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215 (62.7%)

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Homosexual

16 (4.7%)

Asexual

37 (10.8%)

I'm 12 and what is this?

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Total Members Voted: 338

[Ogdibus]

Hormones have a huge effect on prenatal development.  You're genes only account for part of your sexual development.  Androgen insensitivity syndrome will cause a genetically male person to be more feminine than most "normal" females.  It also throws a wrench in the way we think of sex and gender.

[Max White]

Well I have heard of female transsexuals who found themselves a lot more attracted to men during HRF... Not sure about male transsexuals as I have never had any sort of in-depth discussion on the topic with one.

[Tack]

There's a few apatheists on this forum. Which is good. If everyone couldn't be bothered to back up their beliefs to anyone else, the world would be a much simpler place and also probably would have no humans on it.
And I'm the youngest and have constantly been told I tend to set off gaydars accidentally.
But, Western Caucasian Atheist Cisgendered Male.
I'm not even aware of how good I've got It.

[Max White]

But, Western Caucasian Atheist Cisgendered Male.
I'm not even aware of how good I've got It.

Wow. Such privilege. Much oppressor.

[Dutchling]

There's a few apatheists on this forum.

I keep reading that word as "Apetheist".

[misko27]

The banal assertion you jokingly made is made from ignorance.  An atheist would rip them to shreds.

Nah. Most people don't know what they're talking about, and repeat viewpoints; Atheists are only people, so they are as capable of ignorance as anyone.

[wierd]

.. That happens to me every time I see "Therapist".

Only the most twisted kind of irony makes a word intended to describe somebody trying to help another, look like the words used to describe a person who forcibly violates another.

Therapist
The Rapist

My brain. It disturbs me at times.

Misko--

This is true, however, many (but certainly far from all) have a vested interest in continuing self-education, simply because they are continually subjected to such lines of questioning.

[Vattic]

An ex-friend of the family wouldn't go and see his therapist because of that. Ex-friend because he stole things from my dad when he was supposed to be house sitting among other things.

[Tack]

The banal assertion you jokingly made is made from ignorance.  An atheist would rip them to shreds.

Nah. Most people don't know what they're talking about, and repeat viewpoints; Atheists are only people, so they are as capable of ignorance as anyone.

Indeed. But I like to think that if you aren't smart enough to sell it to yourself, you're probably an Agnostic with opinions larger than your beliefs.

[LordBucket]

Allegedly arabic has dozens of words for specific types of camels. English has one: camel. Because we don't care about camels enough to have that many words to describe them.

I think I look forward to sexuality and sexual identity becoming unimportant enough that I don't need to consult urban dictionary to figure out what people are talking about when they describe themselves.

[Remuthra]

I wish we had dozens of words for different camels .

[MaximumZero]

There's a few apatheists on this forum.

I keep reading that word as "Apetheist".

They all play Starbound. Praise Big Ape!

[wierd]

We DO have different words for different kinds of horse though.

Dapple, Palamino, Paint, Arab, et al.

Likewise with cats:
Siamese, Maine coon, Persian, Tabby, Calico, Tortoise shell....

In japanese, there are dozens of words for "blue". We have them too--
Azure, Indigo, turquoise, ultramarine, cerulean....

You get the idea.

Just because we havent adopted or implemented a bunch of specific words for specific types of camel, does not mean that we dont see or respect the difference between the camels.

EG, if we didnt have a specific noun for a horse with blotchy patches of color on it, (Paint), we would just say "Hey, Mine's got blotchy splashes of color on it." rather than saying "Hey, Mine's a paint."

Same is true for describing different sexual orientations. If we didnt call a homosexual a "gay", we would instead say something coarse and crass like "That guy we know that bangs other guys."

Not having a word for something doesn't mean the population doesn't care about it. It just means they have a shrunken vocabulary.

[misko27]

Not having a word for something doesn't mean the population doesn't care about it. It just means they have a shrunken vocabulary.

No, I think there is certainly some truth in that the more subtlety available in a language reflects the interest. We are rather interested in cats for example. There certainly are differences, even if a language doesn't express them, but it doesn't change the fact that the population simply doesn't feel the need to specify one type of a camel over another often enough for it to be an issue.

[Tack]

Maybe the goal is having the words be so common that you don't need to look them up.
You just know them.