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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)
Jeemy:
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--- Quote from: sitnspin on 25 Jan 2018, 20:56 ---It's interesting, and frustrating, to me how quick some members of this forum are to search for a villain in every storyline.
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Maybe. However good drama tends to require a degree of conflict. A 24/7 hugfest would not engage people.
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On the other hand the weekly comic strips over the past few months always seem to devolve into 'I hate the latest person/existing character and let me explain why in extreme detail, then argue endlessly about it.' I mean yeah, everyone has characters they like and don't like. But nearly every day I look in these threads it seems like people are trying to turn everyone into a villain and it's draining and depressing? Remember when Hannelore gave her mother a little shove and people were literally saying she should be arrested for it? Frankly I've been coming to the forums a lot less lately because it just seems filled with negativity and I have enough of that in my life from other sources.
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I feel the same. I'd love to find a forum where the members are into the same stuff i am....QC amongst others fits the bill (not to annoy the Tillys) - we are generally 15-45yo weeaboos who like anime, guitar music, sci-fi, much like OBA.
Thus, I feel/hope we are part of a community.......
.......except I've never been part of a community before where if I don't use the right pronouns, I am denounced. I guess thats a community of acquaintances, not friends......maybe thats because in 40 years on this earth, I have still not met anybody who thinks they are so important they deserve their own pronouns.......
.........and..........
.......I've never been part of a community before where we were discussing the fact that people *might* take a *family* discussion over a meal, turn it to a research thesis and therefore should have asked for consent.
This is really a step too far......high drama and fantasy, full novels, require antagonists, conflict and villains - surely a webcomic can make a heavy point lightly, or a light point with too heavy a touch, and remain a comic and not a dissertation to be criticised?
I note that during all this criticism, its the characters who are criticised, and not the author?
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Jeemy on 26 Jan 2018, 08:49 --- I have still not met anybody who thinks they are so important they deserve their own pronouns.......
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This is the only thing I will say on this topic.
No one is so important that they deserve their own pronouns.
Everyone is important enough to deserve ordinary, decent respect in how they are seen and identified.
That is all its about, respect.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 26 Jan 2018, 07:52 ---Pneumatic ratchet pants?
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I've always assumed that this is a reference to the Techno Trousers in a couple of Wallace and Gromit films - though the term doesn't appear there, so I could be wrong.
Is it cold in here?:
Global Moderator Comment My position is that if you're not a jerk you shouldn't be "denounced". Non-jerks who follow the habits of their schooling about pronouns? To them I'll talk about how much it matters to real-life non-binary people. Then because they're not jerks they'll push themselves out of their comfort zone to show courtesy and be inclusive to people from a minority even more misunderstood than most.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 26 Jan 2018, 08:55 ---
--- Quote from: Jeemy on 26 Jan 2018, 08:49 --- I have still not met anybody who thinks they are so important they deserve their own pronouns.......
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This is the only thing I will say on this topic.
No one is so important that they deserve their own pronouns.
Everyone is important enough to deserve ordinary, decent respect in how they are seen and identified.
That is all its about, respect.
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Global Moderator Comment Well put and I will add "inclusiveness". It's a core value from the owner of the forum down through the moderation team. I will make (additional) mistakes in the process but will constantly labor to make it possible for marginalized people to feel safe and welcome here.
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