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WCDT: 2801-2805 (29th September - 3rd October) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Thedrd0nna:
So, I know we've been warned not to interpolate Claire as a stand-in for all trans people anywhere. And I know that we are dealing with Trollmaster Jeph. But, I've been thinking about this for a few days and thought I'd share:
Portrayals of trans characters in the media has, until recently, been absolutely awful. We're shown as jokes, as predators, as unbalanced, and most definitely as oddities. This is slowly changing, with the addition of a very limited number of sympathetic trans characters finding their way into the average American's household; the most notable examples are Sophia Burset in Orange is the New Black and Maura Pfefferman. Even those are through online providers, and only Maura is positioned as a "main" character. As far as I can remember, there have been no portrayals of a trans person as a legitimate romantic interest in any widely-consumed media. (I'm excluding LGBT-focused media here, because for-us-by-us media plays by its own rules.)
So, in that sense, Claire is a groundbreaking character. She's trans, but that's not her defining characteristic. It certainly looks as though she's got a shot with Marten, which already makes her a basically-unprecedented depiction of a trans person who is not just here and (moderately) well-adjusted, but actually desirable and able to desire. Jeph has obviously gone to such great lengths to put together a believable, realistic, and sympathetic character that I feel he couldn't possibly be unaware of this context. I think even by his standards, to put this out there and then yank it away might qualify as one troll too far. I could be wrong, but I really really hope I'm not. So, think of all this as one more reason why, potentially, this ship isn't sunk quite yet.
mustang6172:
I wonder if this shower will lead to something more...
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
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--- Quote from: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 29 Sep 2014, 18:14 ---Could be a few strips before we get back around to Marten, especially since we're still waiting for the other shoe to drop with Dora cutting Sven off. Much as I liked the squeefest, that seems to be the bigger story going on right now, and it's all tangled up in Angus's callback.
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A breather strip here and there is fine, but I think it'd really hurt the other storylines if you switch back and forth between them right now since people are so into the one. You don't want people going '*Sigh* a Angus strip...', you want them to care about that. And I think to do that you have to give some resolution to what's happening or not happening between Claire and Marten.
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"Could", not "will". A chat between them could very well be the first thing that happens in the morning (in QC-time) if Claire decides not to head home and instead someone sleeps on the couch. It's just that Dora already stated her plans for the morning (Call parents; tell them Sven is persona non grata) and that is likely to happen first chronologically if Claire heads home.
Though, realistically, we'll probably see people going to bed before then, and that'll settle which is more likely. And before that, we'll probably see either "good bye and good night" or just "good night".
So maybe we stick with Marten and Claire until Friday. Maybe not. That's all I can say with confidence... which means I'm hardly saying anything at all. This is not the post you're looking for.
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 29 Sep 2014, 19:17 ---I wonder if this shower will lead to something more...
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I'd schooner see Pintsize take over the world.
Nyithra:
Does her workplace not have a working sink?
DSL:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 29 Sep 2014, 19:17 ---I wonder if this shower will lead to something more...
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That looks awful big for a bathtub toy.
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