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WCDT: 2256-60 (20-24 August 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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Akima:
Pantsism really sucks, doesn't it?

no one special:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Aug 2012, 23:32 ---Good lord. You used "defuse" correctly. You didn't say "diffuse". You are the only person left in the world who gets this right.  I swoon. Let me bear your children.

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There are still some of out there that still care about good grammar - don't give up the good fight! 

re: today's comic -

Dora's question feels a little odd to me.  I mean, I guess it's possible that in came up in conversation, but it just seems too damned heteronormative, to the point of almost being insulting.  It just feels like a question an insensitive straight person would ask, implying that one must necessarily question oneself in order to know they're gay.  I mean, straight people don't have to try a same-gender relationship to know they're straight, ya know? 

Now, I do truly understand that Jeph knows this, and I'm sure it's just meant to be a question that naturally happened.  It just doesn't feel that way to me.

pwhodges:
Of the lesbian couple I know best (I was "best man" at their ceremony) one had previously been married (and has grown-up children), and the other had been in a heterosexual relationship some years earlier.  These possibilities are certainly not uncommon, and it would seem to me perfectly natural for this to be a question that might get asked, especially by someone who has been there, as Dora has - there is no need to assume that it is judgemental in any way.

no one special:
Yes, I know that it is entirely common to have had heterosexual relationships, marriages, offspring and the like - I have many several gay friends who have had this same experience.  I also, however, have gay friends who have never had sex with anyone of another gender.  My point is simply that the question sounds somewhat presumptive, that Dora may, in fact be surprised that Tai has not seriously questioned her sexuality.  Just seems a pointed question, one that a person would ask who is less educated on such matters.  Dora, seeming to be an out-and-proud member of the queer community, simply seems to be a questionable source of such a query.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: no one special on 22 Aug 2012, 02:58 ---the question sounds somewhat presumptive
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Any question can sound presumptive if the hearer has a particular view.  I try to assume that a question is simply that rather than an implied statement.

This is not to say that questions are not also asked in clearly biased or leading ways - but this is not the case here, as far as I can see.

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