said
 
 _ finish and ship "Reply to Scott on Autogenderphilia"
 
-- consult Said
 _ clear with Ray
 _ clear with Ruby
 

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index 2eb2bc2..12bc606 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir_wordcounts.csv
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@@ -591,4 +591,18 @@
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diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 2ea7409..00c8adc 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -3367,3 +3367,7 @@ https://archive.ph/6Y2wO
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kq8CZzcPKQtCzbGxg/quinn-s-shortform?commentId=ByARjQ72pNfvzRoLQ
 
 https://www.reddit.com/r/honesttransgender/comments/17tetu5/im_trans_and_i_transitioned_because_seeing_myself/
+
+https://ovarit.com/o/Books/519555/even-trashy-old-novels-knew-the-truth-about-agp
+
+https://quillette.com/2023/12/14/misunderstanding-the-fertility-crisis/

diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
index f43f3c0..e8702da 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt
+++ b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+relative URLs = False (but not broken)
 make Markdown native footnote CSS match the plugin-based footnotes
 undo the Slate Starchive links
 roll my own pingbacks? (I didn't like the Pelican plugin) http://blog.mlindgren.ca/entry/2015/01/17/how-to-manually-send-a-pingback/

diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py
index 417e4c0..466b595 100644 (file)
--- a/pelicanconf.py
+++ b/pelicanconf.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ LINKS = (
     ('Culturally Bound Gender', "https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/"),
     ('The Trans Widow', "http://thetranswidow.com/"),
     ('Sex and Gender: A Beginner\'s Guide', "https://sexandgenderintro.com/"),
-    ('Female Sexual Inversion', "https://femalesexualinversion.blogspot.com/"),
     ('Kathleen Stock', "https://kathleenstock.substack.com/"),
     ('Pasha\'s Office ', "https://pashasoffice.blogspot.com/"),
     ('Ținând de Mâinii Strigoii-lor', "https://strigoi.substack.com/"),