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WCDT: 2796-2800 (22-26 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Valdís:
Counter-point: Fuck entirely off with your transmisogyny.
I will, in fact, state that we are every bit as much women as anyone else and that is not up for "debate". I am not looking to "debate" my right to exist with you; I am telling you what is cissexist and what has underlying transmisogyny.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 26 Sep 2014, 13:04 ---Counter-point: Fuck entirely off with your transmisogyny.
I will, in fact, state that we are every bit as much women as anyone else and that is not up for "debate". I am not looking to "debate" my right to exist with you, I am telling you what is cissexist and what has underlying transmisogyny.
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Your right to exist is not being questioned. Of course you have a right to exist. Nobody has challenged that.
Alphawolf55:
--- Quote from: Nyithra on 26 Sep 2014, 12:22 ---Actually, I read about the possibility of uterus transplants a few months ago. Sweden is apparently doing them successfully. I might imagine since the QC universe has more advanced technology than our own, the whole "what if marten wants kids?!" things might not particularly be an issue.
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Thats why I said it's hard to discuss this without knowing the level of technology in the QC universe. While in the real world transwomen and ciswomen are both every bit a woman as the other, there are at the moment logistic differences that might turn people off from a relationship whether it be children issues, actual sex issues among other things. In the QC universe these problems might not exist due to the level of advance technology there might literally be no superficial differences between a ciswoman body and a transwoman body after transition. Though until we're told otherwise my initial reaction is to assume most things are like our universe, for example Clares brother has a more advanced version of a robot hand that are starting exist in our world vs a cloned, grafted on hand that might happen with the level of technology we're discussing might be possible.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: KOK on 26 Sep 2014, 13:08 ---Your right to exist is not being questioned. Of course you have a right to exist. Nobody has challenged that.
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My being a woman is a non-negotiable fact of my existence which can not be haggled piecemeal away. Don't take for granted that such a debate is real and legitimate, rather than just a Domination Technique by people in an oppressor-class.
kryptoknight:
--- Quote from: Honkytonk on 26 Sep 2014, 11:04 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Sep 2014, 10:34 ---Welcome, latest new people!
Some things you should know in advance: first, QC is a comic about people doing stupid things. Claire is smarter than the average character but remember that if she does something stupid it won't be an attack on trans people in general.
The other thing, closely related, is that Jeph has done a widely praised good job at making Claire an individual, and not The Trans Character. Anything she says or does is just her and not a Message.
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Whether it was aimed at me or not, I might be guilty of implying this in my first post and would just like to say I understand both of those points - I oft forget of Claire as trans until I remind myself, and that, I think, is kind of the point? (apologies if not) She is a good, rounded character with her own foibles and issues, and far from just 'the trans one'. I have huge respect for Jeph in this.
For anyone (like me) who wants to go back and find the Wedding arc it starts roundabout here.
Really looking forward to being part of the forum, and please, pick me up on anything if I make a tit out of myself.
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I forget about it all the time too. She's very well written and everyone around her accepts her for for how she acts/portrays herself. It's easy to forget she's a trans character because that isn't really her defining feature and I love that.
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