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WCDT: 11-15 June 2018 (3761-3765)
Zebediah:
Faye could always get a new one. Topataco still sells them.
:D
HughYeman:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 11 Jun 2018, 06:15 ---Faye could always get a new one. Topataco still sells them.
:D
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Indeed. I picked mine up just two weeks ago, when Faybles was touching me so deeply that I felt the urge to grab some merch and throw a few bucks Jeph's way. Here's a shot from last week of me in the shirt at Grand Central.
(click to show/hide)https://twitter.com/hughyeman/status/1005636677652615169
BlueFatima:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jun 2018, 04:50 ---
I really do think that Faye is a messed-up kid and I really do think that she has serious problems with believing that others approve of her choices (or of her in general).
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A very important part of becoming an adult is stop giving a fart about approval from others—even friends. I have come to the realization recently that many people have difficulty outgrowing this, though, and that can hold one back—especially if they have stupid or malicious friends.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 10 Jun 2018, 19:10 ---Bubbles, now that you and Faye are together, you need to work on not making Marten pee his pants every time you touch him. How about a nice, normal invention known as "the hug"?
Oh and psst--more evidence that AIs don't consider "robot" offensive.
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Actually more evidence that Bubbles doesn't. Me being okay with the word 'queer' over and over again isn't more evidence of other queers being okay with it.
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 10 Jun 2018, 20:13 ---I'm pretty sure that racist, homophobic and ableist slurs wouldn't be okay from a lover or a friend, so I'm not sure that applies. If "robot" was an offensive term, it would definitely ruin their relationship.
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Nope. In my limited friendship group words like this are thrown around freely to and by people by minority groups as an indication of it as being a safe space for all of us where that prejudice is not a real worry.
--- Quote ---I think we can agree that "robot" is not an offensive word.
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Nope. But then I don't have any investment in the discussion so you're unlikely to get me to a decision either way.
--- Quote from: oddtail on 11 Jun 2018, 03:19 ---Not much to say about the comic otherwise, but... okay, comparing Marten's (positive) impact to the conference of Yalta kinda rubs me the wrong way, with me being Polish and all.
For those who don't know, the prevailing Polish sentiment about what happened in Yalta is basically "Poland got screwed over by the West and basically shoved into USSR's loving arms". It has the connotations of our nation's history being decided FOR us, with world superpowers dividing Europe as they saw fit, despite the fact that we were the first country to fight Nazi Germany and such.
I'm aware the political reality of the time was much more complex, but comparing something that led to Faye and Bubbles being a couple with what led to Poland being stuck as a Soviet satellite country for the next 40+ years...
...to me, the implications are troubling at best.
The comic's fine otherwise, but this part is just, UGH.
EDIT: not to mention the redrawing of Polish eastern border. Which is a much more complicated issue (what with the people living in pre-partition Eastern Poland being nations other than Poles, which Poland for the most part always failed to acknowledge), but with the end result being that those nations got swallowed whole into USSR... yeah, Yalta sucked for pretty much ALL of Eastern Europe.
EDIT 2: this article sums up the issue pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_betrayal
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This is an unfortunate aspet of such historical events. They may smart for some, and not for others. They say tragedy plus time equals comedy, but obviously this won't be true for everybody.
--- Quote from: BlueFatima on 11 Jun 2018, 07:54 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jun 2018, 04:50 ---
I really do think that Faye is a messed-up kid and I really do think that she has serious problems with believing that others approve of her choices (or of her in general).
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A very important part of becoming an adult is stop giving a fart about approval from others—even friends. I have come to the realization recently that many people have difficulty outgrowing this, though, and that can hold one back—especially if they have stupid or malicious friends.
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I'd call this an oversimplification. I think it's more like being an adult is knowing when to give a fart about what people think.
BlueFatima:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 11 Jun 2018, 08:01 ---
I'd call this an oversimplification. I think it's more like being an adult is knowing when to give a fart about what people think.
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Perhaps I should have clarified. I mean not giving a fart about what people think when you do things for yourself that bring you happiness (even if it makes you seem "unusual") and brings no harm to others. I have had to recently prune an entire friend group who didn't get it. They brought misery to themselves and their families, and they were total energy vampires to hang out with. Lots of obsessing about looking "perfect" in front of each other and judging others—all because they were worried about being "accepted."
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