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1) The title of the article was priceless. 2) These are public bars, not private clubs. 3) Equality under the law means that someone can shove their heterosexuality in your face with the same equanimity as non-heterosexuals go about shoving theirs in everyone else's. 4) Gay bars have better male dancers and you don't have to be gay to dance (experentia docet), but who should choreograph your next appearance on the dance floor? 5)The irony was superb. 6)Some orientations are more equal than others in their own eyes and so deserve special treatment: "We can go to yours but you can't come to ours." 7) Could a bouncer reliably tell one's orientation or would it be solely an external characterization based on stereotypes? 8) Is Hollywood in England, Lotesse? I'm not the thread boss, Lotesse. I'm not even a straw boss. But your reply is a "straw-person (p.c.)" argument.
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The risk of being born with a y chromosome is, admittedly, slightly higher than 50%. That's usually attributed to the more svelte y chromosome itself in the swimming competition. BUT, by school age (~6yrs), the number of males and females is equal. (More males die, being the "more highly evolved of the species and therefore more susceptible to disease and trauma" (joke, people, joke - at least about the evolutionary part!) Now, the Kinsey data of 10% are long discredited and self-declaration on anonymous studies places homosexuality in either sex at 1 - 3 % in the US population. So 1/100 x 1/100 = 1/10,000. Or, extravagantly, 3/100 x 3/100 equals 9/10,000 reducing to 0.9/1000 or, generoously, 1 per thousand. So, statistically, it seems that the risk of two homosexual principals of opposite sexes both being named as such would be about 1/1000 at best and 1/10,000 at least likely. Binomial that any way you like, TWFM, it remains statistically improbable. More like a political statement, methinks. Intuitively, the likely hood of two random events transpiring at the same time is the product of their individual risks. Now, you can pretend that Boston was looking for thousands of principals at the same time, but that was not the case. They were looking for two. Intuitively, those two slots do not compare with thousands by a factor of 1000. That's ten to the third power for you math buffs! and, with heroic effort, I am not going to address the "-mission" principles, as I will be unable to avoid references to positions (place holders, of course!)
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03-07-2006, 04:57 PM | #263 |
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you guys should get a blog
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would that blog have to be "-mission" controlled by California standards or third world standards?
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I have no clue what you guys are talking about! So I'll just take this opportunity to say that I think being gay, bi-sexual, trans-gendered, or however you were born, is just excellent in my opinion. Yay for gay, I say! I think that can't be said enough right now.
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Perhaps it was a political move to look for two openly homosexual principals, but please don't come with pseudo-statistical calculations to prove it. Also, remember that principals have come and gone for many, many years and sooner or later, two gay principals would have to surface at the same time - inevitably making headlines in some newspapers. So let's not exaggerate the statistical improbability here.
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Uptake kinda slow, Lo!
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There's nothing pseudostatistical about it: it's a straightforward calculation yielding probability. I'm not exxagerating, I'm calculating.
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Anyone else have no clue what's going on here? *raises hand*
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03-11-2006, 01:14 PM | #273 |
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my male gay friend and I want to put on a drag show at a local club. It would amuse me to be hit on by gay men thinking I am a drag queen when ta da i am REALLY female.
That's something i don't get. Why gay men are often attracted to drag queens, who are trying to resemble women as closely as they can, when none of them are attracted to women. I don't like it when gay people complain about discrimination and hate crimes, like especially the gay guys talking about how straight guys hate them for no reason. Like no gay has ever done anything to earn dislike. But I do know several gay guys who "hit on" straight guys, guys they know are obviously straight. Guys with girlfriends. A lot of it isn't too subtle, and continues when the straight guy obviously shows no interest. Not saying that that earns hate crimes, especially not for the whole gay population, but some of them can be sick, just like any other group.
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I don't have a problem with the gays. That being said, I like being straight, so I'd prefer not to catch gay. It's not airborn, is it?
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Actually, they make a pod of you and then it slowly forms into you and when you go to sleep your soul turns into the gay.
Don't sleep.
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And it gets worse. We don't have any local retailers of that anti-gay spray. I don't mean anti-gay in a discriminatory way, maybe anti-catch-gay spray? Last thing I need is for my soul to get the gay.
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03-11-2006, 01:55 PM | #277 |
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Why? Don't you like being merry and happy?
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Ok, hang on just a moment. Let's stick to the subject at hand. OMG Christian Bale's so hawt. I love his body.
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I've also never understood my gay friends who would hit on extremely straight people that they knew were straight, and there was no chance of anything happening. Yeah, so this was OT, but I felt like sharing a story. On the topic of hate crimes, I myself have been in fear of them many times, and not because I was provoking anyone, or even trying to be openly queer. There are some seriously scary people who are short-sighted enough to believe that the world must be rid of people who do not follow all their moral rules, and that it's ok to use violence outside of the law to achieve this end. |
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Embladyne nice story. I don't think it was OT. I wouldn't hit on a guy I knew was gay because, well duh right?
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