Bernie gidday.

I love your analysis of our language usage and you philosophical imputations.
Gender doesn't denote the underlying sex. It more commonly recently denotes much more than the mere physicality denoting actual sex.

I think gender is what makes us as persons. Similarly inwardly, despite all the obsfaction, delusions and rationalisations actual sex organs define us to ourselves. These actions resilt in a denial of self.
Perhaps when a gay person looks in a mirror they see a reflection of something they are not. In the case of a male they see a woman in a mans body. But that body says to them they are a man. Confusing? Sadly it is more for the gay person than many understand. The conflicts must be huge. I have no knowledge of how this, I see as sad, confusion can be resolved.

There is a line of thought then that follows that deviation from the overwhelming sexual norms is in fact a denial of self and that all the over-emphasis on the deviation from the norm is not an attempt at outward persuasion of others but an attempt to overcome the original self denial.

Homosexuals have as much right to live their lives as they wish, as alcoholics, or bigots. After all, you can't stop homosexuals being homosexuals, or alcoholics being alcoholics, or bigots being bigots, no matter what laws are put in place to outlaw them.

People have preferences, and by definition, this means that they find some practices attractive, some acceptable and some abhorrent.

By extension, therefore, some people have the right to find homosexuality, alcoholism, or bigotry abhorrent.

And, on the subject of marriage, I suppose that alcoholics can marry each other, and so can bigots. But at the extreme, can two homosexual, alcoholic, bigots marry ?

Hmmmm ...... that's a conundrum.

Joe

My you are argumentative to day Foxy my sweet.

Flying fish don't actually fly, they glide. That is quite different.

On the main topic, roll on the Muslim takeover.

Dear Hasbeen,

Flyingfish is a type of fish that throws itself from
the water with the motion of its strong tail. In the
air, it glides by spreading its large fins, which
act like wings. In "flight" the flyingfish vibrates its
tail very rapidly. The long lower part of the tail fin
dips in and out of the water and helps the fish stay
up in the air.

There are about 50 different species of flying fish.
They live near the surface of the sea and are widespread in
the open oceans of the world, especially in the warmer
regions. Flyingfish have streamlined bodies and grow
up to 45 centimetres in length.

The blackwing flyingfish is found in warm, but not tropical
seas, including the Mediterranean. It uses four large
fins in flight. A common two-winged flying fish is
"Exocoetus volitans." It lives in tropical seas, but may also
be seen in the Mediterranean.

Flying fish are good to eat. They are sometimes caught at
night, as they fly through the air, using lights, to which
they are attracted.

Me argumentative?

Not at all. Just simply adding, enriching, stimulating
and amplifying, people's knowledge - on the issues involved.
It's an occupational habit.

Dear Foxy,

But it's still not a bird. Or a bat. Or a blowfly.

Love,

Joe

yep when you r blind to design u end up with perverted views.