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Suddenly I begin to wonder.. what topic would be furthest away from sex as possible?

Basically nothing. Even with things like asexuality or practices ostensibly entirely divorced from reproduction, sexuality is so heavily tied into human behavioral patterns that it infuses just about everything, right up to and, to a degree especially, the languages themselves. Even if you, yourself, or the subject you're discussing, is entirely divorced from sex, the language you're using to communicate is itself substantially shaped by a sexually influenced world view.

So. Despite how hilariously wrong Freud was in so very many ways, you can apply that sort of psychosexual filter to pretty much anything discussed in a natural language. Not so sure about constructed ones (and maybe some kind of theoretical non-human created language, but even the machines we might make to create them would be tainted, so to speak), but it's a hard yoke to throw off.

I'm reminded suddenly of the use of the word Good in medieval philosophy

I'd ask if maybe you could try to use less obfuscating terminology than masculine and feminine (Giving/recieving, active/passive, affecting/effected, etc., so forth, so on.), but then I just kinda' stare at your avatar for a bit and doubts arise of that happening.

I didn't realize it. Or at least consciously acknowledge. I like to think the tiny nautical metalhead in the corner of my soul knew all along.

I... define "nice" for me, maybe? What are you thinking when you think the concept of nice, here? Because I've met quite a few people who almost everyone felt good about and who treated everyone they regularly interacted with very decently who were bigoted rat bastards. I'm actually one of the few people I've met that (for some ungodly reason I can't seem to figure out) tend to get good responses from almost everyone, and that has a whole hell of a lot more with being polite (and more accurately, civil*) than being nice; sometimes the only right thing to do is politely tell the other party to go screw themselves. And don't ask me how, but somehow even the cases where I've gone and done that ended up with better working, so to speak, relationships with those involved. Streak will break sooner or later, but it hasn't yet.

And... maybe "mean", too. There's a difference between, say, unwarranted hostility and aggression (which I'd probably call mean) and warranted hostility and aggression. You can disagree without being mean, after all. I can't actually maintain a beyond facile interpersonal relationship (nevermind anything approaching romantic) with folks that indulge in the former with any regularity, but the latter exercised well tends to endure me to people.

Caveat to everything above being I am and have been largely asexual for my life to date, due largely to environmental factors, but I can probably chime in a bit for the very rare cases I've actually felt attraction toward people... providing I understand the question

*Which translates into something along the lines of very fundamental, underlying respect; to wit, my personal internalization of civility is the tact recognition that everyone I interact with can kill me, that I can do the same, and that we've decided -- perhaps implicitly, perhaps explicitly -- not to, and should both respect each other for that decision. Civilization, yeah.

http://sfist.com/2012/11/09/san_francisco_to_cover_gender_reass.php

Inroads! Be interesting to see how far (if, unfortunately) it spreads.

... for a short moment, Logical, my brain interpreted your chibi-tachikoma-thing avatar as one of the Super Robot Wars renditions of Gundam Wing's Tallgeese.

I think maybe I should have eaten breakfast earlier than 10 pm.

It's a happy though, because I'm seeing random tiny mecha.

After feeling mostly asleep for about three minutes this morning, the pain in my wrist from the last couple days is mostly gone! I think it's a good thing, though my grip feels a bit weaker than normal and I'm getting odd muted popping noises from it when I move it in particular ways, but... well, whatever. Hurt's gone, huzzah!

Maybe huzzah. There's always that possibility this is one of those cases that the pain going away is a bad sign, but other than the very minor grip strength reduction and maybe very slightly reduced range of motion I'm not seeing anything odd. Hopefully it sticks~