Ceceil Felias said:
And Roose Hurro wins the epic fail award of the year.
While the article doesn't really seem that bad at all, I'll have to agree with Rilvor that the image included is, well... mindscarring. D: Then again I've always hated MPreg in a fictional context, and I've always been the first one to get the torches and pitchforks at the sight of it without a proper explanation to satisfy the basic rules of biology.
Actually, no, I don't "epic fail"... as I said, no amount of surgery will change the fact a person is either male or female, a fact that is clearly set in chromosomal DNA. Two of those chromosomes determine a person's sex/gender... one X and one Y for a man, and two Xs for a woman. No amount of surgery changes that, it only turns the truth into a lie.
As for a proper explaination, that's easy... this is simply a woman who wears her hair short, takes hormones, and had her breasts hacked off. That satisfy the "basic rules of biology"...? SHE, not HE!
capthavoc123 said:
Roose Hurro said:
DragonMagica said:
He's still biologically female so........ what the hell? o____O
She, not "he"... no amount of surgery will ever change a person's true gender.
"Gender" is a social construct. You mean no amount of surgery will ever change a person's true
sex.
Sex... gender... two words for the same thing, far as I'm concerned. Even though Webster's defines
gender as: "The classification by which words are grouped as masculine, feminine, or neuter." And defines
sex as: "1. Either of the two divisions of organisms distinguished as male and female... 2. The character of being male or female."
Eh... the proper word would be "sex", by definition. But you already made the translation, so it makes no real difference. Socially speaking, sex and gender are interchangeable. Unless you want to poke at semantics. Besides, neither a person's true gender nor their sex can be changed by surgery, no matter how much you twist the words....
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Ainoko said:
Well this IS NOT a true Mpreg because he is a ransgender. What it means is that one day, soon I hope, a male (one who was born that way) will finally get pregnant and carry a child to term. When that happens, then men around the world will shudder, not to mention the ases in our government who will then lose a key arguement on gay marriage.
Sorry, I almost forgot you, Ainoko....
Yes, you are right... this is simply a mutilated woman who got pregnant, not a man. Unfortunately (at least from your viewpoint), your hope for a male born able to "get pregnant" is pure fantasy. Even human "hermaphrodites" aren't real herms, simply men or women suffering from a rare birth defect, in many (if not all) cases, correctable by surgery, if performed early enough (at least for the males... for the females, early correction is not as vital).
So... male is male, female is female. "Never the twain shall meet."
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