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Too gushing

I think this was mostly written by people close to the project. The plot summary reads more like an advertising blurb than an encyclopedia entry, as does the minimal amount of information on the rest of the page. Someone should seek out more reviews and post them, and the plot outline should be changed from what looks to be a sales pitch. 66.240.35.207 10:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax?

Later comment This talk was about old version of page, which spoke about "real" disease". `'mikka 01:45, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have a strange "zeropheeling" that this research findings of renowned neuromorphologists Czierny Ptolemy and Eva Szantova stuff is an elaborate hoax made possible because of lax ways of e-publishing and 'net. Starting with [1], which has suspiciously many articles in section "Zerophilia", which use the term "zerophilia" in the summary at the front page, but the word is not found in listed articles themselves. And http://www.zerophilia.net/ is simply amazing!

I smell a marketing ploy. Not bad, anyway. A good practical joke it may be. $10 to the first person who proves this here. (I especially like the name "Czierny Ptolemy". <10 minutes of googling later:> Oh, no: "Progressive Gender Transmogrification" is even better! But "Epstein-Soros foundation" is a gimme.) `'mikkanarxi 06:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...and $5 to a person who provides an external reference to be added to this article, that calls this bluff. `'mikkanarxi 07:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The sites neuromorphology.com and zerophilia.net are not genuine, but part of the marketing campaign for the movie. The DVD has an interview with Kelly Le Brock, where she talks about the tragedy of zerophilia, how it has afflicted her family, how awful it is that all the research funds go to diabetes and cancer rather than zerophilia, etc. -- it's pretty funny. She also mentions the "International Organization of Zerophiliacs" while a subtitle refers to its web site zerophilia.net which is a hoax. Too bad the movie received only a very limited release. The article in its current version is still rather lacking despite significant edits in the last few months which have improved it. The lead sentence of the article calls the film a "romantic comedy" when its genre would better be described as science-fiction, or perhaps fantasy. The "similar fiction" section is interesting but apparently original research. Are there any authoritative sources aside from Wikipedia that make the connection between this film and the writings of Ursula K. Leguin or Rumiko Takahashi? --Mathew5000 04:15, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zerophilia (Disease). --Mathew5000 23:22, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Opposite Gender"

The person then becomes a spontaneous zerophiliac. That means every time a zerophiliac becomes sexually excited, he or she starts to change into the opposite gender. They revert by having sex with a person of the opposite gender or with another 'z'. In this context, what does "opposite gender" mean? Does it mean the gender that the person is not currently? Or the gender that the person was not born as? If a Z who started life as male and is currently male gets excited, they become female, but then, does another episode of sexual excitement cause them to become male again? And does "revert" mean "return to the original gender"? Nik42 (talk) 23:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What I gathered from the movie is that being excited doesn't bring the complete change, but rather orgasm. Sorry for not answering your question, but the article needs to be changed.Family Guy Guy (talk) 04:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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