quote:Originally posted by Nim the Plentiful: Groening must be desperate for ratings...
Considering that the joke was made about 8 years ago, I say no.
And "transgender"? Isn't that a rather different thing from being gay?
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Though, I mean, if you change sex, you kind of have to be gay, one way or the other. Unless you only have sex with transsexuals of the opposite, um... trans... Like, male->female vs. female->male. Thing.
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"Though, I mean, if you change sex, you kind of have to be gay, one way or the other."
Well, no. Being gay means you're attracted to people of the same sex that you are, so you're genuinely homosexual, whereas being transsexual means means you're attracted to people of the same sex that you were, so you're genuinely heterosexual. Except you're not genuinely of the other sex, at least not in the anatomical sense. Or something.
What were we talking about again?
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Well, Transgender is an umbrella term for people who feel the gender they were assigned at birth does not correspond with their gender identity. I can go into detail the breakdown of this but I doubt people here are interested.
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"Being gay means you're attracted to people of the same sex that you are, so you're genuinely homosexual, whereas being transsexual means means you're attracted to people of the same sex that you were, so you're genuinely heterosexual. Except you're not genuinely of the other sex, at least not in the anatomical sense. Or something."
Well, what I meant was... Say you're a guy. But you become a "woman". Now, setting aside bisexuality, you're either attracted to men, or to women. If it's men, you're gay because you're really a man, and you're attracted to men. If it's women, you're gay because, as far as you're concerned, you're a woman, and you're attracted to women.
Basically, some people have issues. Real... issues.
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What I was getting at, I think, was that you can be physically a man yet mentally a woman (or physically a woman yet mentally a man) and be attracted to men (or women), in which case you're transsexual, which is different from being physically a man and mentally a man (or physically a woman and mentally a woman) and being attracted to men (or women), in which case you're homosexual. Maybe. Look, it all made sense eleven hours ago.
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The question that always bothers me is "what makes someone mentally a man"? Aside from obvious jokes like "someone who knows how to reverse park".
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