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WCDT: 2323-2327 (19-23 November 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ink slinger:
I'm surprised that Claire would share this with Marten so early in their relationship. But, I guess the "you're one of [my friends] now" comment was enough for her to feel safe telling him. They have, after all, being working together and casually hanging out for a while now. And, one of my best friends told me he was gay pretty much as soon as we met, so I guess it really depends on the individual (I know that being gay is not the same thing as being trans, but the coming out aspect seems somewhat analogous).
I am curious, though, how common it is for trans people to come out as Claire did if they're already living as their preferred gender. None of the (very few) trans people I've known have identified as anything other than women (they were all FTM). Even the one who I actually knew before she transitioned has only ever been a woman to me since her transition and has never explicitly identified as trans (though, I lost contact with her for many years and only reconnected after she had starting living as a woman, so maybe I missed the coming out stage of her experience).
(I apologize if this has already been discussed upthread, but there are so many pages and I've decided to skip most of them in order to avoid the drama that seems to have developed.)
Mojo:
I have to admit, I'm not all that suprised. I'd been thinking how odd it would be that Claire should look like her twin brother. Identical twins come from a single egg (Monozygotic), so they would be the same gender. For a male/female twin combo, you would expect dizygotic twins, who would not look any more alike than any other siblings.
Zingoleb:
They're not twins.
Is it cold in here?:
I want to talk about the comic.
Claire is not a "trans person introduced to appeal to a demographic". She is a high-strung driven character introduced to be funny, who has a background. So far every background we know about has been non-boring.
She is not there to push an agenda. Jeph's comments about people trying to read an agenda into the comic are a matter of record and, er, frank and unambiguous.
The comic was also characterization in that it revealed Claire is a good judge of people. She figured out that Marten was a safe person to talk to about a sensitive personal subject.
EDIT: Oh, and welcome, new people!
Lummer:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Nov 2012, 11:11 ---I want to talk about the comic.
Claire is not a "trans person introduced to appeal to a demographic". She is a high-strung driven character introduced to be funny, who has a background. So far every background we know about has been non-boring.
She is not there to push an agenda. Jeph's comments about people trying to read an agenda into the comic are a matter of record and, er, frank and unambiguous.
The comic was also characterization in that it revealed Claire is a good judge of people. She figured out that Marten was a safe person to talk to about a sensitive personal subject.
--- End quote ---
Boom.
Also, Paul, you have PM.
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