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WCDT: 2470-2474 (17-21 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Loki:
--- Quote from: Westrim on 18 Jun 2013, 10:22 ---The same way an old woman coming up to you in the store and launching into a story about her hemorrhoids is creepy, just less severe.
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...I cannot understand that either.
Is it cold in here?:
Jim and Dora are at comparable stages in life despite the age difference. They've both succeeded at business, been in LTRs, and so on.
If "two-thirds my age" were an orientation then the analogy with lesbian relationships would be valid.
We don't know the Dora/Tai age difference: if Tai is a grad student she's probably 22+. Definitely different stages in life though!
westrim:
--- Quote from: Loki on 18 Jun 2013, 10:30 ---
--- Quote from: Westrim on 18 Jun 2013, 10:22 ---The same way an old woman coming up to you in the store and launching into a story about her hemorrhoids is creepy, just less severe.
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...I cannot understand that either.
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Then we have different understandings of what creepy is. Oversharing is creepy to me. It makes me uneasy and desire escape.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Jun 2013, 10:34 ---If "two-thirds my age" were an orientation then the analogy with lesbian relationships would be valid.
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..No. Things don't have to be the same to be comparable situations. It's not like race, sexual orientation and gender identity are equivalent phenomena, yet there's plenty of analogies to be drawn regarding bigotries.
There's no good reason to consider it innately inappropriate; make all the excuses you want, it still comes down to personal compatibility.
plusorminus:
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 18 Jun 2013, 06:07 ---
You bring up age appropriate when Dora is likely 8 years older than Tai? :psyduck:
Jim, imo, is 40s-early 40s. Dora is the oldest of "the group" and I'm betting at this point she's 30.
I'm so-so on age difference. Mostly 20 year old and a 40 year old. They're just at WAY different points in their life. I don't understand what "age inappropriate" about Jim/Dora.
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I don't think anyone in the QC world, that is Faye, Dora and Marten, are 30 per this comic. In real time, yes, Dora would be in her 30s and Marten and Faye would be just touching 30, but time froze for them some time ago and I believe they are all in their 20s.
A grad student on the low end can be 21 or 22. If Dora is 28, then at most, Tai is 6 years younger. Six years =/= 14 years.
I have issues with Jim. He has more or less stated he prefers younger women when he made that quip that he would have asked Dora out even if she were *gasp* 30. Kind of strange for a man who has had a vasectomy. Many women in the age-bracket he seeks would consider that a deal breaker.
If it makes me a hypocrite, so be it. I am gay, so I obviously have no problems with gay relationships. I do have problems with entitled men with teen daughters opening businesses that attract a younger crowd (ie a coffee shop) in a college town who clearly prefers to date significantly younger than himself. JMO.
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