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		<title>By: Chemix</title>
		<link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/17/shrink-rapt-radiator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-225033</link>
		<dc:creator>Chemix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I said the homesexuals are genetically different, something that many gays believe, and I mis-recalled a lesson in bio on genes related to sex, a big mistake, yes, I screwed up, yes, I know and admitted that it is not kleinfelter syndrom. I was speaking out of memory misread and should have treaded more carefully, yes. As towards women being mentally attuned, that&#039;s based mostly on personal experience, which I noted, is a generalization, and can lead to mistakes, and is also related to the evolutionary psychology theory. I&#039;m not going to retract that, with few exceptions, the women I&#039;ve been around act as I described, note, this generalization is not meant to cover ever single woman on earth, just a cultural majority from one puny man&#039;s perspective.

My citation of gay relations are attempts to show connections and a lack of apparent bigotry, and as for differentiating them from others, I regard them as people, even if they themselves make a distinction. It simply wouldn&#039;t make any sense to just say people however when being accused of bigotry. Perhaps a better word is to use for the specific people I was rationalizing the characters behavior to would be feminine, or stereotypically feminine, but I didn&#039;t think Political Correctness to such a degree would be required here, nor did I think that it was such a hot topic, I was apparently wrong, in many respects. At least this experience will leave me with a mental note to make sure I don&#039;t make that mistake again, or cite that mis-information from memory again.

As for damage I&#039;ve done, I am sorry for any offense I have caused. I&#039;d say more, but, no need to dig anymore with the chance that I may be wrong, but one little bit must come out: there are trends (psychological) that define cultural sexual identities, feminine and masculine, and they tend (note: tend- in this case meaning a high probability or ratio) to affect their namesake genders, hence their names.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I said the homesexuals are genetically different, something that many gays believe, and I mis-recalled a lesson in bio on genes related to sex, a big mistake, yes, I screwed up, yes, I know and admitted that it is not kleinfelter syndrom. I was speaking out of memory misread and should have treaded more carefully, yes. As towards women being mentally attuned, that&#8217;s based mostly on personal experience, which I noted, is a generalization, and can lead to mistakes, and is also related to the evolutionary psychology theory. I&#8217;m not going to retract that, with few exceptions, the women I&#8217;ve been around act as I described, note, this generalization is not meant to cover ever single woman on earth, just a cultural majority from one puny man&#8217;s perspective.</p>
<p>My citation of gay relations are attempts to show connections and a lack of apparent bigotry, and as for differentiating them from others, I regard them as people, even if they themselves make a distinction. It simply wouldn&#8217;t make any sense to just say people however when being accused of bigotry. Perhaps a better word is to use for the specific people I was rationalizing the characters behavior to would be feminine, or stereotypically feminine, but I didn&#8217;t think Political Correctness to such a degree would be required here, nor did I think that it was such a hot topic, I was apparently wrong, in many respects. At least this experience will leave me with a mental note to make sure I don&#8217;t make that mistake again, or cite that mis-information from memory again.</p>
<p>As for damage I&#8217;ve done, I am sorry for any offense I have caused. I&#8217;d say more, but, no need to dig anymore with the chance that I may be wrong, but one little bit must come out: there are trends (psychological) that define cultural sexual identities, feminine and masculine, and they tend (note: tend- in this case meaning a high probability or ratio) to affect their namesake genders, hence their names.</p>
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		<title>By: IvanHoeHo</title>
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		<dc:creator>IvanHoeHo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Man, almost made it to G1 (the last one, I think?)... but then there&#039;s just too much stacking - like others have said, and the never-ending whining was getting on my nerves. Is that what it&#039;s like to be in a dysfunctional relationship?

Whatever. I mean, What&#039;s the worth of a marriage if they can&#039;t at least be reasonably honest to each other?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man, almost made it to G1 (the last one, I think?)&#8230; but then there&#8217;s just too much stacking &#8211; like others have said, and the never-ending whining was getting on my nerves. Is that what it&#8217;s like to be in a dysfunctional relationship?</p>
<p>Whatever. I mean, What&#8217;s the worth of a marriage if they can&#8217;t at least be reasonably honest to each other?</p>
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		<title>By: Bhazor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bhazor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reply to Chemix
You said homosexuals are deformed and that women are mentally attuned to cleaning and being emotional. How exactly were we meant to take that?

Also repeatedly talking about your gay friends as some sort of collective individual body just illustrates how you see them as different than the normals. That isn&#039;t helping.

You&#039;ve done your damage now just duck out before you dig yourself deeper.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reply to Chemix<br />
You said homosexuals are deformed and that women are mentally attuned to cleaning and being emotional. How exactly were we meant to take that?</p>
<p>Also repeatedly talking about your gay friends as some sort of collective individual body just illustrates how you see them as different than the normals. That isn&#8217;t helping.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve done your damage now just duck out before you dig yourself deeper.</p>
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		<title>By: Chemix</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chemix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oke doke folks, I made a mistake when recalling bio-101, if you find it offensive, then I&#039;m sorry, alright, I&#039;m not trying to upset anyone. I was simply being honest on my opinion, perhaps, too honest, but it is an easy association, as the stereotype stands, and knowing some homosexuals, the stereotype can be true, obviously, generalizing on this point can be harmful if people are sensitive to the issue, as this discussion shows, but when writing a quick post on the internet, one can make assumptions and post without thinking too heavily. 

On that note, I acted defensively on the post because of real life experience and the direct attack comments (mind you, some poorly remembered bio-homework from 2 years ago). I&#039;ve had friends, and not so friendly acquaintances over the years that have been homosexual, so being called homophobic was interpreted on an attack on my character, which has shown a rather poor reflection of what I&#039;d like to think of myself, or at least, the placement of my flaws, and that&#039;s mostly my fault. 

As for my collection of &quot;relationship&quot; comics, if you&#039;re talking about my hentai archive, then I do have quite an awesome collection. Doctoral advice books from the 50s I am lacking, mostly due to heavy biases drawn from a &quot;democracy/ America/ other countries are shit&quot; perspective and a lean towards the psychoanalytical form of psychology that hasn&#039;t proven very effective in the past century (whereas it might have been semi-helpful in the Victorian era).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oke doke folks, I made a mistake when recalling bio-101, if you find it offensive, then I&#8217;m sorry, alright, I&#8217;m not trying to upset anyone. I was simply being honest on my opinion, perhaps, too honest, but it is an easy association, as the stereotype stands, and knowing some homosexuals, the stereotype can be true, obviously, generalizing on this point can be harmful if people are sensitive to the issue, as this discussion shows, but when writing a quick post on the internet, one can make assumptions and post without thinking too heavily. </p>
<p>On that note, I acted defensively on the post because of real life experience and the direct attack comments (mind you, some poorly remembered bio-homework from 2 years ago). I&#8217;ve had friends, and not so friendly acquaintances over the years that have been homosexual, so being called homophobic was interpreted on an attack on my character, which has shown a rather poor reflection of what I&#8217;d like to think of myself, or at least, the placement of my flaws, and that&#8217;s mostly my fault. </p>
<p>As for my collection of &#8220;relationship&#8221; comics, if you&#8217;re talking about my hentai archive, then I do have quite an awesome collection. Doctoral advice books from the 50s I am lacking, mostly due to heavy biases drawn from a &#8220;democracy/ America/ other countries are shit&#8221; perspective and a lean towards the psychoanalytical form of psychology that hasn&#8217;t proven very effective in the past century (whereas it might have been semi-helpful in the Victorian era).</p>
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		<title>By: Muzman</title>
		<link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/17/shrink-rapt-radiator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-224073</link>
		<dc:creator>Muzman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Say what you will about the guy, I bet he&#039;s got the most awesome collection of &#039;relationship&#039; comics and doctorial advice books from the late fifties.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Say what you will about the guy, I bet he&#8217;s got the most awesome collection of &#8216;relationship&#8217; comics and doctorial advice books from the late fifties.</p>
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		<title>By: Heliocentric</title>
		<link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/17/shrink-rapt-radiator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-224070</link>
		<dc:creator>Heliocentric</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Truth is, there observed patterns around the basis of sexuality, and its quite independent from sexual identity.  The common line being many transvestites are not gay. But really i find it all flawed as there is an pre-requisite that sexuality is a biological truth rather than a mere preference.

In short chemix, if you are going to complain about the character being a whiney bitch don&#039;t let me stop you, but keep the bigotry out of the comments eh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Truth is, there observed patterns around the basis of sexuality, and its quite independent from sexual identity.  The common line being many transvestites are not gay. But really i find it all flawed as there is an pre-requisite that sexuality is a biological truth rather than a mere preference.</p>
<p>In short chemix, if you are going to complain about the character being a whiney bitch don&#8217;t let me stop you, but keep the bigotry out of the comments eh?</p>
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		<title>By: Kieron Gillen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kieron Gillen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chemix: Man, seriously, if you don&#039;t know the Biology, don&#039;t pretend to. You&#039;re being really offensive.

KG</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chemix: Man, seriously, if you don&#8217;t know the Biology, don&#8217;t pretend to. You&#8217;re being really offensive.</p>
<p>KG</p>
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		<title>By: ACS</title>
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		<dc:creator>ACS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;I mean really, he’s a whiny piece of crap that acts like a woman with PMS, which to some extent makes sense, as the character is homosexual and that can have woman like tendencies, but I could care less about them when they act like this.&lt;/i&gt;

Considering that you dislike both women and homosexuals, please never be in a relationship. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I mean really, he’s a whiny piece of crap that acts like a woman with PMS, which to some extent makes sense, as the character is homosexual and that can have woman like tendencies, but I could care less about them when they act like this.</i></p>
<p>Considering that you dislike both women and homosexuals, please never be in a relationship. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Bhazor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bhazor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reply to Chemix

No, XXY is Klinefelter syndrome not the gay gene. Klinefelter is essentially men who have tits and shrinky dinky testes. If you are going to try defending the indefensible at least check your facts in Wikipedia first. 

Now enough, this a blog about games not pseudo science and bigotry. Well a blog about games and games writing. Well a blog about games and games writing and plugs for the authors. Well a blog about games and games writing and plugs for the authors and the fact that Ken Levine has come to bed eyes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reply to Chemix</p>
<p>No, XXY is Klinefelter syndrome not the gay gene. Klinefelter is essentially men who have tits and shrinky dinky testes. If you are going to try defending the indefensible at least check your facts in Wikipedia first. </p>
<p>Now enough, this a blog about games not pseudo science and bigotry. Well a blog about games and games writing. Well a blog about games and games writing and plugs for the authors. Well a blog about games and games writing and plugs for the authors and the fact that Ken Levine has come to bed eyes.</p>
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		<title>By: Caitiff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Caitiff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok then, you&#039;re not homophobic then Chemix, you&#039;re just wrong (about gay men, not the mod which yeah, could have used more dialogue). Personality and sexuality are two totally different issues. If you want I can find you articles detailing the studies on this, but the comment thread seems like a rude place to do it. &gt;_&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok then, you&#8217;re not homophobic then Chemix, you&#8217;re just wrong (about gay men, not the mod which yeah, could have used more dialogue). Personality and sexuality are two totally different issues. If you want I can find you articles detailing the studies on this, but the comment thread seems like a rude place to do it. &gt;_&gt;</p>
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		<title>By: Chemix</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chemix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since the edit option is not apparent, perhaps I have to go through and log in proper again: I missed the note by Bhazor: I understand the point of the repeating 2 lines of dialog, we go over things in our head that we don&#039;t find fitting to the norm, but there should have been some resolution to it or continuation once you placed the first box at least. Even then, background noise of a continuing coversation would have been nice. I&#039;ve been through situations like this, perhaps too frequently, to see entertainment, or insight, in such a mental event.

On sexism: sensitive much? When I say women and most people say women, I&#039;m talking about a generalization gathered from the majority of women that I have interacted with (or they in the case of most people). By my past experience, women tend to avoid direct confrontation on a subject, which leads to problems because men are not (usually) psychic and thus are not informed by the body language and &quot;common sense&quot; that women are more capable of perceiving. &quot;common sense&quot; is in quotes because &quot;common sense&quot; is relative in this case; one woman may consider it common sense that if there is clutter, it must be removed immediately, because that is the thought process they have learned, whereas the average man does not have that &quot;common sense&quot; thought process and doesn&#039;t come to the same conclusion. These thought processes are learned by culture and genetic bias which makes certain processes more acceptable.

On Homophobia: See above post</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the edit option is not apparent, perhaps I have to go through and log in proper again: I missed the note by Bhazor: I understand the point of the repeating 2 lines of dialog, we go over things in our head that we don&#8217;t find fitting to the norm, but there should have been some resolution to it or continuation once you placed the first box at least. Even then, background noise of a continuing coversation would have been nice. I&#8217;ve been through situations like this, perhaps too frequently, to see entertainment, or insight, in such a mental event.</p>
<p>On sexism: sensitive much? When I say women and most people say women, I&#8217;m talking about a generalization gathered from the majority of women that I have interacted with (or they in the case of most people). By my past experience, women tend to avoid direct confrontation on a subject, which leads to problems because men are not (usually) psychic and thus are not informed by the body language and &#8220;common sense&#8221; that women are more capable of perceiving. &#8220;common sense&#8221; is in quotes because &#8220;common sense&#8221; is relative in this case; one woman may consider it common sense that if there is clutter, it must be removed immediately, because that is the thought process they have learned, whereas the average man does not have that &#8220;common sense&#8221; thought process and doesn&#8217;t come to the same conclusion. These thought processes are learned by culture and genetic bias which makes certain processes more acceptable.</p>
<p>On Homophobia: See above post</p>
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		<title>By: Chemix</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chemix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Towards Arienette: I am aware that straight men can be whiny as well, hell, I&#039;m whiny (but I wouldn&#039;t repeat myself so many times), however, feminine tendencies do occur more frequently in genetically gay men despite environmental factors. IIRC, it&#039;s something to do with an extra &quot;x&quot; gene (xxy) as opposed to normal (xy) and female (xx). And as for gay people and discrimination: I&#039;m not a discriminatory person, I&#039;ve known and gotten along with people who happen to be gay for some time now, though admittedly I think gay sex is wrong on some level, but this isn&#039;t about discrimination, this is about a mod that could have used more dialog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Towards Arienette: I am aware that straight men can be whiny as well, hell, I&#8217;m whiny (but I wouldn&#8217;t repeat myself so many times), however, feminine tendencies do occur more frequently in genetically gay men despite environmental factors. IIRC, it&#8217;s something to do with an extra &#8220;x&#8221; gene (xxy) as opposed to normal (xy) and female (xx). And as for gay people and discrimination: I&#8217;m not a discriminatory person, I&#8217;ve known and gotten along with people who happen to be gay for some time now, though admittedly I think gay sex is wrong on some level, but this isn&#8217;t about discrimination, this is about a mod that could have used more dialog.</p>
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