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WCDT: 2425-2429 (15-19 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Latias on 17 Apr 2013, 12:21 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 17 Apr 2013, 11:41 ---Understood, but when discussing Clinton's experience of the transition, isn't that what it looked like to him?
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I can't speak on behalf of the community and I don't claim to represent it, but the way I see it, what you're saying is just wrong, and I'm not sure you understand. Way too much emphasis is placed on transition, people make a big deal out of what should be completely irrelevant. Claire isn't a "trans person", she's just a person. She may have been born with some male traits, physically, but that doesn't change who she is, or was, at all. She's just Claire, and she's always been Claire. Think of "transition" like, say, surgery for a heart condition - do you think of that person any differently because they had surgery for a heart condition? Presumably it doesn't even cross your mind. In the same way that surgery for a heart condition is a non-factor, "transition" should be a non-factor in your mind.
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Let's talk further, over in the trans issues thread in Discuss.
Latias:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 17 Apr 2013, 12:37 ---"Should be" and "is" are often two different things. What's being speculated upon here is not how Clinton should have thought about Claire, but how he actually thought about her.
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Unless my memory is failing me, there is absolutely nothing in the comic / anything surrounding the comic that suggests Clinton did anything wrong. In addition, Jeph has made it clear that his stance with Claire is to show inclusiveness, not conflict. To me, to suggest that Clinton may have viewed Claire differently is completely baseless speculation and feels like a suggestion from someone who doesn't fully understand the implications of what they're suggesting. I'm open to the possibility that my interpretation of the situation may be wrong, that's just how I see it.
Edit:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 17 Apr 2013, 13:59 ---Let's talk further, over in the trans issues thread in Discuss.
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Whoops, didn't see this. Sorry, I did not intend to derail this thread.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: Latias on 17 Apr 2013, 14:12 ---Whoops, didn't see this. Sorry, I did not intend to derail this thread.
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Don't see how you could be, given that the current comics are of Claire and trans* issues.
If anything it was our language-talk that was off-topic.
Is it cold in here?:
What is unmistakable is that Clinton is the kind of family member every trans person should have and that far too many don't have.
I wonder how much is because he's a DHB and how much is because they had to stick together to ride out the divorce.
TheBiscuit:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 17 Apr 2013, 02:01 ---Clinton made a bad first impression.
Then he made a bad second impression.
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Then (for me) a bad third, a bad fourth, and... how many appearances has he made so far?
Just because he's kind to his sister doesn't make him in any way a tolerable character for me. If I see he's in it, I skip the day's strip.
--- Quote from: K1dmor on 16 Apr 2013, 21:44 ---
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 16 Apr 2013, 20:50 --- A day with no strip at all is better than a strip with Clinton in it for me.
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But Jeph can write whatever he wants :-) Even if that's not your cup of tea.
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I am very sorry that I dared to have a preference. I shall return immediately to praising the great lord Jeph.
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