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WCDT: 2636-2640 (Feb 10 - 14 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 14 Feb 2014, 20:46 ---Really? Cute to me seems like a term that can mean a LOT of things.
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I don't quite see Delilah as being shrewd or clever in the context Marten is I think is trying to tell Faye. How can you be either one of those things in a one-night stand? Maybe he meant acute?
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2014, 17:48 ---"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."
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Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.
Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?
Mr_Rose:
Yeah, in pretty sure I've never used "cute" that way.
But then I give nary a fig leaf for what strangers think is "appropriate" most days, so…
rschill:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 Feb 2014, 04:36 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2014, 17:48 ---"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."
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Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.
Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?
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If we accept that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder, then how are we supposed to make people feel uncomfortable with their bodies or their preferences? If we accept that people are attracted in innumerable ways to innumerable attributes, then how can we create a hierarchy of attractiveness to be packaged and sold to insecure people? How can we hold people to impossible and sometimes contradictory standards both in personal appearance and the appearance of their partner/s?
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: rschill on 15 Feb 2014, 11:32 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 Feb 2014, 04:36 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2014, 17:48 ---"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."
--- End quote ---
Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.
Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?
--- End quote ---
If we accept that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder, then how are we supposed to make people feel uncomfortable with their bodies or their preferences? If we accept that people are attracted in innumerable ways to innumerable attributes, then how can we create a hierarchy of attractiveness to be packaged and sold to insecure people? How can we hold people to impossible and sometimes contradictory standards both in personal appearance and the appearance of their partner/s?
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Tell them they aren't wearing enough hats.
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