04/23/15 Desert Basin 09

10 Comments

1. 

   Coyoty

   April 23, 2015 at 1:28 am

   I changed my mind. Shake his hand.
2. 

   Herandar

   April 23, 2015 at 7:59 am

   And she wouldn’t even turn around to acknowledge Julie!
3. 

   Stewart

   April 23, 2015 at 10:24 am

   These two remind me of someone out of a Kate Beaton comic. 😀
4. 

   Karlos F.

   April 23, 2015 at 10:42 am

   I’m with coyoty, but not just shake his hand… Slap him in the head!!
   (sorry, I don’t know the right expression in english)
5. 

   Owen Smith

   April 23, 2015 at 3:07 pm

   Alas these two remind me of some of my bosses at work.
6. 

   LEH

   April 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm

   Presidentress? What century are we in? Can we *please* stop using the diminutive just because the one holding the title is female?
7. 

   Donahe

   April 23, 2015 at 6:03 pm

   @LEH i agree, and am sure Christopher does as well with you,example,i think the word actress is strange, and use the word actor for both sexes. Here in the story Christopher is, how i intrepeted it, is painting this future society as a one that has regressed in social values of equality and this an other example,
8. 

   Herandar

   April 24, 2015 at 9:04 am

   I think it sounds better than “First Lady” actually. Who is to say that they don’t share power? (A: Don can say that.)
9. 

   mouse

   April 24, 2015 at 5:19 pm

   I’m thinking before she approaches the next set of heads of state, she maybe needs to plan her speech out just a teensy bit more.
10. 

    Christopher Baldwin

    April 29, 2015 at 11:45 am

    @LEH, I read and thought a decent amount about the terms. I didn’t want to use “first lady” nor “Mrs. president” because both seemed to imply the “wife of the president.” My thoughts were that they were monarchs, taken or manipulated themseleves to non-term continuous power, and shared the power equally. And using those terms both to show them using the word “president/ress” to give the illusion of democracy, but also as Don suggested, a bit of a sociall regression in values. That said, I will consider changing it simply to “president john spencer and president helen spencer” and am open to other ideas. 🙂