“In addition to all the stage time that the tablet got during Steve Jobs’ talk last night, it is also dominating the discussion with other presenters,” Fried reports. “Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg sang Jobs’ praises for several minutes, before declaring: ‘His greatest accomplishment is going to be this tablet.'”
Fried reports, “Comcast COO Steve Burke also sang the device’s praises… ‘I think the iPad is just extraordinary. I bring it everywhere I go.'”
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“A woman is a woman and a man ain’t nothin’ but a male.”
@ cwfrederick
As long as we can entertain you, then I guess it’s all okay. And I guess it’s the same with gays… I mean, no MRI can show if someone is gay or not, so I guess they’re in the same boat with you. Luckily there are gays like RuPaul and Liberace to keep you in dinner theater long enough to gain validity for their existence.
Come on guys, I haven’t had my fill of stupid yet today. Keep those big ideas coming! I weep for the horrible intolerance you have to endure at the hands of those merciless trannies!!!
@cwfrederick
You did miss that study. The usage patterns were similar.
@ Zaphod
“Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls. It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola. Lo lo lo Lola.”
@ thethirdshoe
what do you mean by usage patterns? do you know where i could find the study?
@ cwfrederick
Why bother? It would just fill your head with a lot of nonsense. You’ve decided what’s normal, so why upset yourself with a lot of uncomfortable psychobabble?
Thank god you’re out there, making sure we know what right and wrong and who’s ‘normal’ and who’s a freak.
What would we do without you?
@ ChrissyOne
i’m not sure how much of a difference it will make, but i slightly misspoke.
i said: i think it’s awfully close-minded to expect others to accept transgenders as ‘normal’.
i meant: i think it’s awfully close-minded to expect others to accept becoming transgendered as ‘normal’.
my intent was not to call transgendered people abnormal. for what it’s worth, i believe that judgement should be based on quality of character.
Point taken, but….
One does not ‘become’ transgendered. One is, or one isn’t. The only choice is whether to act upon it and be honest to who you are, or whether to hide it and lie.
But I’m sure there are some here who know better than that.
How ’bout those iPads!
@ Connor MacBook
WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!?!?!?!
;P
(kidding)
Throw your opinions out the door folks, C1 has the divine wisdom and will tell us what is appropriate to think.
BTW, why is the tablet Jobs’ greatest accomplishment and not the resurrection of the entire company?
At last you’re finally getting it.
;P
Think I’ll go back and have fun reading the Dolphin story comments again…
(Oh, but @Connor MacBook: Those iPads?? No, there’s just the one iPad, because as you of all people should know, there can be only one!)
I’m sure Steve Jobs has even greater achievements yet to come… After all, Apple recently bought what Steve himself called an “AI company.”
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I don’t usually post comments, but the unusually misinformed beliefs regarding Ina (started by MadMac, supported by others, and oh so eloquently
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Being gay, I understand why issues of sex and gender (not to mention sexual orientation!) would be uncomfortable for many people. From personal experiences, heterosexual males often confuse these two terms and will confidently believe because they have a penis they are male. However, according to Ghosh (2009), the terms sex and gender are not interchangeable:
Increasingly, the term gender is being accepted to define psychophysiologic processes involved in identity and social role…It is defined by one’s own identification as male, female, or interesx…Sex, from the Latin word sexus, is defined by the gonads, or potential gonads, either phenotypically or genotypically. (Definitions section, para. 4)
Ghosh (2009) highlights gender identity as an important distinction from sex as “all human fetuses are primed to have a female sex” (Development of Gender Identity section, para. 2). It’s only during the eigth week of gestation that fetuses with a Y chromosome are exposed to intrauterine processes and hormones that encourage the “masculinization of the fetus” (Development of Gender Identity section, para. 2).
This process usually results in a congruence of sex and gender, but Ghosh (2009) acknowledges that outcomes are always in flux:
Nevertheless, variations may occur when endogenous or exogenous factors create a fetal environment in which hormone levels do not follow the genetically predetermined pattern. In such situations, the gender bias of these infants may be tilted away from one that correlates with the genotype. (Development of Gender Identity section, para. 5).
It’s these variations which produce individuals with an incongruence between sex/gender, usually resulting in individuals seeking sex change reorientation procedures to create this congruence.
I’d also like to respond briefly to “cwfrederick” comment:
it is awfully close-minded to expect other people to accept transgenders as ‘normal’. until there are MRI studies that show someone with a Y chromosome has a female brain, then the argument that it is ‘natural’ is nonsense.
According to Ghosh (2009), as a result of the introduction of intrauterine hormones, there is a difference in the size of male and female brains easily verified by MRI scans:
MRI studies in human and animal models reveal that the corpus callosum, amygdala, cerebellum, and portions of the preoptic area of the hypothalamus are larger in brains exposed to intrauterine testosterone. Corresponding parts of the brain are smaller in female, or testosterone-deprived, fetuses. (Development of Gender Identity section, para. 3)
Resources
Ghosh, S. (2009, May 19). Sexuality, Gender Identity: eMedicine Pediatrics: Developmental and Behavioral. eMedicine – Medical Reference. Retrieved June 2, 2010, from http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/917990-overview
I support chicks with dicks, as long as they’re not Republicans.
“A woman may be a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.”
@ Straker
You’re spoiling the air with your fancy book-learnin’!
Seriously, bravo, and great post!
-c
@ Straker
I’ve read similar in-utero-hormonal explanations for homosexuality. Guess they exist on the same continuum.
As for fetuses being female by default, men might have undeveloped breasts, but isn’t the clitoris an undeveloped penis?
@ Straker:
Gosh, that was informative!
(h)
I’m sure Jeffrey Katzenberg has a hidden agenda by his statements. When Toy Story (1) came out, he probably banged his head against a wall for days until Speilberg found him in a bloody mess and made him an offer to upscale his animation production quality. old Jeff won’t have any words to front on the success of Pixar!
Hi Straker,
You bring up some very interesting points.
Yes, we all start out as female, and then XY genotypes are exposed to androgens and become male. For this to happen, two things need to occur. One, the release of hormones, and two, the action of the hormones on the body’s receptors. To put it simplistically, it stands to reason that if the receptors for the penis (sex) are activated, then the receptors in the brain (gender) are also activated to the point where both become male. For one to occur in the absence of another seems very unlikely (“variations [of] exogenous and endogenous factors” seems very vague).
There is a condition that affects the structure of these receptors called androgen insensitivity syndrome. In the most extreme case, with a completely dysfunctional receptor, an XY male (sex) is almost 100% female (outward appearance and gender). The variations on this condition, as far as I can tell, involve different degrees of masculinization and male genital development where the brain and genitals are similarly affected.
However, to me this still leaves open the possibility of small variations between how the brain and genitals are affected, but rules out a significant difference between the inherent gender and sex.
Also, there are epidemiological factors that suggest that sexuality and gender identity have significant contribution from environmental factors.
However, as you mentioned, gender is not just objective physiology, not to mention that environmental factors can affect physiology.
But I believe that the journey (biology, environment) to the point (homosexuality, gender incongruity) should be a secondary consideration to the individual’s personal experience and feeling. But it also seems that this issue does not lend itself to black and white statements such as ‘woman in man’s body’ or that its solely a choice. And i think policy should reflect this ambiguity, while at the same time emphasizing respect for the people involved.
Ok, done thinking for the day. Cheers!
p.s. apple rulez!
I want an iPad but I dont know why people are singing praises so much about it :S
Okay Straker,
You can go back to not commenting now…
Because they realize that you have to spend money to make money. It hurts their bank account too when the economy is in bad shape. Like Henry Ford said you can’t sell a car to your employees if they can’t afford it.
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