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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Sexual Orientation

« on: October 24, 2012, 04:53:47 PM »

Genderqueer (aka gender-variant) means you identify somewhere between male and female, but not at either extreme.  If gender identity is a spectrum, and there are males at one end and females at another, then genderqueer people can be anywhere in the middle.  My aforementioned friend feels that she is about 40% male and 60% female.  Since we've met she has slowly come out of the closet even further, from bi to lesbian to kind of transgender lesbian, so...  I figure it doesn't affect our friendship because she's still fun to hang around with regardless of her gender identity or sexuality.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

« on: October 24, 2012, 03:13:26 PM »

Our previous statements are "updated?"  "Rendered obsolete when we admit to having changed our minds since then?"  "Discarded when one's actions demonstrate a different perspective on the issue?"  Perhaps "excused" was simply to inaccurate.  However, by recognizing that my original statement was flawed, wouldn't this post demonstrate that my previous statement is being updated?

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

« on: October 24, 2012, 09:32:41 AM »

Good grief. Nobody is chained to their opinions when they put them into words, even politicians. If opinions change from experience, new evidence, or some sort of enlightenment, then the change should be accepted as rational.

This would have been a good response image:

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Video Game Chat / Re: Pokemon Topic

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:11:14 AM »

I like how Bulbasaur is wise and uses an analogy related to his type.

I'm guessing you've heard of Letters to an Absent Father?

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Forum Games / Re: Ask a stupid Qusestion get a stupid answer

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:01:38 AM »

By the one whom before now it might be later him.

What's a pleasant smell you can remember?

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Forum Games / Re: The Add-One-Word Story Returns

« on: October 23, 2012, 11:59:28 PM »

exactly

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

« on: October 23, 2012, 11:51:41 PM »

...Touche.  Now I'm sorry for all the questionable things I once said.  It's disturbing how so many examples immediately jump into my mind.

Although I hope you don't think I'm changing my opinions in order to win the favor of more TMK'ers!  That would be waaay too shallow and pathetic and accurate.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

« on: October 23, 2012, 11:32:48 PM »

It's in the past!  We were young and reckless!  We've all matured and have posted newer, updated reflections on how we think about these things.  I said I "didn't like homosexuals" in that old thread, which is the most groan-inducing case of dramatic irony I have ever witnessed on the internet.

The way I see it, our previous comments are excused when we say something different in the future.  Kind of like how Mr. Darcy is such a romantic figure despite his role at the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, or how all my posts now invoke this image since I've come out:

Also, I probably enjoyed being grouped together with Lizard Dude in Sapphira's chastisement...

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

« on: October 23, 2012, 10:46:36 PM »

I was wondering if the all-caps "sicken" post would ever come up.  It stayed with me for quite awhile after that.  Although I'm impressed with my 14-year-old self's posts on that page: snooty, yes, but somewhat consistent with how I currently see the issue.  And to think I was gay the whole time! 9_9

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Fan Creations / Re: I'm a music-dude, too, sometimes.

« on: October 23, 2012, 07:56:59 PM »

I like it!  I always a story to go along with instrumental music, and "So Awesome" made me imagine being in some sort of arcade/laser tag zone and discovering the Bonus Room, or some magical place you can only reach after beating the game.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Sexual Orientation

« on: October 23, 2012, 07:42:21 PM »

A lot of people (like my genderqueer friend who's attracted only to women) choose to simplify by referring to themselves as "queer."  Queer is all-encompassing for any gender identity/sexuality for which there isn't already a category for.

If the list were to be expanded, then maybe "gay-leaning bi," and "straight-leaning bi" would work?  Most bisexual people I know are not in the very middle, and generally find themselves attracted more to one side of the gender spectrum than the other.  That's the other reason a lot of people use words other than "bisexual," as bi- implies a binary of only two options.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Sexual Orientation

« on: October 23, 2012, 04:46:51 PM »

Having names for a number of those colors makes it easier to describe what you're seeing.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Sexual Orientation

« on: October 23, 2012, 10:39:15 AM »

Performing drag doesn't make a person transgender.  Transgender people simply identify as a gender that does not align with their biological sex.  Drag queens and drag kings dress as the gender opposite of their biological sex purely for the sake of performance.  Then there are cross-dressers (previously known as transvestites) who receive sexual pleasure from wearing clothes of the opposite gender (without identifying as that gender).

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Sexual Orientation

« on: October 22, 2012, 08:54:59 PM »

Don't forget about Andrej Pejic:

He is a male model and has some incredible photo-work that takes advantage of his androgyny.

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Forum Games / Re: Let's play Hangman!

« on: October 22, 2012, 09:51:59 AM »

No wonder I couldn't solve it: I'm not acquainted with a Mr. Dodongo...