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WCDT Strips 3181 to 3185 (21 to 25 March 2016)
jaquio:
Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: jaquio on 25 Mar 2016, 08:34 ---staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer
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She wasn't - she was addressing Pintsize directly, and we were looking over the top of his head. Her eyes were not looking at us.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: jaquio on 25 Mar 2016, 08:34 ---Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
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It's been a very special week. I'm now forced to use the men's room in NC.
--- Quote ---North Carolina lawmakers must have recognized that careful scrutiny of the bill would have doomed it. They convened a special session on Wednesday — which cost taxpayers $42,000 — to ram the bill through. The House allowed for 30 minutes of public debate, limiting speakers to two minutes.
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And the Governor signed it that night.
I'm not the only woman born in the UK to have this problem.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3370261/Mother-five-accidentally-registered-boy-birth-reveals-s-spent-150-000-trying-mistake-corrected-hasn-t-managed-it.html
While aimed at LGBT people, it mainly affects Intersex ones, and those born in TN and other jurisdictions where birth certificate corrections can't happen. Only a handful of us, but far, far more than all the examples of the "danger" this law ostensibly seeks to avoid that have ever occurred in the entire history of the USA. It literally says that "biological sex" is defined by marks on a piece of paper.
So while it would be nice to be able to forget the frothing at the mouth animus shown by legislators, or at least have the issue brought up in an aesthetically pleasing manner rather than overtly, there are actual. overt not aesthetic consequences here we can't ignore. Including the increased incidence of fatalities amongst children.
--- Quote ---Transgender and gender non-conforming people frequently experience discrimination, harassment, and marginalization across college and university campuses (Bilodeau, 2007; Finger, 2010; Rankin, et al., 2010; Seelman et al., 2012). The minority stress model (Meyer, 2007) posits that experiences of discrimination often negatively impact the psychological well-being of minority groups. However, few scholars have examined whether college institutional climate factors—such as being denied access to bathrooms or gender-appropriate campus housing—are significantly associated with detrimental psychological outcomes for transgender people. Using the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, this study analyzes whether being denied access to these spaces is associated with lifetime suicide attempts, after controlling for interpersonal victimization by students or teachers. Findings from sequential logistic regression (N = 2,316) indicate that denial of access to either space had a significant relationship to suicidality, even after controlling for interpersonal victimization. This paper discusses implications for higher education professionals and researchers.
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918369.2016.1157998?journalCode=wjhm20
However, such discussion more properly belongs on the appropriate thread in the "serious discussion" group. It's only on very, very special occasions that the exception is... only human.
USS Martenclaire:
I think today's comic is a very positive one. If even a being as degenerate, evil and f***ed up as Pintsize can figure out how empathy and understanding work, maybe humans can as well. ^^
sitnspin:
Sadly, Pintsize is fictional. Fictional characters are capable of anything. Real people are less so.
I still hold out hope, tenuous as it may be.
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