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{{comic | {{comic | ||
|number = 223 | |number = 223 | ||
− | | date = February 14, | + | | date = February 14, 2006 |
| title = Valentine's Day | | title = Valentine's Day | ||
− | | image = valentines_day.jpg | + | | image = valentines_day.jpg |
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| titletext = One of these days me and Joey Comeau will get around to subverting the hetero-normative paradigm and fixing all this. | | titletext = One of these days me and Joey Comeau will get around to subverting the hetero-normative paradigm and fixing all this. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | Love is already pretty complicated. Valentine's day makes it more complicated by introducing all kinds of questions. Is our relationship such that it should be acknowledged on Valentine's Day? If so, how? If by a card, what kind of card would be best? If by something more than a card, what? Candy? Flowers? A Date? What does the Valentine I received really mean? Friendship? Love? A covert request for sex? As an example of the kinds of dilemmas that can arise, see [[1016: Valentine Dilemma]]. | |
− | + | {{w|Joey Comeau}} is the author of the webcomic [http://www.asofterworld.com/ A Softer World]. He is a queer comic whose work also discusses love in various forms, so between them Randall Munroe and he are a good team to consider working on "subverting the hetero-normal paradigm". Whether or not anything that cartoons can do would fix the Valentine's day problem is another issue. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Because love isn't quite complicated enough as it is. | :Because love isn't quite complicated enough as it is. | ||
− | {{comic discussion}} | + | {{comic discussion}} |
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:Valentines]] | [[Category:Valentines]] | ||
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