Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
Tova:
This reminded me of a scene from a film...
Clementine: You're not a stalker, or anything, right?
Joel: I'm not a stalker. YOU'RE the one that talked to me, remember?
Clementine: That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
Joel: Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.
Tova:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 18 May 2016, 01:18 ---Maybe; but perhaps each time such a change is made, the degradation might be a little slower to happen, as a few more people get the point. But that won't happen at all unless we try, right?
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Isn't the intent and meaning behind the words the point, rather than the use of a euphamistic word with an identical meaning? And if so, how will the practice of adopting more euphamistic language result in more people getting it?
Are you sure that you are not promoting the politician's syllogism here? ("Something must be done; this is something; therefore, we must do it")
Is it possible that the euphamism treadmill (which Baphomet was describing) does harm rather than good?
Wildroses:
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 18 May 2016, 00:27 ---I like Brun better for each strip she appears in. And I don't agree at all that she is anything like Faye - she seems a completely different animal to me. I'm amazed at Jeph's ability to write (and draw) interesting female characters.
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I was one of the earliest persons comparing Brun to Faye in Brun's first few strips. Initially it was because both worked in the hospitality industry and thought it was perfectly acceptable to insult and casually threaten the patrons of your beverages. Then it was because both had their houses burn down.
And that's basically it. The sole two things they have it common.
But the more strips she appears in, the more it becomes obvious she and Faye are quite different characters with different reactions and motivations, so I will no longer be making such statements. I don't remember any occasions off the top of my head that Faye ever tried to make it up to a patron she pissed off the way Brun did. Now I've said that people with better knowledge of archives than I will probably post strips proving me wrong there.
I hope Claire isn't sitting at home freaking out because Clinton hasn't come home so he must still be mad after all *sob*
J:
--- Quote from: emsilly on 18 May 2016, 02:09 ---Saying an autistic person has severe psychological issues seems a bit like describing a white person as having a pigmentation defect.
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it seems to me that a more apt comparison would be saying that a person with albinism has a pigmentation defect. or that a person with deafness has a sensory deficit.
Tova:
As someone with partial deafness, I would cringe if anyone ever used a term llike 'sensory deficit' anywhere near me.
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