check in changes to "Scattered ..."; reverse anchor to sticker discourse

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@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ People should get what they want. We should have social norms that help people g
 
 People should get what they want. Social science is hard and I want to _try_ to avoid politics as much as I can.[ref]Unfortunately, a very challenging goal in the gender blogging business.[/ref] When different people's wants come into conflict, it's not for me to say what the optimal compromise is; it's too much for me to compute.
 
-What I can say is that _whatever_ the right thing to do is, we stand a better chance of getting there if we can be _honest_ with each other about the world we see, using the most precise categories we can, to construct maps that reflect the territory. My model of the universe doesn't stop at the boundary of your body, and yours shouldn't stop at mine.
+<a id="anchor-pronoun-sticker-discourse"></a>What I can say is that _whatever_ the right thing to do is, we stand a better chance of getting there if we can be _honest_ with each other about the world we see, using the most precise categories we can, to construct maps that reflect the territory. My model of the universe doesn't stop at the boundary of your body, and yours shouldn't stop at mine.
 
 This is definitely compatible with transitioning. It is _not_, I claim, compatible with the ideology of gender-as-self-identification that is rapidly establishing a foothold in Society. Consider this display at a recent conference of the American Philosophical Association (note, the people whose _job_ it is to use careful conceptual distinctions to understand reality)—
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/scattered-personal-reflections-after-a-tech-conference-or-smile-more.md b/content/drafts/scattered-personal-reflections-after-a-tech-conference-or-smile-more.md
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 > What we think, how we feel?  
 > Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_
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-> —"Reflection", from _Mulan_
+> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera)
 
-I took half a week of vacation from my dayjob recently to crash with a friend in another city and attend the conference associated with an open-source technology I've been pretty involved with lately! It was really fun and inspiring, getting to hear all the talks and putting faces to usernames! I thought I'd write a blog post about all the exciting technical things I learned.
+_(Attention conservation notice: rambling Diary-like post that I felt like writing anyway for psychological reasons; probably not worth your time.)_
 
-This is not that post. By cowardice and convention, this is someone else's story on someone else's blog, about "Taylor Saotome-Westlake" visiting his friend "Jerrica" in "San Francisco" to attend the conference about this software called "[Blerp](https://xkcd.com/1692/)-d9aa89fd".
+I took half a week of vacation from my dayjob recently to crash with a friend in another city and attend the conference associated with an open-source technology I've been pretty involved with lately! It was really fun and inspiring, getting to hear all the talks and putting faces to usernames! I thought I'd write a blog post about the experience and all the exciting technical things I learned!
 
-Again, the conference was great, and I had a lot of fun, but—I don't know. Some aspects of it induced me to feel a bit stressed and a little bit sad, even though that's entirely my own fault and entirely my own problem.
+This is not that post. By cowardice and convention, we speak in accordance with the paper-thin pretense that this is someone else's story on someone else's blog, about "Taylor Saotome-Westlake" visiting his friend "Jerrica" in "San Francisco" to attend the conference about this software called "[Blerp](https://xkcd.com/1692/)-d9aa89fd".
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+Again, the conference was great, and I had a lot of fun, but—I don't know. Some aspects of it induced me to feel a little bit stressed and a little bit sad, even though that's entirely my own fault and entirely my own problem.
 
 <a href="/images/blerp-d9aa89fd_pronoun_stickers.jpg"><img src="/images/blerp-d9aa89fd_pronoun_stickers.jpg" width="300" style="float: right;"></a>
 
 It started with the pronoun stickers.
 
+This year, there were pronoun stickers in everyone's conference swag bags ("[...] so we can all help each other get things right. Wear them in solidarity with others too. Help us make [the conference] welcoming and inclusive for all"). Leaving aside [philosophical objections](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/#anchor-pronoun-sticker-discourse) for the moment, 
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+https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/172800552516/so-i-havent-posted-about-this-since-college
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@@ -33,10 +41,16 @@ Rod Vagg linked to Quillette
 Opal guy said trans people are delusional
 
 
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+"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole and they're showing you the door"
 think I'm an asshole and are showing me the door https://xkcd.com/1357/
 
 
 the Uber driver who picked me up from the airport was named Omar and was from Mexico
 
 he did not know any nonbinary people
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+"peering through reverent fingers"
+"but the situation is fraught"
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+"There are views we have decided are unacceptable and we will ostracize you for having them." https://twitter.com/seldo/status/714272018976284672