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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
cesium133:
Things started going off the rails when Tannelore went to Jupiter to find herself.
Tova:
If we're going there, it all really started because Tanners was neglected by Neatrice.
Is it cold in here?:
No need to scream into a pillow. Life is an endless course of continuing education. I try to allow for people who are a week behind the accepted vocabulary :-)
(Make sure to get up to speed before you visit the trans thread of course).
One of my pet ideas is that keeping up with the latest vocabulary is what economists call "signaling".
If you follow some nonsensical rule like taking your hat off when you enter a building, there is no direct benefit to the host. But you have just proven you will follow social norms even at the expense of doing something that makes no sense. That's not proof, but a heuristic, that you will follow other social norms like not torturing them to death. It's a reassuring thing to have evidence of.
Not saying it's "nonsensical", but there's a similar dynamic interacting with minorities. If they see that you've kept up with all the memos and are using the current word for their ethnic group, that gives them a tentative impression that you're not going to commit a hate crime. It means you have provably put effort into addressing them respectfully. It's a reassuring thing to have evidence of.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 19 Jan 2018, 15:52 ---And yet with exercise, over time some aspects of it will start to become habit. It's not as though we don't already have controls in our thinking and speaking, after all.
--- End quote ---
Ja, but some people's brain-mouth filter don't always work.
A small perverse otter:
I notice a lot of people hating on Evie for her utterly clueless, obnoxious, and appalling behavior towards Bubbles. Her behavior is inexcusable, but natural.
Any graduate student in the grips of their dissertation research, in any domain, lives that work. It's all that matters -- it is your life, at least if you actually want to get those extra three letters. Evie is just behaving naturally. (Trust me: it was a good thing for me that many of my friends during my last year of my graduate studies were also dissertators. They understood why I kept going on about things that they knew nothing about and would not have cared about if they did know anything about them.)
So, yes, Evie's a total jerk in so many ways, and her behavior is inexcusable. Unfortunately, inexcusable or not, it is understandable.
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