Bisexual- you still take gender into account.
Pansexual- you are attracted to a person solely for personality with no regards to gender.
Also, this is an interesting statement on gender in support of it being a spectrum.
http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/15/1/97.abstract

Hello fellow sir! Pluto actually is not identified as a moon but rather as a "dwarf planet," with moons of its own.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/opinion/sutter-change-alaska-rape/
Please read this article if you are saying that no one would dare blame the rape victim in the unrealistically perfect world you seem to believe you live in.

Boy Meets World

Thank you for hearing me out!

It's also due to the idea that it is fighting for female rights and the idea that a man can have more traditionally feminine roles and characteristics.

I don't know strangelyacoustic, I feel like his comment on the name tags with pronouns bothered me more than the rest of it (because let's be real here: I know tumblr can be excessive), because something that I hear again and again are stories of "I thought I was alone in my small town with how I felt, until tumblr" or "when I couldn't be open with family and friends I went online," circulating among young people, especially in the queer community. I just don't think it's a positive or fun thing to say "you are obviously running, but the monsters will always get you in the end. You will never be free."

The large issue is moving sexuality, through legal precedent, into being a protected class in the same level of scrutiny as sex, so that discrimination cannot legally occur unless there is an unreasonable accommodation requested.

Maybe He is lonely? Maybe He, like us, wished to create in both the physical and the artistic sense? I think when it says we were created in His image, it means we were created with his same base desires and attributes (creation, company, communication, and freedom) even though we have to an extent perverted these attributes, it is only within ourselves that we can find His motives. As far as individual purpose, I think we are meant to help others and help ourselves achieve a more godlike existence (of course not in a divine way, but in a sense return more to those unperverted base attributes and "declutter" in a sense).

I take a more deistic standpoint but still within the traditional Christian belief of an all knowing God, though more with the justification that since God exists outside of time he is conscious of what will happen in any direction of time. I do agree with you, however, that justifying an all knowing God by saying either He decides our fate or He knows us well enough to determine our actions does disqualify the possibility of free will as we are defining it. What are your view on an all powerful god?

I believe to an extent that we are and it does, but not in such a way that it destroys free will completely. We may be slaves, but we can choose our chains, if you pardon the cliche. I think oddly enough it is the mixture of both chaotic input and our genetic coding and experiences that keeps us free--or at least free-er.

Do you believe that there is any way to measure, pardon my terminology, the organic-ness of decisions and impulses? I think the greatest danger to free will is not fate but rather chaotic input into our minds; our own personal Chinese rooms.

It all depends on how you define free will. Or if you believe in it to begin with?

And yet in the novel it is those with free will who are able to think the most beautifully and complexly. In an all-or-nothing world, I would choose free will, with all of it's ills, over control any day.

I suggest you read Genesis by Bernard Beckett.

I don't know for sure, but with the advent of easy communication and access to information through technology and the globalization of culture, we would have to actively hold on to old biases, which contradicts the very reason behind biases. So as it gets harder and harder to hold on to those beliefs, and generations raised in times before such easy access die out, we may find ourselves (and I am using the royal "we" here) in a world where there truly is less prejudice. Don't get me wrong; people will always seek scapegoats. What I believe this post is saying is that we can (and should try to) give those people a run for their money.