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WCDT: 2791-2795 (15-19 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 19 Sep 2014, 18:16 ---
I am jealous of people with language skills, hedgie! I really want to learn Thai, but that is pretty bloody hard. My little sister had a Thai friend, and she would get us to say words then laugh at how we sucked (apparently my little brother "sounds like a girl!")
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Well, some languages are so heavily gendered that is strongly impacts how one speaks. And I don't have some magical proficiency for Chinese, nor any other language. I'm more like a parrot mimicking the sounds (and tones if needed). I have a great ear, and if I actually had any musical talent, I could of put it to use. Instead, I'm stuck with drunk ladies trying to teach me Mandarin and pretending to be Scouse when going to bars.
Loki:
--- Quote from: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 19 Sep 2014, 18:41 ---Nah. Cosette will trip over one of many errant empty boxes of cereal. She'll be angry at Steve, but he can do nothing. It would be Monday, and they don't take the trash until Tuesday. Meanwhile, every trash can in his neighborhood is already filled to the brim with cereal boxes. He is powerless to clean his house of the box madness. The final panel will just be him, sitting on a throne of unopened cereal boxes, head in hands, as he wonders what has happened to his life.
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Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker
Fenriswolf:
I guess that's better than nothing, hedgie? Heh. I have a good ear for music and I think OK for language, but do not pick it up quickly. I plan to try learning German soon (my father's language he wouldn't teach me as a child), but I have deep distrust for my abilities given how that went in school (I know, anything remotely like immersion will be better).
Anyway. Will stop derail. I am enjoying the last few strips, anyway. :lol:
aphanisis81:
OK, elephant in the room:
Of all the reasons Marten might be into or not into dating Claire, I think we have to also consider the really obvious one: The trans issue. Marten's a cool, completely accepting guy, obviously, but being Claire's confidant about her transition and being in a romantic/sexual relationship with her could be two very different things. I don't care how open-minded and LGBTQ-friendly you are, or how accepting of the idea that Claire is, in fact, a woman, and that biology is not gender, etc., etc...for a lot of dudes, it would still be a big deal and something to come to terms with. I know that I wouldn't be able to date or sleep with a trans woman with the exact same mindset I'd have while dating and sleeping with a cis-woman. It's not a matter of prejudice or non-acceptance; there just wouldn't be any way to not think about that aspect of her and have it influence how I see her.
For these reasons, I hope Marten DOES embark on a relationship with Claire, not because I necessarily think they'd be an awesome couple, but because it would be fascinating to see these issues - which again, I think would be at least in the back of any straight dude's mind - being worked out.
Barmymoo:
We don't know anything about Claire's genitalia. For that matter we don't know anything about Dora's genitalia, or Padma's. Speculation about this is not appropriate, or respectful.
That being said, your post was as close to being acceptable as I think a post on this topic could get. But I really don't want to open the floodgates to a discussion on this issue.
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