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

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Kugai:
Just make sure to get the regular shots and health checks.

Tova:
I'll take "inexplicable non sequiturs" for $20 Alex.

Vurogj:

--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 17 Oct 2012, 19:51 ---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.

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I zoomed in for research purposes, and they appear to be lines across in that strip. Offhand I can't think of any archive strips with as good a view (of the scar, obviously). As far as dots vs lines go, I would expect to see dots. The scar on my mum's wrist (she missed a door handle and put her arm through the door window while drunk in her 20's) still has visible dots decades later.

TheoGB:

--- Quote from: Akima on 17 Oct 2012, 21:54 ---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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Not that particularly disagree with your main thrust, the idea that romance is important has only become a 'Western' thing within the last 100 years maybe. Although class has a lot to do with this so maybe it's that disparity in European culture that caused the change. Certainly in the upper and middle classs it would be common for people to be forced to marry someone their parents approved of because it was their parents' money they were expected to inherit and use. I'd say much of this move toward marrying out of love comes from the middle classes who tend to force the revolution side of things.

Soulsynger:
edit: Wooooh, comic!

Clinton without glasses looks oddly delicious. °O

And also... perspective is really hard. (last two panels)

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