A Horse With No Name

...and sorry to post-slut in this thread but it is really interesting. My wife studied gender in graduate school and I've always been interested in what makes us male/female, gay/strait, or whatever. Chris

...glad to see you found him. I was lucky enough to meet my sould mate when I was 19. You found yours at 37, and I wish you many wonderful years together. Chris

..and K.C., sorry to hear about the loss of your children's mother. Chris

Really feminine females are only so-so attractive to me. I kind of like tomboyish girls/women, to be honest. So I can relate to what you are saying. Ideal women for me is either athletic or intellectual or musically talented. Chris

Sexuality is a continuum (spelling sucks, sorry) from probably mostly pure strait to pure gay, with lots of shades of gay in between. Biologists tell us that we all start out essentially female and that a burst of testosterone starts the conversion process to "male" in the womb. Nature tends to like to experiment, and all of us are an experiment of nature. I often think the people that the religious fundy's "cure" of being gay are merely bixexual. Also, I went to a conservative Christian college and one of the guys in my dorm came up with the theory that all people are essentially bisexual in some way or another. In our late night dorm debate actually a lot of people agreed with him. Chris

Exactly. Sex is a primal urge. Contrary to what the idiot religious fundamentalists tell us it is not something that is easily controlled or compartmentalized. Chris

Odd when you say that you don't enjoy female company that much. A lot of people think that gay men are more feminine than strait men, when in fact I think the opposite is true. I think it is very possible to be a strait guy and have a feminized brain, and I am that guy. Not that any one would know, because I am a large, burly construction worker (don't bring wax for the hair on my back, bring a John Deer tractor, please) in real life. But when my wife was pregant I found myself wanting daughters more than I wanted sons, and I really like being around my daughters MUCH more than being around my sons. It has only been within the last few years that as my sons have gotten interested in cars and a little older that I've really started enjoying being around them. In high school I had lots of female freinds, and was part of a writing group that wrote poetry, etc. that was largely female. I liked my female teachers MUCH more than my male teachers. Also knew a lot of girls from church, the speech team, the debate team, etc. That being said, I am an Electrician and work in a field that is 99% male, go figure. Imagine that I just like building things/working on things. People joke about being a lesbian in a man's body, but sometimes I wonder a bit if I am that guy... Which would explain my love of Miata's... Chris

Indeed... Chris

Maybe not hairy backs but I like the way some European gals don't always shave their legs/armpits... Chris

Exactly, exactly, exactly. Chris

Look at the way gay teenage boys seek out other guys. What gay teenaged guy gets up in the a.m. and says "I want to be part of a persecuted and unpopular minority, and give up girls?" It's biological all the way, baby. chris

I find the same thing when it comes to women. I am probably the only guy on the planet who doesn't lust after a one night stand. Sex with the Mrs. is always best if we spend a hour or so talking and connecting first... And actually about 75% of the friends I've had in life have been female. I could never imagine a close emotional relationship with a man. Enjoy going out and drinking beer with the guys or wrenching on cars or whatever, but for deep friendship I'm pretty much female only. Actually, I only have a few "close" male friends and even then I much prefer my female friends to them. Chris

I remember a nice looking girl from college who had hair around her nipples. The answer is NO, NO, NO if those things have hair around them, and NO, NO, NO if they are attached to a man... Chris

Actually I have been atracted to lesbians who were not "lipstick" lesbians... Chris

Basketball

I've seen a vynal top thing on corveetes of C-2, C-3, and C-4 vintage. Spotlight makes the minivan, IMHO. Chris

...and that 57 parts car might make a cool rat rod when he's done stripping it. Chris

Did the 4 door parts car (57) come from Columbus, Ohio per chance? It is a dead, dead, dead ringer for a car that ran around my old neighborhood for years. I'm jealous of the wagon-came close to buying a few, and you can't beat an LS1. As I said in one of Sixty-Eight's threads, the collector cars of tomorrow are in danger today. I can't tell you how very happy I am that you are saving this wagon! If that wagon ever needs a home in a warm garage, I might be able to find it a place under a car cover in mine. Sweet ride, Oldsmoboi! Chris

Old gas will do that also. The lighter Hydrocarbons seem to evaporate and cars that are stored seem to run like crap for a tankfull or two until the old gas is all the way out of the system. My Chevelle did that, and my 55 Chevy did that also. Chris

Your partner is from Brazil, we can excuse him. You Canadians are supposed to be able to put up with the cold... Chris

Quoted for Truth... Chris

I'm just dismayed that you think that God would buy a Scion. Given his age, don't you think he'd really rather have a Buick? Chris

Enter Sarcasm mode ...you forget that even on a GM board GM can do no right and Honda can do no wrong. Now go back and re-learn the first lesson about what EVERYBODY knows about cars..... Exit Sarcasm mode Chris

Watching these guys argue is half the fun of coming to C&G. Chris

...agree on the bland, Camino. The SRX would be my choice if I were in that market. Chris