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WCDT 2932-2936 (6th to 10th April 2015)

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valkygrrl:
Claire: How did the date go?
Emily: No matter what I talked about Clin-ton turned it around to be about himself. I mentioned hair and he just _had_ to have a haircut. Tattoos, he had to have a tattoo, everything had to be about him. He's so self-centered!
Claire: I'm sorry, I guess insecure guys can sometimes...
Emily: I have cat pictures on my phone.
Claire: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Rghfrgl:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Apr 2015, 23:34 ---Also... I wonder if Emily will get a matching tattoo or if she'll get one that matches her personality, like a butterfly?

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The next workday we join Claire in the library talking to Tai..

"It took me months, but I finally got the courage to get this cute little heart tattoo on my shoulder!"
*Emily walks in with a full body dragon tattoo*

Sullivan:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Apr 2015, 21:55 ---It's the week for painful webcomic reading. Gunnerkrigg Court has been hurting even more than this arc.

The expression on Emily's face is cute but more than a little alarming.

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Indeed. In the haircut strip she looked concerned. "Getting a haircut is not something you do on a date. I didn't mean to... uh..." But in the tattoo parlor... getting a tattoo IS something one might do on a date, and she's clearly happy. It's not just her smile, it's also her body language - she's leaning into it.

Maybe it's just that she loves tattoos. It's certainly partly that.

But maybe it's "Clinnntonn will do anything I want! Muahahahahah!"

Let's take inventory:

* Haircut - accounted for
* Tattoo - accounted for
* Puke on shirt
* Loss of bow tie
* Loss of suspenders
* Boots with reinforced toes
* Rolled-up pants to accommodate boots (probably not new pants - if he'd gotten new pants he'd have gotten boot cut)
* Black eyeMaybe they went to "Purgatory", that burger joint in Real Genius.

Somehow I doubt this story will be completely told by the end of this week. Just a feeling.

Gnomeybum:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 09 Apr 2015, 07:01 ---
--- Quote from: Gnomeybum on 09 Apr 2015, 05:44 ---A little bit of an aside from the comic, though still relating to Emily, I think I am correct in thinking that she is of Japanese descent, yes? I THINK it has been explicitly stated, but otherwise I am basing that on the surname Azuma as well as the heavy mix of Sakaki/Osaka influences in her character.

So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.

Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time'  kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!

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The point was that she would look good in any of those. I'd be strongly opposed to anyone saying she shouldn't be allowed to wear something because she isn't of the "proper" ethnicity.

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I mean, I think there is an element of wilful misunderstanding going on here.

For starters, I think that it's no coincidence that no one was talking about how great she would look in lederhosen (though I think that we really should be, coz, wow). There is a selection there of a handful of cultures there that are frequently mixed or confused, which can be a sore point; as someone of Afghan descent, people often lump my ethnicity in with Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, etc, and it is not maliciously done but it can feel quite dismissive - I mean, we're all a bit brown, right? What's the difference? You can see how someone could find that offensive, even if understanding that it is not done with ill will, something I never suggested.

As for the idea of being able to wear something if you aren't the 'proper' culture? I have no intention of getting into the discussion of cultural appropriation, because that is not what I was talking about in the first place, and because it can be a very grey area and I feel ill suited to be the pioneer of that particular topic. However, I do think it is a very worthy topic of discussion in general.

Tl;dr, I am not suggesting that it was done maliciously, or that anyone would even be offended by it in the first place, and I am certainly not calling out the people who said it, but I think it is always wise to consider the implications of our own assumptions or comments.

retrosteve:

--- Quote from: Zog on 07 Apr 2015, 00:54 ---Smart and crazy is a hard combination to resist, add pretty and I can definitely see how it could jam his circuitry.

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Definitely. Dunno about y'all, but Emily, if she were real, would be my type for sure. I've been mystified from the start about why Marten isn't interested in her!

And if I were 21 and on a date with Emily, I'd probably do about as well as Clinton's doing.

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