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It all comes down to this.

The US government does not want people to be educated. They make greater profits for themselves when people are stupid, ignorant, and their schools are under-funded. They remain loyal and obedient to the government when they do not know or understand anything outside of what they are being told to believe.

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I pull the tabs off of soda cans upon opening them.
The darn things irritate my beak when I go to sip.

I don't see much wrong with this. You're singing some songs, not doing manual labour.

I am a male. I'm not going to say that I identify as male, because I am a male. Simple as that. I cannot change my gender, and, therefore, I cannot change what I identify as. Such a thing would be, according to scripture, impossible.

But hey, that's just my humble opinion.

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"biological gender" did you mean: sex?

No, it doesn't depend at all on any one person's definition of gender. When someone states their gender identity, what they mean is: "I am this gender". That is by definition identifying as something, as opposed to identifying with it. There's really no two ways about it.

I think we're arguing over semantics now. I'm saying that people easily get confused as to what others actually mean when they say that they "are" something. If you take the biology out of gender, what's left is the mind, aka a personality and collection of experiences that has no relation with one's sex. Seeing as gender types originally referred to physical traits, using these same terms (and verbs) to describe one's personality/thought processes/social behavior is misleading, intentionally or not. This is why I say that people mean to say "relate to," because "gender" implies both physical and social aspects for most people. When a person says: "I am this," people take that to mean: "I exist as this in all aspects." However, when someone uses "relate myself with" or "identify myself with," they're saying: "I am basically this, regardless of my physical nature." In the future, the traditional definition of gender may completely fade, but until then we need to acknowledge the fact that the word is in the middle of transitioning from one to the other (no pun intended), and its use is not always clear in context.

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It seems to me that when people state their gender identity, their point is to say "I am this gender" rather than "I relate to this gender", so I would say it fits the first definition better.

Again, that depends on your definition of gender. If one ignores the traditional (physical) meaning, what's left is a collection of (non-physical) traits and behaviors. One would use an occupation or description to identify with a collection of traits and behaviors. The verb "to be" in the sense of gender means "to exist as," but people really use it to mean "to belong/relate to," which has no physical denotations. Besides, the whole concept of gender identity is that people don't have to act a certain way because of what they are physically. That is, they act despite their (biological) gender, not because of their gender. This is by definition a "relates to" relation.

The chat thread was what lured me to posting in the first place. Unfortunately for the people who felt a somewhat 'connection' to other members in the chat thread and were able to comfortably socialize with them, it's been removed for, well I am actually yet to hear the actual reason why.

I remember all the laughs that were once had on the forums, and Schmoople's custom title that everyone envied so very much (God knows why Mr "Custom Title Fisher"), then I guess the forums goal was to become even more family friendly than it was (even though restricting members from expressing themselves via profanity would have been enough...)

But hey, there comes a time where people must learn to move on, and I'd say it's about time you started to get used to the fact the forums aren't what they were, the worst part was it didn't make them better, but who am I to really complain considering I'm still around.

I also guarantee half the people who weren't here when the chat thread was, will think I'm an over-attached fool, and to them I say I'm really not, if you were around when the thread of wonders were, you would understand how much fun it was. In fact, I can name so many people who I met from the chat thread and still keep in contact with to this day (and I met them 2-3 ish years ago). RIP OTters.

And Schmoople, goodbye my friend for the second time.

They are trying to aim for a more "family friendly" forums I guess, but where has that gotten them? From what I can see the forums seem to grow slowly more inactive, or at least compared back to the days of old. I used to lurk a lot back then, kind of wish I posted more during that time since currently there aren't many threads that are worth more than one post... and about an equal amount that aren't even worth that.

The thing I find funny is, they removed the chat threads but kept the forum games. Apparently actual socialization and discussion have no value in comparison of what really matters. Repetitive threads that are either "count to [number] before [user] posts", "the above user's [location/avatar] is your [home/father/otherkin], and "the above user does [lewd thing] to you, how do you react?".

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but these forums are starting to feel like the Neopets forums if I can remember how they were 7+ years back. Also, what was the reason for the chat thread being removed again? I can't remember what it was, but I have a feeling the reason for it being removed can also be applied to the 15k threads and 2.3 million posts in Forum Games.

That a lot of the opinions in this thread aren't really "unpopular" and are widely accepted on the internet.

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