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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
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--- Quote from: oddtail on 20 May 2016, 01:28 ---Yeah, what iwdy said.
OK, I guess it's only semi-related to the comic, but I'll ask.
This might be my general weirdness, but I am always utterly baffled by the reaction, which seems to happen both in fiction and as a reaction of fans of fiction. The idea that seeing/thinking/talking about parents having sex is extremely uncomfortable. The phrase "brain bleach" is used more often than not.
I mean, I understand the part that we are wired not to be attracted to our parents. Therefore, the idea of a parent having sex is not, well, sexy to us ourselves. But at the same time, I don't understand why I would be particularly weirded out by the fact that my parents have had sex. I'm kinda a key piece of evidence that it had to have happened at some point =P no, I do not think about it actively and the thought would probably be somewhat awkward, and granted, I've never walked in on my parents having sex or anything. But I don't think I would be particularly traumatized by this. Probably not as a child and certainly not as a teenager/adult.
In this case, it's not even the reaction Clinton is having. His response makes perfect sense to me. But the ubiquity of "eww eww eww parents HAVING SEX" is utterly incomprehensible to me.
I mean, isn't it kind of narrow-minded to be weirded out by something just because it is not appealing to us on a personal level? The "parents having sex" reaction, despite it clearly being a different reason, kinda reminds me of people who seem to be homophobic mainly because they don't personally enjoy the thought of same-sex couples doin' it*. With, in some cases, a measure of ageism thrown in, due to one's parents' relative age?
Again, personal sexy thoughts and aesthetic appeal aside, I'm not sure why parents/family being sexually active would be a reason to freak out to any large extent. Is it because people don't think of their own parents (or other close family) as persons with a sex drive? Is it because we're supposed to react this way for some reason?
Help me out here, people.
* So I find the phrase "doin' it" amusing. So sue me.
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It's cultural and crops both geographically and timewise.
North Americans seem to be fixated on the idea that sex is disgusting, old people are disgusting, mothers are sacred untouchable pure beings and mothers having sex is dirty because it takes them from the position of "mommy" to the position of woman. In countries where sex isn't so associated with religion the "ew" factor is lessened. The general attitude is "eh, whatever, they're married, of course they fuck" when you walk on your parents having sex. The talk is usually about privacy and respect (knock before you enter, what we do in our room is none of the outside world business etc).
There's also a psychological component at work here: little boys idolize their mothers. They are pure and perfect and unblemished and smart and beautiful. It's the oedipal complex. They must deal with the father figure that shows the other side of the mother, that of the girlfriend and the lover, the woman. Normally when a guy reaches puberty he takes these ideal images and projects on his first loves, and learns to adjust the idealization and become a good boyfriend/lover. In romantic and byronic times you have the loved woman as untouched and to have sex with her as corrupting and violating this perfection.
Again, this is rarer where sex is less taboo. I particularly think that the American attitude of "eeeeeeew sex" feels like a teenager stuff that people that already have an adult life should have surpassed long ago. Seems very manchild to me.
brasca:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 20 May 2016, 02:46 ---Remember, folks, this is finding this out on the same day he got rejected himself.
Damn.
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Exactly. And I totally sympathize with Clinton's earlier outburst with Claire. I don't begrudge the people who have someone in their lives when I don't, but I get really irritated when they prod me about doing something about it.
Case:
--- Quote from: heyjames4 on 19 May 2016, 18:01 ---I love love love the head canon cannon image. Where's it from?
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Hey, person-I-assume-to-be-a-new-forumite!
You can easily get the URL of any pic you encounter-here-and-just-must-have! by opening the post in the "quote"-environment (leftmost of the 3 buttons on the right upper rim of the post-window), which gives you smth. like:
[*quote author=Zastie link=topic=33364.msg1355158#msg1355158 date=1463640093]
blablabla ...
[*img width=200]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx1auhue2M1qbcwmwo1_500.png[/img]
blablabla ...
[*quote]
Voila - there's the URL of your headcan(n)on ...
If you in turn want to have a pic in your posts, you can copy/paste that line in the middle (remove the "*"'s), paste in the URL of your pic, and adjust the width.
I took the headcannon image from a google-image-search for "Headcannon", like so ...
There's also a nice strip by Randall "xkcd" Munroe
Cheers!
Random832:
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 19 May 2016, 22:39 ---
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 19 May 2016, 18:18 ---Jeph may spell it 'Brun', but what Brünnhilde is saying is 'Brün'. Clinton would have no trouble with 'Brun'.
Instead he tries to make it 'Broon'.
My headcanĝn anyway.
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Maybe, but Brün and Broon are pretty distant sounds. Wouldn't Clinton have pronounced it "Brin"or something in that case?
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I think Perfectly Reasonable is assuming that "Brun" = "u as in cut" and "Brün" = "u as in flute", rather than referring to the proper German ü sound.
(Wouldn't it be so much easier if we all used IPA? /ʌ/, /u:/, and /y:/ respectively. Probably the "Broon" was intended to mean he pronounced /u:/, but the proper German vowel was /ʊ/... or, since the symbols only have so much precision, an English /u:/ isn't precisely the same as a German /u:/, it could have been a hair too long or with a close glide at the end [sometimes written /ʊw/] or something)
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Case on 20 May 2016, 09:12 ---
--- Quote from: heyjames4 on 19 May 2016, 18:01 ---I love love love the head canon cannon image. Where's it from?
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headcannon/canon stiff I clipped
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I always liked DSL's pic for that. I'm pretty sure it's his own work.
Actually, it's snot the one I thought it was. He had another I liked better.
Oh, well...
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