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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @06:39PM (2 children)
To be fair, reality doesn't give a shit about how we define it and biology is messy.
How do you define the biological sex of humans with three sex chromosomes, XXY, instead of the more typical XX or XY?
Is a female still a female if it is infertile?
Is a male still a male if it will never have sex?
That being said, there certainly is a bimodal distribution in masculine and feminine traits that strongly correlates with sex chromosomes in humans. People use these outward phenotypes to judge biological sex, but the phenotypes don't match perfectly.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday August 27 2018, @08:25PM (1 child)
The argument is not that we can't use male and female, the argument is that XX and XY are actually the same thing and any perceived differences between the two are socially constructed. Even if we don't call them XX and XY, there are differences between the two strands in the DNA chain. Are the various roles in society that people with XX and XY sets socially constructed? Yeah to some extent, but XX and XY are different.
I don't understand
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @09:23PM
You don't understand because that position is irrational.
Now, I bet that such a view is shared by so few that it is not worthy of wasting time thinking about. It's a bit like when people waste time making a big deal out of %extremist position% held by %extremist% (e.g. Westboro Baptist Church's views on anything). It might be interesting that people believe the world is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, aliens producing crop circles; however, it is best to just ignore them as if they were trolls.