From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:43:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: replacement notebook scans for "A Beacon Through the Darkness" X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc1324a9ee630f4edd990eb802bec2bc19d049a3;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git replacement notebook scans for "A Beacon Through the Darkness" I don't like original phone-as-copy-camera images—for one thing, they ended up too redshifted. When I was at the copy shop the other week, I actually made a scan; I want to retrofit them into the post now, especially given that I'm expecting a traffic bump soon ... --- diff --git a/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md b/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md index 3ab2fb2..372ab26 100644 --- a/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md +++ b/content/2017/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time.md @@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ I wrote in my notebook: > THERE'S A WORD FOR IT. _There's a word for it._ I don't know whether to be happy that there's an adjective for what I have, or sad that other men have it, & that it's not mine, & only mine. Bless Wikipedia for showing me [...] But still, after all emotions have fitted themselves away, there is the word. "Autogynephilia." So simple; I know all the foreign roots; I should have thought of it. "Autogynephilic." That's what I am. -![notebook: THERE'S A WORD FOR IT ...]({filename}/images/getting_it_right_1.jpg) +![notebook: THERE'S A WORD FOR IT ...]({filename}/images/getting_it_right_1.png) And: > Scarcity is a _metaphysical_ fact, so why am I hurt when my word (which I didn't invent & only discovered a few hours ago) has so many connotations attached to it that I don't like? The dictionary definition is perfect for me, but all the exposition after that has to do with transsexualism, which annoys me, although thinking of it now, I suppose it would seem to be a logical extension to some. I'm autogynephilic _without_ being gender-dysphoric—_or am I?_ _If_ transitioning cheap & fast & painless & perfect—wouldn't I at least be tempted? What I can't stand is transsexuals who want to express the man/woman they "truly are inside"—because I don't think there's any such thing. It _has_ to be about sex—because gender shouldn't exist. -![notebook: so why am I hurt when my word ...]({filename}/images/getting_it_right_2.jpg) +![notebook: so why am I hurt when my word ...]({filename}/images/getting_it_right_2.png) + +![notebook: that I don't like ...]({filename}/images/getting_it_right_3.png) My views on gender have changed a _lot_ over the past ten years—most notably, I'm not a psychological sex differences denialist anymore, so I'm afraid I can no longer endorse that "gender shouldn't exist" stance. (Given that sex differences exist and people aren't going to _pretend not to notice_, social-role defaults are inevitably going to accrete around them.) diff --git a/content/images/getting_it_right_1.png b/content/images/getting_it_right_1.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12b896f Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/getting_it_right_1.png differ diff --git a/content/images/getting_it_right_2.png b/content/images/getting_it_right_2.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7cc1a7d Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/getting_it_right_2.png differ diff --git a/content/images/getting_it_right_3.png b/content/images/getting_it_right_3.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..946fee0 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/getting_it_right_3.png differ