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WCDT: 27th June - 1st July (1956-1960)
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: tomart on 29 Jun 2011, 15:09 ---Me too.
Those kind of 'jokes' are commonly a way of getting your intentions out there to test reactions; if it goes bad, just say "Kidding!"
Creeper.
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Sometimes that's true, but in this case, the over-the-top phrasing - "breeding age" - makes it hard to imagine he didn't mean it as a joke. I don't understand why some people seem to think otherwise - I kind of think even Dora is just playing along.
ecstaticjoy:
Did anyone else notice the art on the wall? Not the usual. Wonder if Jeph was expressing himself or just filling space.
ecstaticjoy:
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 29 Jun 2011, 20:38 ---
--- Quote from: SJCrew on 29 Jun 2011, 19:40 ---I'm hard pressed to find a situation in which the word 'breed' would ever come out of my mouth in casual dinner discussion, dating or otherwise...
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"Oh you have a dog? What breed is it?"
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ew, dogs
Is it cold in here?:
But they're fuzzy!
ysth:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 28 Jun 2011, 03:42 ---Yes, but they almost always suggest ridiculous substitute pronouns like "xur" and "hxe"*
Refering to a person as "it" is nearly universally offensive, but if you mean a drawing of a person, it would indicate the drawing, not the person.
*These may or may not be actual proposed ridiculous substitute pronouns, I just pulled them out of my ass.
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hir and SHe are actual proposed ridiculous substitute pronouns.
I think Doug Hofstadter said it best:
--- Quote ---Someone who...is trying to eliminate gender-laden pronouns from their speech altogether can try to rely on the word "they", but they will find themself in quite a pickle as soon as they try to use any reflexive verbal construction such as "the writer will paint themselves into a corner", and what's worse is that no matter how this person tries, they'll find that they can't extricate themselves gracefully, and consequently he or she will just flail around, making his or her sentence so awkward that s/he wis/hes s/he had never become conscious of these issues of sexism. Obviously, using "they" just carries you from the frying pan into the fire, as you have merely exchanged a male-female ambiguity for a singular-plural ambiguity. The only advantage to this ploy is, I suppose, that there is/are, to my knowledge, no group(s) actively struggling for equality between singular and plural.
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