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WCDT Strips 3536 to 3540 (31st July to 4th August 2017)
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 31 Jul 2017, 08:12 ---That said, I wonder if Claire will try to dissuade Renee from this, considering what happened the last time Claire tried to play matchmaker and it blew up in her face.
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Did it? I think he gained a good bit of confidence from his experience with Emily, even if she wasn't ultimately interested in dating.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 31 Jul 2017, 16:19 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 31 Jul 2017, 08:12 ---That said, I wonder if Claire will try to dissuade Renee from this, considering what happened the last time Claire tried to play matchmaker and it blew up in her face.
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Did it? I think he gained a good bit of confidence from his experience with Emily, even if she wasn't ultimately interested in dating.
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From the perspective that Claire put two people in a very awkward position and then got chewed out by her brother for doing so and called out for trying to control his life, I would say it did blow up in her face. The Augustus siblings might be close, but no one wants their sister pulling that kind of crap on them.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: ChipNoir on 31 Jul 2017, 04:44 ---I've been relating to Marten for a long time now, and actually appreciate him as an example...of, well, bi I'm not so certain is quite the right term. Like someone said before, bisexual males are REALLY rare, and are usually portrayed as more pansexual than bisexual (I'm looking at you Dorian Grey of Penny Dreadful, you horny asshole). So I had a big problem with identifying as bisexual, since I felt like that was an image that confused and kinda scared me.
Ever since I spent a lot more time with a larger variety of personality types, I've accepted that I'm less gay so much as very attracted to personality and physical attributes that are 'traditionally' associated with masculinity; Short hair, muscles, jocular personality, aggressive confidence (Not always a good thing, but attractive none-the-less) etc etc, stuff that my younger self very much associated with men. As I've gotten older, I've realized that these are all attractive features a woman can have, and that if it came down to it, that's all I really care about in a partner. At this point I could probably easily have a relationship with either sex/gender, as long as I felt those personality traits and identifiers were there. In the last few years Claire has also made me realize that yeah, I could fall in love with a transgender, and very happy with him.
So Martin is kinda on the flipside of my own tastes: He has no problem with the anatomy, so much as what the identification is. Claire identifies as female, and that's what makes her attractive to Marten, as opposed to a gay/bi guy that at the end of the day still identifies as the guy, and whatever spectrum of masculinity he might be placed on.
Of course having just been sandwiched by two different sexes at a dance club in this recent week has definetly further changed my openness to experimentation.
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I have no personal frame of reference to work from, but increasingly it appears that any system that attempts to codify sexuality into a discrete set of terms with simple descriptors is doomed to be insufficient.
ChipNoir:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 31 Jul 2017, 13:42 ---It always seemed to me that May was possibly bi? Maybe I'm off. She doesn't strike me as asexual in the slightest.
Clinton is straight, I'm pretty sure, which is going to cause a very awkward situation for Elliot if Renee doesn't keep her mouth shut. Never heard anything about Renee being bi. Weird that I didn't notice and I've read this comic for six years.
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The way Renee treated Brun earlier gave me a strong impression of someone that is in love with someone, and thinks if they smother them in affection, they'll almost submit to it, and that' a kinda toxic behavior I hate. Thankfully that's eased off a bit.
But yeah, I think Elliot is gonna stop Renee in her tracks, and leave it at that.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 31 Jul 2017, 13:42 ---Never heard anything about Renee being bi. Weird that I didn't notice and I've read this comic for six years.
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I mean Renee's only been a recurring character fairly recently, and we only know she's bi because of that one Tinder comic.
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