Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
Did you notice that?
Grognard:
what is the forum record for quickest Banning?
Hey BINKS. I don't see eye to eye with everyone on this forum, but there are these things called 'CIVILITY' and 'Forum Rules' and 'MANNERS'...
You should RTFM before you post again.
Binks:
Lol k
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 21 Nov 2013, 06:52 ---what is the forum record for quickest Banning?
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Single-figure minutes, actually (and that's excluding simple spammers when they were able to reach us).
LeeC:
No worry Binks. To put it in a certain light, Claire is a woman. If I was to entertain what you are saying: Marten never met Claire before that statement. Whose to say he doesn't feel differently after meeting Claire? That's why slice of life stories can be so entertaining when done right. People can grow, change, and experience things just like real people. Have you ever met a person who makes you question your convictions in a positive way? Just because Marten said that in a past comic doesn't make it law forever. He's a person (though fictional) so the real question is, why not? :-)
Is it cold in here?:
(education hat on)
It turns out that trans people often (*) have a profound and permanent sense of being male or female from their earliest memories. Since the organs we are interacting with on the forum are the gray wrinkly ones up top, that's the practically important setting.
(Not just trans people, there was that horrible case of the boy who was consistently raised as a girl after a circumcision accident. He just *knew* he was a boy regardless of the evidence downstairs and how everyone treated him).
The moderators have spent a lot of time educating themselves on the issue and ordering professional papers from the library that aren't online. Scientifically, it looks like the trans people have been right about themselves all along.
I know what you mean by "born male". Saying "male assigned at birth" is not SJW PC tyranny, it's simply more precise thinking. It's a bonus that saying it that way avoids hurting forum members.
GLAAD has some educational resources about transgender people, shorter and better organized than the trans* thread here. http://www.glaad.org/transgender . I can't vouch for the quality. From trans* people themselves, there's a discussion near the end of "Trans* issues arising from the comic" about whether there's a non-painful way to discuss whether they're physically compatible. There isn't.
(/education)
(moderator hat on)
There's a draft of what will likely become forum rules near the end of the trana* thread in Discuss. Bottom line, we'll enforce it.
(/moderator)
(regular user hat)
Marten has hangups but has been wonderful about treating Claire as a woman in everyday life.
[PM sent explaining things further]
(*) Their experiences vary a lot.
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