Like I said, the comic can't have both; they can't approach a topic, yet say certain things are off limits. It hurts the entire topic as a whole, and it needs to be better managed.
I hesitate to touch this again, but as it is comic related:
You are absolutely incorrect. The comic can, if Jeph so chooses, have it both ways. My previous analogy about walls and markers applies. This is Jeph's house. He's paying the bills. If he wants to do X, he can do that. Because he's in his house. YOU (and I and even the Mods) need
permission. From Jeph. If he says no, that's it. End of line.
You either accept it, or you exercise your freedom of choice and leave. You could vote with you wallet in hopes that that impacts Jeph's income, because you believe he should see consequences for his choice. But he can still have it both ways until the money runs out, and he is perfectly free to do that in his house with his stuff.
But there's another point.
You see, Jeph never brought up Claire's genitals in the comic. Claire got naked. End of line.
As snarkyone says, getting naked is putting everything out there. Hoping that the person you are trying to connect to--on whatever level--doesn't see you the way you see yourself.
Maybe Claire was saying what a lot of people think she was saying. Maybe. But the comic is just as open to the interpretation that Claire has the same body image issues as most other young women and she was saying "Hi. I've never been intimate before, like this. This is me." Or maybe Claire was saying something else. I'd be more specific, but this isn't the place. I'm trying to address your false equivalence about the comic.
Specifically, just because you think something was brought up by the author, it doesn't mean it was. Jeph's a responsible author. He does recognize that intent doesn't always equal content. But that doesn't mean he has to bend his intent to fit your reading.
People--trans and not--have taken several instances to mean that their preferred interpretation is the truth. That's their head canon. That's all it is. Just as the idea that comic has addressed the items you want to address is yours. Nothing more or less.
So while Jeph can, in fact, have it both ways if he so chooses, that's not what's going on here. You are injecting your interpretation and trying to hang it on Jeph. You aren't the only person doing that. Not all of the people doing that share your interpretation. Since the issue is not clear, the forum policy remains the best available option, considering that the negatives are deemed to outweigh other considerations.
And that's all I have to say about that. /Gump
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