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WCDT: 2296-2300 (15-19 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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Method of Madness:
Maybe she liked how they looked and got them tattooed on.

lanilanilani:
It wouldn't be out of the question for the dots, the holes where the stitches entered, to scar. Depending on the skin type. My C-section scar has about half the staple holes visible as scar tissue, but they're slowly fading away with time, as I'm told the scar itself may as well. The lines, perhaps, are not necessarily realistic, but like I said, the other stuff can scar.

Omega Entity:
Judging from previous depictions of Faye's scar, I'm pretty sure those are just dots, and not lines across - it simply looks like lines due to the size of the image.

Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new person!

Akima:

--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 17 Oct 2012, 12:50 ---That depends on your definition of "work." The cultures that do arranged marriages put tremendous pressure on its people for marriages to work, so a couple is more likely to say it's going fine no matter how they actually feel. Not to mention that if the women complain, they often become ostracized, so there's that to consider.
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Women who complain are ostracised in all cultures.

There is a very strong tendency to assume that marriage means the same thing, and "works" the same way in all cultures. This is not true. The assumption in IDUHG's posting is that how the couple feels is the most important factor. In many cultures, this is given a much lower priority than in the Western world. In Chinese culture, for example, family stability, continuity, prosperity, and the raising of children, have traditionally been a far higher priority than romantic love, or personal fulfilment, and to a large extent this remains true now.

As a member of an ethnic and cultural minority which has significantly different priorities in, and attitudes to, marriage from those generally held in Australia, I have observed that this is yet another area where we just can't win, and the narrow limits of cultural acceptance are demonstrated all too clearly. If you're a member of a minority group that exhibits what are generally regarded as "social pathologies", such as family breakdown, high levels of divorce and abandonment, children performing poorly at school and dropping out early etc. then the mainstream is thoroughly censorious, but if your group has lower incidences of these bad outcomes than average in your society, you can't expect to receive any credit. Instead, the goalposts will be shifted, and your courtships, marriages, and families will be condescendingly stigmatised as somehow really being miserable and bad, despite producing results that are generally regarded as positive when achieved by members of the majority population.

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