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What is Marigold's fundamental character?
questionablecontentfan:
You think Marigold is a pathetic, weird, smelly loser?
Tellusora:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 02 Sep 2011, 18:56 ---You think Marigold is a pathetic, weird, smelly loser?
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No, he doesn't. If you read his comment more carefully, you might have noticed that he explicitly stated that he would NOT call Marigold a 'pathetic, smelly loser'. Because that would be a narrow-minded, judgmental and inconsiderate thing to do. Just as automatically calling Faye a 'bitch' would be. Context, people.
questionablecontentfan:
*sigh*
justanotherbrick:
--- Quote from: Tellusora on 02 Sep 2011, 22:03 ---...explicitly stated that he would NOT call Marigold a 'pathetic, smelly loser'. Because that would be a narrow-minded, judgmental and inconsiderate thing to do. Just as automatically calling Faye a 'bitch' would be.
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Thanks. =)
Exactly. I could come up with a million reasons that Mari is a "pathetic, weird, smelly loser". I could practically make an annotated list. But I won't, because I know that she's a complex character with many positive qualities as well, and those are just mean, short-sighted words to use.
Furthermore, it's kind of hurtful to call anyone names. That's my point. Even if said character is fictional we should resist labelling people as "bitch" or "loser" or "slut" because it over-simplifies peoples' personalities which are innately complex.
Mr. Doctor:
--- Quote from: justanotherbrick on 02 Sep 2011, 22:47 ---I could practically make an annotated list.
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Exactly.
Let's not forget that we could easily do that with pretty much every character. You know... make some dumb lists so we can easily say that "Dora is an overreactive bi***", " Hanners is a nutjob", "Will is (well, before getting a job) a friggin loser", "Sven and Raven are kind of sluts", "Marten is a loser too",and so on and so on... "Faye is an abusive c-word" * isn't different. It's really easy to just take away all the good parts of a person just to put them into one single bad label.
*: God I hate that swear word.
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