As You Like It - Men Becoming Women

Both!

LOL!

Not all gay people have to deal with this type of behavior depends on who you are,
where you live.
Unfortunately I have experienced it in SL and in my first life.
Worse part is when my own experience is because I have got unusual body for guy and beard and they start making jokes about you being freaky lady or worse and you're not sure if you say anything against them they try to kill you.
It even scarier when it involves a medical emergency in public situation and they have to remove my clothes due to first life injury and everyone saw my personal business that my
outward gender doesn't match the gender under my clothes.
Luckily worse part of SL is they can just call you names they can't track you down
and kill you irl.

Unfortunately there are people out there that will pick on anyone unusual and weaker, thay won't care if you're too fat, too thin, too short, different color skin, big ears, bad hair, bad nose, wrong clothes whatever, they'll do something to you if they see an opening to look tough to their peers.

Have you wondered whether your continued whinging and misplaced superiority complex might have alienated the real men, who have a choice of women with stable and interesting personalities?

Pep (Has had enough of helping lame ducks for a lifetime)

Heres how my conversation with this clown went. Like I said this guy just came out of nowhere, when i was with a female no less! Is there any way of finding out if LL ever took any action to correct this? If they would let this kind of thing go unpunished I wouldn't spend another dime on here.

- Instant message logging enabled --
[18:02] ******* *****: fagget
[18:03] Spanky Rossini: fagget?
[18:03] ******* *****: yes
[18:03] Spanky Rossini: who the **** are you
[18:04] ******* *****: so?
[18:04] Spanky Rossini: are you asking me if im gay?
[18:04] ******* *****: No, I´m afirming taht
[18:04] ******* *****: you ARE gay
[18:04] Spanky Rossini: sorry bub not gay you're going to have to look somewhere else
[18:05] Spanky Rossini: nice bowtie though
[18:05] ******* *****: yeah, I knwe you were a faggot
[18:05] ******* *****: go find yourself a dick
[18:06] Spanky Rossini: whered you go i've got something for you
[18:07] ******* *****: sorry, I dont like faggots
[18:07] Spanky Rossini: you must have taken offense at my forum posts
[18:07] Spanky Rossini: sorry if you're gay didn't mean to offend you
[18:07] ******* *****: I´m not...
[18:08] ******* *****: but you ARE
[18:08] Spanky Rossini: well then don't you have anything better to do?
[18:08] Spanky Rossini: you cared enough to come talk to me
[18:08] ******* *****: you might be one more fat american who cant get sex in real life
[18:08] ******* *****: feel sorry for you
[18:09] Spanky Rossini: don't feel sorry for me you should just worry about yourself
[18:10] ******* *****: I have sex everydaym dont need to be in virtual enviroment like you, sissy
[18:11] Spanky Rossini: then why you worrying about me?
[18:11] ******* *****: oh, fuck you
[18:11] ******* *****: thats enpugh
[18:12] Spanky Rossini: ok thanks for the pleasant conversation

I would have no patience for anyone who acts this way. I won't put up with that kind of thing going on in front of me. People may be entitled to their opinions but not to attack another human being this way, totally inexcusable. Why anyone would spend this much time worrying about the personal business of someone else is beyond me. It shows a total lack of class and makes you wonder how people who feel themselves so superior, so qualified themselves to stand in judgement of others, could also be so ignorant to the part about understanding why its important to treat others with respect and dignity.

I guess the good thing about SL for people who might be a little different is that the insults and abuse are just as superficial and fake as the sex here since noone knows who the hell they are really talking to in the first place!

If she uses "teh" and "liek" in real life, as she does here, then I'd say you're on to something there. No one, of either gender, wants an internet-slang spewing buffoon for a spouse.

And also, incidentally, the ability to slowly poison men by pissing their excess hormones into the water supply and thus lower male fertility over the last 40 years. Once again your freedom comes at our expense. Even Saddam Hussein only threatened to use chemical weapons.

We all knew that women were trying to emasculate us socially. How many of us suspected that they were doing it chemically too?

The interesting thing about your fruitcake there Spanky, is that he seems to think using the word gay is an insult and believing that you are gay that this would get to you.

In the case that you arent gay (which I understand is the fact in this case) then it's possitive affirmation makes little odds to you, calling you gay doesnt make you gay.

In the case that you are gay, it's possitive affirmation is little more than an advert for other gay persons to make contact and get your telephone number...

I've never understood the use of the word gay as an insult. As far as I can tell the trend started in America some years ago, it hasnt entered widespread use this side of the Atlantic divide although I have heard it used. I just dont understand whats so insulting about it as a swearword: Either you are gay, in which case it makes no odds; or you are not gay, in which case it's wrong and makes no odds.

Perhaps he was using it in it's literal meaning by saying that Spanky is excessively light hearted to the point of being frivolous and and lacking in substance? That would be a kind of insult, I suppose. I fairly weak one, mind.

You know, the word faggot has had many meanings over the centuries. As I'm sure most people know, it refers to a bundle of sticks. Consequently it came to be a derogatory term for an old woman in the 12th century, as it was the elderly women of rural communities who did most of the wood collecting. During the 15th century it became a mildly insulting term that a man would use to describe his wife - a "faggot" literally being a burden, so it was simillar to refering to her as "the old ball-and-chain". Some time in the late 16th century it became a slang term for a domestic family man. Following from that, during the lat 17th century it has been recorded as being used to mean a mild-mannered man not given to aggression or competitiveness. It is probably these connotations of "unmanliness" that lead to it being used as a derogatory term for homosexual men.

Really, he could have meant any of these too.

I think just about any of those are more offensive to me than being accused of liking cock (with the exception of the"family man" one).

This thread is now about etymology.

The amusing thing i've found is that when someone has called me gay, the succinct answer of "correct" ends all further taunting within the next two exchanges or so.

"What, you really are a faggot?"
... 'yes'
"A Poofter!"
... 'indeed.'.
"/me laughs in an attempt to maintain heterosexual appearance, then wanders off to find somebody they can call faggot who will get insulted by it.".

It's obviously not about good grammar as far as you are concerned though, is it?

Pep (It's its not it's)

/me hangs head. There are other people you could pick on if you wanted to. People who arent dyslexic, perhaps.

Gay can mean effeminate for some.

But regardless of what somebody calls you, it's theiir intentions are what matters. If somebody screws their face up and calls you a pumpkin then it's obvious that they think pumpkins are rather unpleasant and something to be avoided. Sometimes we need to fit in. Whether it be the classroom or the workplace, if pumpkins aren't welcome then nobody is going to want to be a pumpkin.

Personally I think you're all pumpkins!!

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Pep (Most of the people who claim to be dyslexic aren't)

The epithet "Gay" was appropriated for the homosexual movement when it had a perfectly good original meaning. It has now been appropriated by youth (my newly teenaged son didn't even know it had sexual connotations initially) as meaning pathetic and feeble.

Pep (Live with it)

I may have said some things today that you disagree with, but I haven't picked on anyone.

Back when Tojans were soldiers.

Not by my kids, nor by their friends when they're in my house or car.

I thought it was the Persians that had that elite fighting unit. The 100 somethings or whatever they were called. All homosexual. Rolling around with each other between battles.

Strange. I can't seem to find reference to them on the internet.

"this car is soooo gay"

Transitioning is not a "normal" progression with all transgendered,it is the true transexual who will transition if they are a true transexual
There is a term used for when a transexual will transition and it is "when their bell goes off"
What that means is there comes a point in a transexuals life where their "bell goes off" at this point they have to transition or blow out their brains because to go on as before is not an option.
If that bell does not go off, then one is not a true transexual
Transitioning is the start of a very lonely,very painful journey,where old friends and quite often family have to left behind.
Starting out in a new town where no one knows them,where they start on their journey to becoming the female they we born as
Few are completely passable so trying to find a job where an employer will take a chance on you is almost impossible
Identity has to be changed,a regular visit to a proper therapist who specializes in such a field
There is so much more involved and the journey can be heartbreaking and only the strong will survive,countless have committed suicide along the way to that elusive "stealth" where they live their life as a woman,their new life at the end of a long and painful journey
It is too long a story to tell here.i have a book which has been written by one who transitioned,the story unfolding at the time of transitioning,the book has been read by many who took the "journey",it's very much the bible on transitioning
It is a heartbreaking story,lived by many who travelled the road to that elusive "stealth"
My dearest friend is transitioning now and has such hard times but she had no choice she had to leave her wife and live alone because her "bell went off" she left for herself not a lover
Btw i am a t girl but not a transexual
TG,t girl,transgendered are umbrella terms for
transexual
crossdresser
transvestite
drag queen

Mazda Miata.

Solved that one then, haven't you!

Pep (More realistic)