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WCDT: 2425-2429 (15-19 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Apr 2013, 08:37 ---
Claire may have figured out that Marten is about as dangerous as a stuffed manatee on codeine.
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I think you're giving Marten a little too much credit... not that he doesn't try to put his noodle spine up once in awhile as a very wimpy Prince Valiant.
TRVA123:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 16 Apr 2013, 08:48 ---I really don't see Claire's response as having anything to do with slut shaming. Rather, the physical danger that trans people face on a regular basis. I thankfully haven't had to deal with anything stronger than verbal insults and disgusted looks yet. But the fact remains that even in 'safe' areas, trans people get attacked, even murdered for nothing more than being trans. Knowing that risk is an important part to deciding to transition, in my mind. And especially knowing how to guard yourself against it. It's not something I've ever forgotten and likely never will. And I always take steps to make sure I'm safe (like not getting drunk among strangers).
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I'm not trying to minimize what trans* people go through, I just read Clinton's words differently.
Women are constantly told (often by men) to avoid "dangerous" situations, such as parties, or cities, or subways, or really anywhere you might go outside of your home. If something happens to a woman who happens to be in one of these situations people often act as though she deserves part of the blame for what happened to her because she willingly went to a party and decided to drink. No victim should be blamed for the heinous actions of their attackers, no matter where they were, what they were wearing, or how they were presenting.
Maybe slut shaming wasn't the right word. Lets go with Victim Blaming.
GarandMarine:
Culpabit Victima!
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 16 Apr 2013, 09:13 ---Presumably if Claire was to start seeing somebody seriously, the danger would be that Clinton would slip into full-blown Victorian patriarch mode and storm off to confront the person, to demand to know if their "intentions were honourable."
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Not that Marten hasn't done that himself.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1423
Loki:
By the way:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 16 Apr 2013, 04:22 ---
--- Quote from: Loki on 16 Apr 2013, 01:42 ---Everyone my age knows that the most suitable way to deal with any bully is challenge him to a game, then kill and/or mindrape him when he inevitably loses because you are the King of Games.
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Did I just detect a Yu-gi-oh reference?
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You have a good eye :D
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