-EDIT- Decided to take the feedback about “spaz” and adjust Tehk’s word choice accordingly. Didn’t intend it to carry slur connotations.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
-EDIT- Decided to take the feedback about “spaz” and adjust Tehk’s word choice accordingly. Didn’t intend it to carry slur connotations.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! This page makes me so happy!
(What? Not all commentary can be witty and insightful! Sometimes I just have gushy feels to spill everywhere.)
Nope, I’m with you. It’s wonderful to just watch them be a happy family together.
Amazing family interaction moment! I also love that Todd calls them “pluralses.” đ
Don’t know about the US, but as far as I know, “spaz” is a slur against people with cerebral palsy. English is not my first language, so take my word with a grain of salt, but I think it’s considered pretty bad in the UK at least.
Iâve never heard it used in a slur context before, usually it just means the person is over-reacting. Itâs inoffensive here, or at least it is in my area. Open to discussion on it though.
Oooooh, no, I just assumed you knew it was a rude way to phrase it and had Tehk say that on purpose. On the one hand, “spaz” isn’t on the level of, say, the R-slur, but it’s definitely not “inoffensive.” At the same time, it’s very realistic for kids to say it without knowing the context and everything behind it. Back when I was in middle school, my friends and I used it in an almost affectionate way, but I luckily grew out of that phase as I have no business reclaiming it.
Dave, you might want to check the Wikipedia article âSpasticâ which gives a pretty good breakdown of UK & US usage. In my area, it is seen as a slur that is on its way out, like âretardedâ or âGypsyâ, especially among the younger crowd.
Interestingly, the Wikitionary page for “spaz” says it’s “more commonly used in the U.S. but is still offensive to many in the disability community,” while the Wikitionary page for “spastic” claims it and “spaz” are “inoffensive” in the US. (In the UK, they’re both very offensive.)
In my opinion, it’s not a great word to use, and I’d probably at least side-eye any adult using it.
I can’t watch the youtube tonight, as my internet is super fake dial up tonight (theoretical “broadband” but ISDN speeds at best), but the last two panels still made me happy.
Thank you.
I mean, mainly because I would often do that with children in my care for fun kind of thing. Though usually by their arms.
There are adults much bigger than me now that I have swung around for fun in our pasts, and I hope they remember the times as fondly as I.
Gosh! The Bad Old Days!
Iâm really surprised the kid with Type I was allowed in my school. Anyone else was sent to one of the âOther Schoolsâ. Those days were so awful. There is just no way to describe how awful. There werenât even Catholics in my school, in case we might catch âIdeasâ. It was so awful.
Ok, things are not good now, but so much better than back then.
The guy with C.P. on my block, despite being sent to school for the Developmentally Delayed, he became a Lawyer! Just because he didnât move well, … he still had an IQ in the 140s. Gosh it was an awful time.
In my experience (60 years spent mostly in KS, with various sojourns elsewhere both within and out of the USA), “spaz” is inoffensive only when used affectionately between friends who have chosen to view it so. Kind of like “Dummy”, “Stupid”, and “Idiot”. Even so, in common usage it’s a lot closer in feel to “Retard” than to “Spastic”, which essentially means “having muscle spasms”. If you’re saying it to/about a stranger, it’s intent is definitely an insult.
Yeah, I flinched the moment I read the word and I’d rather see you replace it with another one. I have worked with differently abled people and that word hurts. đ Mind you, I am still wincing and correcting myself at some of the words I use so don’t think I am claiming higher virtue.That said, I enjoyed the joy and the friendship and the progress in this episode! Selkie looks so happy lately.
Don’t swing her too hard, Todd. You may hit a wall and break her leg like Nitta did to Hina in HinaMatsuri.
I donât think that is a problem, because weâre not using Anime physics here, just Daveâs Physics. Children here donât break as easily as in other comics, not sure the mechanism but it has to be a trade off between armor class, hit points, agility, and stamina. I have no feel for what Dave rolls; 2D20, … or what. But his characterâs stats are consistent…if mysterious.
I’m sorry, does that middle panel not look super ominous to anyone else? It just totally clashes with the rest of the story on the page for me and completely takes me out of the experience.
Dave you’ve become too powerful in your use of color & shades to set a mood. I can’t see anything but real danger here, no matter that I tell myself it’s just her dad (going from the next panels)