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I'm glad I don't have to deal with the namechange for my campus group anytime soon. If one more letter is added to LGBTA I'm going to start buying rubber stamps so I don't have to write out the full name.
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What I mean is that "intersexed," as a category, contains some gender confusions more subtle than true hermaphroditism.
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"Intersexed" sounds like an addiction to online porn.
...er...not that I'd know anything about that, of course!
(whistles and walks nonchalantly away.)
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Simon: Well, except, that Wikipedia article seems to imply that they are, in fact, the same thing. That they've decided the word "hermaphrodite" is pejorative, so they say "intersexed" now. Though I fail to see how a term can be pejorative when it's rarely even said, much less with intention to offend.
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According to one of the specials I watched, the big controversy with intersexuality right now is that doctors tend to operate on babies right after birth in order to correct the condition. Usually, the baby is converted into a girl whether without the knowledge of which gender identity the baby will identify with. In this program, they interviewed two people were born intersexed, converted to women, and are now going through sex reassignment surgery to become men since that's the gender they identify with.
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Man, PC just has to fuck with every little aspect of our language....
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I'm still two pages behind and confused as to why Michael was riding a Spanish girl. My definition of "gay" needs updating.
(I do also remember talking to an internet person who was technically male but felt female. They didn't want a sex change though. I did find it interesting, because I didn't really get the whole concept of feeling "male" or "female", outside a "I like putting my penis in vaginas" sort of way. Does a boy who likes washing up need to have his winkie chopped off? Does a girl who likes football need sexual reassignment? I dunno. I am for sure confused and mildly interested.)
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I can comprehend being gay (particularly, I get women being attracted to other women- us guys are graceless dorks), but the attraction of dresing as a woman eludes me.
What's worse, the drag queens here in Fort Lauderdale...er...well, they're a bit rough looking. A bodybuilder with a five o'clock shadow in a halter top is fooling no one.
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I don't care whether someone is gay, lesbian, hermaphrodite, intersexed, feeling like the opposite sex - as long as they are happy with it, so what.
Life is too short anyway, so have fun...
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Just dont cockblock me when I'm talking with some girl...
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Fair enough that they are happy with it. I just don't get what "feeling like a girl" actually means, per se. It implies that your personality is defined by your gender, and that the stereotypes are actually truths rather than just social tendencies. Possibly it relates to an urge in society for people to always want to define themselves by groups and such in order to be interesting/find excuses/fit in/make friends/eat pie. But maybe I am old and not with the kids. Or something.
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I'm confused about people feeling like they are in the wrong bodies and I'm part of the community. I figured that the only way to figure out individuals who feel like women trapped in men's bodies would be to acutally be in their position... but I'm not. I can only imagine how frustrating it can be.
Oh, my friend was drunk during Long Beach pride in 2004 and decided to cling on the nearest person.
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"cling on to" does not equal "ride" in my book. But maybe I just go to the wrong parties.
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