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Cyanide & Happiness

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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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide & Happiness related!

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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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app -1 points 25 minutes ago

With strangers? Probably not unless I'm passing a blunt.

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.

I'm not reclaiming it. I'm encouraging non-males to use it because it's fun.

This you?

I stand by that dude is gender neutral if for no other reason than to reclaim it as such.

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?