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WCDT: 2323-2327 (19-23 November 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Chelicerate:
--- Quote from: versidue on 19 Nov 2012, 05:51 ---My point is, it is NOT so very fluid. You can look at someones DNA, and look at their genes, and know what they are biology. Their gender is absolutely, completely separate.
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And?
--- Quote from: Karilyn on 19 Nov 2012, 05:54 ---Sorry if someone's mentioned this already... But there was another visual foreshadowing that Claire was trans which exists.
Male characters do not have lips in QC, only female characters. Claire has no lips.
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Claire is a female character. Clearly, then, some female characters do not have lips.
Karilyn:
--- Quote from: Chelicerate on 19 Nov 2012, 05:55 ---Claire is a female character. Clearly, then, some female characters do not have lips.
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I was talking about her being genetically male. Of course she's female. But her lack of lips is a visual indication that she's trans. Passing can be hard for some folks yo. There's a reason FFS exists.
(I edited my last post to make sure it was less ambiguous.)
Mr. Doctor:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 18 Nov 2012, 21:35 ---1. I would suspect she is MTF (Male-turning-Female). It also might explain why she's somewhat older than what we'd expect for a college intern, as it took her a while to get into Smif. You know, an all-women's college?
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How old is she anyways? I forgot... 24?
--- Quote from: Ph2 on 18 Nov 2012, 21:40 ---It is also rather nice Jeph for this to do this, he can enlighten some of us out there (like myself) who are rather ignorant of transsexuals due to lack of exposure and public attention.
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Same here, I'm quite ignorant in this particular subject and I'm very interested! :)
Edit: I read all pages... Woah. I'm just gonna lurk around. Don't feel like asking anything atm.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 18 Nov 2012, 21:35 ---1. I would suspect she is MTF (Male-turning-Female). It also might explain why she's somewhat older than what we'd expect for a college intern, as it took her a while to get into Smif. You know, an all-women's college?
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I'm pretty sure it was mentioned at one point that Claire is a graduate student. I don't know about Smif, but from what I've seen from other women's colleges, they're less picky about male graduate students (in some fields such as physics, they have the choice between admitting male grad students or admitting no grad students). So if Smif is like that, I don't see any reason why they would have a problem with a male-to-female transgendered person.
edit -- Here is where it's mentioned that Claire (and Gabby and Emily) are graduate students). Also, for the people commenting that they're identical twins, Claire says they're not.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Renewman on 19 Nov 2012, 05:00 ---I thought Jeph was jumping the shark with having Dora and Tai start going out but now he is just randomly throwing things in here just for no reason. It's more like he is turning QC into a sort of social commentary
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Like most cartoons, it is at least partially a social commentary, and always has been. So that people of different kinds should appear in it from time to time is unsurprising, and is just mirroring what happens in society itself - including the randomness. There's no shark in this lake.
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