I'm very sorry – of course – that what I wrote in a crappy humor essay was seen as hurtful to anyone.
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This page in a nutshell: Summary of this editor's views on writing about transgender and nonbinary/genderqueer subjects; excerpted statements of mine on these matters; and an FAQ on the debate that compels me to have this page in the first place. |
I should have been more sensitive to the possibility that it would be, in ways counter to the intent of the material. Allowing it to be reused in Signpost was a very bad idea, though other editors should not be blamed for what I wrote.
Newimpartial smartly summarized [1] that,
per CIVIL, we are responsible for what we actually say, not simply for what we intend. In fact, as a best practice, we ought to imagine what the impact of our remarks would be on a highly sensitive person whom we love, who is temperamentally unable to let go of an issue, rather than placing the burden on our interlocutors to "just get over" the unintended consequences of our own utterances.
This is very well said, and speaks directly to how I erred.
However, individuals who are still falsely stating that I am, or the material is, "transphobic" need to stop smear-campaigning and trying to reignite strife about a matter the community has already settled and moved on from.
Since it looks like I'll be attacked with socio-politically motivated distortions of my positions on transgender, non-binary, and genderqueer (hereafter TG/NB/GQ) people until the end of time, I should probably spell out my actual views on TG/NB/GQ matters relevant to Wikipedia, and collect diffs that demonstrate them in application (and how consistent they've been for years). It gets tiresome to correct and refute false claims about this stuff manually, over and over again.
It will also probably be useful to lay out the entire history of the underlying community debate and the essay behind it, in FAQ form. I'm not going to do that as a "diff farm", since a lot of people probably don't want their usernames dragged back into this (and the community does not want the Signpost page prominently made visible).
My views on this are the views of the Wikipedia editing community consensus, as on any style matter. Even if I disagreed with any of the principles below in my private, off-site life (and I do not), I would not bring that preference onto Wikipedia as something to "lobby" about, must less just "impose until I win or get banned". I'm a staunch opponent of abuse of Wikipedia as a soapbox for any reason.
[T]his has been a matter of fairly frequent discussion over the last couple of years here, on various talk pages (including Talk:Rose McGowan and Talk:The Matrix Revolutions, among many others): The transgendered and non-binary are not some hive mind. They're individuals with highly variable preferences. We have a serious problem with language reform activists (most of them not TG but self-styled "allies", and often criticized by actual TG people as terrible allies) constantly making one-size-fits-all assumptions and demanding that WP editors write the neologistic way the activistic like. We are finally getting pretty close to acceptance of singular they, and I think that's about as far as it'll go. We do need strategies for referring to non-binary subjects, and those for whom current gender identity isn't well-sourced. But it's not going to be with pseudo-pronouns like e and s(h)e.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 18:20, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
WP shouldn't "ignore" trans/non-binary people with [personally invented, not-real-English] neo-pronouns (or ignore their neo-pronouns, rather), if reliable sources tell us what that preference is with sufficient frequency about that individual that we're certain it's worth mentioning as a sourced fact in the article about them. We simply shouldn't use those terms in Wikipedia's own voice. ... The reason to not do so is essentially the same as the reason to not append or prepend religious honorific stylings, spell Kesha as "Ke$ha" to mimic her marketing, render Sony as "SONY" to match their logo design, or do any similar things: It's a WP:NPOV and WP:NOT problem, and thus also against the WP:MOS provisions derived from those policies, e.g. MOS:TM, MOS:DOCTCAPS, MOS:BIO, etc. ... [H]aving a blanket approach to all of these matters is sensible and will continue and isn't an evil. ... There are about 1.5 billion English speakers; they cannot all be satisfied about anything, ever.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 20:46, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
I was born in the late '60s. I have been around the block. Even in a small and conservative town in the early 1980s, I had a transsexual friend, Mykal, known as "Miss Mykal" in drag performances. (And, yes, transsexual; the term transgender had virtually no currency in that era outside of ivory-tower journals, and Mykal would have rejected it.) I've known from my early teens (in an era when pretty much no one wanted talk about it) that such people exist, and take their sexual and gender identity for real, are not just roleplaying, and approach all the questions and issues about such matters individually. Mykal was "assigned male at birth", as Michael, but by this period (around age 20) had changed to a gender-indeterminate name spelling, worked as a quite convincing drag performer (and didn't use the term "drag queen", though wasn't angry about the term), had mostly various LGBTQ+ friends of all sorts (well, usually "GLBT" back then), and did not identify as gay male, despite being often labelled that way even by gay and lesbian friends (though they at least respected the she/her preference in direct address). She did not take stated offense at he/him, just made gentle corrections.
Mykal moved to San Francisco in the mid-1980s, to get higher-profile work and to seek hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery (and to, she hoped, get away from the risks of being herself in a small-town environment, safe at last in the "LGBTQ+ mecca"). During Fleet Week, she was murdered by drunk military "gay-bashers", her first year in town. I'm damned well aware of the seriousness of the hatred that can be turned against LGBTQ+ people, and toward trans individuals especially. I do not need anyone on this site to presume to "wokesplain" any of it to me, much less assume I'm ignorant about it, or callously uncaring.
I've spent much of my adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's virtually impossible to do so without absorbing the Zeitgeist about LGBTQ+ matters (including how actually complex they are, despite attempts by "allies" to oversimplify them).
During a stint away from this region, I was captaining an amateur pool team, in the VNEA. In the US, pool-playing leans toward a male-, cis-, and hetero-chauvinist social scene – not out of malice, but simply demographics. It is improving, but only incrementally. One of my players was a transwoman. Our team did really well at the regional level, and we earned a spot at the VNEA International Championships in 'Vegas that year (2009, I think; I went to such events in more than one year). Poring over the various rules and regs, there was no answer anywhere to the burning question of whether my transwoman teammate would (in the singles events) be permitted to play in the women's division. I wrote repeatedly to the VNEA national office about this, and never received an official response. I was eventually told, very off-the-record, by one of the event organizers that it was basically going to come down to whoever was working the registration booth that shift, and if we didn't get the result we wanted, try again. It was clear that the organization was going to avoid putting anything in writing about this question for as long as possible, because they wanted neither negative press attention for being trans-hostile, nor internal drama among their player membership which was dominated by Midwestern and Southern rural-to-suburban conservatives. To this day, I don't know whether this has ever been resolved formally, though I would hope so (and in favor of an answer of yes, since pool is not a discipline in which biological sex makes any difference).
So, I also don't need any presumptuous b.s. from anyone on Pickyweedia here, falsely claiming I'm some kind of enemy to trans people or a blockader of their progress. That's insulting and frankly stupid: If you don't actually know anything about someone's real-world life, don't assume you do. "When you assume, you make an ass out of both u and me." My not agreeing with a linguistic activism point of dogma, from one faction of advocacy busybodies, mostly "allies" not actual trans people, claiming to represent (but badly over-generalizing about) one form of trans within the English-language segment of LGBTQ+ concerns, well ... it just doesn't make me "anti-trans", sorry. It makes me wisely resistant to an overly narrow and unreasonable form of PoV pushing about language-reform agendas that don't belong on this site (no matter what their topic is). Take that stuff to Facebook, and writing op-eds for Salon, and so on. This is not CrusadeForYourCausePedia.
I drafted a half-baked humor essay that inadvertently offended some trans/nonbinary/genderqueer people (and others who do not identify as such but who are sensitive to issues surrounding that aggregate group). The piece was quite poor, and though it was not at all an attack on TG/NB/GQ people, I definitely should have expected it would be taken as offensive by some, for the simple reason that it used a pronoun as a framing device.
Part of how this happened is that I'm very difficult to offend. In all aspects of my life, if someone makes a joke about people who do/are/come from/are into/have a background in/are fans of/etc. X, where X is something that applies to me, I generally will not take offense at it, unless there's evidence that they meant it maliciously in general (bigotry), or knew it pertained to me and meant it as a barb (personal attack). I just don't get riled. I am not a thought-policer by nature, and my anthropology background makes me very socio-culturally relativist. Something like this happened just the other day [in 2020-11]; I thought it was amusing rather than offensive. Then it occurred to me: This can make it challenging to be fully alert to the possibility of others' offense at something I might say. It's not an empathy failure, but more of an empathy tangent; my "feels" are not running quite parallel to average (and are not very absolutist).
The intent of the piece was to use very exaggeratory humor to illustrate why Wikipedia is written in everyday, mainstream English, following what the vast majority of reliable sources are doing with regard to a particular topic, and does not bow to trivial marketing or aggrandizement demands made for commercial, political, religious, organizational, subcultural, classist, or even simply egotistical reasons. Well, not in "Wikipedia's own voice". It addresses PoV-pushers trying to get Wikipedia to use fake words, strange epithets, over-stylization of monickers, and other non-encyclopedic monkeying with the language to push one agenda or another.
A Wikipedia article will proper note in passing, as a primary-sourced fact, that the singer-songwriter Kesha, for example, likes to spell her name "Ke$ha". But Wikipedia does not otherwise spell her name that way – not because we don't like her, but because very few independent, reliable sources do so, and because this quirk is not a central part of her identity or her public persona. Similarly, we don't write "macy🟊s" or "SONY". Usually-unreasonable "style demands" run the gamut from capitalization quirks (the most common type), running words together, and symbol substitutions, to more unusual things like non-standard grammar, line-height changes, colorization, and so on. When an exception in "weird orthography" is made on Wikipedia for a particular topic (iPhone, DaimlerChrysler, Mötley Crüe, Deadmau5, k.d. lang), it's because a sufficiently large super-majority of sources spell it that way. I.e., most readers will expect it spelled that way.
Confusion about this stuff leads to surprisingly common, bitter, time-wasting disputes between editors, which basically always turn out with the same answers, but which recur nonetheless. An essay on the topic seemed like a good idea. Maybe one would be. But it sure as hell wasn't that essay.
It does neither, at all. To the extent it is critical of anything pertaining to TG/NB/GQ issues in any way, it would simply reject the unreasonable expectation that Wikipedia use neologistic, idiolect pronoun replacements (e, zie/zir, s(h)e, hirm, etc.), in Wikipedia's own voice (i.e., beyond reporting the sourced fact that a certain person uses zie/zir). The essay didn't come up with this; it's simply how Wikipedia is written. The essay reflects (albeit rather confusingly) the reality of consensus on that point. (See also isolated cases of celebrities making absurdist pseudo-pronoun claims as public-relations stunts, e.g. here; that kind of exploitative "look at me!" nonsense is well within the essay's intended scope of criticism.)
It was not critical in any way of using any actual English-language pronoun, in the way preferred by our biographical article's subject (as reported in reliable sources, which is this kind of case can include self-published primary sources, e.g., a celebrity's blog or Twitter feed). It does not support at all the idea of referring to transwomen as "he", etc. It was simply about someone demanding unusual capitalization and grammar for aggrandizement reasons.
It was not against use of singular-they as a generic gender-neutral pronoun. Wikipedia, like other modern publishers, does this frequently, both when a subject prefers it, when we're uncertain, or when we need to use a pronoun but the subject typically uses an neo-pronoun in their own private life.
It was not mocking transgender people who do use neo-pronouns. What people do in their own lives is up to them, just fine, and something we'll document about them if they are notable and we have an article on them. Wikipedia not using neo-pronouns in "Wiki-voice" doesn't mean we're disrespecting anyone. Wikipedia is simply written in mainstream and rather globalized English for a broad audience. WP doesn't ever "lead the way" on style matters, we just do what mainstream, academic-register sources usually do (aside from variances we need for some internal technical reason). This is why WP was rather slow to adopt singular-they; we didn't do it until it was ubiquitous in mainstream media, and recommended in major off-site style guides.
The first screwup: This was trivial in a sense, but could and should have been the end. Conceptually, the essay was just crap. It simply wasn't funny, or focused, or clear enough in its intent to even be interpreted as intended. It was a Stephen Colbert-style alter-ego thing, in which a fictionalized version of me was making all kinds of absurd demands. The general format of it could have made the point in a few lines, but it went on for dozens, obsessively. And it veered off-topic to unrelated stuff, like mocking dangerous cults, making pop-culture references, poking good-natured fun at particular rock stars, criticizing people who make legal threats and editors who try to mis-cite policies, and a dozen other things. And it was a bit mean-spirited; it's difficult to write a humor piece that exaggerates and mocks any tedious style foible without also seeming to personally mock the individuals advocating those styles. It was just a total failure. Then it got worse.
No and yes. There is no attack on transgender people. There's definitely a clumsy insensitivity to them though. But, yes, this is where offense starts happening. The second, and main, screwup was deciding that the major theme throughout would be pronoun-based, though in a way totally different from TG/NB/GQ use: My alter-ego demanded to be referred to as It, with a capital I. As anyone familiar with gender issues knows, TG/NB/GQ people never do this (well, maybe there's a lone exception out there?). Rather, transphobes use it toward them as a slur. By turning this inside-out and positing a nut (the character pretends to be an alien space-god) who must be called It, this seemed surely clear enough that it wasn't about TG/NB/GQ people, and couldn't be.
Wow, was I ever wrong, actual intent notwithstanding. To some readers, it seemed that it "must" be intentionally mocking an actual NB/GQ character! That this space-cult leader considered "Itself" above all categorization (which seemed an easy way to introduce some jokes and points, about exceptionalism / special pleading that Wikipedia does not entertain in our content), it simply fed back into the problem, because ... that would mean beyond gender (agender, genderqueer), too, right? Or at least pretending to be, which to some might be worse.
While TG/NB/GQ people do not "wholly own" the entire subject of pronouns, there really is no other group for whom it is a sensitive topic (and for which they are sometimes verbally attacked or worse). There really is no way to turn this into humor that will not backfire, that will not "punch downward". That wasn't entirely clear to me at the time, though I had my misgivings. Various rewriting tweaks, including after the drama detailed below, didn't seem to get around this potential issue (because, I now understand better, there really is no way around it). And even with those tweaks it had a few other wording choices that could be seen as reinforcing an LGBTQ+ connection, despite there being no intent for there to be one.
I quickly realized the essay was junk (having multiple failures, not just this one) and pretty much forgot about it. It sat there in my userspace gathering dust. But I did list it on my essays page, because "it was there". Thus some people did find it, though very few. Of those who did, a few thought it was funny, a few thought it was offensive, and most just thought it was pointless. It's even possible that some who thought it was funny did so not because they got the actual intent of it but because they had anti-trans leanings, and thought the piece spoke to their viewpoint.
Lots. Screw up no. three, much later, but with dreadful fallout: One of the few people who ever noticed the page was a Signpost humor editor, looking for pre-existing humor essays to re-use in our internal e-newspaper. She proposed using it (probably because it was short, in total word-length). I remembered my misgivings that it might be misinterpreted. But the editor got what the actual intent of the piece was (somehow) and didn't think it would be misread. So, "Yeah, sure", I thought (or more like reacted rather than thought); I okayed it. I will regret that forever. So will she (more so, as you'll see).
In retrospect, there was a really remarkable coincidence: besides the humor editor, the main Signpost editor (in the publishing sense) at that time, and another editor there, too, also "got" the actual intent of the piece, and also didn't think it had much real potential to offend anyone. So, Signpost ran it, and rather prominently. For no clear reason, the main Signpost editor put the humor editor's name on it as well as mine (and in fact made mine secondary, as if I'd just done some minor tweaking on it, when I was in fact the author of the entire thing).
The negative reaction to its publication was immediate. It's not necessary to pore over it in great detail. The gist is:
The resolutions and effects were mostly rather predictable:
While you can dig up the Signpost version in page history if you really, really want to, please do not link to that version. The community consensus to blank it out was strong, and undertaken for solid rationales, which have not changed. The community does not want this available even as old back-issue archive material. Continually associating Signpost with that content is not helpful, because our e-news has been under all-new management since then, by editors who should not be subjected to guilt by association for decisions they had nothing to do with.
I could have it speedily deleted by just slapping a {{db-user}}
template on it, and did strongly consider doing so after the MfDs were over. In the end, I did not for several reasons: It provides a way to look at the material without tying it to Signpost forever and ever. The dispute about this material was significant, and would be rendered effectively meaningless if no one could easily see what it was about. And it serves as a useful cautionary tale: this is what not to do on Wiki English.
If your purpose in looking for the above link is to go generate some new drama about it, please see the last sentences on this page first.
I would say "no", given that transgender and nonbinary people themselves can easily get attacked by their peers and supposed allies for using terms or phrases some of them are offended by, especially in these days of "cancel culture". Same goes for anyone using art to criticize transphobia or trans exploitation, if they don't do it in exactly the way that pleases certain people looking for offense where ever they can find it.
Case study 1
Please read the article "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"; this is the one about the short story, not the transphobic joke. Summary: Isabell Fall, a transwoman, wrote the story to "take away some of the power of that very hurtful meme" by subverting it. (The story is a near-future sci-fi piece about a cis-female military chopper pilot neurologically reprogrammed to identify as not just with her AI-enhanced helicopter, to be supposedly a better solider. If you like anthropological and psychological sci-fi that posits new frames of mind and relation, you'll probably find it a good read.) The story was examined carefully by, and revised in response to, pre-press trans sensitivity reviewers. Nevertheless, its publication resulted in the author, the publication, its editor, and even the concept of art for art's sake being subjected to a firehose of attack. This resulted in the publication retracting the story, at the author's request, "for her own personal safety and health". It also sparked discussion among arts critics and writers' organizations about increasing knee-jerk attempts to suppress art and thought.
In the end, this not only harmed a trans, minority author palpably, it also backfired for the trans-rights movement, due to both the Streisand effect and by turning more arts and media people toward suspicion of trans advocacy's motives, as being perhaps more censorious than liberating, more about indoctrination than tolerance.
Case study 2
This is also worth a look. Summary: Cyberpunk 2077 is a dystopian videogame that, like Blade Runner and most other works in the genre, is peppered with social criticism in the form of fictional advertising taken to a future extreme. The game features a soft-drink advert poster showing a very feminine except well-hung genderqueer figure and the tagline "Mix It Up". The art's designer specifically intended it as a critique of commercialized exploitation: "... this model is used – their beautiful body is used – for corporate reasons. They are displayed there just as a thing, and that's the terrible part of it." Nevertheless, game reviewer Stacey Henley responds: "While a cutting critique of queer commodification might have been part of the idea's nucleus, the outcome is a commodification itself, objectifying trans people as creatures of deviance, defined by their genitals and suitable only for sexualization or rejection." This attitude amounts to a declaration that using art to satirize simply is not possible if it happens to touch LGBT+ subject matter. (Henley's tagline is "Self appointed queen of the SJWs" [4], described by Washington Post as a "trans activist" [5].) She also declares the art part of "a history of transphobic incidents" and "pervasive, toxic attitudes that have long swirled around Cyberpunk 2077". But the examples provided are not of transphobia, but rather of wordplay and marketing that are simply going to seem trans-insenstitive to some (plus some guilt by association because Elon Musk's twitter account and that of the game company, CD Projekt Red (CDPR), have traded banter).
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Henley is so sure of her own interpretation she goes on to verbally attack a cosplayer [a cis-female] for dressing as the character in the image, declaring: "If you're thinking perhaps the model was well-meaning, attempting to create a trans-positive cosplay, trying to further highlight queer commodification CDPR spoke of originally, or just a misguided ally who got it wrong this time around, I have bad (yet predictable) news for you." (The "evidence"? That the cosplayer disclaimed politicized intent, and once also made a balanced and true observation that other people than trans are subject to harassment and violence.) This smear-jobbing all seems familiar, doesn't it? What next? Is the writer (or social-media readers who follow her) going to attack professional drag performers (who very often are actually trans) for stereotyping and dehumanizing people of the supposedly opposite sex? Attack teens for dressing as other androgynous characters when that's the only way some of them are yet comfortable approaching their own gender identity? Attack manufacturers of strap-ons, and attack cis-women, including lesbians, who like them? At what point does this kind of "I know how you should approach sexuality and gender in your own life and mind better than you do yourself" in loco parentis nonsense end? As with the short-story example above, this stuff has real potential to backfire, to harm actual TG/NB/GQ people who do not fit the one-size-fits-all "culture wars" mold some activist wants to stuff them into. The writer then goes on about how the game should permit players to create trans characters and what a sea change this would be – thereby revealing a shocking ignorance of actual gamer culture for someone supposedly a specialist writer. Skyrim, the most community-modded game in history, and many others like the Fallout franchise, have been positively overflowing with player-made genderqueer characters for more than a decade. It's especially ironic that Henley's review is titled "It sucks that Cyberpunk 2077’s edgelord marketing worked so well", when it's those very "edgelord" gamers who are building these characters (no mean feat given the coding mechanics involved in hacking a game that was only engineered for a strict pair of exaggeratedly sexually dimorphic male and female 3D assets). Weirdly still, Henley later concedes in the same article that Cyberpunk 2077 character creator "doesn't tie gender to genitalia". (Then finds a way to continue gender-crit'ing the game anyway: "if you want to be referred to as a woman, you need to select the voice actor with a typically feminine voice". Oh, the horror. Modders will find a work around for that probably within the first month, given what Skryim modders have done with dialogue in that game.) Oh, and: "no one knows how well any of these controversial themes will be tackled in Cyberpunk 2077 itself". I.e., Henley has not even played demo and beta versions of the game, and published this "review of nothing but some marketing and online chatter" on 4 December 2020, only a couple of day days before professional reviewers got advanced copies and published actual reviews. Why?. The writer complains that CDPR's marketing "can ... form unbreakable bonds with a game they haven't even played yet." I think that's called projection; it's just that the bond here is a negative one Henley's formed, based on assumptions about content. It's strongly reminiscent of far-right religious groups' pre-release boycotts of The Last Temptation of Christ and many other films, without ever actually watching them, just based on hearsay and biased inference. |
I half-predict that material from this ranty pseudo-review will actually find its way into Wikipedia's own article on the game, despite the obvious WP:UNDUE problems that would involve.
Some of CDPR's marketing and game-art decisions can reasonably be considered "mistakes", from several angles. But the implication that they're transphobic malice is way more than a stretch. That sure sounds familiar, too.
Back to the WP context
Everyone makes mistakes, including those of sensitivity judgment. A central Wikipedia behavioral, administrative, and wiki-cultural tenet is that we do not dwell forever on past transgressions, or make the bad-faith assumptions that our peers had the worst intentions, do not learn from their mistakes, or must be enemies of the project if they sometimes don't perfectly adhere to one's own sense of norms or decorum. Culture-warring activists misusing WP as aplatform for personal defamation are a toxin.
Quite the opposite. This page compressed to a sentence is: I regret that what I wrote was hurtful to anyone; I should have been more sensitive to the likelihood that it would be; running it in Signpost was a very bad idea; and other editors should not be blamed for what I wrote (though the individuals falsely stating that I am, or the material is, "transphobic" need to stop that).
I'm not coming from a "sorry"-because-I-got-caught position. I'm genuinely sorry that some people were offended by the piece. I'm not sorry that my failure to do so has led to and will continue to lead to (honest, accurate) criticism in my direction. It's okay that my ass cannot be covered. We learn from our mistakes not our successes.
Importantly, what I have written in this page in late 2020 is consistent with what I wrote during the community conflagration about the Signpost piece when it was new, in early 2019. E.g:
... I have not denied any responsibility for what I wrote. I've already revised my userspace copy to remove various "trigger terms". I've consistently (on all these pages, and at ANI) denied that [the Signpost humor editor] had anything to do with the actual content – it's 100% me. I've conceded that inclusion in the Signpost was probably bad idea. And I've stated flat-out that I'm well aware that anything that addresses or even comes close to TG/NB people and pronouns is inevitably going to piss off some subset of people.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:16, 2 March 2019
The only difference between that statement and what I've said here almost two years later is that "probably" has become "definitely". [The rest of that long post is a mixture of observations about social discourse patterns that surround many issues of this nature; and some perhaps over-stressy defense against a variety of completely false personal attacks that were being shotgunned at me in the MfDs.]
Even if the material I wrote had been great (which it obviously was not), allowing it to run in Signpost despite the likelihood of some taking offense was the most serious of my screwups in this chain of events. That aspect is clearer to me now than it was when the debate fires were still burning (and contained a large amount of "anti-censorship" stance-taking, not just "this is trans-offensive" complaint; there was a lot of WP:DRAMA from both extremes).
Please just move on, like everyone else. We don't need any more productive editors getting mired in blocks and bans over misusing Wikipedia as a battleground. Remember that you are here to work on an encyclopedia, and so am I.
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