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WCDT Strips 4331-4335 (18-22, August 2020)
Case:
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--- Quote from: tbodt on 20 Aug 2020, 14:53 ---I have the perfect analogy: gender/sexual identity is a vector space with infinite dimension
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So if someone masturbates, then they're a unitary operator.
Someone who has a conjugal visit with someone just like them is Hermitian.
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Nope, someone who masturbates is (applying) the unity operator.
Unitary operators are forgettable one-night stands.
Anti-Unitary operators, otoh, are one-night stands you wished you'd already forgotten.
...OhGodShaddapCase!
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 20 Aug 2020, 15:04 ---Clinton seems to be finding traces of bisexuality. Clinton and Elliot can have a good time together if they're determinant to do so. :clairedoge:
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https://youtu.be/ETNRfcNIl2w?list=PLbtJeG28_QO-jUu-njThh0p_sA-AEsTSJ&t=62
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 20 Aug 2020, 15:04 ---I was going to make more awful puns, but it's been at least ten years since the last time I've taken a class in linear algebra. :psyduck:
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Quantum theory is the continuation of linear algebra by other means.
Tova:
Risky click of the day.
marbledmurrelet:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 21 Aug 2020, 05:15 ---Whiteness is an idea built around a default and an absence of a perceived characteristic. As harmful as that idea historically was, that's how it's still used, including by non-white people.
Similarly, if we say a relationship involving a queer person is queer relationship, I don't think it *automatically* follows that a relationship involving a straight person is a straight relationship.
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I'm not an expert on racial matters, but someone whose (more immediate, visible) ancestry includes non-white people will be subjected to racism and treated much more like a POC than like a white person. Relationships between people who appear to have different racial heritage are also treated accordingly, so it makes sense to me to call them "interracial". I don't even know if this comparison is any good, as the whole concept of race is pretty much Western colonial bullshit as far as I've understood it. Though... the concept of straight vs. gay or queer seems to be quite recently made up Western bullshit as well, so... sigh. I digress.
Anyway, back to Claire. She's most certainly hurt by transphobia even if it's not directed at her personally, but that's purely her as an individual. She's a woman, she's perceived as a woman by everyone around her, and she's with a man who's perceived as a man. Their relationship - between a man and a woman, monogamous and everything - is perfectly conventional. Calling it a "queer relationship" would make zero sense.
--- Quote ---I continue to wonder if the "queer" label for a relationship should be metonymic for the people in it, or a description of something about the relationship itself. Is there any semi-broad consensus on that?
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Is there any good reason to use the "queer" label for a relationship that's not even visibly challenging any norms? The only reason I can see for saying "queer relationship" in a metonymic way would be having a shorter term for "relationship that's not between a man and a woman". Other than that, what's the point?
Case:
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Aug 2020, 06:01 ---Risky click of the day.
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Maybe so, but don't tell me you aren't wide awake now ... :evil:
Perfectly Reasonable:
Mood breads! A whole new field for bakers!
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