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WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)
Undrneath:
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--- Quote from: Undrneath on 11 Jul 2018, 11:28 ---I think the raisins are an allegory for the difference between poverty and privilege. It really could have been anything, but raisins just fit into the "bread week" theme easily.
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And where, precisely, does poverty end and privilege begin?
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The poverty isn't just financial, Clinton grew up financially stable while Brun grew up (at least until she was 15) with two loving parents. Both had something the other didn't thus in a way privileged.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jul 2018, 04:50 ---
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 11 Jul 2018, 11:28 ---I think the raisins are an allegory for the difference between poverty and privilege. It really could have been anything, but raisins just fit into the "bread week" theme easily.
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And where, precisely, does poverty end and privilege begin?
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Just talk to the Yorkshire man next to you and he’ll tell you how good you had it by how terrible it was for him.
shanejayell:
Poor Brun. Daym...
Tova:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 12 Jul 2018, 04:58 ---
--- Quote from: wrobrox on 11 Jul 2018, 08:05 ---I actually made an account just to talk about this.
I had a good friend growing up, their family was extremely poor. They had electricity about one week out of the month, bathed in a tub outside, and had to keep their shoes for so long their toes are permanently curled and cramped. They almost never had food in the house and both of her parents were heavy drug addicts.
She is very aware of what raisins are and when I asked her what she thought of this comic and she said it was extremely upsetting. She isn't wholly ignorant of everything her family couldn't afford, and to imply otherwise is grossly offensive.
I had always heard Jeph was disconnected from reality but this is a big one in my view.
Personally I've been very poor. My diet consisted of rice and kool-aid was a big treat that I looked forward to, and I often had to give my dog what little food I had because I consider it unfair to make a dog go hungry, and I was in such a bad place that I honestly wasn't sure if starving to death would be all that bad.
I know what fucking raisins taste like.
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Without being ridiculous here - is it not possible to be poorer than you were? Is it not possible to have different accessibility to these things?
And to throw something in from my own headcanon - people often suspect that Brun has AS, I have AS, there are SHITLOADS of things that I haven't tried and many points in life where I might not have put together that 1. my own experience is unusual 2. the reasoning may be different to what I think it is.
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Yes, I've been meaning to say something like this, so thank you for beating me to it.
There are all kinds of reasons why anyone would or would not have tried any specific food you care to name. Why Clinton, or anyone else, is quite so astonished that Brun had, until this point, never tried a raisin is a little... well... astonishing to me. This is like the food version of the famous xkcd ten thousand strip. Why make a big deal out of it? I don't think that it requires any special explanation. As I joked before, I didn't have raisins growing up. That's just because little snack boxes of sultanas were more popular at the time.
It would be kind of funny if we had a future strip where it turns out that Hannelore has also never had raisins.
BTW, this may be a subtlety, but Brun didn't really say she'd never had raisins because she was poor. She said she didn't have snacks because she was poor. Raisins aren't just snacks. She never had raisins because... well, she just never had them. It happens.
P.S. It's hard to draft these posts and successfully communicate your thoughts when you're tired and really ought to be in bed.
Oenone:
If Brun has always had issues with new things, it’s possible her parents were cautious about buying foods it wasn’t pre established she’d like because that’d be a waste of money.
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