10-18-2005, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Blitzkid196 just a general comment I'm gonna make (and bmc it's not towards just you, a lot of people make this mistake): gender is what's between the ears, sex is what's between the legs. that's the basic synopsis, it gets confusing in the transsexual, transgender, transvestite, androgyne, etc. range...
so yeah, I think you meant the "sex" part in that comment. | Blegh. All this technical terminology is too confusing. Speak plainly. She's attracted to both guys and girls, and is currently pursuing a relationship with another lady. Am I right? Besides, she said as she saw it. As long as her message gets across, what does it matter?
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10-18-2005, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Blitzkid196 just a general comment I'm gonna make (and bmc it's not towards just you, a lot of people make this mistake): gender is what's between the ears, sex is what's between the legs. that's the basic synopsis, it gets confusing in the transsexual, transgender, transvestite, androgyne, etc. range...
so yeah, I think you meant the "sex" part in that comment. |
i don't think she necessarily made a mistake.
i'm bi, and i don't have criteria for either sex OR gender, other than the person be somewhat self-aware.......
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10-18-2005, 10:11 PM
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| Yes, Thanks MP.
I'm an Anthropology major, I'm very much aware of the difference between gender and sex.
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Mais que diable allait-il faire,
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10-18-2005, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint i do.
ask my boyfriend. | I think she likes me  | |
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10-19-2005, 12:44 AM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru I think she likes me | No.... She likes me! 
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10-19-2005, 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl No.... She likes me! |
............. you're not my boyfriend!
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10-19-2005, 02:18 AM
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| For those waiting for an explination to the joke - here is how it was explained to me... It didn't click with me either until it was explained and then it made some sense, although, it still falls into the context of pretty tasteless...
The $10,000 (or so) pays for a semester or so at an exclusive all-women's university. And apparently there is a term referring to certain (not all) attendees of such insitutions as being "Lesbians Until Graduation." Now, weather that means that a "dyke" is such a person or a "lesbian" is, in the context of the joke, I am not sure. Or perhaps it means that one of them attended such a school, and the other did not?
Your milliage may differ...
Okay, I've had my insensitive, discrimanatory and non-PC moment for the year. I'll now go back to just causing trouble with a sabre.
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10-19-2005, 03:08 AM
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10-19-2005, 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by bmcfencer Have you EVER been a minority of any sort? Somehow I don't think so.... | I'm a first generation Asian-American who was raised in Oklahoma. And now I'm a foreigner living in deep white Germany. So... I have an idea what it's like. Quote: |
Originally Posted by bmcfencer I like some boys and I like some girls, and it's not because of their gender. OK? So really me liking this rugby player isn't any different from me liking a guy, except that she happens to be a lesbian, and I'm not going to "run back to men" anymore than I "ran to women". Humph. | Meh. Seen that movie a million times. Keep us posted, though. And good luck, by the way. Not that it sounds like you need it. You make your own luck! Here's a link to a quick way to get up to speed on the rugby rules and game play! Quote: |
Originally Posted by bmcfencer I'm an Anthropology major, I'm very much aware of the difference between gender and sex. | I was a Sociology/Psych double major with Women's Studies and German minors. It doesn't show, does it? :-P Quote: |
Originally Posted by oso97 The $10,000 (or so) pays for a semester or so at an exclusive all-women's university. And apparently there is a term referring to certain (not all) attendees of such insitutions as being "Lesbians Until Graduation." Now, weather that means that a "dyke" is such a person or a "lesbian" is, in the context of the joke, I am not sure. Or perhaps it means that one of them attended such a school, and the other did not? | That's not a very good joke. This is a good joke:
How many epee fencers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One... he stands there holding the bulb and waits for the world to turn around him.
Okay, that wasn't a good one either. But it was better than that other one, by jove. | |
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10-19-2005, 09:39 AM
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| Why are there no embarrased emoticons? I keep looking for one and then remembering it's not there. Sorry for being an a**hole, anyway.
What movie??
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Mais que diable allait-il faire,
Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?. . .
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10-19-2005, 09:51 AM
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| Why are there no embarrased emoticons? I keep looking for one and then remembering it's not there. Sorry for being an a**hole, anyway. And thank you for your good wishes.
What movie??
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Mais que diable allait-il faire,
Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?. . .
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10-19-2005, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by bmcfencer Why are there no embarrased emoticons? I keep looking for one and then remembering it's not there. Sorry for being an a**hole, anyway. And thank you for your good wishes.
What movie?? | The movie about the bi-confused 20 year old college girl who jumps from guys to girls and back leading to complicated problems that produce much drama. The one where everyone thinks it's the end of the world because they don't understand that everyone under the age of 25(ish) is an overdramatic clueless tweak who wouldn't understand life and the larger world if it bit them on the face. Everything could be explained away with a simple "you're young and have time so if this doesn't work out than so what, you just chalk it up as learning and move on" but instead there's just way to much baggage and drama and Jerry Springer.
See? I can be an a**hole, too! 
Seriously, though, I hope it works out and I hope you don't fall into that pattern that I just drew! Remember, if it doesn't work out, such is life. It sounds positive, thus far, however. And if you need professional tasteful pictures done... you know where to find me. | |
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10-19-2005, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by dilznik The movie about the bi-confused 20 year old college girl who jumps from guys to girls and back leading to complicated problems that produce much drama. The one where everyone thinks it's the end of the world because they don't understand that everyone under the age of 25(ish) is an overdramatic clueless tweak who wouldn't understand life and the larger world if it bit them on the face. Everything could be explained away with a simple "you're young and have time so if this doesn't work out than so what, you just chalk it up as learning and move on" but instead there's just way to much baggage and drama and Jerry Springer.
See? I can be an a**hole, too!
Seriously, though, I hope it works out and I hope you don't fall into that pattern that I just drew! Remember, if it doesn't work out, such is life. It sounds positive, thus far, however. And if you need professional tasteful pictures done... you know where to find me. | I am admittedly hopelessly overdramatic. About everything. Almost always. But I've always been like that. Artistic temperment, don't ya know. When I'm not moping or mooning over someone I am, however, fairly practical about my love life. As my (okay, I have no right to use that possesive there, but typing "the rugby player I'm interested in" all the time is getting old) rugby player would sing... "que sera, sera.... whatever will be, will be...."
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Mais que diable allait-il faire,
Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?. . .
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10-19-2005, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by bmcfencer I am admittedly hopelessly overdramatic. About everything. Almost always. | Everybody is. Some people just work at stopping. They tend to be really jaded or future serial killers, though. I'm trying for the jaded path... Quote: |
Originally Posted by bmcfencer As my (okay, I have no right to use that possesive there, but typing "the rugby player I'm interested in" all the time is getting old) rugby player would sing... "que sera, sera.... whatever will be, will be...." | 1. You can get a macro program that autotypes things like that for you. You give a key combo like ctrl-4 and it'll type whatever you programmed. She'll be yours soon enough, so you could just get use to saying "my". The sordid little minx.
2. que sera, sera? Has she been spending a little too much time at the Oktoberfest? If she starts singing "Heidi" or "Hände zum Himmel" then run. Or pour a beer. | |
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10-19-2005, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by dilznik Everybody is. Some people just work at stopping. They tend to be really jaded or future serial killers, though. I'm trying for the jaded path... | I don't want to get totally jaded- though I am fairly disallusioned about a lot of things at this point (and the world shall learn to fear the disillusioned idealist) Quote: |
Originally Posted by dilznik 1. You can get a macro program that autotypes things like that for you. You give a key combo like ctrl-4 and it'll type whatever you programmed. She'll be yours soon enough, so you could just get use to saying "my". The sordid little minx.
2. que sera, sera? Has she been spending a little too much time at the Oktoberfest? If she starts singing "Heidi" or "Hände zum Himmel" then run. Or pour a beer. | He he he. She (and I) sing "Que Sera" because it was a part of the play we teched earlier this semester. And thank you for your optimism.
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Mais que diable allait-il faire,
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10-19-2005, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by oso97 The $10,000 (or so) pays for a semester or so at an exclusive all-women's university. | ............ um, i think that estimate might be kind of low. double it, in fact, and you're still slightly below the cost of my "exclusive all-women's university"... which isn't, in fact, a university, but a college.... and, in fact, i beleive all the all-women's institutions are colleges rather than universities..... anyone want to correct me?
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10-19-2005, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint ............ um, i think that estimate might be kind of low. double it, in fact, and you're still slightly below the cost of my "exclusive all-women's university"... which isn't, in fact, a university, but a college.... and, in fact, i beleive all the all-women's institutions are colleges rather than universities..... anyone want to correct me? | I thought the difference between a college and a university was the ability to grant graduate degrees, or maybe it was only doctoral degrees.
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