Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2201-2205 (4-8 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
In North American English Asian usually refers to someone from China, Japan, Korea, and immediate neighbours with similiar looking people like Vietnam, Thailand etc. South Asian has become an increasingly common term in Canada to refer to people from India, Pakistan, and ttheir related neighbours.
Add me to the list of readers who figured Tai was in some way Asian. She definitely falls into the "ambiguously brown" category.(I will not be cruel and link to TV Tropes.) Giving her a last name doesn't clarify things.
Barmymoo:
I've been puzzled for ages by what people mean when they say "co-ed". I knew they were talking about a student who attends college, and I knew that it was short for co-educational, but I never worked out what made someone a co-ed rather than a student. Just asked wikipedia and to be honest I'm still in the dark.
pwhodges:
It's not a person who's co-ed, it's an institution, owing to the fact of both sexes being educated together. Historically, schools (at least, the bigger ones, and boarding schools) were single sex, and when I was at public school (private boarding school for the rest of you), the very few such that had both sexes were referred to simply as co-eds. The same applies for colleges, I guess.
Edit: I now see the use of coed to mean (principally) a female student in US slang, which I've not come across before. Presumably this is applied to women because most places would have been men-only before they went co-ed; it strikes me as a demeaning usage (with implications of the "token minority" figure).
sleypy:
I voted for Margold. Her personality remind me of mine when I was younger. Plus I started reading the comic because I saw a link to a comic with her and Dale and was obligated to read the 1600 or so comic back log.
Barmymoo:
It's the latter usage I'm querying, and yes, I also have got the impression that it is used to refer to women, which is rather ironic since I'm a woman and I decidedly do not attend a co-ed college. Am I a co-ed?
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