Took me a bit on the pervert thing – but you can see lines indicating a certain fullness in the chestal area in that panel and the others around it – so I took that to be what people were saying was proof of femality (I’m just making up words all over the place lol). Actually I thought it was a bit ambiguous right up to this point – her thoughts on the learnings of a young wombat in the fourth comic could be generically female especially being raised in a strongly matriarchal society (interestingly so is the hyena society – coincidence?). The lines themselves in the pervert panel could have merely been indications of the plumpness of earth rabbits that the hyena hunting party was salivating over. But here the statue actually refers to Digger as “her” which is the first actual verbal indication I’ve seen.
You know, I’ve read through this comic three times now, and I own the first book, and I only just now realized why Digger was accused of being a pervert (thanks to these comments, mostly!) I guess my mind just isn’t that corrupted.
Cue long discussion about “default settings” and fictional tropes. tl;dr version: if you think there has to be a *reason* for a character like this one to be female, the problem isn’t the character, it’s your unexpressed assumptions.
On an entirely different subject from the rest of the comments, I always wonder how people can get their qus so thick. (Is that even a qu, or does the shaving down to a small circle make it a different hairstyle?)
Ooh, caught my own sexism. Assumed Digger was a male. Is this the first time you used the female pronoun?
Actually it was mentioned first on the 4th comic
The first thing a young wombat learns is that if she’s lost… there’s a direction she can always count on to go somewhere… straight up.
and it’s been mentioned a number of times since.
I figured it on the pervert joke
i don’t get it… why is digger a girl?
Weird thing: I got it back on page 3 or 4 where Delta referenced, but the pervert thing didn’t make much sense to me anyway.
@ Taneshi Why is Digger a girl? Um, because she has two X chromosomes?
Took me a bit on the pervert thing – but you can see lines indicating a certain fullness in the chestal area in that panel and the others around it – so I took that to be what people were saying was proof of femality (I’m just making up words all over the place lol). Actually I thought it was a bit ambiguous right up to this point – her thoughts on the learnings of a young wombat in the fourth comic could be generically female especially being raised in a strongly matriarchal society (interestingly so is the hyena society – coincidence?). The lines themselves in the pervert panel could have merely been indications of the plumpness of earth rabbits that the hyena hunting party was salivating over. But here the statue actually refers to Digger as “her” which is the first actual verbal indication I’ve seen.
You know, I’ve read through this comic three times now, and I own the first book, and I only just now realized why Digger was accused of being a pervert (thanks to these comments, mostly!) I guess my mind just isn’t that corrupted.
Why *shouldn’t* Digger be a girl?
Cue long discussion about “default settings” and fictional tropes. tl;dr version: if you think there has to be a *reason* for a character like this one to be female, the problem isn’t the character, it’s your unexpressed assumptions.
On an entirely different subject from the rest of the comments, I always wonder how people can get their qus so thick. (Is that even a qu, or does the shaving down to a small circle make it a different hairstyle?)