I was just reading a thread on a wargame site (topic being the computer release of World in Flames, if you are a wargamer, rejoice, but the price is going to hurt :) ).
A comment I made though, it made me think there are some aspects to my becoming a woman, that I have not seen yet in discussions here yet (to my knowledge).
Ok I am married, and I have a wife. That tends to make me the 'husband' and considering the pecker under this nighty it's still currently not an unfair status. But, no, I am not a man, and thus, the whole 'husband' label is just not working. And I HAVE seen some comments and I have made some of them myself, that being married and homosexual doesn't force them to have one pick the male term, so there is no real basis for me being made to wear it.
I am my wife's wife. And currently during intimate moments, she's still getting a male sex organ used on her. I plan to get that organ replaced. Once I am anatomically more the female, I think being called a 'husband' will be utterly pointless.
Leads back to my opening remarks.
I was laughing with the forum, about the cost of the game (World in Flames) which is due to be 200 bucks (not official yet, but that is the ballpark), and the resulting what the hell are you doing? responses from wargamers wives. I was laughing, because I am the wife. Well it's how I said it :)
I routinely kid with gamers when it comes to dealing with spouses reactions to gaming.
Oh come you unimaginative dolts. You take her to dinner, you take her to a movie, she's loving it, you take her home and she finds this rather only says one message nighty to get into, and the absence of anything to wear below the waist leaves no room for errors of it's function. She's poured a nice bubble bath, and then afterwards it's play time. And frankly, if done right, either A. she realizes she's going to be in bed playing a lot, and might want you out of her hair shortly and back playing your darned games, or B. you are going to be getting a lot of action (and why complain), and then either she is ok with you and your gaming habit, or just as easily, who would really pick gaming over play time in the first place :)
But the point is, I find it funny that guys can't figure out how to cope with clingy spouses :) Let alone how to deactivate an expensive game purchase. I give my wife a 200 buck a month allowance. I couldn't care less what she thought about me using my allowance on a game :)
I have to admit, this wouldn't work on my wife - she likes my attention, and doesn't want to be either "pampered" or seduced instead. ;) However, she's happy if I play my games in the same room with her, so I do that now! (I do like RPGs but don't usually do MMORP, although I did join one once.) We do both do the allowance thing, though, and it's definitely removed all the arguments about "you bought WHAT?!" because we *each* get some play money to spend on anything we want, no explanations.