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WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
wlewisiii:
Names. I tend to confuse people by prefering William over Bill but my Grandpa was Bill Jr and there were at least 4 Bills in my class in high school. Eventually I just did it to make myself be more "me".
As for what other people call me, so long as it is fit for polite company I don't mind. But if someone tried to give me a nickname like the kind that former President Bush the Lesser used for his friends, I'd not respond.
As for Tai, I remember once reading a book on climbing and one of the FAQ's in it was "Do I have to be in great shape to start climbing" and the answer was "Don't worry about it, if you climb you _will_ get in shape. "
A small perverse otter:
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--- Quote from: Buggman on 30 Mar 2017, 14:21 ---Btw, help me out here: Why is mis-sexualizing a straight person (as Dora is clearly doing to Faye) NOT a horrible faux pas? Faye has never demonstrated the least interest in the ladies, and Dora knows it.
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I think it's a subtle poke by Jeph at the Faye/Bubbles shippers.
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IRL? Almost certainly so. I certainly got a chuckle about the harassment, and even more by Faye's "What? No!" response.
In the QC world, though, I think that the original poster is right is that Dora should be a little embarrassed for telling the joke.
First, mis-gendering/mis-sexualizing a cis-het can honestly cheapen the very real risk that non-conforming people face every day. Faye is perfectly safe as long as everybody thinks she's straight, but the "joke" is horrific to people who are afraid of being "Matt Sheparded" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard for reference. Shepard was kidnapped and murdered in a "safe college town", remember: a place very like Northampton).
And, before you point out that Dora is in a lesbian relationship, that's no excuse. Dora passes, but not everyone can. Hell, Tai can't pass! Dora should know better.
And this completely ignores the question of whether Bubbles finds the "joke" funny. We have no idea what sexuality even means to her. It certainly might not be funny to some humans -- why can Dora blithely assume that an AI won't be offended? She's treating Bubbles as a machine, not a person. No matter what else may or may not be true, *that* joke isn't funny in the QC world.
War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 31 Mar 2017, 07:05 ---My name is Alison. I often shorten it to Ali. People decide that's to long and shorten it to Al. :meh:
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I have a hypothesis that people are anti-end vowel. My name is short, usually misspelled, and people like to stick an r, s, or both at the end. My boss even did it.
This strip warms the cockles of my heart.
Kugai:
Certainly gives a new meaning to Mount Bubbles ;D
jwhouk:
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--- Quote from: blt on 30 Mar 2017, 10:08 ---My name is mispronounced so often that there are times where I'll just give up and let it go if it's close enough. Most of the time it's not worth the effort.
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I don't expect English-speaking people to pronounce my name correctly (that is, as a Chinese-speaker would), but it is tiresome when they can't manage the close-approximation-in-normal-English-sounds that I use myself, and insist on using German or French pronunciations that are alien to both Chinese and English.
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As I have a last name that is butchered regularly, I usually ask someone how they pronounce their name, then call them that (as best I can, of course).
And I would pronounce it "Ah-KEE-mah", as I read it right now...
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