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@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ Again, the conference was great, and I had a lot of fun, but—I don't know. Som
 
 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 a moment, I want you to consider [the stress and awkwardness this inflicts](https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/172800552516/so-i-havent-posted-about-this-since-college) on people who have [_some_ form](https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/05/using-gender-neutral-pronouns-could-actually-misgender-people.html) of gender-related problems but who have chosen some [set of mitigating interventions](/2017/Jan/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan/) other than transitioning.
+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 a moment, I want you to consider [the stress this can inflict](https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/172800552516/so-i-havent-posted-about-this-since-college) on people who have [_some_ form](https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/05/using-gender-neutral-pronouns-could-actually-misgender-people.html) of gender-related problems but who have chosen some [set of mitigating interventions](/2017/Jan/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan/) other than transitioning.
 
 Which sticker am I supposed to put on if I am to show solidarity? The _he/him/his_ sticker would be the obvious, straightforward choice. After all, that is, in fact, the third-person pronoun people use for me. But in a context where I'm being offered a _choice_, I _don't want_ to choose the male option, because that makes it look like I "identify" with my maleness—as if I were _cis_ in the strong sense of having a "gender identity" matching one's "assigned sex at birth", rather than in the [weaker sense](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/cis-by-default/) of being a reactionary coward whose pathological need for a backwards-compatible social identity is preventing her from becoming her best self. 
 
+At the same time, the _she/her/hers_ sticker
+
 
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@@ -63,3 +65,5 @@ https://meteuphoric.com/2017/08/30/what-you-cant-say-to-a-sympathetic-ear/
 "There are views we have decided are unacceptable and we will ostracize you for having them." https://twitter.com/seldo/status/714272018976284672
 
 find the contributor covenant PR where someone wanted to carve out a personal Twitter exemption, and the counterargument mentioned naming the project in the profile
+
+https://where.coraline.codes/blog/oscon/
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 https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/evkwm4/how-to-be-an-ally-to-non-binary-gender-non-conforming-people-support
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory
+
+----
+
+Extracted from one of my SEXNET posts—
+
+Unrelatedly, Beck et al. note in passing a fascinating finding that I think deserves more examination:
+
+> Gender portrayal seems to vary based on target audience. In genres and channels targeting boys, girls are more likely to be depicted as smarter, less emotional, and more technically savvy (Baker & Raney, 2007; Gerding and & Signorielli, 2014; Thompson & Zerbinos, 1995). Conversely, genres and channels targeting girl viewers depict boys as more emotional and affectionate than do boy-oriented media (Aubrey & Harrison, 2004; Hentges & Case, 2013).
+
+The authors go on to state that "[i]n sum, children's media reinforce gender role binaries and suggest that our culture values strictly delineated gender roles." But left unexplained is why a culture that values strictly delineated gender roles would optimize for portraying girls with masculine-coded virtues in boys' media and boys with feminine-coded virtues in girls' media. (An alternative theory that does predict this particular datum is that media producers are incentivized to cater to children's egocentric fantasies of the other sex's psychology being more like their own ...)

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-I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But (my reply to Ozy's reply to my reply to Scott)
-
+Scattered Personal Reflections
+I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
 The View From Nowhere
-Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
-Political speech: https://where.coraline.codes/blog/oscon/
+"But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": on the Costs and Benefits of Nonbinary Genders as a Social Technology
 
 
+Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
 Demibuoy
 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
-Nonbinary Possibilities (working title)
+
 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
 Friendship Practices of ...
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ Product Review: FaceApp
 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
 Q Book Review: Nevada
 ask S. if I can repost her information-theoretic account of passing??
+Product Review: Oculus Go
 
 All You Had to Say  https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
 
-✓ Interlude XII (four lights)
 ✓ Christina Hoff Sommers
 ✓ eggs don't deserve love