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Location: USA
Posted:
My creativity and imagination abounds.
Hello there, friends, my name is Dio. I live in Memphis, Tennessee: the great southern city of jazz, blues, and ridiculously high crime statistics. (The people here like to speculate over which city would win in all out battle. Detroit or Memphis?)
My hometown? That’s a funny question. I was born in Milwaukee. Wisconsin is where everything strange and distorted in this world originates. (The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? I wouldn’t put it past Wisconsin.) If you claim to be strange and distorted, well then, believe me, you have blood there. (The last time I visited, there was a news report about talking about a WI woman with hundreds of dead cats stored in her house. Truth.)
I’m an October child. Scorpio. I’m sixteen, and one of those annoying people who, with philosophical flourish, hate gender role in society. So I let people on intarweb forums interpret whether I’m male or female.
Shift!
Favorite Food: Potatoes
Favorite Color(s): Red, gold and royal purple. I have an affinity for things that make me look imperial.
What is the wing speed of an unladen swallow?: Faster for every time this joke is spoken.
Toys: Poi, and even that’s an overstatement. I’m a maxima, maxima beginner.
Other hobbies of mine are scuba diving, kick boxing, reading, being overly critical of movies, and writing. Lots and lots of writing. My favorite book is House of Leaves; my favorite author is Albert Camus. My favorite movie is Farewell My Concubine; no one, nothing, and never could change my opinion of that movie. Currently, the worst movie in the world is a tie between Million Dollar Baby, Eragon, and Manos Hands of Fate. Feel free to contribute to this list. The plans and dreams I have for life include being a dive master; a.k.a getting eaten by a shark.
Godzilla vs. a Star Wars Star Destroyer. Who wins? Why?
Depends. Is the destroyer being piloted by King Ghidorah?
Do you think these pants make my butt look too big?
Keep me out of this.
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella?
I am not familiar with marmite or vegemite, but have researched them upon considering this question and the reply is still -- Nutella.
My creativity and imagination abounds.
Hello there, friends, my name is Dio. I live in Memphis, Tennessee: the great southern city of jazz, blues, and ridiculously high crime statistics. (The people here like to speculate over which city would win in all out battle. Detroit or Memphis?)
My hometown? That’s a funny question. I was born in Milwaukee. Wisconsin is where everything strange and distorted in this world originates. (The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? I wouldn’t put it past Wisconsin.) If you claim to be strange and distorted, well then, believe me, you have blood there. (The last time I visited, there was a news report about talking about a WI woman with hundreds of dead cats stored in her house. Truth.)
I’m an October child. Scorpio. I’m sixteen, and one of those annoying people who, with philosophical flourish, hate gender role in society. So I let people on intarweb forums interpret whether I’m male or female.
Shift!
Favorite Food: Potatoes
Favorite Color(s): Red, gold and royal purple. I have an affinity for things that make me look imperial.
What is the wing speed of an unladen swallow?: Faster for every time this joke is spoken.
Toys: Poi, and even that’s an overstatement. I’m a maxima, maxima beginner.
Other hobbies of mine are scuba diving, kick boxing, reading, being overly critical of movies, and writing. Lots and lots of writing. My favorite book is House of Leaves; my favorite author is Albert Camus. My favorite movie is Farewell My Concubine; no one, nothing, and never could change my opinion of that movie. Currently, the worst movie in the world is a tie between Million Dollar Baby, Eragon, and Manos Hands of Fate. Feel free to contribute to this list. The plans and dreams I have for life include being a dive master; a.k.a getting eaten by a shark.
Godzilla vs. a Star Wars Star Destroyer. Who wins? Why?
Depends. Is the destroyer being piloted by King Ghidorah?
Do you think these pants make my butt look too big?
Keep me out of this.
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella?
I am not familiar with marmite or vegemite, but have researched them upon considering this question and the reply is still -- Nutella.
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Rum-Swilling Combustioneer
227 posts
Location: Macungie, PA, USA
Rum-Swilling Combustioneer
227 posts
Location: Macungie, PA, USA
Posted:
Worst movie in the world? I haven't seen any of the ones you listed, but Dinner with an Assassin beats them all. Easily.
Worst movie in the world? I haven't seen any of the ones you listed, but Dinner with an Assassin beats them all. Easily.
Bouncing Baby Pipe!
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Member
78 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
Member
78 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
Posted:
I don't know, I still think Sleepwalkers takes the cake on worst film ever made (at least, worst film that's not a porno - too many of those horrors to count).
Oh, and HIYAS!!
I don't know, I still think Sleepwalkers takes the cake on worst film ever made (at least, worst film that's not a porno - too many of those horrors to count).
Oh, and HIYAS!!
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Teacher, Dancer, Artist, and General Smartass
149 posts
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Teacher, Dancer, Artist, and General Smartass
149 posts
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Posted:
Hello and welcome!
I'd like to submit "Open Water" as the worst movie ever. *shudders at the memory*
Hello and welcome!
I'd like to submit "Open Water" as the worst movie ever. *shudders at the memory*
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
*wanders in and rubs Nutella on your nose*
Welcome to the High Church of Nutella! And
to HoP! 
*wanders in and rubs Nutella on your nose*
Welcome to the High Church of Nutella! And
to HoP! -Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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compfuzzled
1,182 posts
Location: hastings, England (UK)
compfuzzled
1,182 posts
Location: hastings, England (UK)
Posted:
to HOP
to HOP "the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
I'm from Detroit originally. We'd win because we're tougher. Why are we tougher? We get screwed by Northwest Airlines even worse than you do. That makes you a hard, tough, bitter person. *busts a cap in your a$$*
This interesting. I used to feel the same way. I used to feel that gender was a complete societal construct. I felt that if you raised a girl like a boy, she'd act line one and vice-versa.
Then I met Ben Barres. Ben was my professor of neurobiology in college. And when I first arrived at that school, his name was Barbara. He went through sexual reassignment surgery and I began to appreciate that maybe gender is far more inborn than I had thought. After all, if Ben's gender was so strongly discordant with his body that he saw need to have that inconsistency surgically repaired (and handle his marriage to his husband and his kids), then I reasoned that gender must be a stronger biological drive than I had thought.
In my experiences in the gay community, I have noticed gender differences. Gay men have entire web sites devoted to quick sex (and can pull it off without any emotional attachment). Lesbians are far less likely to behave in this manner.
And so I have come to celebrate gender, and gender roles, and gender differences, and even how they are interpreted by society.
Which is why, when I wrote the questionnaire, I wrote "Sex" and not "Gender." They are not the same.
My sex is male
My gender is heavily male
My gender expression is masculine
I am attracted to people whose sex is male
I am attracted to people whose gender is male
I am attracted to people whose gender expression is masculine
I view it along those spectra and when I speak about sexual orientation to high school students, I raise that model. It teaches them that gay men are not "women trapped in mens' bodies," for example. It also teaches them how it is possible to, say, have a feminine gender expression and be heterosexual.
Not that I am trying to get you to tell us your sex or your gender. I'm just throwing down a philosophical gauntlet. I'm interested to read your response.
Written by :Diogenes
(The people here like to speculate over which city would win in all out battle. Detroit or Memphis?)
I'm from Detroit originally. We'd win because we're tougher. Why are we tougher? We get screwed by Northwest Airlines even worse than you do. That makes you a hard, tough, bitter person. *busts a cap in your a$$*
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I’m sixteen, and one of those annoying people who, with philosophical flourish, hate gender role in society. So I let people on intarweb forums interpret whether I’m male or female.
This interesting. I used to feel the same way. I used to feel that gender was a complete societal construct. I felt that if you raised a girl like a boy, she'd act line one and vice-versa.
Then I met Ben Barres. Ben was my professor of neurobiology in college. And when I first arrived at that school, his name was Barbara. He went through sexual reassignment surgery and I began to appreciate that maybe gender is far more inborn than I had thought. After all, if Ben's gender was so strongly discordant with his body that he saw need to have that inconsistency surgically repaired (and handle his marriage to his husband and his kids), then I reasoned that gender must be a stronger biological drive than I had thought.
In my experiences in the gay community, I have noticed gender differences. Gay men have entire web sites devoted to quick sex (and can pull it off without any emotional attachment). Lesbians are far less likely to behave in this manner.
And so I have come to celebrate gender, and gender roles, and gender differences, and even how they are interpreted by society.
Which is why, when I wrote the questionnaire, I wrote "Sex" and not "Gender." They are not the same.
My sex is male
My gender is heavily male
My gender expression is masculine
I am attracted to people whose sex is male
I am attracted to people whose gender is male
I am attracted to people whose gender expression is masculine
I view it along those spectra and when I speak about sexual orientation to high school students, I raise that model. It teaches them that gay men are not "women trapped in mens' bodies," for example. It also teaches them how it is possible to, say, have a feminine gender expression and be heterosexual.
Not that I am trying to get you to tell us your sex or your gender. I'm just throwing down a philosophical gauntlet. I'm interested to read your response.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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compfuzzled
1,182 posts
Location: hastings, England (UK)
compfuzzled
1,182 posts
Location: hastings, England (UK)
Posted:
funny, a lot of the lesbians i know are very likely to do things like that. although not often through the net, more often in their extended social circles
but the net still does feature in their sexual lives, and a few lesbian friends have mine have had regular one-nighters with different people, and in larger groups etc...
Written by :Doc Lightning
Lesbians are far less likely to behave in this manner
funny, a lot of the lesbians i know are very likely to do things like that. although not often through the net, more often in their extended social circles
but the net still does feature in their sexual lives, and a few lesbian friends have mine have had regular one-nighters with different people, and in larger groups etc...
"the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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59 posts
Location: Connecticut
59 posts
Location: Connecticut
Posted:
i work in the corner of a shopping mall. the pet store right next to my mall is entirely employed by lesbians. i don't think they hire anybody else O.o but i love bending the gender question, and people who do, and it is so interesting to take a group of women who all would fill out that model of doc's in different ways, and observe them every day.
no idea how they behave on the net, or actually in person either. but there are some who are obviously male gender attracted to other male gender females, some who are female gender attracted to the male gender females, some who are male gender attracted to female gender, etc etc. gender is confusing. we should all just be Z.
dio - you are so adorable and pedantic. i wish i remembered what it was like to be 16 ... it's funny how when you are a certain age, older people always view you differently than you would view yourself. then as you grow older and see people doing things that you were doing at the same age, you worry and wonder if they will be ok, forgetting that those individuals are just as strong and independent as you were yourself back then
even though it's only been 5 years since i was 16 -_- it still seems like such a huge gap
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Lesbians are far less likely to behave in this manner
funny, a lot of the lesbians i know are very likely to do things like that. although not often through the net, more often in their extended social circles
i work in the corner of a shopping mall. the pet store right next to my mall is entirely employed by lesbians. i don't think they hire anybody else O.o but i love bending the gender question, and people who do, and it is so interesting to take a group of women who all would fill out that model of doc's in different ways, and observe them every day.
no idea how they behave on the net, or actually in person either. but there are some who are obviously male gender attracted to other male gender females, some who are female gender attracted to the male gender females, some who are male gender attracted to female gender, etc etc. gender is confusing. we should all just be Z.
dio - you are so adorable and pedantic. i wish i remembered what it was like to be 16 ... it's funny how when you are a certain age, older people always view you differently than you would view yourself. then as you grow older and see people doing things that you were doing at the same age, you worry and wonder if they will be ok, forgetting that those individuals are just as strong and independent as you were yourself back then
even though it's only been 5 years since i was 16 -_- it still seems like such a huge gap
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
Hell, it's been almost 15 years since I was 16. And yet I find that many of the most valuable lessons I've learned in life come from teenagers.
I have and keep friends of all ages, from 14 to 78 right now. They all have unique points of view and unique things to offer. So... Age matters not. The soul matters.
Hell, it's been almost 15 years since I was 16. And yet I find that many of the most valuable lessons I've learned in life come from teenagers.
I have and keep friends of all ages, from 14 to 78 right now. They all have unique points of view and unique things to offer. So... Age matters not. The soul matters.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
There's always the counter-examples. But the behavior is quite different.
Written by :simta
funny, a lot of the lesbians i know are very likely to do things like that. although not often through the net, more often in their extended social circles
but the net still does feature in their sexual lives, and a few lesbian friends have mine have had regular one-nighters with different people, and in larger groups etc...
There's always the counter-examples. But the behavior is quite different.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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compfuzzled
1,182 posts
Location: hastings, England (UK)
compfuzzled
1,182 posts
Location: hastings, England (UK)
Posted:
yeah fair point, spose if you look at it in the way you did by splitting gender and gender expression into two seperate things it makes more sense
so would that mean the lesbians i was talking about are male gender expression?
Written by :Doc Lightning
There's always the counter-examples. But the behavior is quite different.
yeah fair point, spose if you look at it in the way you did by splitting gender and gender expression into two seperate things it makes more sense
so would that mean the lesbians i was talking about are male gender expression?
"the geeks have got you" - Gayle
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