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GarandMarine:
Don't Jinx it. We're thirty years in. Some would argue for much longer though they tend to get smacked down by their peers.
In other news: Sigh. This is going to go well.
In a gaming group bitching about a box of female minis. The sprues are fiddly and complex as all fucking hell for seemingly no good reason. Some people jump in and agree, or laugh at the "letter" I wrote to the designer, which I will probably have to include in the vitriolic letters thread. Then because there's always that one guy, the word "tranny" is used to describe this company's normal female faces. Roll a "Fuck this Guy" check and decide "No. Not sitting this one out" and point out that it's a slur and can we please not use it? as nicely as I can because I like some of these people at least.
Response 1: "It's meant as a slur, to GW. Up until this point (exception for the Juan Diaz Daemonettes from 6th Ed), all of their female face sculpts have looked like men in drag."
My Response: Yes, but it's an actual slur, to actual people. Also drag queens aren't trans gender individuals. It's fine to acknowledge that GW can't sculpt female faces to save their lives (I'm a Sisters of Battle player, I have a fucking CASE of examples) but there's better language with which to do it.
Response 2: "Feel free to take inordinate offense at this, but ignore all the absurd Slaanesh memes in this group."
My Response: Maybe I've just missed the ones that involved transgender slurs, but be sure to point them out to me and I'll make sure I say they're utter bollocks as well. This isn't me taking offense, or even being upset, this is me saying we can and should aspire to better language than words that are and have been used to hurt a small group of people with precious few people on their side.
Conversation's ongoing, but I'm being reasonable so I doubt it's going to go anywhere useful. Though it does kinda bring up a thought I haven't really considered, does the depiction of a hermaphrodite or "female/feminine character with male genitalia" be that an alien species, anthropomorphic hyenas or a certain genre of Japanese porn's obsession with Futas instantly relate back to trans persons as a venue for offense or injury? For those unfamiliar with 40k Lore Slaanesh is the Chaos God of Excess, and while excess can go a lot of interesting ways, music, art, gluttony, all manner of indulgence, including a Daemon Prince who's excess is literally perfection to a standard that would shame Narcissus. However because Games Workshop and 14 year olds are big fans of a little pandering, the depiction of Slaaneshi forces generally involves a fair amount of sex appeal and tentacles. Though Workshop's backed off on that in the official fluff in the last couple years because parents started paying attention to the shit their sprogs want for Christmas, but it remains in the community and in *shudder* fan art, and a common mutation for the various demons and servants of Slaanesh is a cock where there shouldn't be one based on the rest of the body, a modified dick, extra dicks, tentacles, wahey.
So... I dunno. Zoe beacon any one?
She's like Batman right? Mysterious, reclusive, donating batorangs of knowledge to the mentally underprivileged of subjects within her sphere of knowledge?
In still other news, I can hear an owl outside.
hedgie:
Meh. Just grab the nearest clue-by-four, preferably with nails in, and use it to beat some sense into the fucks. Or failing that, some serious head-trauma.
LTK:
I just realised that the existence of birds of paradise is proof that the "use this one weird trick to make any girl want to have sex with you!" method is being exploited by evolution to great effect.
Method of Madness:
Does anyone else get annoyed that the past tense of read and the imperative of read are spelled the same? They're pronounced different, so it's not an issue in speech, but I saw a post I made the other day where I said "Just read (example)" and while I meant it as telling people I just had, I realized it could be telling other people to do so. Don't get me wrong, they should, but that's neither here nor there.
Sure, I could solve it by putting "I" in front of it, but I shouldn't have to, damn it :roll:
GarandMarine:
And my home girl Neko-Ali came in dual wielding twin cluex4s and the original guy seems to have shut up
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