What is your sexual preference?

Pepper said:
Why was he so pig-headed? If he truly wanted to donate blood, he would have checked a darn box and not have been a big baby over it. Big Baby, IMO, trying to prove a stupid point. Childish.
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He's had it---thats why. Everything a person does now reqires a form with a lot of those questions. Every company you can think of, all gov't agencies and so on now have to cover their butts as not to be sued or loose their standing in their world of business. I'm sick of it too. Basically when it comes to needing something or getting care etc.,this country (US) is completely f'ed up.

I had a Dr visit a few weeks ago and while there I asked if they would cut my toenails. The Dr told me they coud not do it as they might nick my skin and then coud be a problem. I just looked at them and asked "Seroiusly?" I am able to do it myself but it is really painful to twist on legs due to my arthitis.
 
dusty said:
He's had it---thats why. Everything a person does now reqires a form with a lot of those questions. Every company you can think of, all gov't agencies and so on now have to cover their butts as not to be sued or loose their standing in their world of business. I'm sick of it too. Basically when it comes to needing something or getting care etc.,this country (US) is completely f'ed up.

I had a Dr visit a few weeks ago and while there I asked if they would cut my toenails. The Dr told me they coud not do it as they might nick my skin and then coud be a problem. I just looked at them and asked "Seroiusly?" I am able to do it myself but it is really painful to twist on legs due to my arthitis.
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What works for me with my toenails is my dogs nail grinder that I use for Marco Poodle. I kept getting the skin with the regular toenail clippers because i can’t bend good enough to really see what is toe and what is toenail anymore, so I decided to try the dog toenail grinders, and they work great !
I never hurt myself, and they do an excellent job. Mine is just a cheap grinder that I found on Amazon a few years back, but they have all sizes and prices of them, if you want to try it and see if it works for you also, @dusty .
 
I'm sorry but if I accidently "misidentify" someone's gender, they'll have to deal with it. Unless someone just blurts out their gender, how do they expect you to know what is? I don't think it's something to get all out of shape over. When I was working, sometimes I would mistakenly call someone "Mrs." when they were actually a "Miss". Some of them would get really huffy over it. When I was single, it never bothered me if someone called me "Mrs." unknowingly. There's bigger fish to fry out there.
 
Nathan said:
Lol. I recently had a medical appointment, and as always they emailed me a post-appointment questionnaire . This time Kaiser also included a short survey, asking me to indicate how I "identify as". I'm thinkin: I've been a patient of theirs for 46 years, if they don't know by now then they weren't paying attention anyways. View attachment 354704
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Sometimes the medical profession can go overboard but I understand why they do it. They don't want the ACLU after them. That's like when I was married and I'd go with my husband to see the doctor. One of the questions they would ask is "do you feel threatened at home?" Why would you ask that in front of a spouse? If they did feel threatened at home, they sure wouldn't admit it in front of their spouse. They'd really feel threatened when they got home. Medical field has to ask these questions to cover all bases, I guess.
 
TeePee said:
Sometimes the medical profession can go overboard but I understand why they do it. They don't want the ACLU after them. That's like when I was married and I'd go with my husband to see the doctor. One of the questions they would ask is "do you feel threatened at home?" Why would you ask that in front of a spouse? If they did feel threatened at home, they sure wouldn't admit it in front of their spouse. They'd really feel threatened when they got home. Medical field has to ask these questions to cover all bases, I guess.
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??? The ACLU is concerned with defending and preserving Constitutional rights, I really can't imagine they're concerned with a medical Social Health questionnaire.
 
TeePee said:
For that same reason, if someone gets called by a pronoun they don't "identify" with, then they shouldn't get flack for it since they don't know that persons preferred gender.
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yes agreed. if you mistakenly call somebody by the wrong gender, apologise and move on.

If you deliberately do it after they have corrected you or when you do know what they want - that is different.
 
My sexual preference- hmm... this amazingly covers more ground than my past "friends" would understand. From slim to "pleasingly plump" as one of them used to call it... if something is smaller or larger about them, I usually see it as attractively unique, in other words, that way well turn me on even more :)

Obviously attraction can be surface level, it's one's individual quirks and glitches that I can find admirable, maybe even adorable!
Include a good attitude, a sense of humor that is on my level and raised by a family similar to mine (This, is the big lesson I've learned, in the past I've connected, wrongly so, with women who were raised in different circumstances who eventually turned on me because of this. I'm accepting of her differences, but she isn't (or her "friends"). Their "friends and family" have usually been the problem.

When I look into the world and its current social structure, it doesn't look promising... but, I've learned it's better to just hang out with my cat than people who will look for an axe to grind, a soul that needs crushing, friends who need to be impressed by foul actions/reactions. Eh...this subject is wearing me out.

Back to my kitty cat. And daughter, and parents.
 
My last name happens to be a commonly used first name for men. Sort of like Marilyn Monroe or Etta James. When I register for a medical appointment with a new doctor, I invariably get a reminder call saying, "Hello, Mister Etta, how are you today?" This is despite the fact that I always put the Etta part in the first name box and the James part in the last name box. And I check "female."

Not always AI, either. The humans scheduling appointments do it also.

Or when I finally make it to their waiting room, the nurse who (finally) comes to get me often stands there looking annoyed and saying louder and louder, "Mr. Etta?"
 
that strange of them Sunny - since male first names like names like James, Thomas, Ryan, Rogers, Peters, Matthews, etc are very common surnames
female first names less common as surnames so if this were in reverse - have known people with surname Rose or Grace for example - then understandable.
 
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