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WCDT Strips 4331-4335 (18-22, August 2020)
de_la_Nae:
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known heterosexual
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sorry friend, but citation needed
there's been a helluva lot of ink spilled on cultural assumptions, so i hate to spill more, but... yeah.
--- Quote from: eschaton on 18 Aug 2020, 19:44 ---
Presumably Clinton has never fantasized about men before, or he wouldn't feel confused as he said in the first panel.
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er.... hey friend, I don't know if you've noticed, but *gestures at men*
that ain't how it works for... gosh, a lot lot lot lot lot of people
de_la_Nae:
also i'm not sure exactly what it means, though i have some suspicions, that there's so relatively few of you that seem to be actually enjoying this so far
edit: i'm not here all the time for all dating stories, but there's a *marked* difference in how the aggregate you reacts to the different joyful pairings and hopeful pairings, and like... I feel like there's a paper or three in that.
edit again cuz fuckit: elliot's being adorable, clinton's being adorable, they make me squee, what can i say
Gus_Smedstad:
I find myself agreeing with Pintsize. Which is generally not a good thing.
Seriously, the narrative Claire spins doesn't do anything for me, because, y'know, I'm not at all attracted to men, or male sexual attributes like bulging muscles. Clinton's reactions make him out to be pretty gay.
I'm no longer sold on him being bi. Mainly because he didn't overheat that way over Brun or Emily. In fact, he had a conversation with Brun where he expressed uncertainty as to whether he was attracted to her. Which was a conversation I found decidedly weird at the time, since I've never had any doubts about who I found attractive. But then, I was never a gay male attempting to struggle against cultural programming telling me I should be interested in women.
Onionvolcano:
No! Clinton and Brun!
Beast_Reborn:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 18 Aug 2020, 19:56 ---also i'm not sure exactly what it means, though i have some suspicions, that there's so relatively few of you that seem to be actually enjoying this so far
edit: i'm not here all the time for all dating stories, but there's a *marked* difference in how the aggregate you reacts to the different joyful pairings and hopeful pairings, and like... I feel like there's a paper or three in that.
edit again cuz fuckit: elliot's being adorable, clinton's being adorable, they make me squee, what can i say
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I wouldn't mind this being unpacked a bit. The implication seems to be that people here have some kind of problem with gay male relationships, but given what I know of this forum (and I'm a brand new poster, but I've been reading posts for a while), I don't think that's true?
Personally, I'm approaching this storyline a little cautiously because: (1) it might end in disappointment; Jeph is certainly ruthless enough to do that (2) I'm not sure how I feel about it from a storytelling perspective, as I said last week, especially given its similarity to what happened with Faye and Bubbles (3) I'm a gay male who can easily imagine himself falling for Clinton in real life (I don't have muscles like that though), so I'm actually making an effort not to take this storyline too personally, as it were.
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 18 Aug 2020, 20:00 ---I'm no longer sold on him being bi. Mainly because he didn't overheat that way over Brun or Emily. In fact, he had a conversation with Brun where he expressed uncertainty as to whether he was attracted to her. Which was a conversation I found decidedly weird at the time, since I've never had any doubts about who I found attractive. But then, I was never a gay male attempting to struggle against cultural programming telling me I should be interested in women.
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I don't think there's any doubt about the genuineness of Clinton's attraction to Brun or Emily. Remember how nervous and flustered he got on his date with Emily, eventually doing a lot of weird (well, out of character) stuff just to impress her. I struggle to make any sense of that in terms of cultural programming - he acted like he was well and truly smitten. As for the conversation with Brun, I don't think he was expressing doubt at all, only nervousness at telling her.
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