quote: I think I've seen that one... Oh at least, heard that before.
Grr... I can't come up with ANYthing orginal.
Just a couple weeks ago I had to COMPLETELY restart a story I was working on because I asked hatrack what philotes were and how they worked and all that and realized that I had just reinvented the damn wheel, and screwed it up so it now had square corners.
(and even that 'reinvent the wheel' thing is stolen shamelessly from one of OSC's writing classes or introductions somewhere)
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I met someone last week who called gay men "flight attendants". No kidding. The conversation was something like:
He: "Well, I used to work as a flight attendant, if you know what I mean."
Me: "Uh-huh."
He: "And one time me, and a friend of mine -- he was also a flight attendant, if you know what I mean, were walking together in Stone Mountain Georgia, and these real scary guys, pilot types, if you know what I mean, started hassling us and calling us queers, and so I said, 'I know you are but what am I!' And then we hightailed it out of there, believe you me! That is no place for flight attendants, if you know what I mean."
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I find it kind of amusing that metrosexual is included in there.
Yeah. 'Cause if I understand correctly, "metrosexual" is a straight man who doesn't find anything weird about using conditioner or getting a manicure. They need a support group for this? Posts: 10397 | Registered: Jun 2005
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Apparently, there's an Intersex Society that has a newsletter called something like "Hermaphrodites with an Attitude".
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quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: Dude, Google's never heard of it. Must not really exist.
But I expect people have it mostly right.
Is "queer" a non-offensive term? Does "questioning" mean not sure what your sexual orientation is?
I know a lot of people who identify as "queer". I hate it. A lot. But so long as they don't try to apply it to me, there's no much I can do about it.
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The only term my brother finds offensive is fagg*t, other than that he isn't offended. And I would say that having a gay twin brother adds a lot of interesting aspects to life. We are 21 and have an apartment with my girlfriend and his boyfriend. So it's the four of us and we all get along great. I'll admit, it took a while to get used to seeing him making out with another guy, but now it doesn't bother me at all. But one thing I've learned is that it's the people who aren't open-minded and haven't been exposed to it that are so against people being gay. I hated it at first b/c I was brought up Christian and taught to hate it. Now that I've been exposed I'm supportive. They really do love each other a great deal and it's warming to see it and be a part of it. If only everyone could get passed the non-understanding.
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Apparently, there's an Intersex Society that has a newsletter called something like "Hermaphrodites with an Attitude".
Ok, well I'm not going to go about calling someone who is Intersexed a Hermaphrodite unless they tell me so.
Just like I'm not going to call you queer because you don't want to be called queer.
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Oh and both hermaphrodite and homosexual were coined in the 60's (I think) by doctors who thought being anything other than straight and having normal genitalia was a disease. They are pathologizing terms.
I know there are people out there who don't mind being called homosexual, etc, but that is why, at my job (an LGBT resource center), the term is not PC.
I for one hate the word homosexual because it sounds icky, it sounds medical, I just don't like the way it sounds. I don't have a bloody disease you stinky doctors you.
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I hate the word "homosexual" as well. It makes it sounds like it's all about sex, which is silly.
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