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WCDT 7-11 February 2011 (1856-1860)
Fenriswolf:
Blacksword, telling Akima to "get off her soapbox" isn't really helping your point.
Sure, you're Colombian, but Jeph is not. I don't necessarily agree that it's impossible for a white American to cover such topics but it's bloody difficult, and the comparison to covering trauma related to the suicide of someone close to you isn't really apt. Such trauma isn't a constant battlefield of belittlement and passive-aggressive attacks the way racism is.
Also, most people with a developed sense of empathy could probably have a fairly good idea of how horrendous seeing your father kill yourself would be. At least well enough to work it into a webcomic. The subtleties of living as an ethnic minority is a lot more complicated and difficult! It's an interesting idea but I don't really blame Akima from having an instinctive reaction of "oh hell no!"
[/OT] Also, I am quite over Faye behaving like that. For christ's sake. It's not a big deal - it's her character, and it's a webcomic so by nature somewhat exaggerated. But I really fucking hate the idea that either partner should have to walk on eggshells wrt past relationships, and particularly that it's natural that the woman in a heterosexual relationship is entitled to be aggressive and go so far as to "punish" their boyfriend in such scenarios. Boo. :x
ZERO:
God, I screamed like a woman reading today's comic.
pwhodges:
Please, people, calm down over the minorities matter.
Everyone's experience is different for a myriad reasons; but if this means that only they can ever say anything about it, the logical ending of that is the ghetto-isation of society - of which we have too much already. What is required is not soapboxes and insults, but sympathetic discussion leading towards more understanding.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 09 Feb 2011, 23:26 ---Also, I am quite over Faye behaving like that. For christ's sake. It's not a big deal - it's her character, and it's a webcomic so by nature somewhat exaggerated. But I really fucking hate the idea that either partner should have to walk on eggshells wrt past relationships, and particularly that it's natural that the woman in a heterosexual relationship is entitled to be aggressive and go so far as to "punish" their boyfriend in such scenarios. Boo. :x
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Eh, there's a difference between having trouble dealing with exes in general, and having trouble with the idea that your boyfriend's ex:
a) Has a similar physical type
b) Has a similar personality (which she'd know because of their conversations when Angus started coming back to CoD)
c) Has an eerily similar romantic storyline, that evidence suggests was beginning AT THE SAME TIME. Angus was coming into CoD to get sassed by Faye, then he disappears for a while, then he shows back up explaining that his new ex-gf hated CoD and didn't want him going there.
If I were Faye I'd be bugged at this point too.
snubnose:
Oh ... oh ... oh ...
I dont like where this is going.
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 09 Feb 2011, 23:51 ---If I were Faye I'd be bugged at this point too.
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I agree, this is creepy.
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