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I think gender is a behavioral role. Normally we expect people to treat us according to our gender. Males consider visual signs from females very important. So in my opinion feminine clothes and fashion have a much more potent sexual message for men than vice versa. Since men are still having more p...

I just get the feeling you are actually happier with the conflict. I think I'm just happy right now to be able to express my problems and yes, after years of denial it makes me free and happy. I'm not happy because I'm transsexual, I'm happy because I'm able to tell it to the world and I'm not deny...

That is a sexist remark. It reveals you deep seated stereotyping. I'm sorry, but the properties of most women are true stereotypes. It is a logical necessity. Without it there would be no "class of womanlike objects" lol. I think insanity starts when someone tries to deny reality because ...

Try reading, then I would not have to repeat myself. I think this is the real problem: a male using aggression and arrogance instead of arguments against a female. Am I sexist because I find it rude? " I do feel that it is part of being female that you have to accept some kind of loss of socia...

Crap. My partner is as smart as me and has a better job. You are just a sexist.      I'm probably as smart as you. So what's your point? :)    It is not about being smart. It is about being honest.    I don't doubt that there are women who are dominant and enjoy it. God bless them!    The majority ...

That is total bullshit. I know many women who cannot have, do not want to have, wanted to have but cannot - that doe not make them less of a human being and not less of a woman. You are happy in your victimhood. You define yourself by your 'condition' as if it was a disease. get over yourself and d...

No, - it is more often generated from the unintelligent underclass who fear change and difference. Children are the worst. But you must admit that things are getting better. I live in Brighton, where the sight of a man dressed as a woman is a common enough sight and no longer merits any comment as ...

Yes I agree. The tragedy of some sexual or gender minorities is that they don't have the same right to happiness as the real or supposed majority has. These socially defined categories are the results of exercising power by the ruling elite and their value system. So gender and sexual roles are abou...

I think feminism is about challenging the male privilege in society. Men are achieving their status through sociopathic behavior, through terror and stress. Feminism tries to set a level field. If men cannot use their sociopathic tactics, women can achieve a lot more and society as a whole is better...

Chaz wrote: Gender is not a natural category and tends to change with socio-historical change. 2 spirited; bi-gender; gay; body image; - these are all about fashion and social definition which is subject to change. This being the case, playing with these words tends to reveal the bias of those in wh...

I think sexual orientation is not really a good method to predict gender. Gender is about different things: for example about emotional roles and body image. I think "two spirited" means bi-gender. If you have no problem with your non-sexual emotional role and you body then you have no gen...