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WCDT Strips 3816-3820 (27-31 August 2018)
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 29 Aug 2018, 08:11 ---I’m fairly certain that this was a case of Jeph not remembering the minutiae of comics he drew years ago. It’s happened before. Strange as it may seem, Jeph doesn’t seem to be as obsessed with QC as some of his fans are.
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I dunno, Jeph usually is pretty good in dropping the other shoe later on, as he did with Hannelore going to May in the "Winslow's privilege" arc.
Yes, Jeph may simply have forgotten some details from long ago, but I find it equally plausible that Claire ends up discussing her job prospect anxiety with Tai, with the latter ending up pointing out to Claire that she was unfairly labeling Marten's job as a case of privilege.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Buggman on 29 Aug 2018, 07:58 ---Someone who has spent far, far too much time in a Massachusetts women's liberal arts college being told that any time a cis straight white male has something that she wants, it's because of his "privilege."
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Ehm...that's a rather ugly stereotype and generalization you're throwing out there
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 29 Aug 2018, 09:34 ---
--- Quote from: Buggman on 29 Aug 2018, 07:58 ---Someone who has spent far, far too much time in a Massachusetts women's liberal arts college being told that any time a cis straight white male has something that she wants, it's because of his "privilege."
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Ehm...that's a rather ugly stereotype and generalization you're throwing out there
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I think Buggman made it clear that this is his personal experience rather than a stereotype or generalization. He may be guilty of hyperbole, or it just might be that the reality is ugly.
All potential comments about "white male fragility" etc etc etc have been preemptively duly noted. Ugliness happens on both sides of the issue and assholedness is not exclusive to any gender.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 Aug 2018, 05:33 ---Claire really seems to have been the first time that Marten has really formed that tight emotional and personal bond with someone. It's clearly something very special to them both. The secret is that the two of them got to be very close and trusted friends before Marten chose to risk going to t he next step of dating and a formal relationship.
Purely my opinion, of course; YMMV.
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Jeph very deliberately set Marten's relationship with Claire off from all others we've seen in-strip my making him very uncharacteristically assertive in its pursuit. He typically stumbles into relationships but with Claire he took the initiative. I read that as meaning Jeph means this to last.
(IRL I'm a whole lot more like Marten v. 1.0 that Marten v. 2.0, much to Mrs. Goat's amusement.)
zeimusu:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 28 Aug 2018, 19:11 ---In fact if you keep calm, you can easily extract yourself from quicksand. It's panicked flailing that'd get you.
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This does give you all an excuse to enjoy one of the jewels of the 1990s internet: The Quicksand Page http://www.dellamente.com/quicksand/. I'd recommend looking at the safety tips first. (Though please note that the images are higher than 256 colours, and require a fairly modern monitor, and a modem faster than 14.4k. It's also not compatible with Netscape 3.0 or less. :-\)
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