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The current story arc started with this strip: The Quesion of All Questions.
- Wikipedia: Puppy love is an informal term for feelings of love between young people during childhood and adolescence, [...] The term is often used in a derogatory fashion, describing emotions which are shallow and transient in comparison to other forms of love such as romantic love.
- Wikipedia: Emotion in animals considers the question of what emotions certain species of non-human animals feel, [...] Often expressions of apparent pleasure are ambiguous as to whether this is emotion, or simply innate response, perhaps to approval or other hard-wired cues.
- Richard: True feelings. The privilege of middle-aged white men.
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LOL sarcasm
You know… I totally forgot there was a racoon character in this comic when watching this arc, until this comic xD
I just wanted to note that many of the folks studying emotions (including in animals) are men and women (women are well represented in research psychology) and have a variety of ethnicities and nationalities. They also come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. They’re in their early to midtwenties and above.
What they share is a belief that the scientific method brings greater certainty (though not necessarily total certainty), the belief that some things can be proven wrong, and the belief that phenomena (like animal emotions) must be explained in terms of their role in a wider evolutionary, cognitive, and social system, and that assuming animal emotions means you take on some potentially disprovable (or provable) assumptions about that (those) system(s).
They may also share cultural assumptions, motivations, and other biases that could lead them to favor certain beliefs. These biases are more likely to effect a) the topic of research and b) extrapolation based on existing research than the analysis of the data itself. Of course, if you never seriously look for animal emotion, you won’t find it.
But, consider this, who is more arrogant, an individual that trusts her own impression simply because its hers or an individual that systematically seeks to validate or invalidate her own impression, knowing full well that even decades worth of judgments may be wrong?
@ Anonymous:
anonymous, I am suprised
Anonymous wrote:
I am surprised you can’t find love, anonymous, you write such beautiful poetry.
Great strip. Just gets better and better,
Why did Sandra’s dad switch from an Apple to a Vaio?
The only problem here I see is that nothing in either of those definitions specified either “white” or “men” so the last comment should have been: “True feelings: the privilege of adult humans.”
Saying “white men” adds an unnecessary level of specific blame to the attitude
@ Luke “Thrythlind” Green:
Richard recognized the tendency of definition makers to define themselves as superior – so he added “white men” (a group that for a long time believed in its superiority) to make the definition of superiority sound properly absurd.
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@ Novil:
Are you serious the look on Sandra and Woo’s faces alone is so adorable its impossible to ignore.
“Richard: True feelings. The privilege of middle-aged white men.”
Why? it’s somewhat… well, you know.
I was going to link to celtic thunder’s version of puppy love, but it’s been taken off youtube
there’s a short bit of it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTquZUzDDYo beginning at 1:15.
@ Adon Rose:
The father was also being sarcastic. Please go to sleep, you’ll feel better in the morning.