Darn! If only I were a female androphile, rather than a male one… I eagerly await the day this post reads “large group of female rationalists now requires gay-best-friend figure for company, dialogue about hair and SAVING the WORLD”.
This is a really neat idea, yay for propagating relationships that wouldn’t otherwise have occurred.
Thanks for the acknowledgment :) I have quite a few friends of “its complicated” gender, I think it kind of gives you all superpowers in the sense that you are so much more aware of a very large and frequently used set of assumptions most people are making, and exceptions to them - you are forced to see more of the structure of the matrix just by virtue of being who you are. Please let me know if you ever make it to out to California.
You’re welcome :) yes, in that sense it does confer (by confer I mean involuntarily foist upon you) a handful of learning opportunities, especially as you grow up with a wider view of gender-stuff. I’m not certain I’d go back in time and choose the norm, for the variety having an extra order of weirdness.
Though fitting in with weirdness never seemed like it’d be a huge problem with Less Wrong.
Darn! If only I were a female androphile, rather than a male one… I eagerly await the day this post reads “large group of female rationalists now requires gay-best-friend figure for company, dialogue about hair and SAVING the WORLD”.
This is a really neat idea, yay for propagating relationships that wouldn’t otherwise have occurred.
Thanks for the acknowledgment :) I have quite a few friends of “its complicated” gender, I think it kind of gives you all superpowers in the sense that you are so much more aware of a very large and frequently used set of assumptions most people are making, and exceptions to them - you are forced to see more of the structure of the matrix just by virtue of being who you are. Please let me know if you ever make it to out to California.
You’re welcome :) yes, in that sense it does confer (by confer I mean involuntarily foist upon you) a handful of learning opportunities, especially as you grow up with a wider view of gender-stuff. I’m not certain I’d go back in time and choose the norm, for the variety having an extra order of weirdness.
Though fitting in with weirdness never seemed like it’d be a huge problem with Less Wrong.
I totally will, thank you.
s/acceptions/exceptions/
Thanks!