Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
awgiedawgie:
Very well spoken.
MrNumbers:
I disagree with the idea of censoring discussions about the romantic plots of a romance-focused slice-of-life comic, particularly in the weekly threads discussing that comic. This is the place I'd like to read those conversations.
I think you're going to see an overrepresentation of people speaking out against it not because it's much harder for someone to speak up for their right to discuss the topic when others are talking about it making them uncomfortable, even though it's also uncomfortable being told it's wrong to talk about the thing you want to talk about. Policing those topics results in these threads turning away a lot of people who aren't creepy, but are being told discussing what the comic is actually about makes them creepy. That's unpleasant.
Policing on behalf of inclusivity is still exclusionary. That's not inherently bad; There are people who, for the good of the community, you wish to exclude. But I wish to say that the pressure against discussing the comic in 'the right' way has personally resulted in me participating far less than I'd otherwise like to.
awgiedawgie:
I think the point trying to be made — at least in this particular case, for my part — is that people are discussing what they want the comic to be about, even when there is still some ambiguity that that is what the comic is actually about. And they are discussing that one small part of the greater picture to the exclusion of everything else. The future is inherently mutable, but they are discussing one possible eventuality as if it were the only possible outcome. As has been mentioned by others, it gets old fast.
MrNumbers:
Right, but the characters themselves, in comic, obviously desire that outcome for themselves. It's not just people projecting what they want, they're discussing what is in media res.
Or, because a picture is worth a thousand words;
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Morituri ---So why doesn't anybody seem to appreciate the current situation as a thing in itself, instead of just as a transitory state toward what they imagine some future situation might be?
--- End quote ---
I have. Early in the speculation about Bubbles and Faye becoming lovers I said they were something rarer and more valuable, namely close friends.
The current situation strikes me as unsustainable though.
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