Cyanide & Happiness
About
Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
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History
@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:
About this community and how I post the comics⦠Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
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Women I know? Yeah lol. I have and I will continue to with the ones I know. We all say dude. Trans or not. With strangers? Probably not unless I'm passing a blunt.
What am I doing when I call a trans woman 'dude'? Usually including her in my inner circle because they know I'm not a chud.
I'm not reclaiming it. I'm encouraging non-males to use it because it's fun. Definitions change with use. Tons of words used to be gendered and aren't now. A famous example is "scientist"
Why not? Why the hesitancy?
I wouldn't hesitate to call a trans person a person, stranger, friend, acquaintance, buddy, or any number of gender neutral terms. If they're a trans man I wouldn't hesitate to call them dude.
But you, you use dude, you profess to believe that it's a gender neutral term. You wouldn't use it for a trans woman without hesitation? That something to introspect over. Same as you could possibly introspect why you believe dude is a gendered term in all cases, but conveniently not this one. Use dude how you like, just be honest about it.
This you?
I'm not sure it's for men to reclaim gendered words or encourage non-men to reclaim specific words for my own usage. For the same reason for the same reason I don't think straight people should encourage queer folk to reclaim words to make me more comfortable about using them. Or non white folk should reclaim race words so I can use them. Can you see why?
Your attempts to psychoanalyze me are falling flat when this is a conversation I've had dozens of times with both men and women. I'm an art school graduate who took a genders studies class that literally discussed the neutralization of vocatives like dude and man
You're stuck on the idea that I go around calling everyone dude when I never said that. Are you going around saying "thanks, buddy" to every cashier? Didn't think so.
Context, tone, and relationships matter. I'm pretty sure if I tripped and instinctually said "thanks dude" or "thanks man" when a trans woman helped me up, it'd be pretty obvious I'm not being a chud. If I said it with a scowl, that'd be a different story
I'm just applying your idea that 'dude' is gender neutral to the world we live in. It isn't you agreed it isn't, except in this one specific context.
Just like the 'dude is gender neutral' homophobic guys get upset when I ask how many dude they've had sex with, you're doing the same thing. Sometimes it's fun
You're being weird about what was intended to be an uplifting comment about the malleability of language.
Dude was originally an insult to men. Guess we can't call men dudes anymore either, huh?
I agreed it was malleable. You see how I mentioned us using he/him as a gender neutral term, and then stopped because it was obviously gendered? Dude is also obviously gendered.
Ok? I'd like the etymology of dude though. What makes you think I'd go to bat for using the word dude? But men can reclaim words used to insult them if they want, I've been consistent on that.
Pretty sure you've been trying to trap me in some kind of a gotcha but ok.
Be a dude or don't, I don't care. It'd wouldn't be very dudelike of me to judge you either way
Nah, just trying to get you to introspect. Its hard to do, ask me how I know.
Dude is obviously gendered right? We both agreed. You have argued that in one context it isn't. Similar to how he/him was argued to be gender neutral for instruction/operator manuals, but he/him is uncontroversially understood to be gendered now. We can introspect, and learn or dig in and have out ideas reflected back at us.
You can encourage someone to introspect or rethink their opinions but you cannot expect them to always reach the same conclusions that you have.
I agree. Encouraging someone to introspect and rethink is better than not. All I can do is present that we've learned this lesson before with he/him as a default term and reflect their own ideas back to them.
calm down
Probably a good idea.
But it's fun to make people live/confront their ideas: Dude is gender neutral. Your mum is a dude? Your wife? You don't believe dude is gender neutral at all, you just don't want to introspect about your usage of dude.
Dude is gender neutral because we used it as such. We used he/him as gender neutral you believe he/him is gender neutral? You don't believe that he/him is gender neutral, you just don't want to introspect about your usage of dude.
Not you specifically, just examples.