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Post by needacoke on Feb 22, 2011 15:34:33 GMT -5
gelly14--now that's what I call "up close and personal." Thank you! Looks like a Libracatz crotch shot ! Hi there "Coke" ****waves**** !!! You better pop those eyes back into their sockets and get back to work. Uh huh. That was quite a gif to have on my big screen monitor at work. Glad nobody walked by my cube.  |
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Post by seashell on Feb 22, 2011 15:34:45 GMT -5
So, I'm bored and feeling shallow. Has anyone seen any new pictures of Adam post-vacation? Do we know if Sauli is here or Finland? Any new photoshoots coming to look forward too? If I'm left to my own devices too long I'm liable to get myself into trouble. Isn't there a new Video Blog due today sometime..thought Katri was hoping they would have one.. Do we even know if Sauli is back in Finland? .. LOL Oh.. MWP.. your cookie preference is ok with me..  But, what does that say for me.. I am total equal opportunity here.. Chocolate, Oatmeal and Peanut Butter.. doesn't matter to me...... LOL.. but, then that is the way I live my life too.. 8-) ETA.. whoa.. posted and then that gif was just there.. yeah I'd jump on that.................. what? |
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Post by lm2718 on Feb 22, 2011 15:37:25 GMT -5
I've never really understood why the word "preference" is said to imply choice. I like chocolate-chip cookies better than peanut-butter cookies, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to say that I prefer chocolate-chip cookies, isn't it? I don't choose to prefer chocolate chip. It's not as if I could prefer peanut butter if I just put my mind to it. People might prefer the color red to the color green, or prefer cats to dogs, or prefer sneakers to loafers, and none of those preferences are a matter of choice. You like what you like. I guess the fact that some preferences can change during a person's life (as a kid I hated onions and now I like them) is what makes some suspicious of the word when applied to sexual orientation, but I still think that the idea of "choice" doesn't enter into it. I didn't make a choice to start liking onions; it just happened when I got older. I couldn't choose to start disliking them again. Am I making sense or just rambling? :-/ No, I think what you're saying makes perfect sense, murly. And I actually love this comparison--if people thought of "sexual preference" in the same way they thought of "cookie preference," then there wouldn't be this big to-do! I'm an oatmeal cookie lover, personally, and don't particularly like chocolate (I know, gasp), and find peanut-butter cookies personally a total turn-off. I have no problem, however, with other people liking peanut butter cookies-I don't think any less of them for it (okay, well, not much less ); I also have no problem with people thinking, genially, that I'm "weird" for preferring oatmeal to chocolate, as long as they let me have my oatmeal, and are still happy to be my friend. As Adam has said about sexuality, I don't get why its such a big deal, it shouldn't matter, its only one fact about me, it doesn't define me. Loved your post MWP and I agree with you regarding the definition of preference. Your genetic composition is such that you prefer oatmeal cookies. Sexuality is fluid. Some people are on the extreme sides of the Kinsey scale and the rest are somewhere in between. In sexuality here we are talking only about attraction to the same or opposite sex. Sexuality is also physical appearance. There are people who look physically like one gender and are genetically a different gender. For example XY females (probably the case of the South African runner Mokgadi Caster Semenya). There are also cases of XX males where genetically the person is a female but physically the person looks like a male. And there is an interesting case of a tribe in which some of the girls become boys after puberty due to a genetic mutation ( gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2009/12/unusually-high-number-of-pseudohermaphrodites-in-gaza-blamed-on-in-breeding/ ) Is an XX pseudo-male that is attracted to an XY male gay? Is an XY pseudo-female that is attracted to an XX female gay? Why do we insist on labels? |
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Post by Coconutgrove0 on Feb 22, 2011 15:38:35 GMT -5
Well...right now I'm embracing a slice of a chocolate chip pizza that my grandson andI just baked!! Yummm!! I've never had chocolate chip pizza...must try. Guess I'll embrace a bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream...my newest guilty pleasure. here's mine  two things I have very little self control over, the other one is on the pic above, and the other is Adam's sexy pics .... |
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Post by geezlouise on Feb 22, 2011 15:51:28 GMT -5
ITA. Preference and choice are not synonymous.
He is using the words he prefers.
And labels suck!
I wish we could get away from using them. We only succeed in putting people in boxes.
Why should we need to identify as Gay or Straight.
Why can’t we have sex with and fall in love with whomever we want, whenever we want and do it simply because at that time in our lives it is what feels good.
Our culture assumes you are either one or the other.
The whole concept of ‘sexual orientation’ is relatively new. I believe it only started to gain force (in western culture) with the expansion of Christianity.
Ancient civilizations considered it a matter of individual and often momentary preference. Think ancient Greece and Rome.
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Post by seashell on Feb 22, 2011 15:52:55 GMT -5
ITA. Preference and choice are not synonymous. He is using the words he prefers. And labels suck! I wish we could get away from using them. We only succeed in putting people in boxes. Why should we need to identify as Gay or Straight. Why can’t we have sex with and fall in love with whomever we want, whenever we want and do it simply because at that time in our lives it is what feels good. Our culture assumes you are either one or the other. The whole concept of ‘sexual orientation’ is relatively new. I believe it only started to gain force (in western culture) with the expansion of Christianity. Ancient civilizations considered it a matter of individual and often momentary preference. Think ancient Greece and Rome. Amen... ITA |
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Post by aspen on Feb 22, 2011 15:53:17 GMT -5
I am watching my 6 yr old nephew while mom is at the dentists. I am also wearing one of my GNT shirts. He just walked in and told me the shirt is making him crazy because he likes Adam so much, especially FYE, then sang a few bars. His mom plays the CD all the time in the car and all 3 of the kids know the words to many of the songs. Then he said if he was a pretty girl and he was 17 yrs old (? one more year and he would have been legal) he would go to the beach- that is his frame of reference since they live at the beach - and find Adam and kiss him and marry him.
There was no part of the conversation I was going to tackle since he isn't mine and I don't have to, but it really did make me laugh. I simply said that I think that would be a great idea, to which he responded with a question whether I loved Adam and if I would marry him if he asked. The answer to both questions, of course, was a big YES. And that made him dance around threatening to tell my husband that I loved Adam. All in all, it was all win getting away that easily. About the husband part, divorce is easier than THE TALK with a 6 year old.
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Post by gelly14 on Feb 22, 2011 15:54:50 GMT -5
So tantum open that ice cream and enjoy both of your guilty pleasures right now..  |
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Post by midwifespal on Feb 22, 2011 15:58:00 GMT -5
I am watching my 6 yr old nephew while mom is at the dentists. I am also wearing one of my GNT shirts. He just walked in and told me the shirt is making him crazy because he likes Adam so much, especially FYE, then sang a few bars. His mom plays the CD all the time in the car and all 3 of the kids know the words to many of the songs. Then he said if he was a pretty girl and he was 17 yrs old (? one more year and he would have been legal) he would go to the beach- that is his frame of reference since they live at the beach - and find Adam and kiss him and marry him. I love this story. Just about says it all. |
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Post by geezlouise on Feb 22, 2011 16:03:04 GMT -5
I am watching my 6 yr old nephew while mom is at the dentists. I am also wearing one of my GNT shirts. He just walked in and told me the shirt is making him crazy because he likes Adam so much, especially FYE, then sang a few bars. His mom plays the CD all the time in the car and all 3 of the kids know the words to many of the songs. Then he said if he was a pretty girl and he was 17 yrs old (? one more year and he would have been legal) he would go to the beach- that is his frame of reference since they live at the beach - and find Adam and kiss him and marry him. I love this story. Just about says it all. I love it too. I'm holding out hope that the next generation gets it right. No pressure though, kids. |
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But, what does that say for me.. I am total equal opportunity here.. Chocolate, Oatmeal and Peanut Butter.. doesn't matter to me...... LOL.. but, then that is the way I live my life too.. 8-)
