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My daughter just went to a Drag(on) party (sp???):
literally a pre-wedding party for two guys (and there was a stage drag theater contest).
My questions (being an old guy trying to fit into a new world)
1. Is it husband and wife or husband and husband (wife and wife for lesbians)?
2. Why do people do drag? and why don't they dress that way all the time if they like doing it so much?
3. I knew a 'flaming homo' in Toronto (did not know him well enough to ask questions like this): why do some guys act straight and some so feminine to outright flaming in yo' face?
Will probably remember some other questions later... does anyone have a primer?
Honestly asking.... this is all new to the guy who grew up (small town) saying "Ha...you're a homo!" without really knowing what that meant (when told about a 'circle jerk' i wondered why a bunch of guys would want to do that while thinking about women, lol).
Let the flaming begin!
**A side thought:
In the future there WILL be sex bots:
.....there will also be 'child sex bots' (and will/can child sex bots be made illegal?)... thinking about this is kind of disturbing, but i know it IS coming, sooner or later.
Will something like that take care of a pedo's needs or lead to something worse?
If you had a fully functioning sex-bot that looks/feels real with wonderful AI, would you consider never having a relationship (such as marriage) again or just stick with sex-bot?
If my wife died and i had a bot/AI that was acceptable, i might just stick with it, methinks.
Damn, my mind is going tonight!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:04AM
Which on that last part, let us note, may be correct. What's missing here is the matter of reasonable expectation. As the other AC replier noted, if Donald Trump walks in a room and demands to be addressed as "God Emperor", then there's no reasonable expectation to call him that (unless he has an army of trigger-happy goons around to make the unreasonable reasonable in order to survive).
There isn't automatically a reasonable expectation set up merely because someone insists on a particular set of gender pronouns (or any other characteristic mentioned so far in this thread), particularly, if the set is unique and hard to remember.
One thing to note here is that a strategy for dealing with this is to play a different game. Open racists do this all the time. There's too often merely talk of why these are bad people and little talk of why the strategy works (namely, because the social costs of being acceptable to a group with picky standards can be higher than the social costs of their displeasure).