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Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2012 07:23:57PM 4 points [-]

"[...] The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race."

I imagine females will also be reduced to 10%. Gender is pointless. I know I'd like to be (sexually) female sometimes, futanari (is there an english word for this?) sometimes, and male sometimes, and the rest of the time something totally different. Probably with tentacles. I think I'd like to be totally sexless sometimes too.

When you spend enough time on certain places on the internet, radical feminists look like conservatives on gender issues.

Comment author: thomblake 13 January 2012 08:01:06PM 1 point [-]

futanari (is there an english word for this?)

Depending on what you mean by futanari, 'hermaphrodite' or 'shemale' are common, though the latter is almost surely slang (and checking what Google has to say on the subject is almost surely NSFW).

Comment author: MixedNuts 13 January 2012 09:07:37PM 2 points [-]

The latter is a slur.

Comment author: thomblake 13 January 2012 09:12:52PM 2 points [-]

Well, by that link, both "transvestite" and "hermaphrodite" (NTM "it") were on the list of slurs. I think it was just indicated as a slur for transsexual people, not inherently a slur.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 January 2012 01:12:36AM 1 point [-]

I'll just keep calling it futa. It's the only word for that mode of being that I have not seen used offensively.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 January 2012 03:07:29PM 0 points [-]

I'll just keep calling it futa. It's the only word for that mode of being that I have not seen used offensively.

I must say that I haven't seen it used offensively either. Nor, for that matter, have I seen the sun rise && false.

(ie. Using the word futa may not be optimal for communicating object level content with people who speak English.)

Comment author: [deleted] 15 January 2012 03:23:55AM 0 points [-]

good point

Comment author: Raemon 14 January 2012 06:29:24PM 1 point [-]

Modern, generally accepted term in english is intersexed

Comment author: thomblake 14 January 2012 08:41:20PM 3 points [-]

I'm pretty sure "intersexed" is more general than the sense of "futanari", or at least the sense meant above.