KPJ wrote:
I generally try to avoid invocation of gender-specific cognitive
routines in myself or the reader. But she could also mean that she
doesn't like it when guys who treat other guys as male treat her as neuter.
>
> It appears as if Cynthia wrote:
>
> |Not alienating women is good. But I hate it when guys feel that
> |they have to tip toe around me, and I hate it even more if they
> |treat me like a neuter.
>
> I am not interested in what kind of genital equipment a mailing list entity
> possesses, until such a time when I meet it in real-time, and thus mating
> with it becomes a non-zero possibility.
...
I can recall precisely one circumstance under which the physical characteristics of an Extropian became relevant; someone protested the term "black goo" and I asked whether he was black and personally offended, in which case I'd stop using it, or if he was non-black and politically correct, in which case I'd tell him to stick his elbow up his nose.
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