Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
aphanisis81:
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--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 18 Feb 2015, 22:14 ---The Andrea James link called it rarely used.
There's an easy way to settle it though. Find some people who were members of that community back then and ask. Given the number of trans people on the forum there must be a few, non?
Zoe?
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Not me. I'm still not a member of a "trans community" even if one exists here. Never have been.
The first reference to Zissexualismus is from 1919 I believe, so is roughly contemporary with Transsexual. Neither word was in common use until later, but Transsexual came into common parlance long before Cissexual. I'd not heard the latter term 10 years ago, but it was as obvious in both derivation and need for a term as Intrasex is, as the opposite of Intersex.
"Intrasex" is rarely used too. Heck, many people still haven't heard of "Intersex".
Cisvestitismus was used even earlier, 1914. It's sorta obvious.
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I seem to recall first coming across the term "intersex" in a Judith Butler book. Butler being notoriously difficult, I didn't fully understand the concept. I've never heard of intrasex. Can anyone define?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 20 Feb 2015, 05:35 ---Eh, regarding the Dora thing, I was more thinking a bit of short verbal sparring that's resolved a strip or two later more than world-shaking drama. The word was "rude" not "bridges burning in the distance".
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This is Dora we're talking about. She doesn't do 'limited'; of late the nuclear option has been her only option. That said, I could see her treating it as a joke and offending Marten because of that.
Regarding the 'accidental outing', I think that too many people seemed to think that CM_Albion's suggestion is the only way to do it. My idea was something like this: Tai is teasing Claire about wearing Marten's shirt (clinched at the back with safety pins so it doesn't hang off of her). Emily gets excited and, in an unguarded moment (possibly even thinking that she's defending Claire) blurts out that, of course Claire can wear boy's clothes; didn't she used to be a boy? There is a horrified dialogue-free box of Claire, Tai and Marten staring in shock at a deer-in-the-headlights Emily. Then Tai says: "Yeah, I worked that out for myself but it isn't the sort of thing you should just blurt out in public you know, Ms Azuma." The last panel is Emily running off, tears streaming down her cheeks.
The focus actually would be Emily and why she is how she is; Claire would go to find her because she's actually worried about what Emily might do thinking that it would make things 'better'. Then then have a reconciliation which is similar in some ways to the scene when Claire comes out to Emily and in which we learn more of Emily's back-story. It would run parallel in Marten getting clarification from Tai about how she knew (that only needs to be a single strip). At the end of the sequence, Claire tells Emily that she's like the baby sister she's always wanted but never had and it's impossible for her to stay mad at her. Emily has the last word by saying something cute but otherworldly about families.
Off topic: I've just been over to the Subreddit. There is a long thread criticising Jeph for dissing them on Twitter and they're basically saying saying that he owes them. In fact, some are so angry that they're swearing off of QC because they can't tolerate the artist not liking their opinions. One or two are even trying to work out if a Subreddit-group boycott of QC would ruin Jeph and thus punish him for his disrespect. There was also the usual spiel about the strip having become boring.
Additionally, according to at least two posters, these forums are a moderator-heavy place dominated by sycophants where no seriously discussion of Claireten or the character of Claire is permitted. I actually consider that quite funny.
Neko_Ali:
I don't see Dora freaking out about Marten dating Claire because of those girl-with-a-penis comments. A) that was a long time ago. B) Dora knew even then that it was a crazy fear because of her insecurities over relationships. C) Dora knows what the breakup was about... her insecurities over relationships. D) Dora has a girlfriend now who she has shown nothing but happiness with and is in general more calm about her relationship fears these days. And finally E) She's been actively trying to push Marten back into the dating pool again of late.
aphanisis81:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 19 Feb 2015, 21:09 ---
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 19 Feb 2015, 21:08 ---are these new backgrounds?
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New angles on these, probably.
Edit: And panel 1 shows up in the last panel of 2366.
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Now and then, Jeph will do a background that is not just modeled on but practically a google street view of downtown Northampton, which is always surreal to me. The best example of this that I can recall is the one where Angus gets SCORNED!!!. Dune-style. It happens on a clearly identifiable side street near the local townie pub and the best music venue in town (Iron Horse).
There's one that's clearly right at the intersection of King St. & Main, too, but I can't remember which arc it happens in. Possibly when Tai gets her junk pierced.
Stoutfellow:
Why is howling along with wolves any weirder than singing along with people? (I occasionally howl at my dogs to see - and hear - their reactions....)
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