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if im gonna actually use this to dump stuff i should probably play around with the stylesheet on here huh

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a summary of genderthread: tldr gender is a meme

[credence: 70% ± 30%] [complete: no]

some basic observations

humans have very few instinctual behaviors — besides reflexes that arent "stay alive", almost all human behavior is learned

much of it is learned in early childhood, and sufficiently early learning can be indistinguishable from "instinct" (cf language acquisition)

people do much worse of a job isolating themselves from socially mediated influences than they think they do

gender is not inherent to the form

human sexual dimorphism is remarkably weak

critical learning period (most neuroplasticity and fewer learned priors) is especially not dimorphic — natal male and female children differ almost solely in physical genitalia until pubescence

gender roles are universally more than a mere derivation from {stronger/larger, more aggressive, etc} and {can bear children, more prone to illness, etc}

very little appears to be inherent to natal sex in re development (transitioning works)

acculturation to gender is socialization

two critical periods for gender acculturation, both of which are accompanied by many, many other memetic infestations

young children will never be isolated from gender memes so long as they meet another child; children's media, clothing, basic splits (girls on this side, boys on that side!), neurotic older people all pervasive influences that cannot be entirely stymied — cf average child of immigrants (for visualization: american daughter of middle eastern migrants)

teenagers (and increasingly, uh, 10 year olds) start becoming sexually dimorphic, so new differences become much higher salience; this is universally recognizable in teen boys being really fucking weird around girls

if early childhood wasnt enough, pubescent othering cements those few differences into a chasm fundamentally uncrossable. "i am a guy, you are a girl" is a statement more than facially true only once it's inconceivable that the other gender is a derivation of your own form

~none of this is intentional in modern western society, which means that gender is subconsciously learned (ie, a meme)

trans is also socialization... but failed

westerners being very obviously more trans than non-westerners isnt just an artifact of gender/sexual social equality. because gender memes are by and large no longer backed by the force of god/tradition/domination it is much harder to other the opposite sex, thus cementing the self/other meme... doesnt happen for many more people

theyfabs being more common than theymabs is not young girls being young girls. women as the second sex (no i havent read it) means woman gains social stature from being manly; the history of feminism is relatively masc-accultured women tearing away at the femme gender meme, expanding the range of expression acceptable to a natal female. see also tomboys as proto-theyfab

the internet tranny archetype (though this is narrow) is probably causally related to the internet. growing up on the internet such as it is disembodies one, and the gender memes still rely on the scraps of dimorphism to prove themselves plausible enough to pass the gatekeeper (consider that young children learn from dimorphic adults). identifying with your pfp and display name more than your body grants immunity to memetic infestation, thus heterodox gender. [THIS POINT IS IRRECONCILABLY COLORED BY SELF-PERCEPTION. CREDENCE: 40% ± 30%]

tumblr circa 7-13 years ago is a reaction to terminally ill gender memes

demiboy/demigirl represents partial infestations

every more and more specific letter of the acronym is an attempt to artificiality construct a coherent narrative frame. narrative frames rule everything around me and are what most memes are — the gender-shaped vacuum will be filled (consider this document)

stereotypical theyfab is itself a nucleating gender meme; it would not surprise me if in 30 years western (or at least anglo) society mostly recognized three genders: man, woman, the replicating cluster of traits referred to by theyfab (cf "hrt femboy" and their remarkable similarities)

rogd is probably real and socially mediated

"gender is a meme" is wrong but useful

vanishingly few cultures have attested trans men (cannot be separated from social benefits of leaving no trace, but plausibly also biological in origin)

enough reports of trans girls shifting sexuality that it's possible more is endocrinologically mediated than currently understood

i am insane and projecting an internal narrative onto the world and dont realize the extent of it [credence: 50% ± 50%, obviously]

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WAIT i can dump the stuff i wanna publish somewhere but cant be bothered to spin a substack up for here how did i forget this was just something i could do 💀

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bluesky is pretty cool

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i just never ended up using this account lmao elon!twt W i guess

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oh my god if this is because they turned off api access i cannot bro what is elon!twt doing 😭

the way the twitter mobile app never got the tweet scheduling feature and it's the only way to post rn

i keep putting off buying a battery for my old decrepit laptop. this is clearly a mistake and yet

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the way the twitter mobile app never got the tweet scheduling feature and it's the only way to post rn

i keep putting off buying a battery for my old decrepit laptop. this is clearly a mistake and yet

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well, if you insist...

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Do u know who Josh Allen is

he's a duck isn't he, or is it a buffalo

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federated social media platforms all basically share one issue and that's discovery, you're not finding anyone from off-instance unless you happen to have a list somewhere which sucks when competing against twitter et al

although fwiw i think that the big web 2.0 era social media are basically an aberration in this regard, interforum discovery just... wasn't, reddit still isn't great at communicating across subreddits, and with the large text based social media platforms dying off it seems like if you don't wanna be recording yourself every damn time you make a post or posting pictures of yourself generally you're gonna be stuck in a silo again

ugh, im gonna have to learn how to use tumblr again aren't i

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i like how despite saying i would dump words down here i've literally never touched it after making the account

oh well, if twitter dies i suppose there's a place for something in between long form blog posting and one off tweets

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how's this damn platform work i haven't touched it in years