Wow this little web comic sure has a passionate fan base. I thought for a minute I had wandered into an anime thread or something.
Observation 1: James is a wonderfully successful character to get everyone so worked up.
Observation 2: It is kind of hard to see what Tracy sees in James at this point.
Observation 3, and a question: No matter what James ends up doing, does anyone here believe that Gary could actually escape Tracy's friend zone? I sure don't see that happening.
19-10-2017 Consenting partners
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Ah, yes. Text only, proper threading and quoting, no emojis but easy to type emoticons - if allowed. I'm still subscribed to a few, and there's still at least one with an active and sensible readership.
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Re: 19-10-2017 Consenting partners
You presumably weren’t here when Gary lost his virginity.
So - a badly written character can get people “worked up”. (Well, more “theatrically irritated”, actually.) Hence, a badly written character is by definition “wonderfully successful”, right?Observation 1: James is a wonderfully successful character to get everyone so worked up.
Cunnilingus mastery, apparently. Which is after all the highest virtue in the Ma3 universe.Observation 2: It is kind of hard to see what Tracy sees in James at this point.
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Re: 19-10-2017 Consenting partners
My bad, i know that Kinsey was an observational scientist, my friends and i have been using that scale since high school and one does get used to use it for feelings as well... I think even Giz/Dave make that mistake.Spidrift wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:13 pmAs usually explained, the Kinsey scale is more about what someone does than what they feel. (Kinsey was an observational scientist.) So far, we've only seen James having (and, by his own account, thoroughly enjoying) a lot of sex with a woman, and having one (1) sexual encounter with a man. (Well, with a grapefruit wielded by a man, but he thought...) So he's currently Kinsey 1, and can probably never go beyond 4, even if he chucks Tracy and goes off to shack up with another guy.
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The scale is dated enough that I'm not sure that serious researchers would use it these days, whereas it gets twisted into all sorts of shapes in casual conversation. And it doesn't really address complexities like "slept only with men ten years ago, but now sleeps only with women and wouldn't touch men with a ten-foot pole" (or rather, far as I can make out, Kinsey agreed implicitly that people can shift up and down the scale over time). So don't sweat it... But I personally do tend to bear the "observational scientist" bit in mind.
(And if we're going by "inclinations", well, James can evidently get it up with a woman, and doesn't hate the experience, so I just can't see him as six-by-inclination.)
(And if we're going by "inclinations", well, James can evidently get it up with a woman, and doesn't hate the experience, so I just can't see him as six-by-inclination.)
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Re: 19-10-2017 Consenting partners
Man, I got my hopes up here for a bit...
Good idea, Tracy, but the execution...
Good idea, Tracy, but the execution...
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