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macaroniandcheese

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Message 31 of 33 (198174)
04-10-2005 11:04 PM

Reply to: Message 24 by crashfrog
04-10-2005 6:26 PM

I'm going to backtrack on my agreement that gender is limited to behavior.

look. he's backtracking because he got pwned.

bootcamp?

They're pins. Oh, don't get me wrong. They're certainly phallic, which is why we consider that the male end, not the female end. Therefore, the word to apply is "gender", because its just a metaphor, not sex, because they're not real, biological genitals.

you said male and female. that means sex. if you really meant gender, you'd have said masculine and feminine.

stop contradicting yourself; it's annoying.

Yes, it does. The act of applying those anthropormophizations is gender, not sex. Hence, the use of the term "gender", and not "sex."

no. they use gender because it's a euphamism, like "bone roller-coaster."

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Message 32 of 33 (198175)
04-10-2005 11:09 PM

Reply to: Message 31 by macaroniandcheese
04-10-2005 11:04 PM

euphemisms

no. they use gender because it's a euphamism, like "bone roller-coaster."

except they use the sort of euphemism to make the percieved dirty connotation more banal and acceptable. not the other way around.

also, i've always liked "showing her my o-face. oh - oh - oh. get it?"

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Message 33 of 33 (198199)
04-11-2005 1:18 AM

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