Stop SEXIST and HOMOPHOBIC Electrical Outlet/Device Names!!!

[Professor Tyeisha X]

I think it's high time we stand up to the hegemony of the Electrical Industry and stand in union against sexist and homophobic terms used to describe electrical outlets and devices. For example,


This is your standard electrical outlet and plug. Harmless, right? WRONG! The plug is referred to as "male" and the outlet is referred to as "female", to use the electrical jargon. There are a variety of other types of Male and Female plugs/outlets as well.

What is so sexist and homophobic you may ask? Because for these machines and devices to properly work, you MUST JOIN THE MALE TO THE FEMALE. Two female (or two male) devices hooked together won't get a machine running. This is the electrical industry's hidden way of saying that homosexuality is therefore "broken" and the only way you can get something to work is to engage in heterosexuality.

It is also sexist because it assumes all female outlets need a male plug. This is not so. I am a proud lesbian feminist and I do not need a male member inside of me to "turn me on". I do not need a male to "make me work".

Some may laugh at this and say I am making a mountain out of a molehill, but we must never forget that language controls thoughts, and whether consciously or unconsciously, the Electrical Industry is standing in the way of Feminist and Gay/Lesbian Rights. I would propose some more gender-neutral language for these devices...instead of Male/Female how about External and Internal? I would also like to see some engineering overhauls to make it so that two female plugs can connect to each other and have the machine work just as good as any heterosexual bond.

Stand up today against the SEXIST and HOMOPHOBIC Electrical Industry! Fight the Power!

[Nobar King]

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How about scissors? Are you happy with that tool?

[lord warrior]

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All industries use the male and female ends. If you weren't such a man hating lezbean, you might understand it better.

And what would they now call it the white and the black end. Cus the man is always sticking it to the groids.

Of course your picture now points us to the REAL. The black plug, representing Obama, sticking it in the white people, or in this case the americans that pay taxes because we HAVE jobs.

I just knew you darkies would go nuts if Obamanation won. You been crying about how " the man" has always screwed you. Now that you are 'THE MAN', you have to make this crap up. How about getting a life and a real job.

[confedchick]

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P X - I can no longer call you professor because all my research has found no evidence of you actively teaching anywhere.
Also - how can any "professor" possibly be ANY GOOD when all she does is complain about stuff obviously everyone else on this site KNOWS to be right.
PX - You are a loud mouthed nappy headed negress who so desperately needs a man to be put you in your place.

Why - if my lawn was as high as your hair, my weedeater wouldn't even get through it.

[WindsAglow]

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P X - I can no longer call you professor because all my research has found no evidence of you actively teaching anywhere.
Also - how can any "professor" possibly be ANY GOOD when all she does is complain about stuff obviously everyone else on this site KNOWS to be right.
PX - You are a loud mouthed nappy headed negress who so desperately needs a man to be put you in your place.

Why - if my lawn was as high as your hair, my weedeater wouldn't even get through it.

How can being this rude help your point? You've tied racial slurs into your statements. This does not echo a sense of Christian love but rather a goal to try to belittle someone. How can degradation because of racial attributes be right by way of the Bible?

[Serenity-Millennium]

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Oh WindsAglow, don't you know Jesus told us never to judge anyone, ever? I don't really agree with them, but I could never disagree with them, because that would make Jesus cry up in heaven Not that I am judging you, of course you have everything right to judge them if you want, but judging is wrong (according to Jesus, not me, I don't judge). And well, God bless!

[WindsAglow]

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Oh WindsAglow, don't you know Jesus told us never to judge anyone, ever? I don't really agree with them, but I could never disagree with them, because that would make Jesus cry up in heaven Not that I am judging you, of course you have everything right to judge them if you want, but judging is wrong (according to Jesus, not me, I don't judge). And well, God bless!

I apologize if I came off that way, but I have a question now - because I like to learn. You cannot disagree or agree because that would constitute judgment - yet I was wondering how can you vote? If you feel all judgment to be invalid, how can you rate a person [or their hopes/ideas] who may run for office? I mean there has to be some reasoning by which you make decisions. So how do you decide, then?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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The Bible tells us to judge the unsaved. Look it up for yourself.

[*Rain*]

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PX - You are a loud mouthed nappy headed negress who so desperately needs a man to be put you in your place.

Why - if my lawn was as high as your hair, my weedeater wouldn't even get through it.

How can you spew such hate filled words and then consider yourself a worthy representative of Jesus? Honestly, honey. Do you honestly think Jesus would condone such rude insulting of his daughter? He created us all, in HIS image. OH, and OMgoodness, "needs a man" to "put her" in her "place"? WOW! I can just imagine all those strong women of the Bible, like Ruth, and Naomi, and Abigail and Sarah now, and their reactions to your words. God made us strong, and worthy all on our own. And no, I'm not a lesbian.

[WindsAglow]

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The Bible tells us to judge the unsaved. Look it up for yourself.

You have said to fish, without giving a rod - which book of the Bible should be looked within?

[*Rain*]

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The Bible tells us to judge the unsaved. Look it up for yourself.

It also says "Judge not lest ye be judged also." Stop taking scripture out of context. Or are you "ye who is without sin"? I highly doubt God supports your whole..."putting the stud back in Bible study". Last time I checked, a stud is a male of species who is used for nothing much else outside of having sex with random and numerous females of his species to produce offspring. Are you out there fathering inummerable amounts of children? Bible studies should have NOTHING to do with studs. They should have everything to do with God's Word. You know...the BIBLE?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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It also says "Judge not lest ye be judged also." Stop taking scripture out of context. Or are you "ye who is without sin"? I highly doubt God supports your whole..."putting the stud back in Bible study". Last time I checked, a stud is a male of species who is used for nothing much else outside of having sex with random and numerous females of his species to produce offspring. Are you out there fathering inummerable amounts of children? Bible studies should have NOTHING to do with studs. They should have everything to do with God's Word. You know...the BIBLE?

Leviticus 19:15
In righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

John 7:24
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

1 Corinthians 2:15
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

1 Corinthians 5:12-13
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

1 Corinthians 6:2-3
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

1 Tim 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Since True Christians(tm) are Saved by the Grace of God, we are commanded to judge and reuke unsaved scum such as yourself. That's what the Bible says.

[JennyD]

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ProfX, I suggest instead of sticking a male plug into a female outlet, you try a fork.

Then again, judging by your hairstyle, you may have already done so!

Oh WindsAglow, don't you know Jesus told us never to judge anyone, ever?

Chapter and verse, please.

No, really. Show me where in the Bible Jesus said never to judge anyone, ever.

I assume you are an anarchist in favor of overturning all laws, since courts of law pass judgment?

[JennyD]

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It also says "Judge not lest ye be judged also."

No, it says, in full, "Judge not, lest ye be judged also. For by what measure ye mete, it shall be meted unto you."

This is not a commandment not to judge, but a warning against hypocritical judgment.

If an adulterer judges someone else for being an adulterer, for example, that's hypocritical judgment. We must live up to the standards we set for others.

Do you understand the difference?

[*Rain*]

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Asking me if I understand the difference is insulting. I just don't understand you people.Go ahead and keep calling me unsaved. I will be sure to mention the fact that you doubt my salvation which happened years and years ago when I pray again in a little while. Maybe even bring it up with any one of the highly respected leaders in the Christian Community here. Or are professors at Christian Colleges not knowledgeable enough in the definition of salvation? Was I not really saved when I asked Jesus into my heart? Funny how I think I was.