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WCDT Strips 4326-4330 (10-15 August 2020)
Timemaster:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 13 Aug 2020, 23:07 ---There might be a chance for Elliot and Clinton: Clinton once said that he would be open for the possibility if the right guy came along
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I completely forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. Now I‘m even more interested how this will go on. :-D
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Aug 2020, 23:29 ---Those two really need to learn how to just deal with the fact that things involving deeper emotions are always weird and just get on with their lives. No, I'm not expecting them to do that either!
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I think the only way to make it not weird is to let it be weird. Does that make sense? I think it does somehow.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Aug 2020, 23:29 ---the bit at UR when she made a crack to her friend about her being 'made of biodegradable matter' was a bit too aggressive for my liking. there is an aspect of snobbishness and cruelty that doesn't quite work for me.
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Maybe they are past the stage of maintaining scatanecrological niceties in that relationship, but how can they know cybrids can't die? Psychical errors they don't know how to correct would accumulate.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Aug 2020, 11:38 ---Let's avoid even inadvertent offense to our trans members. It turns out, for example, that "transgenders" can cause offense. https://ischoolsjsu.libguides.com/geist/2. It's a high degree of care but it is what's needed to be decent. UPDATE: to put it more positively, "trans people" is a good phrase to use.
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I didn't see ``trans people'' suggested anywhere on that page. I saw ``transgender people,'' which I think is better than ``trans people,'' because ``trans people'' is vague about what the crossing is. The context might make it clear, but that puts a little extra work for each reader, which is probably in sum greater than the work of typing out the 6 letters more.
Related, but more generally, I usually recommend using ``persons'' instead of ``people,'' because we usually care about the members of the class of persons, rather than the class itself. I think the point against ``transgenders'' is the same. When an adjective is used as a noun meaning an item that has that quality (it's called ``nouning an adjective'' (and that's called ``verbing a noun'')). That's not necessarily bad, but when you pluralize it, as the word ``transgenders'' is, the plural moves the emphasis slightly away from the persons of that type to the class of persons. Of course, confusing a member of a class with the class is usually inaccurate. I'm rarely offended by anything much, but I can understand that a person might be offended by persons assuming he represents a class that's is so variegated, or assuming that what's in common among the members of such a variegated class is his only quality, is reasonable.
(I usually think about it not as crossing genders, but as returning to his proper gender, because that's what it's really about.)
ihaveavoice:
"Transgenders" isn't great for the same reason that saying "the Blacks" instead of "Black people" isn't a good thing to do. And the idea that people who are transgender are somehow tricking cisgendered people is hugely transphobic. It really isn't some huge thing that trans women are like going around trying to lure straight cis men into bed with them without them knowing they're trans. Why would anyone be so eager to up their chances that they're going to be murdered in a violent bigoted rage? And it's not like it's safe for people to just go around announcing to everyone that they're transgender - that's generally a delicate subject for people and needs to wait for a specific private conversation, like we've seen with Claire and the people she's told. The fact that Claire doesn't wear a "Hello, I'm trans" nametag doesn't mean that she's misleading people into thinking she's cis. That "I'm just saying they shouldn't be lying about it" thing is really just transphobes trying to pretend they're just being reasonable by trying to protect the innocent against those scary, scary trans liars.
Mr_Rose:
The reason transphobes want trans* people to “be honest” i.e. wear a name tag is the same reason the Nazis wanted Jews to wear a yellow star; so they know who to target.
Marco:
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--- Quote from: Marco on 13 Aug 2020, 12:34 ---When I saw today's strip, all I could think was "Thank God it's not friday". Unless, of course, Steve's back tomorrow as some of you suggested.
(I hope Jeph is not reading this and having ideas)
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IIRC, Jeph has been forcing himself to have a buffer of already finished strips for several years now - so I'd say it's unlikely your comments today could influence tomorrow's strip.
He also insists he doesn't read the forums, for his own sanity.
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A buffer of cereal strips to use when appropriate?
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