Early update for November 25, 2024
Added 2024-11-24 04:55:01 +0000 UTCmisadventures in misgendering
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I mean, Dina’s not wrong.
Andrea Andrew
2024-11-24 17:56:51 +0000 UTCThere's so much good stuff to unpack in this strip that I feel we're overlooking Dina's sick yet subtle Joyce-burn in the last panel. All that's missing is a "Bless her heart."
Harold
2024-11-24 17:21:59 +0000 UTCYes, but this is Joyce and she's super critical of her mistakes. She'll get it right, she just needs a minute!
Grace Kieser
2024-11-24 07:26:05 +0000 UTCJoyce is doing better than my parents who still sometimes mess up two years I to my transition!
Grace Kieser
2024-11-24 07:21:11 +0000 UTCIn some ways I like Japanese, which tries to avoid using personal pronouns at all. Of course they have similar problems with honorifics, but as a non-native speaker I can just err to ’san’ if I don’t know. When speaking languages with gendered nouns, I just shrug and consider the gender part of the noun. My first foreign language was German so I’m used to it.
Crunchos cereal
2024-11-24 07:16:14 +0000 UTCIt’s okay Joyce, you’re still doing better after 5 minutes of knowing than my dad has after seven years
Elizabeth
2024-11-24 06:41:53 +0000 UTCYou're doing fine, Joyce
Bagge
2024-11-24 06:35:35 +0000 UTCWe all love tracking Joyce's facial expressions, and here they're supplemented with variations in how she holds her fingers as she goes through several emotions. The borderless frames highlight Joyce's pauses when she' horrified by her mistake and can't talk. Joe watches the spectacle and raises a forefinger to signal Dina to wait. Dina barely budges except to look at Joe when they have interacting dialogue. The fact that the five of them have split into two separate conversations keeps Joyce from hearing Jocelyne's comments about the experience of her hormone treatment, at least for the present.
Dan Rabin
2024-11-24 06:13:29 +0000 UTCHeh. This is family members talking about my baby brother.
Packy Anderson
2024-11-24 05:29:33 +0000 UTCShe's trying to speedrun her adjustment. Give her a minute, Dina
BBCC
2024-11-24 05:26:09 +0000 UTCAs my mother tongue has no gender-separated third person pronouns, I misgender people all the time in languages that do. I’ve been trying to just use ’they’, unless I know their preference, but I make mistakes all the time. (There is then the distinction between ’hän’ and ’se’, which is not simple, either.)
Crunchos cereal
2024-11-24 05:23:40 +0000 UTC@Andrea Andrew: Same here! Once it was clear that Dorothy was actually going to send Joyce a pic, I assumed that the preview panel was showing Joyce's mortified (but... intrigued) reaction upon realizing what had happened.
Harold
2024-11-24 05:19:00 +0000 UTCThere’s a huge difference between misgendering someone because you’re a transphobic asshole, and misgendering someone because you’ve had ten minutes to adjust to the knowledge that the person you thought was your brother your whole life is actually your sister.
Populuxe
2024-11-24 05:16:10 +0000 UTCLove when Joyce gets a system update. Also love that the Joyce Way isn't "oops oh no I'm so sorry oh noooo woe" but instead "dammit upgrade finish propagating before you embarrass me further"
Moomers Journal
2024-11-24 05:10:54 +0000 UTCAnd here I thought Joyce was blushing at the Dorothy photos she’ll soon see.
Andrea Andrew
2024-11-24 05:10:19 +0000 UTC
