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WCDT: 2568-2572 (4 November - 8 November 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 13 Nov 2013, 12:37 ---people who have already demonstrated that they're prepared to work hard for no pay.
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There's a word for that: slaves. No two ways about it, modern society (in Britain as well as America) is reintroducing slavery under the guise of helping people (work experience is good, right?).
Except that responsible slave owners fed and housed their slaves, and these modern slaves don't even get that.
DSL:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Nov 2013, 14:53 ---
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 13 Nov 2013, 12:37 ---people who have already demonstrated that they're prepared to work hard for no pay.
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There's a word for that: slaves. No two ways about it, modern society (in Britain as well as America) is reintroducing slavery under the guise of helping people (work experience is good, right?).
Except that responsible slave owners fed and housed their slaves, and these modern slaves don't even get that.
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In the freelance world, it's called "exposure." As in, you can die of it.
Carl-E:
Tempting to laught loudly at that.
Through chattering teeth, of course.
DSL:
It's sorta funny the first few dozen times you get the offer.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Storel on 12 Nov 2013, 12:18 ---
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 10 Nov 2013, 04:44 ---Well, at least Emily isn't taller than most women, underdeveloped in the chest department, aspergic, socially withdrawn, and with a mysterious past, as are many Trans and Intersex gals her age.
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Now, I took this as a gentle suggestion from Zoe that perhaps Emily is Trans or Intersex too and we just haven't found out yet. Because Emily is all those things, pretty much, which would make Zoe's statement that she isn't those things either sarcasm or irony, I'm not sure which. If that's actually what she was implying, anyway; if not, then maybe it was just... humor?
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I was being deliberately ambiguous. I will remain so. Let's just say that there were multiple valid interpretations of what I said, and I may have meant all of them. Is Emily TS or IS? Does it matter? Would it matter if we never knew whether she was or was not? Is it just that women differ, be they standard factory model or customised after delivery? What does our interpretation of what I wrote tell us about ourselves? What does it say about me?
I love the ambiguity in language. It allows you to express several mutually contradictory ideas at the same time, all of which may be useful communication. The few times I commit poetry, I make use of such properties, heterodyning meaning.
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