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WCDT 3621 to 3625 (27th November to 1st December 2017)

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Zemyla:
To be honest, I think Beatrice is being a lot more deliberate about this than most people think. This could be a sort of trial by fire for both Hannelore and Tilly. Can Hannelore handle having responsibility over someone without freaking out and retreating to her room (like she used to when she was a teenager)? Can Tilly cope with being thrown head-first into a situation with inaccurate information and no way to back out of it without severe loss of face?

On the dossier's accuracy, I'm somewhere between "it was compiled from old and incomplete information" and "it was made wrong deliberately as a test". I assume Hannelore's mom remembered them, and called them "Taffy" deliberately.

As for the reason? Well, I assume she has a favored right-hand minion who can be trusted with both dirty work and (some) secrets, so she wants her daughter to have a minion as well. Plus, it's good practice for when Hannelore eventually has to take over for her mom. Plus, Tilly's cheeriness probably grates on her nerves and she feels Hanners and her friends can handle them better.

Bleeds_Daylight:

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--- Quote from: anahata on 30 Nov 2017, 00:35 ---I'm amused by the way so many  posters on this forum were deliberately calling Tilly Taffy while knowing that wasn't their correct name, but have uniformly jumped into line when told to use gender-neutral pronouns.
Is that more important than getting somebody's name right?

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I'll leave that question to the gender-variant people here but I'm prepared to believe a "yes" answer.

Think about the relative abjectness of the apologies you make when you misgender someone versus getting their name wrong.

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Names don't have connotation, at least not first names. It's apart of the identity, but you can't look at a Tilly and project anything from that except perhaps maybe that their parents really liked 1980-1990's NYC type names. And even that doesn't tell you about the person.

Gender projects A LOT. I don't think I need to go into it, but there's a reason transgender and non binary people exist. We project a lot into other and ourselves based on the pronoun used. People prefer to have as few wrong things assumed about them within that brief first impression as is possible.

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I think I'm probably an NB outlier but I am constantly being driven up the wall by people getting my name wrong (because they bizarrely assume it must be a different name because of my ethnicity... Even when I spell it out they write it down wrong...  Think about the Simpsons in Australia episode with "coffee" and "beer").  My name is gender neutral in English but an alternate spelling of it in English is the exact same (but pronounced totally different) as a clearly male name in French... So people call me by that different male name all the time, assuming I'm using some backwards logic translated pronunciation.  Names do carry connotations because they reflect cultural and ethic identity and in my case, that's what people screw up and dismiss all the time.

Meanwhile, I am indifferent about my gendered pronouns mostly.  He or she, tomayto/tomahto.  Not keen on they because of the more common plural meaning.  Just one of me.  Probably because of my own flexible pronoun preferences, I don't happen to get rubbed the wrong way about it like I do with the name thing.  Never had anyone be a jerk about it before.

Tova:
I have a name with an unusual spelling, so it is prone to misspelling.

I also have a high voice, so people sometimes mistake me as female over the phone (which can be a real problem when trying to establish that you are who you say you are).

I find the latter more annoying, but maybe because that is rarer.

On a different topic: is a comic with an annoying character a bad comic?

Bonus points for including Star Trek in your answer. ;)

Timemaster:
New comic. Tilly still trying to be helpful. Oh god, they're so hilarious, I love them.
And even if I'm the only one here who thinks so, I'm so grateful Jeph introduced them. This arc is the most fun I had with QC in a long time. This is comedy gold!  :laugh:

In a good mood:
Timemaster

EDIT:
Trying to get used to the "them". Feels weird first, languagewise, but is easier than I thought. I'll try to stick to it.

BenRG:
All I can say is that, after all he has been through, Marten really, really ought to know better than to enable someone like Tilly. I mean, they're cute in their eagerness to succeed in this job but there has to be a line and Marten should be intuitive enough to have picked up on Hannelore's view of the situation.

Personally, I'd be more than a little worried about anyone who gets joy out of being someone's petty servant but maybe that's me.

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