Well Said, Mughster.
two things - when you are subscribed to a thread, vbulletin mails you new posts whether the poster is on your ignore list or not, so I have been getting to read Ice's rambling in my email. Secondly, as she says, Mughi has been having a right old laugh at the redneck, and passing on the laughs.
I suspect that Ice has jumped onto spelling mistakes for the simple reason that he knows that I am right about one thing at least - he has absolutely no knowledge about human genetics.
This is a really interesting thing to study, a great subject with millions of surprises and wierd things - it has been one of the most interesting subjects I have ever looked at. (example: women are actually two completely different people in one body - when a woman's embryo forms up, she has two "X" chromosomes - enough genes to make two people, so one of the X chromosomes becomes dormant, and scrunches up into a clump of material called the "Barr's Body". except, throughout the woman's body, clumps of cells form where the mother's X chromosome is present, and other clumps where the father's X chromosome is present. This causes a whole world of interesting and unusual things to happen - in the extreme cases, woman have been seen with a tigerskin effect on their skin, because the two types of cells react differently to sunburn! amazing!)
When Ice says "As much as you want to, you are not a woman by 50%. You only got 50% of the female genes.", this just shows how little he knows. Whether you like it or not, that is *EXACTLY* what Humans are, except the numbers are much, much stronger.
The biological differences between men and women are so slight, so subtle.. it's more like men are about 90% female and only 10% male. It obviously suits macho men who are insecure of who and what they are to try to ignore this, but at the blood and bone level women and men are nearly identical. As far the genetics of it goes, with the right technology two women can produce healthy offspring, but girls only, as they don't have any Y chromosome - two guys can produce both boys and girls as they have the "full set".
So, why am I still posting? because I have been there. I used to have the same twisted pointless opinions tha have been displayed here. When I was part of a church everyone there hated gays (and catholics, jews, immigrants etc). I have since had many conversations with intelligent and sensible people who pointed out the prejudice for what it was, and asked me to think about what I was saying.
"Opinion" is not a magic shield to hide behind here - if someone turned arond and started spouting white supremacy shit, no-one should just accept it as their opinion and move on. If someone tells us the world is flat, we don't just accept it as an opinion - we correct it.
This conversation only ends two ways - either the folks that are coming out with blind prejudice go read a book, have a coffee, whatever it takes to stop and
think and act like rational human beings, or you walk away looking like a redneck who either can't or won't use their brain.
