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WCDT Strips 3936-3940 (11-15 February 2019)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: pecoros7 ---It isn't about what hurts Peter. It is about the splash damage.
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This parallels Tova's point about not perpetuating the running gag of getting his name wrong. Now I don't feel free to call him "Pneumonia".
SeaWoodStage:
--- Quote from: Milayna on 14 Feb 2019, 10:00 ---This is a hard gray area for me..on the one hand, I know why it's important to push back against gendered insults and anatomical ones and stuff, and I agree with why. On the other hand, even though everyone I know is really liberal, hell, even my down-with-capitalism politically active feminist friends casually use "bitch" and "thot" and "suck a cock" and all that. It's just...normal. And it's important to abide by the in-group markers if you want to get along with the group...so I want to cut that kind of language out, but not exile myself in the process, you know? Best I've thought of to do is use it sparingly.
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I don't think it's necessarily an either/or thing. A few of my closest female friends and I often used to greet each other with such charming phrases as "Hey slagamuffin!" or "Long time no see, you old slutbag!" Many of our gay and bi male friends also joined in with the affectionately insulting frivolities. It was just what we did. Gradually, though, we just seem to have... ceased. Over the years, I think we just became a bit less inclined to use insults as a group badge.
At any rate, there was always a massive difference between the way we spoke to each other in private, the way we spoke to each other in public, and the way we spoke to strangers. If we'd gone to the pub as a group, for example, and someone had brought along their new date, we wouldn't have used insults in friendly conversation unless the newcomer made it extremely clear that they were comfortable with such (by initiating it).
I think it's fine to use whatever language we're comfortable with among our close friends, but that doesn't mean condoning shitty lanuage in general. My best friend can call me a slag if she wants; she can, and will, still look askance at some random person that calls me that, and preferably aid me in some pithy riposte.
zisraelsen:
Comic!
Elliot's "I am daydreaming about something inappropriate" face in panel 4 is hilariously realistic to me.
OldGoat:
She really does make a cute kitten.
Is it cold in here?:
Renee may not know much about cats.
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