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Weekly Comic Thread 4-8 October 2010 (1766-70)
Wiregeek:
that is the best Hanners Jeph has ever drawn right there in the second-to-last panel.
Almost makes up for the WTF in yesterdays comic.
Ravenswing:
--- Quote from: amandathehunter on 06 Oct 2010, 16:02 ---What's dehumanizing and belittling is assuming that she wouldn't be hurt by the situation, and should act like nothing's wrong. For someone who is traumatized like Faye, trusting men is a big deal. She opened up, and got hurt. BADLY. Expecting her to continue to hang out with him and act like nothing is wrong is pouring salt in the wound she feels, and acting like her feelings don't matter.
--- End quote ---
What's REALLY belittling is the constant premise that Sven Did Faye Wrong.
Just once, I'd like Sven to be in earshot for one of her ZOMG He's Going To SEDUCE YOU!!!!! rants and be just POed enough to spill out what really happened - that SHE was the aggressor, that he made it clear the level their relationship was on, that he didn't make her a single promise he didn't keep, and that he never once conned her.
The degree to which Faye was "hurt" is 100% self-inflicted. She claimed to want nothing more of him but to be fuckbuddies. She didn't even demand that he be monogamous; she just simply stated that she wasn't going to be sexually involved with him if he wasn't, and stuck to her guns. She had opportunity to change the deal, and didn't. Regardless of the reasons she kept her mouth shut, none of that is on Sven, and to revile him now because her pride's been stung is manipulative, petty, revisionist and childish.
Sven isn't the guarantor of her feelings. What he has done, though, is keep his mouth shut and take all the heat from the social circle on himself. I wouldn't have been a tenth as noble as all of that; I would have asked her, loudly and in front of Marten, Dora and her friends, "Did I ever make a pass at you before we started sleeping together, yes or no?" "Who made the first move, you or me?" "Who said explicitly we had a no-strings attached, sexual relationship, you or me?"
And THAT being said, I'd purely love for some gal to respond to the ZOMG He's Going To SEDUCE YOU!!!!! rant with "So what if he does? He's cute, I like sex, and I'm a big girl who can decide these things for myself, thank you ever so. What are you, stuck in a 19th century romance novel?"
jwhouk:
"Looks pretty chaste, yeah."
FTW. :)
jwhouk:
When you wish upon a star, you get:
To see your father's space station falling to earth. - 5 (8.9%)
Your OCD magically disappears! - 3 (5.4%)
Your Sex Addiction magically disappears! - 4 (7.1%)
Nothing. It's just a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere. - 16 (28.6%)
Another year older. - 4 (7.1%; You guys DID NOT GET THE HINT.)
Herp. - 13 (23.2%)
Derp. - 5 (8.9%)
UBMEOD. - 3 (5.4%)
USHMEOB. - 3 (5.4%)
Total Voters: 56
foolsguinea:
Wow, strip is up early. I see there is cause.
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