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[Neonivek]

If there is one thing I find odd about female behavior it is probably the open hostility they will sometimes show each other.

It is hard to grasp at exactly what I mean but goodness... The fury between two women is intense even when all they do is look at each other.

Mind you I am sure guys do it too... and my experience with it has more to do with my two sisters and the obviously always accurate television. So yeah I have far too limited experience it.

Still though... nothing is more scary than a woman's ire. Guys get stand offish... Women get all "I will destroy you".

[scriver]

It helps when you can have little brawl on the ground every so often and then have a beer afterwards.

Brawling is a lot like hugging.

[TempAcc]

A little bit of agression can be good every once in a while :v

But we all know that the Ork is the best LGBT subfaction.

Man, asexuals are missing a goldengreen opportunity. They'd prob get a lot more attention and be taken more seriously if they adopted glorious ork kultur. Orks are like, the ultimate asexuals.

[Tiruin]

A little bit of agression can be good every once in a while :v

But we all know that the Ork is the best LGBT subfaction.

Man, asexuals are missing a goldengreen opportunity. They'd prob get a lot more attention and be taken more seriously if they adopted glorious ork kultur. Orks are like, the ultimate asexuals.

Other than being totally 'naturally' bent on war and other violence? I won't go for that, despite being able to WAAAAGH! everywhere. (Also it's less sexual orientation and more 'actual physiological asexual' given ALL THE SPORES)

But we all know that the Ork is the best LGBT subfaction.

Omnisexual? Or do you mean that Ork is literally a sexuality or gender?

It's a partial in-joke. Orks (Warhammer 40k) are actually asexually reproducing 'fungi'-like sentience, due to a long backstory that has the theme of 'made for war or as warriors' by the "creators" or Old Ones (long backstory that most don't know in-fiction because 'knowledge blackout'). When they die, they release their spores, so in the context of WH40k, there are 'feral' Orks, which means 'born from spores left over from battle' on a planet that didn't have Orks. Point being, they're 'asexual' in sexual orientation BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THESE COMPLEX THINGS BECAUSE WAAAAGH! (Pronounced as 'War' with a near-silent "r"). To the point, they're also physiologically asexual. So yeah.

If there is one thing I find odd about female behavior it is probably the open hostility they will sometimes show each other.

It is hard to grasp at exactly what I mean but goodness... The fury between two women is intense even when all they do is look at each other.

Mind you I am sure guys do it too... and my experience with it has more to do with my two sisters and the obviously always accurate television. So yeah I have far too limited experience it.

Still though... nothing is more scary than a woman's ire. Guys get stand offish... Women get all "I will destroy you".

Specifics, Neo. You're describing a part of a culture rather than 'female behavior' (overall) there. It's part of social mannerisms more than internal behavior.

[ECrownofFire]

Re: the LGBTQ acronym, I prefer using "QUILTBAG". It has all the requisite letters. QUeer, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans*, Bisexual, Asexual, and Gay. But more importantly, it sounds fun!

[TheBiggerFish]

Heh.  Nice.

[Arx]

I've always gone for GOLBAT myself.

[martinuzz]

Lol, one of my newspaper's columnists made me giggle. Not sure if this is the right thread, since it's more about feminism and woman's rights than it is about gender.

So over here in the Netherlands, a few years ago the government decided to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 in 2020, and after 2020 keep it increasing directly proportional to average life expectancy.

The columnist argues that, since woman have a average life expectancy that is 5 years older than for men, it would only be fair to change the law, so that men are allowed to retire 5 years earlier than women.

"And before all our country's feminists come bashing in my door and calling me a sexist, they should consider this: If all the old geezers that work as top managers and directors, and in other top positions about which feminists constantly (and rightfully so) remind us that women are severely underrepresented, are forced to retire earlier than women, women representation will have room to increase."

(Note that over here, retirement is mandatory. You cannot keep your job and go on after retirement age. A 85 year old high court judge would not be possible here. There's few exceptions, amongst which are parliamentary and other politcal functions, board membership, and academic seats, although I do believe a professor will be kindly pushed to change his title and job to professor emeritus and work less than fulltime)

[hops]

I honestly think "queer" is enough of an umbrella term because it describe literally everyone who isn't a cisgendered heterosexual person without necessarily alienating them.

And I don't really understand people who complain about LGBTQ groups not being inclusive of heterosexual cisgendered people. It's a goddamn LGBTQ group, not a literally every human being group.

[martinuzz]

Queer is not a good term, if only because the original meaning of the word is 'strange / odd'. By calling a LGBT that, you are saying they're not normal, which is derogatory, or at least exclusive.

[hops]

But that's literally the entire point of LGBTQ groups? If we weren't considered the odd one out in society then the need for LGBTQ groups would disappear.

Maybe in the future where LGBTQ groups are rebranded as groups promoting tolerance for different gender and sexual expressions rather than needing to champion the minority, maybe.

[TheBiggerFish]

Martinuzz:You literally can't work if you want to?  Yikes.

[martinuzz]

Martinuzz:You literally can't work if you want to?  Yikes.

Yep, it's either go find some volunteer job, or spend the rest of your days weeding your garden.

[TheBiggerFish]

Martinuzz:You literally can't work if you want to?  Yikes.

Yep, it's either go find some volunteer job, or spend the rest of your days weeding your garden.

(that's bloody stupid imho)

[martinuzz]

I do agree.
It's not surprising that loneliness and feelings of being useless are the number one reason for depression amongst the elderly (or amongst unemployed in general).
What's really scary is, that our government now wants to approve euthanasia on grounds of 'fulfilled life'. In other words, they want to make it legal to euthanize someone who is not physically ill, but just old, bored and lonely.

The flip side is, if you tell people you want to raise the retirement age, they'll take to the barricades with pitchforks.