Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 4366-4370 (Oct 5th to Oct 9th 2020)
Tova:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 03 Oct 2020, 15:43 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 03 Oct 2020, 14:52 ---All these options are feasible... this'll be an interesting one.
--- End quote ---
That was the goal.
--- End quote ---
It’s not often the goal. If it is, it’s rarely achieved.
N.N. Marf:
(click to show/hide)
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 03 Oct 2020, 17:38 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Oct 2020, 03:53 ---And since QC is a family-friendly strip...
--- End quote ---
It's not, like, X-rated, but it often takes me five or more tries to find strips that don't contain a swear word, sex scene, sexual reference, or dirty joke. I wouldn't call it family-friendly.
--- End quote ---
Jokes about certain activities causing families to exist aside, it depends on the family. I'm sure most of the sexual references would pass through a children's minds with only an occasional conscious nonunderstanding of what they just saw, and the more explicit parts might be gross but I don't recall anything that would be mentally scarring. I'm confident that children are no less inclined than adults to avoid stuff that makes them uncomfortable, so by the fact that there's nothing mentally scarring about Questionable Content, I'd consider it family (at least for my family) friendly, but by the fact that there are things that might make a child uncomfortable, it's not family oriented. This is, of course, assuming the euphemism ``family'' meaning `something including children.' (The only problem I have with swears is their use as a replacement for more intelligible communication. If a person (child or not) understands the benefit of intelligible communication, even if inured to swearing, will choose to speak intelligibly---if intelligibility is the goal. The only problem I see is with immature persons (children or not) who sneer or guffaw at such words categorically, without considering their qualities relative to the context how it's used.)
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 03 Oct 2020, 17:38 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Oct 2020, 03:53 ---And since QC is a family-friendly strip...
--- End quote ---
It's not, like, X-rated, but it often takes me five or more tries to find strips that don't contain a swear word, sex scene, sexual reference, or dirty joke. I wouldn't call it family-friendly.
--- End quote ---
Who's family? Cos all that is perfectly fine with my family.
I really hate that phrase.
Gnabberwocky:
It's fine with my family, too (otherwise I wouldn't be reading it); I agree that it's a phrase too open to interpretation.
I was trying to get at the point that it doesn't seem like Jeph holds back for fear of scarring anyone. I feel like while the phrase "family-friendly" can be open-ended, it usually refers to PG-13 or lighter. QC is much closer to R than PG-13.
sitnspin:
QC is R just from language alone.
The problem with the phrase "family friendly" is that, often, even having queer characters at all, even if they are only doing "G rated" things, got things classified as not family friendly. YouTube, for example, is notorious for this.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version