The Agent of Oblivion question of the day

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Lesbians are so great. They get so much done in a day.

[Brett Favre]

Some of my best friends are homos.

[Angle-plex]

my favorite thing is when I fuck a guy in the ass and then he clinches his ass cheeks so that i can't pull out easily. its annoying, but a good laugh is eventually had by all.

[Angle-plex]

i especially like it when the guy turns his head around and makes eye contact with me as I try to pull out.

[Open the Muggy Gate]

As weird as it sounds, I like the chaos the subject brings sometimes. It shows you that many people still can't accept and we have a long way to go before it can be fully accepted (if ever). Most of my friends accept very attractive in a way that I can't explain friends and don't mind it. Back in the South, it was a bit different.

[Lord of The Curry]

I live in a very Liberal city. We have one of the biggest very attractive in a way that I can't explain populations in the world and I find myself, on the whole very accepting/supportive of the very attractive in a way that I can't explain community.

 

Having said that, there is a phrase I find myself thinking of from time to time: "I love g-a-y people but I can't stand faggots." There are certain g-a-y (mainly male) who in general will go out of their way to overemphasize just how very attractive in a way that I can't explain they are and that annoys me to no end. I apply the same feelings towards black guys who act over-the-top thuggish and Italian dudes who take the phrase "Gino" to the Nth degree.

 

Edit: Fuck you to whomever put the world filter back on.

[FroGG_NeaL]

What do I like about homosexuality? The hate crimes.

 

 

[Big Ol' Smitty]

That the biggest homophobes almost invariably end up being repressed homosexuals.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Adventurous spirit in fashion and personality.

[Twisted Intestine]

Some people didn't answer completely and honestly. Have they been punished?

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Men are inherently more reasonable and logical than women.

 

No, they aren't.

Then I assure you your social circle is the exception, not the rule.

 

I'm not talking about about rhetorical evidence, I'm telling you that saying "men are inherently more reasonable and logical than women" is unfounded. There's no neurological evidence to support saying this, children don't exhibit differences in reasoning abilities between the sexes, and the differences between women and men in regards to "logical" thinking (as opposed to, I assume, emotional thinking) are almost entirely conditioned through development and explained through phenomena like stereotype threat. When you say "men are better than women at math," you're exhibiting a social attitude as well as a statement. Men are encouraged to be good in math because it's gender-appropriate for them to do so, and the exact opposite is true for women. Math encourages vertical, logical thinking (breaking down situations into parts, etc), so it's no wonder that a male-dominated discipline like math would lead to a statement that men are inherently more reasonable and logical. I'm not going to base my entire statement around math, but that's the deal with gender-appropriate tasks and stereotype threat. Women simply aren't encouraged to be logical thinkers because a) that's assumed to be the role of the men, and b) their role is to be emotional thinkers. It's too common to not notice. But if you're going to tell me that there's something genetically programmed from a little zygote and social conditioning has nothing to do with anything at all, I'm calling bullshit.

LOL

 

[Guest Czech please!]

Men are encouraged to be good in math because it's gender-appropriate for them to do so, and the exact opposite is true for women.

Other way around in my travels. Girls did people's math homework because they were good at completing stupid homework, and guys were history/English resources because girls didn't like to learn things. Play along with Jeopardy! with your average high-achieving high school junior/senior girl. You'll feel like you're driving a Soviet tank through an uprising.

 

I don't think anyone's really encouraged to be good at math anymore, actually.

 

My favorite thing about homosexuality is that the disposable income allowed by not having kids and the need to be near gay bars has revitalized a lot of downtrodden urban neighborhoods from coast to coast and made cities livable for white suburban twentysomethings.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!]

It looks like pbone's taking Intro to Gender Studies this semester. How adorable/

 

 

edit: The best thing about homosexuals is their dance music.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

That "LOL" was just to bide time. I'm working on making misogyny scientifically justifiable.

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

Who doesn't believe that women are more emotional and men are more rational?

 

Or more accurately, that women are fucking crazy? I am jealous of gay men in that sense, that they don't have to deal with the fucking craziness of the fairer sex.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!]

I don't think anyone's really encouraged to be good at math anymore, actually.

 

Asians

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Asians are inherently better at math than everyone else. Let me find the zygote that proves it.

[Guest Czech please!]

Malcolm Gladwell argued in Outliers that Asians excel at math because their numbers' names are milliseconds shorter than their names in Indo-European languages, thus they can retain more in their immediate memory loop, but I already went over how house-of-cardsy that book is.

 

The best thing about homosexuals is their dance music.

I was watching/listening (whatever you call it) to the disco channel on Music Choice this morning and I was wondering: the good old "Disco Sucks" movement of the late 1970s, how much of that was thinly veiled bigotry toward blacks and gays (and black gays) by whom they felt threatened, and how much of it was the fact that there really was a lot of disco output in a relatively short timespan and that though it certainly did have its moments, a lot of it really did suck? I'd say a 65/35 balance. Like yeah sure, you had "Good Times" and "Funkytown," but a bunch of forgettable syrupy-stringed assembly-line crap. Were these early rockists justified?

[Cheech Tremendous]

The best thing about homosexuality is that it has gained a certain amount of social acceptance in the past ten years due to its portrayal in the media. Only in this decade has the topic become "safe", with many television shows and movies not only openly discussing it, but intentionally glorifying it. Because of this, it has seemingly made it easier for young females to "experiment" and be bi-curious. The by-product, of course, is a greater availability of three-ways, as well as lesbian porn, for a generation of males like myself. I am more than okay with this.

[Kinetic]

I may be in the minority on this, but I tend to find these overt expressions of beer-soaked, college aged "bi-curiousity" far more annoying than arousing. It seems to invariably be done for the benefit of some guy; it's usually preceded by hooting, and followed by vomiting on a curb. And then Katy Perry goes and writes an anthem for these people. Despicable. Another thing: I was once at this Vagina Monologues post-party with the cast and crew of a production of that thing at the university in Asheville. At some point in the night, the party turned into this big lesbian make-out session, but the whole thing seemed to have this air of "hey, I guess we better dyke out now." It felt really forced to me. I'm willing to bet that at least half of those girls ended up being straight.

[Art Sandusky]

*****

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

Speaking of Outliers; Czech, what do you think of his theories on the Date of Birth being so important for success? Also, do you buy the 10,000 hour rule? Because I don't, and I think there's plenty of evidence, especially in sports, to prove otherwise. Also, some people just adapt better to certain practices than others, and people that go through the exact same coaching environment with the same emphasis on learning and deliberate practice, seem to have great disparities in their skill levels.

[Twisted Intestine]

Who doesn't believe that women are more emotional and men are more rational?

 

Or more accurately, that women are fucking crazy? I am jealous of gay men in that sense, that they don't have to deal with the fucking craziness of the fairer sex.

 

Fags are just as emotional and fucking nuts as women, if not more. ...From what I hear, I mean.

[At Home]

It looks like pbone's taking Intro to Gender Studies this semester. How adorable/

 

bro u rlly got me this time

[BUTT]

I may be in the minority on this, but I tend to find these overt expressions of beer-soaked, college aged "bi-curiousity" far more annoying than arousing. It seems to invariably be done for the benefit of some guy; it's usually preceded by hooting, and followed by vomiting on a curb. And then Katy Perry goes and writes an anthem for these people. Despicable. Another thing: I was once at this Vagina Monologues post-party with the cast and crew of a production of that thing at the university in Asheville. At some point in the night, the party turned into this big lesbian make-out session, but the whole thing seemed to have this air of "hey, I guess we better dyke out now." It felt really forced to me. I'm willing to bet that at least half of those girls ended up being straight.

I hear you bro. Remember when this shit was taboo? Girls kissing doesn't even give me a semi anymore! That said, Katy Perry writing The Official Song of Fake Lesbians is a pretty brilliant marketing move, much like Destiny's Child releasing a song called "Survivor" at the advent of the reality show boom.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!]

That said, Katy Perry writing The Official Song of Fake Lesbians is a pretty brilliant marketing move

 

Too bad the song itself is so terrible. Even fake lesbians deserve a better anthem than that.

[At Home]

Doesn't stop them from leeching onto it.

[The Niggardly King]

I'm surprised Gwen Stefani didn't come up with one during her shit is bananas and pseudo-gook days.

[Guest Czech please!]

Speaking of Outliers; Czech, what do you think of his theories on the Date of Birth being so important for success?

Tenuous anecdotal stuff. The thing about junior hockey players being born around January 1 is one of those superficially "hmm, you're right, that's interesting" things that doesn't really stand up to deeper research. I don't see the same distribution on NHL rosters, so I think it stops mattering once you're that good. The whole "look at all the technology moguls all being born around the same time!" thing was a real forehead-slapper. Well yeah, no shit. Obviously windows (as it were) for innovation continue to open and close as the years pass. That's not a revelation, nor is it any sort of argument that we're all but mere products of our time and place and life isn't as fair and egalitarian as we say it is. Well, no, it's probably not but I guess you just have to catch the bus at the next stop.

 

Also, do you buy the 10,000 hour rule? Because I don't, and I think there's plenty of evidence, especially in sports, to prove otherwise.

You can do anything for 10,000 hours and still not be any damn good at it if you're not practicing well. The assertion that the Beatles achieved greatness because they hit 10,000 hours in the Hamburg clubs should insult any reader's intelligence. That totally discounts the confluence of perfect circumstances and connections the Beatles had, and fallaciously claims that the Beatles were proficient musicians by 1963.

 

It looks like pbone's taking Intro to Gender Studies this semester. How adorable/

 

bro u rlly got me this time

Oh, take it like a man: rationally and mathematically.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I'm not talking about about rhetorical evidence, I'm telling you that saying "men are inherently more reasonable and logical than women" is unfounded. There's no neurological evidence to support saying this, children don't exhibit differences in reasoning abilities between the sexes, and the differences between women and men in regards to "logical" thinking (as opposed to, I assume, emotional thinking) are almost entirely conditioned through development and explained through phenomena like stereotype threat. When you say "men are better than women at math," you're exhibiting a social attitude as well as a statement. Men are encouraged to be good in math because it's gender-appropriate for them to do so, and the exact opposite is true for women. Math encourages vertical, logical thinking (breaking down situations into parts, etc), so it's no wonder that a male-dominated discipline like math would lead to a statement that men are inherently more reasonable and logical. I'm not going to base my entire statement around math, but that's the deal with gender-appropriate tasks and stereotype threat. Women simply aren't encouraged to be logical thinkers because a) that's assumed to be the role of the men, and b) their role is to be emotional thinkers. It's too common to not notice. But if you're going to tell me that there's something genetically programmed from a little zygote and social conditioning has nothing to do with anything at all, I'm calling bullshit.