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WCDT Strips 3786 - 3790 (16th to 20th July 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: heyjames4 on 18 Jul 2018, 10:09 ---This might be far afield of regular comic discussion but this strip does bring to mind the following; when your lady-bot (or whatever) comes to you and says something like "I desire to/am willing to alter my appearance to suit your preferences" what is an appropriate and healthy response?
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I think Faye had one appropriate response.
This might be a good RELATE thread!
I think there's more than one answer depending on who makes the offer. If it's somebody like Marigold, the first order of business is to build up their self esteem. The other end of the scale would be somebody like Veronica. If she offers her lover the chance to ask for appearance changes, then his appropriate response is gracious acceptance.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 18 Jul 2018, 10:28 ---Women in overalls are hot as shit. It's science fact.
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Well, yeah, that amount of denim next to the skin can really get things sweaty. And those rivets up top can leave burn marks on the skin, too, if left out in the sun too long.
Zebediah:
Ah, hot rivets. Those will leave a mark.
Fun fact: Levi’s jeans originally had a crotch rivet. However, a few too many cowboys got, ahem, branded by hot rivets while sitting around campfires, so Levi Strauss was persuaded to remove that feature.
fayelovesbubbles:
Faye’s response was the correct one.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 18 Jul 2018, 03:26 ---Overalls aren’t butch...
Faye isn’t really butch. I don’t know why people keep saying she is. I had short hair for awhile but I still wasn’t butch.
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Overalls and dungarees are less butch at the moment partially because they're trendy, as they were in the 90s. In the preceding and intervening years, they were definitely a hallmark of a tomboyish girl.
Faye has many more of those hallmarks too. She doesn't present as particularly traditionally feminine at all, is in quite a masculine line of work, has a very harsh sense of humour and tone which is, lest we forget, generally seen as powerful in men but off-putting in women...
For the record: No shade is being thrown here, I have two partners and I would say that masculinity-wise Faye sits somewhere between the two of them. Gender is, of course, a construct; I'm talking about my own, admittedly anecdotal, observations about the public's viewpoints and interpretations at large.
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