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Okay, if we're gonna get picky...
Human males weren't aren't castrated to "make them sing". They already sang sing. The castration was is to make them sing, from then on, in their boyish soprano/alto tessitura. The talent had has to be there to begin with, as no amount of castration will turn a croaker into a crooner! ;0)
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Battery production of chickens is not considered abuse but castration is. hmm, must be the emotional abuse.
I am embarrassed to say that Canadian law regarding humane treatment of birds, the cage size etc., specifically excludes birds raised for food. We have ethics, unless our profit is at affected.
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Okay, if we're gonna get picky...
Human males weren't aren't castrated to "make them sing". They already sang sing. The castration was is to make them sing, from then on, in their boyish soprano/alto tessitura. The talent had has to be there to begin with, as no amount of castration will turn a croaker into a crooner! ;0)
What she said.
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Fal, yes
Maybe slightly OT, but
March 23, 2008: Barsexual
A college-age girl who kisses other girls in bars and clubs, usually for attention and the approval of men.
Interesting and puzzling to note at this point how straight men are put off my displays of male affection but turned on by those of female gender
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Okay, if we're gonna get picky...
Human males weren't aren't castrated to "make them sing". They already sang sing. The castration was is to make them sing, from then on, in their boyish soprano/alto tessitura. The talent had has to be there to begin with, as no amount of castration will turn a croaker into a crooner! ;0)
Is was it as it is? I know young male singers of talent were/are castrated to keep their voice in their boyish soprano/alto tessitura.  -sing........... The contradictionality 'capon'__ 'human' was more on my mind than the technically correct part. I used the past tense to take a big step past the unpleasant forms of mutilation.
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neuter
Originally a grammatical term, Latin neuter 'neither (of two)', i.e., not of the masculine or feminine gender, is a calque of Greek ουδετερος (oudeteros) 'neither of the two'. (Almost all Latin grammatical terminology are loan translations from the Greek terms. Another Greek term for the neuter gender is μεταξυ (metaksu) 'between'.) The verb neuter meaning 'to castrate' is just over a hundred years old.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Fal, yes
Maybe slightly OT, but
March 23, 2008: Barsexual
A college-age girl who kisses other girls in bars and clubs, usually for attention and the approval of men.
Interesting and puzzling to note at this point how straight men are put off my displays of male affection but turned on by those of female gender Are people put off your displays of male affection? Or did you mean 'by' instead of 'my'? 
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I was waiting for someone to ask about that, because when I read it, assumed he was gay!
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when I read it, assumed he was gay!
He is rather jovial, but I assumed that Bill Gates crawled into his 'puter and mucked about with his keyboard driver thus substituting m for b.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I caught it too but hoping it doesn't represent some sort of dark repressed Freudian tendency
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