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WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
Akima:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 Mar 2017, 23:39 ---As I recall, Akima's forum name and avatar are is taken from the character Akima Kunimoto, a spaceship pilot in the 2000 American animated film Titan AE. The character is voiced by Drew Barrymore. As the name suggests, the character is Japanese, and so the pronunciation should be something like ah-kee-mah with no predominant stress on any syllable.
(Correction - I think her avatar is Dana Tan from the Batman Beyond series.)
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All exactly correct, and Dana Tan makes a reasonable "cartoon me". Ellen Yin from The Batman would be another possibility. I'm seeing a common thread here...
--- Quote from: 94ssd on 31 Mar 2017, 21:13 ---Tai appears to be missing her POW tattoo?
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I'm not sure it would be visible from our "camera angle" as she's climbing Bubbles, but it wouldn't be the first time that tattoo slipped through the art-net. Tai does seem to have lost her glasses though. Contact lenses? Radial keratotomy? Enquiring minds want to know!
BenRG:
Official Poll Results Post!
So, Now What?
1. Brun attempts to 'help' Renee in her relationship with Elliott (and with people in general) - 21 (27.6%)
2. Bubbles angst over whether she's "hiding" behind her armour - 13 (17.1%)
3. Just why did Bubbles have bed-head in Strip 3444? - 10 (13.2%)
=4. Clinton learns that he is a straight man in this particular romantic comedy - 9 (11.8%)
=4. Hannelore and Emily's Ordinary Day At Work (as if such a thing ever happens) - 9 (11.8%)
6. May's next probation hearing is due and she calls Momo as a character witness (!) - 6 (7.9%)
=7. Marten tries to get Claire to relax by taking her out on a dinner date; it couldn't be more stressful! - 3 (3.9%)
=7. Sam is still sick so Marigold has to take over her YouTube channel for a few nights - 3 (3.9%)
9. Pintsize pours out his troubled heart at the next support group meeting (much to everyone else's distress) - 2 (2.6%)
x. Dora and Sven have to stage an intervention when their parents are arrested for DUI - 0 (0%)
x. Other (specify in thread) - 0 (0%)
The big news is... Every option was wrong! :D That aside, I suspect that this poll reveals that, whilst Brun and Renee generate pretty strong negative feelings in some fans, others really do enjoy their double act.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 01 Apr 2017, 06:26 ---IS Faye straight? For some reason I thought she was heterflexible/bi?
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Kinsey 1 or 2?
If memory serves, Kinsey 1s make up the largest percentage of the global population (~50%), with Kinsey 0s coming in second (20%~25%).
Method of Madness:
Are there really that many Kinsey 0s? I find that to be incredibly unlikely.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Apr 2017, 05:05 ---Are there really that many Kinsey 0s? I find that to be incredibly unlikely.
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I think most people like to simplify things for themselves. "gay" and "straight" are simpler than the Kinsey scale. And there's also the fact that in a largely heteronormative society, people may not even conceive of being anything other than straight if they are in the "1" area. Which I guess would influence both their responses regarding their self-identification, and any research done on how the human population splits on the scale.
Or to put it another way - I think most people who are borderline 1 will register as 0s, both for self-identification and purposes of research.
Personal anecdote time, because it relates to the topic - I'm pretty much heterosexual. On the Kinsey scale, I think I oscillate somewhere around 1. Sometimes I think I'm closer to 0, sometimes - that I'm closer to 2. But, in practical terms, I'm pretty much straight and pretty much cis.
The only reason I think of myself as bi is that I'm a furry. To avoid TMI-ing anyone, I'll just say that with (mostly online) interactions with furries, I've been less straight than I normally am. I've had same-sex crushes, at the very least. There's also the fact that furs tend to be more open about sexuality, so that invites questioning phases in one's life.
And I'm not a rare exception. I've met MANY men (surprisingly many) who say that they are pretty much 100% straight in their everyday life, even after being introduced to the furry fandom, but somehow lean strongly towards bisexual "as" furries. Those people are very obviously 1s, sometimes 2s on the Kinsey scale. But if they hadn't been exposed to a certain community, they'd act, think and self-identify as pretty much 0s.
I don't know how it is with people who are not into weird hobbies/subcultures, but I'd imagine most people who are 1s will never indicate in any measurable way that they are. They will just default to 0s.
Personally, I think there are *very* few people who are actually 0s or 6s on the Kinsey scale, but they will be overrepresented in any measures taken to count them. Because that's how we work as humans.
EDIT: when I was typing up this post, my wife pointed out that the Kinsey scale is very... vague. To quote her "if a woman is straight but sometimes looks at another woman and goes 'niiiiiice legs', is she a 0 or a 1? It's hard to tell".
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