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Look at that lighting, goddamn!
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Part of telling a story to kids is to think about how long their attention spans are, how long they can sit in one place and whether it'll invoke mental imagery to help the story. Either way things like gender identity or sexuality are kept far, far FAR away unless you wanna bore the kids to sleep before the stories even gotten going or, worse, get a ton of questions that interrupt it.
"Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who was actually a prince but decided his genitalia did not reflect what he was on the inside and so decided that he was actually a princess including his male genitals which were actually female but thats not relevant to the story, this Princess who we'll refer to as 'xe/xim/xer'..."
See this is the thing I think Labelle misses about kids and people in general; humour isn't just a way to be mean, for a lot of people its a defense mechanism, a way of coping and a step towards understanding. Whether we wanna admit it or not a lot of people are frightened by change or difference. So what do we do? We make a silly joke about it and have a chuckle because then it becomes less scary and easier to swallow. You see a guy walking down the street in a wig and in full make up and chances are if you're not surrounded by that 24/7 you're gonna be a little weirded out. So you make a joke, have a laugh and then it becomes less weird so next time you see that person you're not gonna be weirded out. Its not a permanent solution but this idea that you can never laugh and joke about something out of the norm is actually pretty detrimental to their cause because it prevents people from having a more lighthearted view which can lead to understanding.Slightly related to this. There are plenty of adult fiction books with LGBT characters, but that is because adults can comprehend and understand things like this far better than children can due to them obviously having a wider understanding of the world around them. Most children's books with LGBT characters are mainly factual books aimed at teaching children about those sorts of issues as preparation for entering the big wide world. A lot of children and teenagers tend to make jokes about homosexuality and transgender people because, you know, they often lack understanding and kids will be kids.
:powerlevel:-y anecdote to back up the whole kids will be kids and can often make jokes at other peoples' expense. When I was in secondary school one of the bus drivers in my town was transgender (and looked like an ugly old woman). Most of the older people who used the buses were disgusted by her, and most of the young people who used the bus (school pupils and college students) called her the "tranny bus driver". Think some kids called her that to her face, but I do remember an incident where a girl a few years above me pulled the bus drivers wig off as she was getting on to the bus.
Wow. Didn't know there exists cosplay of Chris's future daughter.There does not exist a facepalm image sufficient enough to express my sheer disbelief at what I'm looking at here. Just...I'm honestly at a loss for words at this.
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The messages in this comic are confusing, I guess she represents an outsider so at first she didn't understand about gay people and whatever Sandrat is so they explained it to her (And the reader).Love how Labelle first makes that green-haired girl a fag-hag with no concept of personal boundary, and then makes her an irredeemable villain (i.e. the voice of reason).
So I guess the moral is everyone needs to have the same mindset as Stephie or else they'll be trouble and also never question Stephie.
There does not exist a facepalm image sufficient enough to express my sheer disbelief at what I'm looking at here. Just...I'm honestly at a loss for words at this.
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Choice comments from the new comic.
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Default societal model for the human race - everyone is cisgender and heterosexual. You're doing it wrong.
Yeah, and those authors that only wrote cis characters are constantly shit on by you and the group you represent, Sophie.
Another comment from the latest strip that kinda irked me.
Someone suggests some actually decent ideas for a new storyline in the comic. Sophie bitches.
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That's all CIS people have stories about eh?
She still hasn't gotten back to me on her thoughts on ranma 1/2
And that pic... Is labill honestly trying to transition into a woman, or instead a young girl?