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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)
flondrix:
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Jeph has long established that AI's have definite gender identities. And I would assume that a female AI in a male chassis would have the same body dysphoria as a trans person.
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When?
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The issue was first brought up in comics 346 and 347. As someone pointed out, the AIs we have seen replace their chassis have continued to "present" as the same gender.
Case:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 13 Jul 2017, 08:20 ---
--- Quote ---BUt that's because you live in a rather strange hyper sexualised and affluent society.
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It has nothing to do with the comic, but I feel the need to rant about this. Which societies are not hypersexualized in your reckoning? The ones where girls are married off at 13? The ones where women are stoned to death for showing an uncovered ankle? The ones where used panties can be purchased out of vending machines? The ones where where women are routinely raped on public transit? Yeah, I get that people in poor and/or crowded countries share bedrooms and even beds. But I don't see how you can claim that Americans are any more obsessed with sex than people everywhere else.
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Then and again, basing one's argument on contrasting America with Pakistan et. al. burdens it with the weakness that the 'World outside the US' TM contains a few places that are not Pakistan. ('false dilemma')
But since I'm a denizen of the "world outside the US", you'll have to take my word for it, I'm afeared ...
(Incidentally, Pakistan is the global record-holder in the discipline of leeching pron ...) <- Not true
TinPenguin:
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--- Quote from: flondrix on 13 Jul 2017, 06:02 ---Put another way, if I saw Wonder Woman walk out of Black Widow's bedroom in the morning, I would leap to the same conclusions that Clinton did
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BUt that's because you live in a rather strange hyper sexualised and affluent society.
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It has nothing to do with the comic, but I feel the need to rant about this. Which societies are not hypersexualized in your reckoning?
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Using an adjective to describe a noun does not necessarily imply an opposite version of the noun exists.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 13 Jul 2017, 08:20 ---The ones where girls are married off at 13? The ones where women are stoned to death for showing an uncovered ankle? The ones where used panties can be purchased out of vending machines? The ones where where women are routinely raped on public transit?
Yeah, I get that people in poor and/or crowded countries share bedrooms and even beds. But I don't see how you can claim that Americans are any more obsessed with sex than people everywhere else.
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JimC:
I'm not at all sure that an obsession with sex is at all the same sort of thing as hyper sexualisation of society, but never mind. If you go back to my post though, its really relating to changes in my lifetime within the society I live in, which does not appear to me to be at all the sort of thing you are ranting about. Perhaps as good an example as any of those changes is that where I live 50 years ago sex with a 15 year old girl and a 16 year old boy were both equally illegal, and by and large both regarded as equally OK, if slightly creepy, by the liberal factions who felt society needed changing. Nowadays around here the first is regarded as a far greater evil than it ever was back then, and the second is not illegal at all. And to add to that today's society is currently engaged in aggressively seeking out and punishing those who were *not caught* engaging in the former, and in delivering legal pardons for those who *were caught* engaging in the latter. I have absolutely no idea what society will consider right and wrong in 50 years, and have no intention of being here to see it, but I think it almost certain that those of you who will be there will find some equally odd changes in attitudes.
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