tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post2875266484246023031..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio..." DepartmentZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-4441150594606649682010-09-15T20:50:44.638+10:002010-09-15T20:50:44.638+10:00Yep, if you spend much time around animals you'...Yep, if you spend much time around animals you'll see a few with varying degrees of... well, whatever you call hermaphroditism in, say, sheep.<br /><br />An odd thing: Christians technically don't believe the universe is divided into male and female principles or forces. But on this issue we seem to sound an awful lot like pagans: insisting that the cosmos itself, and thus souls, and thus persons, are irrevocably and eternally divided into two distinct types...<br /><br />...which, for all the gender-role typing in the Old and New Testaments, is not Biblical.wreckagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-54523640437018883582010-09-15T19:47:06.142+10:002010-09-15T19:47:06.142+10:00Well in the Cestoda (tapeworms segmentsare continu...Well in the Cestoda (tapeworms segmentsare continually bein formed by budding from the head. Those near the head are male. As they move further away from the head they become female. Eventually they deveop into egg caes which break off. The male segments do fertilize the female ones of the same animal. They do fuck themselves.Lloyd Flackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00832519369660328832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-11629874513083811172010-09-15T02:17:54.495+10:002010-09-15T02:17:54.495+10:00When I first started my transition, I was working ...When I first started my transition, I was working with an older African-American woman who'd grown up in a rural area of South Carolina. She told me, "Anyone who's been around farm animals knows that it's not all 'boy-girl.'"<br /><br />Mind you, she was also a prototypical "church lady."Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.com