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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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[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So from one male dude to every non-male dude, get in on these fun linguistics! Dude is gender neutral if you say it is.

I get what you're trying to say, but you gotta realize that for people who do not want to be called "dude" because it does have certain gendered connotations, this doesn't come across well.

You're basically saying "I've already decided this term is gender neutral, and the only path forward is for you to get on board and accept my conclusion. I don't see any reason to adjust my language and if you don't want to be called dude that's your problem."

You can just not refer to people with terms they don't want to be referred as, it's pretty simple. You're free to talk to people however you want, but ignoring or arguing with people's requests for how to address them will only ever serve to alienate and isolate you from them.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I felt I was pretty careful in my wording but I guess not.

I don't go around referring to everyone as dude, I said I promote the idea that dude is gender neutral to everyone because it's a fun word.

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No worries, I also assumed the worst and that's my bad. I'm just too used to seeing people whose default response to being challenged on their use of "dude" or "man" is to dig their heels in and argue about it.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I definitely don't support saying something like "that's a dude" when referring to a woman and won't argue that it's never offensive. I just think it's a fun word non-males shouldn't be denied.

I mean, if someone decides to start speaking my dialect and then telling me that even though I've been speaking it all my life and they only took a college community extension course in gender studies not even in linguistics, the definitions I use are incorrect and the definition they use is correct. Why would I deign to listen to them?