And the results are in...The 2007 AVN Award winners are....

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Originally Posted by Felicia Katt

None of this is really relevant to the point I made, which is a well documented and often exploited dynamic of elections. Where you have one unique candidate being compared or competing with mutliple similar candidates, the unique one has a very distinct advantage. Its about dilution of support. Thats why political parties have run "false flag" candidates. A candidate who might lose 40 per cent to 60 percent to one candidate can win against 2, who each get 30 per cent. Bush won in small part in 2000 because Nader drew votes that would have gone to Gore in a two man race. Clinton probably benefitted from Perot in somewhat the same fashion, though Perot was more of a centrist and arguably drew support from both sides.

No matter how you frame the analogy. it won't hang true if the comparison is weighted too heavily to one side. Best beverage can't compare 5 pinots to one ale. Best Vehicle can't be 5 Ferraris to one Lambo so on and so forth. and Apples to Oranges don't compare, especially if you put up a Navel against a Pippin, a Golden Delicious, a Mcintosh and a Granny Smith

FK

In terms of logic and statistical analysis, Felicia is totally on the money here: "Where you have one unique candidate being compared or competing with mutliple similar candidates, the unique one has a very distinct advantage. Its about dilution of support." This is a basic principle of statistical analysis, and Felicia goes on to illustrate this point with several valid examples. Even (and especially) if one fully accepts the idea that there should be just one "best transsexual performer" category, the analysis holds true that the unique candidate has an inherent advantage over multiple similar candidates. That's not to in any way denigrate Buck's performance or accomplishments: those stand on their own merits (and bravo).

There's another side to this, I think: that is that, to the best of my understanding as a non-transgendered person, M2F TS want to be regarded as women, not as men or as TS, and F2M TS want to be regarded as men, not as women or as TS. Only in the realm of porn do they want to be recognized as TS. Am I wrong about this? Do TS women(men) want to be grouped with TS men(women) because they happen to both be transgendered? I don't think so. But we have well-intentioned positioning on both sides arguing that it's most fair to a) group them together in one category or b) group them separately in different categories.