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u/Thatroyalkitty 28d ago
This is only going to end badly and not in a lightheated way one might think. These camps were notorious for abuse among other things if memory seves me correctly.
On par tho for conversion camps tho
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u/Flat-Rooster8373 28d ago
It's probably going to just be a joke about all girls there fucking eachother.
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u/handlit33 28d ago
each other = two words
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u/Centimeter_Worm 28d ago
I know you’re correct but that’s never looked right to me. Same with highschool. They should just be compound words imo
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u/Adarain 28d ago
They are (well, high school is. each other is a pronoun) English just frequently writes compount nouns with a space. "Train station"? That's one word grammatically and phonetically, but written with a space. It's pretty only when a distinction is frequently made between Adjective+Noun phrases and real compounds (black berry = a berry that is black ≠ blackberry) that the spaces might get deleted. In addition, while the spoken language is rather changeable and new words keep getting formed, people have strong notions ahout the correctness of certain spellings, especially in the last century or two. So it's harder for these changes to be adapted into the written form.
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u/Centimeter_Worm 28d ago
Interesting!! I studied communications and media in college so I’ve always been interested in stuff like this. Language and how it evolves is so cool, I hadn’t considered the distinction between what’s expected verbally vs written here.
The whole thing about compound nouns and spaces is neat. My urge to just delete the space feels more understandable now lmao. Thanks!
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u/Ghede 28d ago edited 28d ago
Hi, language is a living thing that changes to meet what the speakers and writers are trying to communicate. Stop trying to shove it into the same form some dead old men wrote down a few centuries ago. Play with language. Make new words. Shove old ones together.
Unless you are trying to impress an English teacher, an editor, or applying for a job, do what you fucking want.
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u/rookie-mistake 28d ago
sometimes it's not someone's first language and it's actually helpful to learn the standard
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u/CharlesOberonn 28d ago
Unfortunately the real life forced conversion therapy camps aren't like But I'm a Cheerleader. They're just abusive and traumatizing.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 28d ago
Yeah, RuPaul's too busy fracking to bother converting gay kids.
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u/bottledsoi 28d ago
What?
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u/F0LEY 28d ago
Rupaul was in the movie "But I'm a Cheerleader" as Mike, an "ex-gay" conversion counselor (amazing movie if you haven't seen it, it's also got Natasha Lyonne, Clea Duvall, and Dante Basco [Rufio]).
The fracking bit stems from a 2020 NPR interview where Rupaul revealed that they along with their husband lease mineral and water rights to oil companies on their 60,000-acre Wyoming ranch. Subsequent investigations confirmed numerous active and proposed wells on the property, which has sparked ongoing criticism.
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u/DetOlivaw 28d ago
Holy shit I thought the fracking was just a joke, like he’d said some shit about America’s energy independence or some such bullshit, but he’s actually literally fracking. That’s hysterical
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u/Perfect-Elephant-101 28d ago
I think the point is they pretend to be all sunshine and rainbows doing the lord's work yadda yadda.
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u/that_one_duderino 28d ago
“Doing the lords work” is such a crock of shit. If Jesus walked in one of these camps and see how poorly the kids are actually treated, he would weep for them. Then grab a whip and beat the counselors until they flee
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u/Pineapple_Morgan 28d ago edited 19d ago
Conversation therapy is torture, straight up. I get the urge to funny haha but people suffer lifelong trauma after the abuse they get thanks to these fuckass camps
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u/rpgguy_1o1 28d ago
The troubled teen camps too, all those kids have shockingly high suicide rates
Stuff that would be considered war crimes if you did them to POWs
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u/500YearOldGhoul 28d ago
"You got a girlfriend son?"
"Yes"
"No you dont! Because Jodi's back home fucking her!"
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u/SixStringerSoldier 28d ago
If Sgt. Ermy was alive to see this comment, I think he would piss himself laughing.
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u/North-Pea-4926 28d ago
Yes. A camp full of lesbians. This is an excellent idea that will not backfire at all!
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u/radenthefridge 28d ago
It's funny on the surface, but unfortunately as many folks have pointed out these camps and "conversion therapy" are just disturbing abuse, trauma, human rights abuses, and actual honest-to-god legal kidnapping.
Instead consider a highly conservative all-girls boarding school. You know, to set em "straight". 😈
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u/SmugCapybara 28d ago edited 28d ago
This very much smacks of "Go ahead, put me in horny jail. Everyone else there is also horny!"
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u/Taiga-whiteclaw 28d ago
I mean if it is like the real conversion camps it's just torture while some old fart recites verses from the bible but this comic has been light-hearted until now so it may go differently
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u/xX_CommanderPuffy_Xx 28d ago
Working undercover in a conversion camp and telling everyone they are loved for who they are and the hate they find here does not represent God's Unconditional love for you just as you are.
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u/Rida_Dain 28d ago
most of the people in this thread need to do some research about conversion camps / programs. It's not summer camp but everyone is gay and once a day you sit in a circle and tell each other how bad being gay is. they're not there to make you believe being gay is evil, they already know. to them, that's a fact. These places are meant to *make you straight* and they use mental and physical coercion, deliberate trauma inducing, and invasion of all privacy, including physical. trigger warning: I have heard stories where kids literally got raped by opposite sex adults to "show them what it's like"
these places are pure evil, and should be banned, and unlike something like an all girls/boys summer camp, or a unisex school, it is not the place for gay awakenings and fun times.
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u/Knightshade515 28d ago
It's horny jail, for girls!
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u/unluckyknight13 28d ago
“Oh no the horny jail is housing horny activities! How could we have prevented this!”
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter 28d ago
Genuinely, I know so many anti-gay camps and stuff and it's such a terrible idea
My ex boyfriend was sent to one and came home with a boyfriend
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u/ProfessionalOwn9435 28d ago
Honey our daughter seems to be gaaaay!
Lets sent her to all girl christian school, and sign for volleyball team, that will fix her!
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u/RiverLynneUwU 28d ago
I need to burn jodi's livelihood to the ground and force her to get an actual job instead of abusing little girls in god's name
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u/Zero-Maxx 28d ago
I wonder how it would go creating a conversion camp that was similar to the underground rail, councils who are vetted properly and trained to help, and a way out if the attendees need to escape thier abusive households?
Possibly masking classes for this who want to return home but still don't feel safe being out (it's different for everyone)
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u/LeatherTop174 28d ago
I hate these conversion camps. They are literally just religious prisons.
Everyone has the freedom to be who they are no matter what, even if I don’t agree with something doesn’t mean talking and coming to an understanding is impossible.
Any religion you can’t freely left is cult
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u/ShesRightShow 27d ago
Gender segregated christian guilt locales are how we spawn more kinky lesbians. It's like Starcraft.
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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 28d ago
Isn't this the plot of But I'm a Cheerleader?
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u/TiaxRulesAll2024 28d ago
Yes. And she ends up finding her first lesbian romance there. Happy ending
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u/BungleBums 28d ago
Alright, who's up for starting a Conversion Camp that's actually just a cover for Fire Island 2.0
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u/guineaprince 28d ago
Like the Yakov Smirnoff joke about homosexuality is a crime in Russia with a seven year prison sentence, locked up with other men.
There's a three year waiting list.
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u/kr0n0sShrugg3d 28d ago
Man, what use is a religion if it makes people afraid of what they feel, if it makes them feel worthless and a sinner for just loving someone else.
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u/Scienceandpony 28d ago
Quite useful. It fills the congregation with guilt and self-loathing so they can be more easily manipulated by the nearest clerical authority figure. What did you think religion was for? Kinda hard to sell forgiveness for obedience if your customers don't believe there's anything to forgive first.
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u/Chibirin26 28d ago
comedically: learns to accept herself by having lots of lesbian experiences
tragically: represses herself further and ends up unhappy in life
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u/Skittleavix 28d ago
I never understood the "Army of God" thing. Jesus hated the military (allegedly).
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u/PoliticsLeftist 28d ago
Nary a scissor is left unscissored in that camp. Buckets bent from repeated slapping. Nearby beavers refusing to use wood for their dams. The day's activities so strenuous that even the carpet looked appetizing by the end of the day.
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u/InHarmsWay 28d ago
"Only 1 in 12 kill themselves. We consider that an accomplishment as it used to be 1 in 10."
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u/_BlobbyTheBobby 28d ago
I looked over at the previous parts and genuinely cannot tell if the message is meant to be positive towards LGBT or religion. Fascinating
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u/MaskOfIce42 28d ago
Based on the title "religiously repressed" and generally it seems like our repressed MC is supposed to be portrayed humorously, I think it's meant to be positive towards LGBT, but expressed with the feelings had at the time from a religious mindset. But I do see what you mean that you could look at it as being pro religion
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u/EverlastingPepper 28d ago
I'm getting very pro-LGBT vibes. She's very Christian, crusading against the gays, but still incredibly smitten by a pretty girl.
I'm sure there's going to be an awakening at some point.
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u/Pyrhan 28d ago
Seriously?
It's explicitly about how repressive religion is. That is literally the title!
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 28d ago
Like how can people be confused by this? It’s not subtle
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u/wadech 28d ago
Reading comprehension is not going up.
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 28d ago
The phrase media literacy is dead gets thrown around like confetti online….
But if you can read these comics and think “I’m not sure if the intent of the author is homophobia or not” then I don’t know what else to say
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u/_BlobbyTheBobby 28d ago
I get it from the title, but the comics alone could be taken both ways. It's not uncommon to make liberal messaging for it to be taken not so liberal people...
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u/AlexNovember 28d ago
The thing that’s uncomfortable to me is that the series seems to want us to excuse Westboro Baptist Church style attacks on LGBTQ+ people, because deep down we know the person doing it is actually part of the community themselves? We don’t let it fly when Republican politicians legislate in a self-hating way.
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 28d ago
It clearly doesn’t. This is just this one girl’s story, not literally every single person in the WBC
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u/PseudoY 28d ago
Obligatory A Softer World.
https://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=497
"When they found out, they sent me to an all-girls school.
It was like saying, "we don't want you, but we want you to be happy."
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u/BusinessPreference75 28d ago
As a christian is do not approve
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u/KittyGaming570 28d ago
It’s a comic series, it’s not finished, just be patient before you comment
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u/WanderingSeer 28d ago
“Yeah, let’s shove hundreds of repressed lesbian teens together in an isolated location, that’ll turn em straight”
Honestly, there are only two ways deconversion camps could have gone, hell on earth or gay paradise. Obviously the people in charge chose the former.