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WCDT Strips 3206 to 3210 (25 to 29 April 2016)
Roxtar:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Apr 2016, 19:39 ---That's a spectacular reaction to a routine rejection. I wonder what's going on in his head or in his history to account for it.
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do you have a sibling with a propensity for meddling?
it gets really old, really fast. My sister tried to engineer encounters for me with numerous of her friends who were clearly not my type (no similar interests, vastly different lifestyles) and it got to the point where I'd just stop going to the parties she'd plan because I didn't want to be prodded into interactions with people I had nothing in common with other than we were both single. It's really irritating when your sibling constantly thinks they know what is best for you and manipulates you into doing things.
mad hands murphy:
SAVAGE
swapna:
--- Quote from: brightwings00 on 26 Apr 2016, 19:20 ---Hoo boy.
Claire, your assigned reading for the week is Emma by Jane Austen. Clinton, your homework is a major slap upside the head.
(Also, "asshole"? I've never heard guys use that against girls--is Clinton misgendering her?)
Now someone give me a banana smoothie.
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Good assignment for Claire, but I think Clinton's not wrong. Yeah, he could have said it nicer, but Claire's behaviour is annoyingly patronizing and manipulative. She didn't leave him any choice or a way out, said that he'd wanted to ask Emily out for months in front of her after dragging him into the CoD. They do studies together, he could have asked her whenever he wanted, it's not as if he didn't see her for months. (Also, note that he's not blaming Emily - she had to shoot him down in public.)
(also, asshole is gender-neutral! Although you are right, I've only heard of girls behaving 'like an asshole'. It's a more precise insult than most that come to mind, though, and I think a gendered (female) insult would be worse. Jackass would work, but that sounds male to my ears as well).
Also, as an older sister with a younger brother - how does she even think this could be a good idea? Or is this sitcom-logic, I can't tell.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: brightwings00 on 26 Apr 2016, 19:20 ---(Also, "asshole"? I've never heard guys use that against girls--is Clinton misgendering her?)
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I personally use it, because it's applicable (women have assholes too), and it's far less gendered than "bitch" or other epithets. (Yes, it has male connotations from society's use of it, but that's mainly due to "bitch" being used for women, and there's "prick" for a gendered epithet against men.)
However, that doesn't mean that Clinton's not misgendering her. He doesn't seem to have the level of awareness that would make him specifically avoid "bitch" as the automatic epithet to use against a woman...
And, I do agree that Claire really did do a bad job of this, in a way that was disrespectful to both Clinton and Emily. But, Clinton is being quite an asshole himself. They're both in the wrong.
Edit: Also, "jack-ass" actually is gendered. It literally means "male donkey". "She-ass", however, would be the female version (now outdated, "jenny" is the preferred term for female donkeys).
creatureshock:
--- Quote from: brightwings00 on 26 Apr 2016, 19:20 ---(Also, "asshole"? I've never heard guys use that against girls--is Clinton misgendering her?)
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Maybe if he called her a dick he was. Even then, it's an insult. Wasn't meant to be nice.
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