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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
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TRVA123:
--- Quote from: tacroy on 02 Feb 2015, 10:29 ---I love the comic and have been reading since a few months after launch (my forum registration is on page 6, of over a hundred), but QC especially in the past year or two, has become not just inclusive but exhaustively inclusive. Off the top of my head, the comic has: gay parents, a sex worker, a lesbian relationship (of which one partner is bi), an interracial relationship, a trans person, a prominent suicide, a person with significant (if often joked about) mental health issues, several people in financial distress, workplace equality issues (albeit addressed through an android), and now, presumably, an addict. Each of these has had fairly significant plot time.
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Idk, I mean, I hail from the midwest (near a city, but still not a liberal paradise, by any means) and every thing you mentioned are present in my life.
The thing is that a lot of these are things that people don't talk about. You probably know a few gay people, you probably know someone who has been/is a sex worker, you probably know someone who had a close relative commit suicide, someone who is an alcoholic/addict, you definitely know someone suffering from depression, and people who are poor. These are just things that aren't immediately visible. If someone doesn't choose to share those details with you, you probably won't be aware that those things are going on.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 02 Feb 2015, 21:29 ---
--- Quote from: tacroy on 02 Feb 2015, 10:29 ---I love the comic and have been reading since a few months after launch (my forum registration is on page 6, of over a hundred), but QC especially in the past year or two, has become not just inclusive but exhaustively inclusive. Off the top of my head, the comic has: gay parents, a sex worker, a lesbian relationship (of which one partner is bi), an interracial relationship, a trans person, a prominent suicide, a person with significant (if often joked about) mental health issues, several people in financial distress, workplace equality issues (albeit addressed through an android), and now, presumably, an addict. Each of these has had fairly significant plot time.
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Idk, I mean, I hail from the midwest (near a city, but still not a liberal paradise, by any means) and every thing you mentioned are present in my life.
The thing is that a lot of these are things that people don't talk about. You probably know a few gay people, you probably know someone who has been/is a sex worker, you probably know someone who had a close relative commit suicide, someone who is an alcoholic/addict, you definitely know someone suffering from depression, and people who are poor. These are just things that aren't immediately visible. If someone doesn't choose to share those details with you, you probably won't be aware that those things are going on.
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Also, the majority of these things are generally massively under-represented in the media. If nothing else QC is doing a bit of redressing the balance.
Neko_Ali:
I really don't even see it as redressing a balance. Jeph just writes things as they are. I don't see any kind of agenda to his writing. The closest I can think of was his wanting to make sure he wrote Claire's story right (which I think he has). But yeah... All of those things being talked about? Been around them for most of my life. I think everyone has to some degree or another. The only question is how aware of it they are.
gprimr1:
I think Clare's story got off a little easy. That was the closest I've ever come to wondering if Jeff has an agenda.
I wouldn't mind seeing a story arc were a character has some trouble with acceptance.
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