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WCDT: 2741-2745 (07-11 July 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
T:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 07 Jul 2014, 00:45 ---
--- Quote from: kagenoyuushi on 06 Jul 2014, 17:55 ---Some STDs don't show any symptoms in women, like gonorrhea is asymptomatic for most women. (I registered just the post that)
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Okay ... actually nifty strategy of the disease, to hide and wait ... but does any other STD have this as well ? AIDS obviously doesnt do it, neither does syphillis, at least not according to Wikipedia.
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AIDS can do this, not only to women, it can happen in any gender. A person get it but only get symptoms much latter. In some rare cases the person doesn't get symptoms at all.
snubnose:
Okay, I wanted to answer a couple postings above but it seems to me I have to answer every second one, so its getting kind of tiring.
Just a few points:
- The breakup was Svens fault. Duh !
- Faye is in a happy relationship with Angus now.
- If Sven wants a girl with big boobs, there are many more women with big boobs around. He doesnt need Faye.
- Very likely Faye has no substantial feelings for Sven left. She feels bad about the breakup, sure, but thats no surprise, considering how it happened. Again, the breakup was Svens fault, not Fayes fault.
- Ultimately its not Fayes responsibility how Sven feels.
- Many people (in fact pretty much everybody) have no relationship for years. Heck, Marten had no relationship for quite some time now. Sven isnt more eglible to a relationship than everybody else, just because he apparently is very attractive.
--- Quote from: T on 07 Jul 2014, 04:55 ---[...] A person get it but only get symptoms much latter. [...]
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Well, yeah. Thats a very common trick of transmitted diseases.
Still thats a different strategy from not having symptoms at all in one gender.
Mlle Germain:
--- Quote from: T on 07 Jul 2014, 04:55 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 07 Jul 2014, 00:45 ---
--- Quote from: kagenoyuushi on 06 Jul 2014, 17:55 ---Some STDs don't show any symptoms in women, like gonorrhea is asymptomatic for most women. (I registered just the post that)
--- End quote ---
Okay ... actually nifty strategy of the disease, to hide and wait ... but does any other STD have this as well ? AIDS obviously doesnt do it, neither does syphillis, at least not according to Wikipedia.
--- End quote ---
AIDS can do this, not only to women, it can happen in any gender. A person get it but only get symptoms much latter. In some rare cases the person doesn't get symptoms at all.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, AIDS is a typical STD to not be noticed for a long time. Some weeks after infection, people usually get symptons very similar to flu (so most people think it's just flu), but after that, the virus just stays latently in the body for several years before doing anything again - very dangerous because so many people just do not notice the infection.
Similarly, lots of other STDs don't have symptoms for a long time or have symptoms that are not recognised by the affected: Chlamydia doesn't, Syphilis has symptoms right at the start, but these go away again and people forget about it, then the desease can again stay latent for several years.
(I did a talk on this in high school sex ed and I still kind of remember some facts.
But as a hypochondriac, I really shouldn't be thinking about this any longer, because although I take all possible care against STD infections and have had myself tested, my irrational brain will still try to analyse whether I have any of the symptoms...)
Edit for post in between:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 07 Jul 2014, 05:13 ---Still thats a different strategy from not having symptoms at all in one gender.
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Yeah, but the point here was that both Sven and Faye could have an STD without having noticed so far and both of these strategies apply. I still don't really think this is what Jeph wants to do for the next storyline, but that's a different issue.
aphanisis81:
Faye emphatically told Dora that they'd used protection. I don't think Jeph would retcon that. So I'd eliminate HIV from the STD Scare Menu of Horror. There are definitely other possible venereal diseases, but correctly-used condoms are basically 100% effective against the Big One. And when they fail, they fail noticeably.
Add in that even unprotected vaginal intercourse has something like a 1 in 1,000 probability of M>F transmission, and it just seems like to big a stretch.
Also, right after Faye and Sven hooked up (interestingly, that was the plot arc that was going on when I first started reading the comic in early summer 2008) Jeph kinda trolled us for speculating about a pregnancy scare. I have a feeling that might be what's happening here too.
And yet...the strip hasn't had a really heavy plot arc in awhile. So who knows.
anahata:
--- Quote from: NilsO on 07 Jul 2014, 02:33 ---I guess he wants to tell her he has changed, and ask for another chance if/when Faye breaks up with Angus.
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I'm sure that's what Faye's thinking, hence her horror at Sven turning up at this ironic moment.
But maybe it's only been done for comical effect, and Svens "need to talk" issue will turn out to be unrelated (though I can't think what that could be).
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