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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Penquin47:
As far as overrepresentation goes: I live in a small town in West Texas. My high school has about 200 kids. In any given year, we'll have somewhere between 0-6 students who are out of the closet. I've heard that several of my former students came out later. None of the teachers are, but in my case: I identify as bisexual, but I keep that to myself because a) I live in a small town in West Texas and if I told one person tomorrow, the whole town would know by next Tuesday, and I would probably be looking for a job this summer; and b) I don't have a girlfriend (or a boyfriend but that wouldn't require coming out). I highly doubt I'm the only person who thinks that way, especially given that I've had 20+ years to come to terms with my sexuality, which is longer than my students have been ALIVE. If you live in a highly conservative area, chances are you would find very similar thinking. In a place like Marten's town, it's a lot safer to be out, so in addition to the townies/college students, you have people fleeing conservative areas for open-minded areas. Compared to the general population, a liberal college town is just going to have more non-straight people than the population on average.
hedgie:
Don't forget the LUGs.
Oilman:
I don't know that Marigold qualifies as "skilled white-collar" but then again, we don't really know much about her background, how much work she really does for her father or what it brings in. However she could apparently pass the credit checks to sign for Momo's new chassis, and pay her rent so she must have a relatively good income.
explicit:
She builds and maintains websites, that's pretty white collar.
Neko_Ali:
White collar yes. Skilled? ehhhhh. A lot of people get by on those jobs with only basic knowledge and commonly available software tools. They don't make great websites, but serviceable, simple ones for people who have even less experience and knowledge. However Marigold has some tech knowledge. Enough to be a go-to person for AthroPC repair. How much she actually does for her father is unknown, but she seems to have a lot of free time. More than anyone else in the comic at least, aside from Sven Pintsize and Winslow.
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