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WCT: September 14-18, 2009

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Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Gespenst on 16 Sep 2009, 11:19 ---...Marigold isn't really the poster child for personal hygiene and Hanners got first hand experience of that. She doesn't seem like the sort of person Hannelore would pick to hang around with. ...

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It's another example of how being around the other QC characters has broadened Hannelore's horizons. She used to only listen to Bach, now she sings Battles to herself. Now she's trying out a different kind of friend. And she may have intuited that she and Marigold are at analogous stages of emotional development.

Carl-E:

--- Quote from: Random832 on 16 Sep 2009, 08:54 ---What happened was this, which prompted not-100%-baseless (sure, it didn't go anywhere, but it's also how it could have started if he had meant for such a thing to happen) Hanners/Tai speculation, which was transferred to this.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure that this guest comic is when the shipping started in earnest!  Or maybe earlier, this was probably the true origin, where they started watching Yaoi together.  With Momo acting like a matchmaker, it really did seem like someone was asking for a first date!  Then comes the assumption that watching a love story would inspire one.  

I wish...

ysth:

--- Quote from: IanClark on 16 Sep 2009, 10:28 ---A recent anonymous survey returned that 12.9% of women were bisexual (although strangely enough the question: "Are you bisexual?" returned far less), on top of the somewhat standard number of 10% homosexual. So there's a 22.9% chance of any woman with no established information about her sexuality liking girls (Marigold), and for one who has been established to like guys but not to not like girls, it's 12.9%. So, in either case, to assume they were probably straight isn't homophobia, it's statistics. The exact opposite of bias.
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Math error. The second percentage would be 14.3% (12.9% of 90%).

And defending your heterosexist assumptions with statistics does not make them any less heterosexist.

Take the riddle:
--- Quote ---A man and his son were in a car accident and the man was killed.  When the son was wheeled into the operating room, the doctor said "I can't operate on this patient; he's my son."  Who was the doctor? (Hint: that doctor had no cojones.)
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The very existence of this riddle is evidence that sexism is alive and well.  It's all but impossible to grow up (at least in the U.S.) and not have some level of sexism; all the more so for heterosexism.  But you can try to fight against it; to do so, you must first recognize that assumptions are the enemy, then systematically notice whenever you make one.

(Grr.  Tried to use spoilers in the above, but it says I don't have proper permissions to use them.  What's that about?)

akronnick:
Is there anyone in the cast that Hanners hasn't been shipped with?

ysth:

--- Quote from: Kakareen on 16 Sep 2009, 10:10 ---I guess if I'm completely honest, I'm grasping at straws because representations of gay persons, and gay relationships even more so, are rare. You wouldn't believe how overjoyed I was when Tai showed up. I was like, yay! We openly exist in this universe!

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And have since comic 87 (Marten's previous boss.)

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