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WCDT: 2641-2645 (Feb 17 - 21 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Karilyn:
Naw I'm cool, I have four wonderful partners who punch me upside the head if I start trying to not eat enough. No offense darling, but that's a lot of shoulders I have already to make me feel better. All long-term crippling chemical imbalances aside, my life is pretty good right now, don't let the mentioning of depression cat empathy get ya down. It's something that we've all sorta come to understand, that sometimes I'm just going to be sad, and that's okay and nobody else needs to feel bad or inadequate simply because I have a chemical imbalance which causes me to sometimes experience unexplainable uncontrollable despair that will eventually go away as suddenly as it arrives. And in-between those times, I get to experience all the joys and happiness of getting to be surrounded by friends. And besides, while it's still uncontrollable and unrelenting, that doesn't mean that having four partners doesn't make it easier to get through even if it won't, can't, and never will make it stop.
So yeah things are pretty good for me dawg, no sympathy needed, I apologize for making you worry.
EDIT: Also while I'm at it, I'm glad Jeph tapped onto the "You're not a slut" thing. Because seriously, that's so fucking common and it's getting so goddamn old. Just listened to someone earlier this day starting to put herself down calling herself a slut because she enjoyed sex and I had to punch her in the head a few times, and then since I had already read today's QC, I ended up reciting what Momo said to her because it's pure 100% concentrated truth in a can.
Thrillho:
It wasn't sympathy, it was empathy - people have to want sympathy to get it in my experience ;) I'm glad you have a support system, because a lot of people on here don't. Hopefully one day it will be gone completely, as much as such a thing can be gone (as someone with depression I know that sometimes these things just don't go away...).
I agree that it's a positive that Jeph put that in there. There is still this strange perception that having sex and enjoying it is against the rules somehow.
Karilyn:
Going 15 years strong, it's probably not going away *laughs* But just because it isn't going to ever go away, doesn't mean I haven't been learning new ways of coping with it. One of the more... monumental discoveries in my life was coming to understand that neither I, nor anybody else, should feel guilty for me being depressed, and not being able to make me happy when I am depressed. That the chemical imbalance is truly outside my control and immutable. And with the discovery of that knowledge, me and my loved ones have been freed from oceans of guilty feelings about things we had no right to feel guilty about. Such feelings of blameless guilt are truly a poison that erodes away at the soul.
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I think the guilt and shame surrounding sex is one of the more omnipresent problems in our society, it really warps minds, and hurts so many people in so many ways, both men and women.
This.
http://imgur.com/a/DmKBm?gallery
This is a thing that so bizarrely sums it up so well. We live in this bizarre place where we're told sex is incredible, but that we're sluts if we want it. And where men are told sex is incredible, and that they have no value if they are virgins. We live in this weird crazy place where we get messages that sex is some incredible amazing good thing, and some horrible evil thing that you're a bad person for wanting. And it's such a bizarre mixed message that people have to warp their minds around to try and rationalize. Too few people realize that the middle ground, that it's just a thing, nothing more, nothing less, and instead destroy their self-image all because they are fed this myth that sex is somehow something it's not.
Thrillho:
I love Kat Dennings, and that gallery.
marsman57:
Unpopular opinion: Despite my initial elation (such as what Dale is experiencing), once I rationally thought about it, I might think less of Marigold for going all the way on the first date. A lot of my reasons for being uncomfortable with it might be mitigated if I knew that previously she was a virgin though.
Edit: To be fair, I'd think less of myself too.
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