Fisheaters Controversy

[Basilisa Marie]

I like the * every time you say trans*. It's like it's a forbidden word to say or something. :P

 

Haha. The asterisk is what you put in a computer search box to include all "endings" for the word, so the trans* community adopted it as shorthand to refer to transgendered, transsexual, etc, basically anyone who isn't a man in a man's body or a woman in a woman's body.  So that way people know you're talking about everyone in the group, not just transgendered or whatever subgroup. 

[PhuturePriest]

Haha. The asterisk is what you put in a computer search box to include all "endings" for the word, so the trans* community adopted it as shorthand to refer to transgendered, transsexual, etc, basically anyone who isn't a man in a man's body or a woman in a woman's body.  So that way people know you're talking about everyone in the group, not just transgendered or whatever subgroup. 

 

I've learned two things today. The first was that house phones don't disconnect if the power goes off, and the second is this. I feel so much smarter. :P

[Nihil Obstat]

Is he pretty decent looking?

You know k d lang?

[Lil Red]

Haha. The asterisk is what you put in a computer search box to include all "endings" for the word, so the trans* community adopted it as shorthand to refer to transgendered, transsexual, etc, basically anyone who isn't a man in a man's body or a woman in a woman's body.  So that way people know you're talking about everyone in the group, not just transgendered or whatever subgroup. 

 

i didn't know this. 

[Winchester]

You know k d lang?

You mean biblically?

[Nihil Obstat]

You mean biblically?

Do you mean Biblically?

[Winchester]

Do you mean Biblically?

 

That doesn't apply. Pay attention.

[Nihil Obstat]

That doesn't apply. Pay attention.

Interesting. :|
Clearly your demonic social darwinism has started affecting your sexuality.
Insert one of Havoc's zingers here. Edited May 30, 2013 by Nihil Obstat

[IcePrincessKRS]

I've learned two things today. The first was that house phones don't disconnect if the power goes off, and the second is this. I feel so much smarter. :P

 

Well, that depends on if it's cordless or not. A cordless phone won't work since it's base is connected to the electrical outlet. It has to be an old school phone that only connects to the phone jack.

[4588686]

Since this is Fisheaters I'd be more surprised at a generally tolerant reception to somebody coming as being a Jew.  

[Nihil Obstat]

Since this is Fisheaters I'd be more surprised at a generally tolerant reception to somebody coming as being a Jew.

Ever heard the term crypto Jew used as an indult? I have, though not there.

[4588686]

Ever heard the term crypto Jew used as an indult? I have, though not there.

 

 

I was accused of being a crypto-Jew multiple times during my brief stint at Fisheaters.  

[Nihil Obstat]

I was accused of being a crypto-Jew multiple times during my brief stint at Fisheaters.

Not a secret Muslim?

[4588686]

Not a secret Muslim?

 

 

No, sadly.  I'm losing touch with my roots :'(

[cappie]

I do think souls have gender. And I agree with the rest. :)

 

From the Catechism:
"Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others." (C.C.C. #2332)

I don't know if this is a strong enough statement to be considered an official teaching on the idea of the soul having gender, but in elaborating on this line from the Catechism, Dr. Peter Kreeft states:

"Our sexual identity extends to our souls, our personalities, our spirits. There is indeed a 'feminine mind' and a 'masculine mind' as well as body, for we are a psychosomatic unity (soul-body unity). To think of one's soul as neither masculine nor feminine is to separate body and soul artificially, as did the ancient Gnostics, and to think of the soul as a sexless 'ghost in the machine' instead of as the life and form of the body, and to think of masculinity and femininity as merely a material, animal thing."

-Dr. Peter Kreeft, Catholic Christianity (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2001), 244.