Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
Mr. Black Licorice:
--- Quote from: bucky_2300 on 08 Feb 2015, 00:20 ---Could Marten get any more empty as a character? I mean, the guy's been presented as a straight man (as in the archetype) and a straight man (as in the sexuality) for the entirety of the comic, and now he's suddenly down with dating a transgendered person, which happens to come right around the time that trans* issues are gaining real traction in the social justice community? Come on. I've dated a trans*person in the past, and the first time we got naked, it was treated with much more dignity and care than it was given here. "You're beautiful"? I'll take Things That a 16 Year Old Says When Losing His Virginity for $200, Alex. This is just empty pandering.
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A) Sexuality exists along a spectrum: it's called the Kinsey Scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale/ ... However, even this does not completely represent the full complexity of human sexuality. It's not straight or gay, or even straight, bi, or gay; it just is.
B) Simplicity is more emotionally evocative than flowery language. Ernest Hemingway once said "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
C) Empty Pandering? When did web comics become a pissing contest for hipsters? Do I get bonus points for saying "I was trans* friendly before it was cool?" Come on!
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 07 Feb 2015, 20:09 ---
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You know, I wonder if this was foreshadowing for something. Were the "mistakes" being actions that sent Faye even deeper into her slide, or were the "mistakes" something that we haven't seen on screen yet?
swapna:
--- Quote from: Mr. Black Licorice on 08 Feb 2015, 03:18 ---
--- Quote from: bucky_2300 on 08 Feb 2015, 00:20 ---Could Marten get any more empty as a character? I mean, the guy's been presented as a straight man (as in the archetype) and a straight man (as in the sexuality) for the entirety of the comic, and now he's suddenly down with dating a transgendered person, which happens to come right around the time that trans* issues are gaining real traction in the social justice community? Come on. I've dated a trans*person in the past, and the first time we got naked, it was treated with much more dignity and care than it was given here. "You're beautiful"? I'll take Things That a 16 Year Old Says When Losing His Virginity for $200, Alex. This is just empty pandering.
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A) Sexuality exists along a spectrum: it's called the Kinsey Scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale/ ... However, even this does not completely represent the full complexity of human sexuality. It's not straight or gay, or even straight, bi, or gay; it just is.
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True, and at the moment, Marten seems very comfortable with his sexuality, but it's not always been displayed that way. A few months prior, while he was still dating Dora, he was certainly not OK with dating a transgendered Person: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=615
Even in jest, that's a very hurtful comment to make, and for Marten it's just been a few months (I've scanned AprilArcus' wonderful timeline, and as far as I can see, it's maybe 6+ months). This is not the only time he displayed discomfort with people who's visible gender might not always be the same: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=457
bhtooefr:
People's opinions on that can change, too, you know. Surprisingly quickly, if there's the right catalyst.
It's also worth noting that Tai was a student at Smif at least as of 1933, which was an end-of-semester party. (Or, 726 at the very least, because Tai was still living in the dorms then.) She graduated a year prior to 2787. This means that it's quite a long longer than 6 months - even longer than a year, actually - since Marten made that comment to Dora in 615.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 08 Feb 2015, 03:29 ---
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 07 Feb 2015, 20:09 ---
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You know, I wonder if this was foreshadowing for something. Were the "mistakes" being actions that sent Faye even deeper into her slide, or were the "mistakes" something that we haven't seen on screen yet?
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I'm fairly certain this was just a punch line.
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