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Makepeace McEvoy 4/5/2025 4:06

That last line made me laugh out loud. :-D Weaver can be a bit of a jerk himself occasionally, but I can't help liking him nonetheless!

swankivy

That's exactly what I'm going with his character! What a little jackass. Whom we all love.

Bill 4/5/2025 14:37

Again a character mistakenly believes he has more experience with human hormonal crap than he really does - it's more believable from alix than adele (though the latter can get away with pretending to know everything most of the time). He ran away from home to join the circus. He has that one girl friend that we saw a while back, which it seems like he met when they were already adults. He spent most of his post-pubescant life with circus freaks and dax and weaver's gang. Did he get this stuff through osmosis from TV like weaver did? I kinda thought he was an only child but we were never told if he has siblings

swankivy

When characters reveal knowledge they have, the reader should say "Oh, guess he's been through something that would have given him that knowledge." Instead, you're telling me Alix's past is limited to what you remember about it, and therefore he must have never known anyone who experienced female puberty and is therefore talking out his ass.
Alix is an only child, but he lived with his parents for his entire childhood. His mother is one adult woman he's been around; he doesn't know what her puberty was like, but she would have at least been someone in his life who had periods. (Alix is not only worried about the onset of puberty, but also about how supposedly moody he thinks women get at their time of the month, and that is also applied to adults.)
Alix went to public school, which he's mentioned, and which I think we can agree would have exposed him to girls going through puberty. And he worked a few jobs over the years (including a job at the circus, which as I've mentioned before, was not "running away to join the circus"; it's just a job he took, as an adult).
He didn't grow up in a bubble isolated from normal human interaction. He's had friends and relationships (yes, including the female friend you mentioned--Cherie, who's mentioned in the previous issue). Odd, given all this, that you suggest he must have learned about things that affect girls and women from television.

Bill 4/14/2025 12:05

Um... alix is a dude. We're clueless about this stuff. I've had a female roommate and the most I've learned about periods is from Alix and Adele. And for some reason it's impossible to comment on issue 1039?

swankivy

So we're going with "It's impossible for men to know anything about periods! Because we're dudes!" You are objectively wrong about this. The fact that YOU didn't listen to people with periods (or they didn't feel like they could talk to you about it) doesn't mean men simply can't know anything about topics that don't affect them. Though that's moot in this situation since we're discussing a dude who is saying ignorant things about periods based on his assumptions about women's moods, and it's clear that's not unusual.
(Yes, the form for 1039 didn't update for some reason, but I fixed it the following week when I saw it was broken.)

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Makepeace McEvoy	4/5/2025	4:06
That last line made me laugh out loud. :-D Weaver can be a bit of a jerk himself occasionally, but I can't help liking him nonetheless!
swankivy
That's exactly what I'm going with his character! What a little jackass. Whom we all love.
Bill	4/5/2025	14:37
Again a character mistakenly believes he has more experience with human hormonal crap than he really does - it's more believable from alix than adele (though the latter can get away with pretending to know everything most of the time). He ran away from home to join the circus. He has that one girl friend that we saw a while back, which it seems like he met when they were already adults. He spent most of his post-pubescant life with circus freaks and dax and weaver's gang. Did he get this stuff through osmosis from TV like weaver did? I kinda thought he was an only child but we were never told if he has siblings
swankivy
When characters reveal knowledge they have, the reader should say "Oh, guess he's been through something that would have given him that knowledge." Instead, you're telling me Alix's past is limited to what you remember about it, and therefore he must have never known anyone who experienced female puberty and is therefore talking out his ass. Alix is an only child, but he lived with his parents for his entire childhood. His mother is one adult woman he's been around; he doesn't know what her puberty was like, but she would have at least been someone in his life who had periods. (Alix is not only worried about the onset of puberty, but also about how supposedly moody he thinks women get at their time of the month, and that is also applied to adults.) Alix went to public school, which he's mentioned, and which I think we can agree would have exposed him to girls going through puberty. And he worked a few jobs over the years (including a job at the circus, which as I've mentioned before, was not "running away to join the circus"; it's just a job he took, as an adult). He didn't grow up in a bubble isolated from normal human interaction. He's had friends and relationships (yes, including the female friend you mentioned--Cherie, who's mentioned in the previous issue). Odd, given all this, that you suggest he must have learned about things that affect girls and women from television.
Bill	4/14/2025	12:05
Um... alix is a dude. We're clueless about this stuff. I've had a female roommate and the most I've learned about periods is from Alix and Adele. And for some reason it's impossible to comment on issue 1039?
swankivy
So we're going with "It's impossible for men to know anything about periods! Because we're dudes!" You are objectively wrong about this. The fact that YOU didn't listen to people with periods (or they didn't feel like they could talk to you about it) doesn't mean men simply can't know anything about topics that don't affect them. Though that's moot in this situation since we're discussing a dude who is saying ignorant things about periods based on his assumptions about women's moods, and it's clear that's not unusual. (Yes, the form for 1039 didn't update for some reason, but I fixed it the following week when I saw it was broken.)