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QC: Behind the Scenes
Masterpiece:
No, Claire was already introduced in the second comic. These strips all happened on the same qcverse day.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 12 May 2013, 09:59 ---Why would that matter in any way though? I mean I'm assuming she wasn't cast as 'transgender pool girl'. And it doesn't at all affect or address the point that calling her a "woman", even indirectly, is very insulting....
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Yeah, what Ali said.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 12 May 2013, 10:21 ---Interesting. Those certainly can be read as foreshadowing - however,
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It wasn't before she was introduced, she was around the library etc. 41 strips before that, people just didn't know they're related, hence why Hanners asks. C'mon, though, he uncomfortably dodges going into the accusation-sounding question on whether he has a sister (specifically gendered and in bold for emphasis) for fear of saying something wrong and then Claire gets all worried about what kinds of things he might've told them. She also mentions not being okay with how she was "designed" in that situation - without us having much of any hint she had depression issues.
This just seems like reaching to dismiss signs of it being planned, especially since Jeph said he's wanted to introduce a transgender character for a long time when Claire tells Marten, so certainly not just some spur-of-the-moment idea to make Claire fit that. Not saying it'd "for sure definitely be about transgender stuff" to our perception at the very moment those strips came out, but it's the thing that makes sense in retrospect as part of her character. I don't get why it'd be something better if he grabbed a random character and just went "This'll be the Trans one" at all, though.
I also don't know why you said "Bigendered Clinton". The early Claire-things on his Tumblr didn't say a thing about Clinton. [1][2]
Loki:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 12 May 2013, 11:45 ---She also mentions not being okay with how she was "designed" in that situation - without us having much of any hint she had depression issues.
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I took it to mean that she was referring to the world at large being designed in a bad way - I'd argue one does not need depression issues for that... a look at the foreign politics news report would probably trigger the same reaction.
Valdís:
That doesn't really make sense to me, Loki. She'd be a conscious AI in a simulated world to help Hanners become more adjusted. It'd only actually for-sure be a dick if you're an AI in direct contact with Hanners. I don't see much point in creating an alternative starving Saharan nation if she's just going to be hanging around the same east coast town whenever she's in it.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 12 May 2013, 09:06 ---The disgust over the statement is by putting "women" in quotations because you were including a transgender women there.
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That's the way I would read it if I had a trans person's life experience. If I'd read it that way it would already have been a moderation issue.
For the record, the owner of the forum values inclusiveness, the moderators are determined to have a safe environment for everyone, and the Trans 101 rules of etiquette apply to the forum. if Imaginary Hannelore Actress were a member here she would have gotten an admonishment via PM at the very least, with further action if she didn't have a multi-year record of treating people decently. Mistreatment of trans people is a violation of the civility rule. The moderator response in such a case might strike you as inexcusably slow but it will be inexorable.
BTW, with my moderator hat on, I'd like to thank people for providing wonderful examples of how to confront a statement uncompromisingly but civilly.
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