Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 3621 to 3625 (27th November to 1st December 2017)
Meilu:
--- Quote from: tiercel on 01 Dec 2017, 03:02 ---You know what does not make me want to be gracious about respecting someone’s wishes when it comes to personal pronouns?
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They aren't wishes. They just are. Everyone's pronouns just are what they are. If you don't use them, you're an asshole. Full stop. It doesn't matter if you like them, or like what they do or how they act. You have a choice to use someone's minority status against them (like a bigot) or not. They don't have a choice in pronouns. Not really. Not like you think.
--- Quote from: tiercel on 01 Dec 2017, 03:02 ---This sequence feels to me painfully overextended, uninteresting, and as if I’m being forceably “playfully” elbowed to the effect of “this wacky new character sure is loveable for such an unwanted annoyance right RIGHT especially because TOLERANCE right RIGHT?!?!”
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Not everyone is going to like every character. Showing different types of people isn't pushing some nefarious agenda about "tolerance". You sure seem worked up about this. Have you considered reading a comic that's got nothing but straight white men in it so you can be comfortable again?
Y:
--- Quote from: Moggie on 01 Dec 2017, 02:31 ---Finnish is handy in that, we only have one singular 3rd person pronoun, "Hän". Altho' the colloquial use of "Se", which originally means "It", is sadly getting more approval.
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In dutch we have zij/hen/hun (she & they / them & chick / their), so that's what I kept in mind when I was questioning being non-binary.
About today's comic, is this Hanners punishing herself for calling their name wrong, Bart Simpson style?
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Y on 01 Dec 2017, 05:38 ---About today's comic, is this Hanners punishing herself for calling their name wrong, Bart Simpson style?
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I'm assuming this is between that and her trying to repeat it enough times to form an association strong enough that she doesn't keep automatically going for the wrong name.
Sort of a "listening to a song on a loop to get another song out of your head" type of situation.
lawoot:
If you call me "cisgender", then I am offended. I do not accept this silly term, as it is one that was applied to me without my consent.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: lawoot on 01 Dec 2017, 05:47 ---If you call me "cisgender", then I am offended. I do not accept this silly term, as it is one that was applied to me without my consent.
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It's your right to be offended by anything, I suppose, but the description is factually correct (assuming you ARE cisgender). You might say you get offended by being called a human, but the term is not inherently offensive, nor can it be interpreted as such...
Or, to put it another way, a straight person might say they're offended by someone describing them as "heterosexual", but it doesn't change the fact that they, y'know, ARE heterosexual.
If you're not cisgender and identify as something else, that's a different matter, of course. Do you?
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