https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/10/09/the-art-institute-of-chicago-fires-all-122-of-its-unpaid-and-volunteer-docents-because-they-arent-sufficiently-diverse/
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+NCAA Task Force Recommends Students No Longer Submit SAT, ACT Scores To Promote 'Racial Equity'
+https://archive.ph/QerlW
The "default for those-who-haven't-asked [going] by gamete size" part of Yudkowsky's proposal is _trying_ to deal with the backwards-compatibility problem by being backwards-compatible—recommending the same behavior in the vast majority of cases—but in doing so, it fails to accomplish its stated purpose of de-gendering the language. To _actually_ de-gender English, you'd need to _actually_ shatter the correlation between pronouns and sex/gender, such that a person's pronouns _were_ just an arbitrary extra piece of data—nothing to do with gender—that you needed to remember in the same way you have to remember people's names.
+[TODO—
+ * Given that sex-category information _is_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point
+ * And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper
+]
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+Me neither.
[OUTLINE of remainder—
* The attempted backwards compatibility measure doesn't work; if people's behavior is still the same, then sex-category information is still being transfered; and, again, that was the motivation for the reform effort all along; in order to _actually_ de-gender language, you have to break the correlation: either go all-in on singular _they_, or somehow get people to establish and declare pronoun preferences that aren't about gender (which isn't what's going on in our world)
- * Given that sex-category information _is_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point
- * And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper
* Yudkowsky's response to all this?—apparently, to play dumb!!
* "I don't know what it's like in you head for a pronoun to map onto more than 'doesn't look like an Oliver'"—lies
* Gumball example
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[This song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vI6U0QJtPQ) is an interesting cultural artifact of [the strategy of stigmatization](/2019/Dec/the-strategy-of-stigmatization/). Lyrics—
> Crossing boundaries makes him smile
> That autogynephile_
-In a purely descriptive sense, this would seem to qualify as "hate speech"—expressing antipathy for a group of people on the basis of sexual orientation. But if so, I count it as evidence for the case that, contrary to popular belief, hate speech _is_ free speech (that is, you can't just exclude "hate" without any substantive ideas): from the standpoint of women [fighting a Total Culture War](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) to protect single-sex spaces and the very concept of womanhood itself, it makes _perfect sense_ to demonize the demographic that is, _in fact_, collectively responsible for your woes. (In a world where autogynephilia as a psychological phenomenon didn't exist "but everything else was the same", there would be no reason for a special "gender-critical" resistance strain of feminism to exist; androphilic MtF transsexuals mostly just don't cause problems.)
+In a purely descriptive sense, this would seem to qualify as "hate speech"—expressing antipathy for a group of people on the basis of sexual orientation. But if so, I count it as evidence for the case that, contrary to popular belief, hate speech _is_ free speech (that is, you can't just exclude "hate" without thereby excluding substantive ideas): from the standpoint of women [fighting a Total Culture War](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) to protect single-sex spaces and the very concept of womanhood itself, it makes _perfect sense_ to demonize the demographic that is, _in fact_, collectively responsible for your woes. (In a world where autogynephilia as a psychological phenomenon didn't exist "but everything else was the same", there would be no need for a special "gender-critical" resistance strain of feminism to exist; androphilic MtF transsexuals mostly just don't cause problems.)
Just because it _makes sense_ for some people to hate (given the situation they're in) doesn't mean the situation itself isn't sad, on multiple levels. [I think autogynephilia is a _better explanation_ than "gender identity" for people like me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)—while I haven't transitioned, I'm obviously _the type_ that would have, had I been born five years later—and I think it's sad most of the people who use [_the word for the thing_](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) are ... people who hate us. (Never smile at an autogynephile! Never even meet his eye or stay to talk a while! Please be rude and always mock!)
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+I don't think it _had_ to be this way.
this is what ETLE looks like for people for whom it's actually about clothes: http://onceiwasaman.blogspot.com/
+How to get over feeling like I'm fetishizing womanhood?
+https://archive.ph/6l1W8
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