Enkrod

Honestly that was my read too.

We know AI won’t replace us and if it does we’ll come back for more money than before.

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I love you and your comic, but there are some good points here.

Very much this. You don’t have to be trans to be curious. I’m extremely curious and given the chance would try all kinds of things that some people, who are less secure in their identity, would balk at.

But the body I would really want is just young, fit and healthy and preferably my gender asigned at birth, but I would take any gender if that’s the only way to be young, fit and healthy again.

Accurate but also not. PewDiePie came out in favour and PirateSoftware lied about it. But I think Thor lying created a huge burst of coverage about how he’s wrong and really created lots of noise about it.

And a happy cake day to you!

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Thank you very much

Oh, that sounds awesome, can you point me in the right direction?

Fair

Yes, in that stereotype being worldly and educated is presented as foreign, urban, sinful, often depraved and in contrast to the supposed “purity” of small-town innocence and virginity. Remember that these stereotypes originated in the 1950s and are mostly the result of puritan, white, middle class, anglo-saxon, protestant worldviews. It’s the reason that so many villains in american movies (among others Shere Khan, Jafar and Scar) have british accents, while the heroes (like Aladdin) talk with a midwestern accent.

Heh, you know, “kink” as in a “bend”, a “kink”, a “wrinkle” in ones sexuality. So it’s not straight with a kink in it ;)

It’s a kink, maybe a fetish, not exactly straight that’s for sure.

Every movie that had Alan Rickman in it ever… it’s just more subtle when it’s not a cartoon.

Please don’t. I really hate the “the anti-gay crowd is secretly gay”-narrative, because it carries connotations of “the gays” being responsible for their own oppression.

Imho. queer coding means “can be read as queer” (but doesn’t have to be) while a stereotype would be a queer person displaying stereotypical attributes.

I mean… those are bad stereotypes, the overwhelming number of gay people I have ever met do not express most of those attributes, they mainly exist because they were used to vilify queer people during the times of the Hayes Code and because when TV wasn’t allowed to show queerness, theater still was, so queer media became dominated by the theatrical.

Queer coding doesn’t necessary mean the character has to be queer, they just have to express stereotypical queer attributes, like wearing makeup (check), being sophisticated (check), having a flair (check) for the dramatic (check) being sexually confident (check) or even aggressive (check), displaying style and grace (check) while being intelligent (check) but not physically strong (check). Then there is the typical Disney-villain-physicality which also reads as queer coded, heavy lidded eyes, tightly trimmed beards, long faces (just look at Jafar and Scar next to each other)

In Jafar’s case he was animated by an openly gay animator and sang music written by an openly gay lyricist, both visibly had a lot of fun creating this fabulous mess of an evil sorcerer.

I dunno… one reason the anti-queer rethoric is so prevalent is because in much media, but mostly comics, theater and movies, there is a tradition of queer-coded-evilness, and often it reads as evil-queerness. Mainly due to the american “code for media decency” preventing potraying queer people in positive light for many years.

This came to associate queerness with perversion and malice and all the prejudice some people still associate gay people with today. And I don’t know if media-creators should play into that trope again.

I mean yes, Scar, Jafar and Ursula were resplendend and fascinating in their fabulous evilness. Sophisticated, oozing sexuality, theatrical and intelligent. And that makes them fascinating, wonderful characters but damn… I’m just so fed up with the media vilifying queer- and trans-coding.

And not only that, vilifying intelligence, the dramatic, sexual confidence and sophistication… or just british accents. The 90s Disneys movies were really really bad about all that.

“In all cultures, both name and place will come to elicit hushed tones and ultimately grow to be synonymous with doom of the very soul, itself.”

For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKv-liYc4qU

For the interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1UmlfP1Cg

For the fascinated: https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/

Yeah, well the DMA wasn’t going to cost most EU politicians much of their good ol’ corporate lobbying monies. But switching the EU off of Micro$oft would definitely not only lose those funds, but also introduce way more vigorous counter-lobbying.

One pro of the EU’s glacial pace is that they frog-boil the shareholders, meaning most counter-lobbying activities are relatively tame.

But damn, do I wish they would just give the finger to all those american corporations and start a 4-year transition to OSS.