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    Default Re: Erfworld 78, Page 72

    Quote Originally Posted by DeathQuaker View Post
    Well, don't. Not to dis Girl Wonder -- I don't always agree with her, but she has some good stuff to say -- but her "women's intuition" isn't mine.
    Well, if it were infallible, we wouldn't be intuitive, we'd be psychic.

    I was thinking about this earlier, and it might be a mistake for any of us to read too much into what we've been shown in this regard, since what we're essentially viewing is a male writer's direction to a male artist to depict, in a suggestive matter, two women engaged in a [X] type of relationship, where [X] is whatever the heck is really going on between them, the subject of much debate. So for me to apply gender-specific 'intuition' (shame on me for invoking it, I suppose ;) ) is probably a mistake, since we're not viewing a real relationship, nor even two actresses depicting a real relationship, but an artist's interpretation of same, and his interpretations are colored by his identity as a recently married, homeowning part-time male webcomic artist, which may or may not depict [X] the same way in which my own intuition would interpret an ideal depiction of [X].

    So, this is my wordy way of saying: I STILL am not convinced Wanda/Jillian's relationship is, essentially, a romantic one, but for me to put too much stock in an intuitive guess based on my own gender perspective as to what is really going on is likely a mistake on my part. Boo, me! :P
    Last edited by Girl Wonder; 2007-09-25 at 05:22 PM.