Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
Is it cold in here?:
Marten promised Claire he would cope with anything related to her being trans. She asked. That answers all the legitimate questions.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 05 Feb 2015, 11:39 ---Sigh... Why do people focus so much on Claire's anatomy? It really doesn't matter.
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Whether it matters or not is the wrong question. Does any of this matter? Not really. It's pictures being drawn by a guy and posted to the internet.
It's a question. The question is unanswered. People want to know about unanswered questions. All of human achievement and failure can be traced back to that. There's a certain point where it becomes obvious that making value judgments about that is both pointless and hypocritical. But everyone's a hypocrite, so I guess that last is also pointless.
Human societies generally have dangerous hangups about the sex tackle most of us are carrying around. It really isn't an important bit of information, so logically it shouldn't matter if someone asks or doesn't. Lives are not at stake. But the hangups are there. They are omnipresent. People aren't comfortable with having their equipment discussed.
At the same time, because of the hangups, people get a certain thrill out of discussing the equipment of others. It could be the taboo aspect, it could be the subject's rarity. People be people.
Claire is an avatar of sorts for some people in these parts. Also, people say stupid shit, on most any subject. It's the principal method humans have for learning not to say stupid shit (failure and observing the failures of others). The board's policy is not to go there. Wondering why people who generally don't know the policy are motivated to ask is probably as pointless as wondering what's in Claire's pants.
eschaton:
The problem with the whole "not discussing graphic sexual things" regarding Claire within the strip is Pintsize. It would be totally OOC for him not to say or do some sort of well-meaning but totally inappropriate thing when he finds out. Like I could totally see him getting Marten and Claire matching friendship-bracelets, and then when they are both horrified, ask if he picked out the wrong sizes.
Global Moderator Comment I could def. see P-size giving them friendship bracelets but maybe Jeph would think twice about writing it.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 05 Feb 2015, 07:41 ---I'm of the opinion that the "click" of the door locking in panel 4 is a sign that we will never, ever be told what went on inside that bedroom. Did they or didn't they? It's Schroedinger's Bedroom; they both did and didn't.
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Exactly. The point of that "click" is that what they do and how they do it (if at all) is no one's business. I see it as in the same vein as the sticky post about not being nosy about people's private parts.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: eschaton on 05 Feb 2015, 12:20 ---The problem with the whole "not discussing graphic sexual things" regarding Claire within the strip is Pintsize. It would be totally OOC for him not to say or do some sort of well-meaning but totally inappropriate thing when he finds out. Like I could totally see him getting Marten and Claire matching friendship-bracelets and then when they are both horrified, ask if he picked out the wrong sizes.
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Well, I suppose that could be a possible reason Marten apparently hasn't rebooted Pintsize yet...
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