Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

It just seems kinda depressing to think that what you're attracted to could be reduced to a gene. I mean, presumably there's a straight gene too. Doesn't it bother them that their sexual orientation could be flicked like a switch?

Originally Posted by fagarielina

I AAAAAAM THE PWINCESSSSSSSSSSSS
i do what i want
dont try to anal eyes me

Originally Posted by fagarielina

the thawng that always was is and always will be?
im a mesenger sent by the allmighty thawngasaurii to spread the word of the correct spelling of thawng
thats it
its a dirty jawb but someone gota do it

sexual pleasure is really kinda not a big deeal?
i mean i massabate (in da mirror haha
but thats it it doesnt really mean much to me
i bussa nut i move on wit mah day
haha
and shared sexual stuff is just icky

but like i may have mentioned here earlier
accordiong to 20/20 "asexuality" is a real "clinical? thing
WE (hahahahaha) have no desire to get it on with othuhz howeva we do massabate it doesnt matta to what or whateva but we just aint want none dat?
haha we
fuck that shit

Originally Posted by the old town

Demographic analysis shows that compared to the other types of sexual and sexual/violent offences, social exclusion is not a particularly prevalent factor, nor is alcohol/substance abuse, and perpetrators come from a greater range of backgrounds (though there is, of course, a marked preference for convicting socially excluded men). In other words, men who rape women are not necessarily mad, deprived of sex (though that's problematic for me for reasons I won't bother to go into here), substance-dependent, or desperate: if you need a common causative factor, you have to look elsewhere.

Originally Posted by bunny gamer

Does this apply to the rapists of strangers? I'm doubting it.

Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

the same respect I would treat anyone else (which I'll admit is still very little).

Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

Then again, when I'm with someone, I think I'm a lot more feminine, in the conventional sense of being more emotional, more comfortable with vulnerability and so forth. So bleh.

Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

and I think a big part of that is that I don't say anything about it unless it's appropriate. This is not because I'm ashamed, it's because 90% of the time it's irrelevant. .....
So I dunno, with an intersex person, how often does the fact that they are intersex even come up?

Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

To be fair, the percentage of social encounters I have where a person reveals their genitals to me is far lower than it should be.

Originally Posted by fagarielina

it was a tv news show thing i heard about a couple months ago
i dunno haha
maybe ill look for it

im colosally "unhappy" but its ok "happiness" isnt the bottom line and esentially obsolete

but still regardless of that sexual stuff is gross
seems like a weird physically awkward positional situation to be in
nothing i wanna partake in haha
not a big deal but nothing i really consider or care to get involved in
kinda pointless really haha

Originally Posted by bunny gamer

I think it's fine and a very positive thing if any feminist chooses to take on prison reform in order to help stop the rapes of men and, ultimately, the women they form relationships with when they leave prison.

Originally Posted by bunny gamer

I have no fundamental problem with feminism--it's a movement I think is positive but would like to adjust. I was using this opportunity to highlight one of its usual failures in focus.

Originally Posted by bunny gamer

It's easy to get people to say rape is wrong. It's not easy to get them to agree to proactive solutions, such as prison reform. I think when these issues come up it's important to argue for improvements in both the way we view them and what should be done. That's all I was really doing.

Originally Posted by Ophiel Ophiuci

So I dunno, with an intersex person, how often does the fact that they are intersex even come up?

Originally Posted by herekitty

Well I can't speak for what it's like to be an intersex person because I'm not one, but I think discussing sexual orientation and things like that are sort of a natural part of being close friends (if these things aren't already obvious). You may be friends with someone at uni and not know them very well but eventually I think the issue of your sexual preference will come up since relationships play a big part in people's lives (even if it's the absence of them). In her case, I think the she feels that this is something that is important to her identity. (and therefore it is). She doesn't want to hide it, much like some homosexuals get tired of hiding that or skirting the issue.

Originally Posted by herekitty

Probably not often, and that's one of the reasons I brought up my friend. She's pretty open about it but it still doesn't come up much in conversation. So one can only imagine how many more are out there and silent, which was part of the old town's point in an earlier post.

Originally Posted by herekitty

She didn't reveal her genitals to me. I guess I've taken her word for it, much like people will take your word that you're gay even if you don't have gay sex with them.

Originally Posted by herekitty

And I don't think I could detect anything out of the ordinary if she did show them to me because she herself didn't know until she didn't get a period well past when she should have and went to see a doctor about it. It's not like all intersex people have a penis, you know? Her differences are internal.

Originally Posted by fagarielina

hahahaha gay steve

Originally Posted by Katgrrl

Bravo Fried Butter!

I'm displeased with how many people hate feminism now when if it weren't for feminism, women would not be in universities, women would not be entitled to even thier own patents and if they were married, their ideas would be passed off as their husbands, women would not be voting, women would not be CEO's (yes women do make good CEO's I know one that does a great job and the company thinks she does too), all things regarding feminine reproductive health would be in the hands of men that don't care about personal female health because they can't empathise.

There would be no female doctors, no female scientists, no female rock stars that wrote their own music (how odd, it seems like that is the path record labels are going down post feminism...guess trying to bring back pre feminism era?) and females would not drive, be discouraged in general. Who knows if feminism never took place if the U.S would have adapted to female infantcide considering our population would be increased due to women being treated like baby making machines and females would have no relevance in making money for society which society benefits from the most.

There are places that show tale tale signs of what the world would be like without feminism and that would be the middle east and China.

Men don't understand nor have the capacity to as it seems to even get half of the frustrations that women from all around the world recieve even to this very day. The worst degrees of anti-feminism lies in the middle east and asia. In the western world we face our own challenges but I still feel fortunate compared to how other women are treated.

Men you might like this idea because you'd have no worries and threats at all plus less competition in society with jobs but if the shoe were on the other foot. When I hear men complaining about feminism, they are scared of losing complete control to women and distort the truth to feed on their fear revolving around their control freak egos that just want complete power and control over what they view as the weaker sex as though they are entitled to such all over the past and the present.

Women aren't a sisterhood. Even women jump on the bash feminism bandwagon but I guarantee you that they would thank their lucky stars if they were being butchered by a husband that falsely accused her of cheating on him, if she were about to die to restore a family's name after her brothers had raped her or if a stranger on the street had raped her. That is what the world would be like without feminism and we should be grateful.

Here in the western world, women have proven the unthinkable. Men from the past believed women could not handle mathematics, could not handle science, were completely dumb and if they weren't then they were considered freaks and instead of handing credit to the smart female, the credit should go to the male scientist because surely that female did not just come up with nuclear fission!

Now females may have encounters with the same misogynists but it's not half as bad as it used to be and we have women who took a stand in a time when it wasn't considered appropriate in society to thank.

P.S Anyone who thinks wearing makeup makes you less of a feminist (I doubt anyone on this board subscribes to that) Cleopatra, a female invented makeup and makeup was often wore to symbolize some sort of freedom in earlier feminist stands.

When men hate women, what are their reasons? Now compare it to a woman's reasons.