Crocker’s rules.
I’m nobody special, and I wouldn’t like the responsibility which comes with being ‘someone’ anyway.
Reading incorrect information can be frustrating, and correcting it can be fun.
My writing is likely provocative because I want my ideas to be challenged.
I may write like a psychopath, but that’s what it takes to write without bias, consider that an argument against rationality.
Finally, beliefs don’t seem to be a measure of knowledge and intelligence alone, but a result of experiences and personality. Whoever claims to be fully truth-seeking is not entirely honest.
I have more theories on this.
Autistic people seem much more likely to be transgender.
This could be due to issues in introspection (a lack of self-understanding) making their identity less fixed (this also makes it easier for others to influence). Some autistic people also show more immature behaviour. But a common theory which contradicts this is that autisc people have “hyper-masculine” brains.
General intelligence might be inversely correlated with instincts (hard-coded intelligence, essentially).
This would inply that intelligent people more open-minded on average, and more malleable/adaptive. But this is the case. I personally think that disgust, as the preference for cleanliness, is the instinct which makes us dislike what we consider “degeneracy”, and that this too is inversely correlated to intelligence.
I believe that feminine behaviour can be partly explained by the gradual self-domestication of the human race. This also explains why society is getting more feminine on average (the tendency for women to act masculine does not cancel out the opposite tendency. Also, the baseline seems to be moving as well)
Think Nietzsche’s “last man”, or Williams syndrome in dogs and humans, or Kaczynski’s concept of Oversocialization.
This is not directly related to nerdiness, but the effect does seem much stronger in larger cities than in Rural areas.
Gender identity seems closely related to assertiveness vs submissiveness. The former correlates with ones confidence, feeling of power, pride, etc, whereas the latter strongly correlates with poor mental health (depression and feelings of weakness leads one to rely on others, and to avoid behaviour which antagonizes others). Which also relates to:
Testosterone, which eliminates strategic prosocial behaviour. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole political landscape tending left is mainly due to a decrease in average Testosterone levels. That said, as the world becomes “more connected” (increasing population-density and social graph valency), I expect social aspects to matter more, which indirectly rewards feminine behaviour.
A stranger theory I have, is that people have two identities in them, the first is who they consider themselves to be, and the other is their internal image of their ideal partner. If you choose a character in a video game, both are natural choices—do you want to represent yourself, or do you want to create your own ideal? Now, what happens if you choose the latter and start to identify with it? Then you become your own object of desire. If this ‘bug’ exists in the human mind, a lot of other things seem to make more sense.
Lastly, a small nitpicks:
AGP seems to rely on contrast, as a lot of fetishes do. In this case, a man with AGP could never truly become a woman, as this would eliminate the contrast which causes the pleasure.
A mans image of a woman might differ from a womans image of a woman substantially. This is the same problem that furries have—you identify as a fox? Well, maybe your image of what a fox is, is different from how an actual fox experiences the world. Can we really be certain that the internal image we have of something else is anything like the real thing? Even when we fall in love with another person, we often fall in love with the image we have of them, only to be disappointed later.
Finally, AGP/Gender Conservatism aren’t the most upstream factors, by which I mean that these two categories have their own, more fundamental causes.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed reading your post, and the amount of factors involved is enormous, so nobody can take all of them into account