I love the lecture. If it was me I’d just kick someone’s IP address into the sea cause a guy who thinks a woman “requesting not to be fondled” is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD is a guy I want nowhere near me or my work. But publicly ridiculing him is even sweeter.

Cool your jets. As any person with disabilities can tell you, we’re not about to abandon our meat-puppet bodies any time soon.

What we ARE doing is figuring out what kinds and shapes of meat-bodies are considered acceptable. That’s where I’m looking for progress.

Reminds me of Aimee Mullins!

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This is one of the coolest things happening in webcomics right now, and I’m not sure why it hasn’t gotten more attention. Mankind is on the verge of jumping out of its meat-puppet bodies and becoming immortal, and stuff like gender and appearance will be nearly irrelevant(but oh, the way Sulla looked at that boy!). And yet we still see people who are stuck in the mud when they should be soaring to the stars. Ad Astra, Per Aspera.

Wrong. She must wear a bedsheet, like a trick or treater who decided they wanted to be a ghost at the last minute and threw one over their head!

Yes, for women beauty is almost always constructed as something done to please others, rather than the self. So the reaction to that can take the form of “protective coloration” – something deliberately startling or disconcertingly outside the status quo.

Reclaiming beauty as someone for one’s own enjoyment and not for others can be hard, especially for people with disabilities whose appearance is constantly being commented upon/policed. See comment below about Alison Lapper, for whom “beauty” initially was located in uncomfortable and unusable prosthetics. I’d say she has reclaimed beauty on her own terms.

BTW, censor me remorselessly if I start to drag the discussion somewhere you don’t want it going. I have a hide like a rhino about stuff like that.