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WCDT: 2201-2205 (4-8 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Gregorio:

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--- Quote from: Schmorgluck on 06 Jun 2012, 18:02 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 06 Jun 2012, 14:01 ---Why wouldn't you?  Doesn't it make the most sense to have Asian = from Asia?
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It just about says as much as saying African = from Africa.
"African" doesn't make a better work in describing a person than "Asian" does.

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I'm not saying either are very specific, as they apply to a lot of different cultures, but neither are inaccurate.  Someone who is from Africa is African, someone who is from Asia is Asian (or Eurasian, I guess).  Most people refer to themselves as a more specific group (like their country rather than their continent).

Either way, in a thousand years, we'll all be Earthicans.

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This is one of those things that I was never comfortable with. I don't have Asian blood, but I have Asian relatives from Korea and Japan (we've got some veterans on my side), so I had to learn really early that the young child "Chinese" blanket term was not cool. Then when people started saying Asian, I thought they meant it as a term for any Asian (Indian, various east and southeast ethnicities, etc. and so on), until I realized that they were just meaning it as a term for people with "the eyes." It's one of those things that just doesn't sit right with me, such as using "African" to describe black people (when you've got the North African ethnicities) exclusively.  I keep telling myself to get over it and it doesn't matter, but it's just one of those things that likes to chew at the back of my brain when I have too much time.

Anyway, I like how Jeph drew the Asian girl. It's amazing (in terms of laziness more than anything) how we can still get away with just narrowing their eyes (or in some cases, closing them) and painting them with some default yellow shader in Photoshop.

hepcat:
I'm excited to see a South East Asian girl in the comic! Can't wait to find out more about her (: And also re: Tai's ethnicity, I thought she was a halfie right from the start. Hopefully this will be confirmed at some point :D

Lubricus:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 06 Jun 2012, 17:42 ---Jeph wondered in his tweets if an all-girls college would accept a male-to-female TG to matriculate as a student; I don't know if they would or wouldn't, personally.

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A person who changed gender legally, which is not the case of all TG persons, would, by law, be eligible for study in a single-gender college of his or her "new" gender. But many US colleges tend to have other restrictions than those coming from the naked law, so it would depend on the institution in question. In some countries, the original gender of a cross-gendered person would not be relevant - if you're legally a woman, you have all the rights of those born female, so to speak.

I hope I havent stepped on anyones toes with this post...

haikupoet:
For what it's worth, "co-ed" to me means "female character in a college-themed porn flick". I feel pretty safe in saying that using it to describe an actual person is almost always condescending, as if you think it's just adorable that she decided to go to college instead of finishing school, but she's only there for her MRS degree, so it's not like we have to take her seriously as a student.

Soulsynger:
@Comic:
Someone replaced Marten with Captain Obvious. QC will now be called Questionably Obvious or Obvious Content. And will be largely about people pointing out stuff everybody already knew.


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Oh hey, do I get to say "first" now? This is a first. (Hah!)

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