Wow... that was dumb. I was this huge response (likethe size of this whole post after all edits, etc.), my web browser messed up and (here's the dumb part) I got the fucking brilliant idea to restart my computer to fix the glitch. Of course, I didn't think to save the response in a document. It was just on the copy/paste task. That doesn't carry over when you restart...
So now that that's wasted, I'll recap as best as my patience will allow:
You guys (AC and Rhino [...I am still a little confused as to what we're supposed to call you so I've been calling you Rhino lately]) are crazy. That's both praise and criticism. I would probably break up with a girl over some of the things you two have said, so the praise is for sticking through the truly disturbing times. The criticism is obvious: some of that stuff is truly ...creepy.
Fake Edit: Oh, I remembered that I also noted that this was of particular interest to me because I think that the stereotypical "nerdy" girls often depicted in movies, etc. (you know, the fake ones? - or the rare exceptions, I guess, by existence of Rhino as proof of example; I note this because I'm somewhat shallow and have no qualms with having standards regarding beauty in addition to standards of personality) are totally hot/sexy. You know the ones I'm talking about: Rachael Leigh Cook's character in
Scorched, the El Goonish Shive characters if they weren't two-dimensional (because two-dimensional just doesn't cut it - I avoid actually using, but will acknowledge that using "measure up" as a pun because of dimensions of measurement being examined did cross my mind), etc.
That actually preceded the paragraph that precedes the fake edit in this rendition (this is actually still part of the fake edit, but I don't feel like being too picky at the moment). Anyway, that led into the "crazy" bit because I noticed that despite thinking that the depiction of such girls is totally hot, I'm not sure how much I could handle after seeing some of the stuff you guys post.
Anyway, I then went on to say that EGS (El Goonish Shive) has
still confused me more (than my confusion over whether I could actually handle being with such a type of girl). For example (and don't worry, I didn't include multiple examples in the original post, so you're not missing anything), while reading EGS, I came to realize that I would not mind (and keep in mind I mean what follows in a non-permanent, not even long-duration way - maybe a day at most) my girlfriend and I (who I note does not currently exist, at least not
as my girlfriend yet, so when such a person exists that is my girlfriend) switching sexes. I actually think that would be totally hot (again, with a short duration). That said, my confusion comes from the fact that I most certainly find this to be hot and the fact that I (after much deliberation over what actually sexually interests me, believe me) have no gay or bisexual interest.
Then I went on to damn Agita for showing me that comic. Then I noted parenthetically that I had just realized we did not have as smiley with fire-eyes and that that was totally lame.
I don't remember what the last thing I said was, but it was like five words, so it can't have been too important.
Real Edit: To be fair, I'm not even sure how confused I am since whenever I imagine the whole "transforming into the opposite sex temporarily" thing, I only really imagine having breasts and a vagina (and the ensuing self-groping, crazy new forms of self-exploration and masturbation, and finding out if the rumors/facts/etc. are true that women have more stimulating orgasms). The whole girlfriend (would she count as a boyfriend?) who would then have a penis doesn't appear in my thoughts.