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WCDT - Strips 4691-4695 (3rd to 7th January 2022)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Ghanima Atreides on 07 Jan 2022, 04:29 ---Emmett is non-binary, so not a dude.
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Well, we don't actually know that... Sam's use of "they" is not necessarily definitive.
And anyway, these days women use "dude" too, in my experience.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 07 Jan 2022, 04:33 ---
--- Quote from: Ghanima Atreides on 07 Jan 2022, 04:29 ---Emmett is non-binary, so not a dude.
--- End quote ---
Well, we don't actually know that... Sam's use of "they" is not necessarily definitive.
And anyway, these days women use "dude" too, in my experience.
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Some women use dude, true.
It's just... a fraught thing. It's good to make sure in advance a woman being addressed with "dude" considers it a gender-neutral term. Especially non-cis femme-leaning people of all kinds.
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I, for one, would not like to be referred to as "dude", and I know I'm far from alone in this.
Ghanima Atreides:
I had assumed that Sam's pronouns choice when referring to Emmett is the confirmation that they use they/them pronouns, since Sam would know their preferences by now.
ankhtahr:
Also, at least to me, it feels like there's a difference between being addressed as "dude" and being described as "dude".
I wouldn't mind if a friend of mine told me "Dude, look over there!" if they wanted to show me something. It would feel very different if a friend whom I told about being non-binary and being not a man™ described me to somebody else as "the dude over there".
Also I'd like to note that pronouns are not gender, so while most people who prefer they/them are non-binary (and that includes genders underneath the non-binary umbrella), not all of them are. So while I take Sam's usage as a fairly sure sign of Emmett preferring these pronouns, we can't be sure about their gender identity unless they or Jeph tell us about it :)
And the way I know this comic it might be a while until that happens, if at all, because this comic seems to make a point about normalising self identification and not making a big deal out of it, which I really appreciate.
snubnose:
Yes I was assuming that was a boy. Apparently I was wrong.
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