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Meta. Question. Who made that statement?

"We can't have infinite growth on a finite planet"

it's a common leftist sentiment

How about no.

1. preordering is bad, mmkay?
2. fallout is bad, mmkay?

we're fucking doomed

I mean I wouldn't outright say gender doesn't exist. It does. Gender is a form of self expression, be it man/boy, woman/girl, androgynous, agender (meaning you just don't associate with gender at all), genderqueer/genderfluid, etc. I don't really think that anyone is 100% one gender and that humanity as a whole is a wide spectrum (purple blob) that fades to different colors all over. No one is 100% masculine or feminine, and if you say that you are, you're lying. But that doesn't mean gender doesn't exist if a man is emotional or a woman is a cold hearted badass killer (a la stupid gender sterotypes).

it exists as an idea, i'll concede to that

in the same way that, like, laws exist.
they're complex cultural abstractions--social constructs, if i dare use that term again

and all that really means is that gender is immaterial
but by saying it doesn't exist, you're rejecting everything that makes the concept so pernicious and cumbersome

that's my intent, anyway

my soft-spoken tenderness

well, i'm glad that after 300+ replies, i finally have some support in that regard

No senran kagura X?

Nope!

and that's merely a hypothesis based on observations i've had throughout my life, combined with a basic understanding of brain development at young ages, so i don't have any hard evidence--but that's what i believe the truth to be, and i've seen nothing to contradict it thus far

you disagree, and i think that's just how it's going to be, unless you indeed have some evidence to quash that hypothesis

If its inherent in the majority, yeah it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

You really can't do it effectively. Pretty immoral, too.

Oh, it's extremely unethical. Undeniably. But that's not the subject, is it? The subject is whether it's possible, and, last night, I gathered all the information I could about the Money/Reiner case. Learned a lot. Formed a new conclusion from it.

First of all, Reiner was not castrated at all. He was undergoing a circumcision when something went horribly wrong. As a result, Money had recommended that he be reassigned as a female and raised as such. He reported the case as a success, when in actuality, Reiner never personally identified as a female, and began living as a male at age 15. He was suicidally depressed at that age, and finally did so when he was 38.

John Money was obviously a crazyfuck. A contemptible human being. However, from this case, I amend my position on the issue only slightly. His case, though it does NOT prove that gender is environmental, doesn't disprove it, either. You cannot simply raise a boy as a girl, or vice versa. That would be imposing. You can't force gender on someone. Your identity has to come about naturally and spontaneously. And depending on that social environment, it really could go either way. Male, female, or something in between (androgyny).

I consider myself androgynous-leaning-male in terms of my gender, for example. There are many traits I have that are stereotypically associated with women--other that are associated with men. Mostly men. It could be argued that most people have an androgynous gender. In fact, that's my argument.

Uh, no. I think hippies are hippies.

i'd probably get shot and/or raped

nope

why

i give him three days

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