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WDCT 10-14 January 2011 (1836-1840)
Dr. ROFLPWN:
Thank you as well and I hope my Edit Combo above doesn't make me look like too much of a prick. For what it's worth, I 1.) may owe you an apology because I swore you were the dude who was like "he should've called his dad" first and I was tired and bluh bluh didn't check all of the posts before mine, 2.) you were one of the guys on the opposing side of the argument I felt was actually being pretty okay and not all pissed off that Dora/Veronica wasn't getting violence done to them. It may kind of be why I jumped on you, cause I'm like "dude can actually take it".
I do endeavor to be amusing and I'm glad to hear I cone off as such, even if I borrow my styles from all over the Internet, and your only sin in my book is taking things a little too seriously. You are insightful and pretty thought-inspiring most times! And I have never seen you make posts like my earliest ones! Those were mega nasty. Those were dog shit, to quote one Roast Beef Kazenzakis.
Boomslang:
Can anyone even give an example of somebody WANTING Veronica to have hit Dora? Or even yell at her?
I didn't notice anyone actually saying that. I, personally, said that her treatment of Marten should, logically, be better than her treatment of Dora, but more in the direction of being nice to Marten, than being less nice to Dora. There wasn't really a genuinely good reason for her to have talked to Dora at all, Dora has her own parents and friends, and Veronica really doesn't have any relationship to or business with her.
Perhaps, to be fair, Marten should talk to Dora's parents? Not that they'd have much to say, but I'm sure the brownies will take his mind off the situation better than the bourbon did.
StevenC:
I think it wasn't so much people wanting Veronica to hit Dora and more people expecting Veronica to hit Dora. Heck, even Marten thought she was doing unspeakable things to her.
themacnut:
I'm thinking that maybe Veronica may be trying to avoid coddling her boy too much. He may want him to "suck it up" and "be a man" about the breakup, and as others have pointed out, she does have the advantage and perspective of knowing from experience that people do survive and bounce back from breakups over time.
I think her wanting Marten to "toughen up" and power through the situation may at least partially explain why she went to hug and comfort Dora, but offered little of that to her own son-plus she may be aware that Dora would be mortally afraid of being bent, spindled and mutilated by motherly wrath and wanted to reassure Dora that wouldn't happen.
And after all, she wasn't very tender and motherly to Marten on her previous visit, now was she? She made a point of remarking how much she was getting laid even while Marten was in Sexual Purgatory waiting on Faye. Even Faye had to comment on how cold that was.
Olymander:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 14 Jan 2011, 03:38 ---Can anyone even give an example of somebody WANTING Veronica to have hit Dora? Or even yell at her?
I didn't notice anyone actually saying that. I, personally, said that her treatment of Marten should, logically, be better than her treatment of Dora, but more in the direction of being nice to Marten, than being less nice to Dora. There wasn't really a genuinely good reason for her to have talked to Dora at all, Dora has her own parents and friends, and Veronica really doesn't have any relationship to or business with her.
Perhaps, to be fair, Marten should talk to Dora's parents? Not that they'd have much to say, but I'm sure the brownies will take his mind off the situation better than the bourbon did.
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I think it was more of the implication from the posts that were going, "Yay, more Mrs. Reed! Dora better head for the hills!" And I do remember a few going "Dora's going to find out all about the Hieronymus Bosch", or something similar. The second being a bit more explicit about the expected happenings than the first.
I suspect that for some reason, Mrs. Reed identifies a little too closely with Dora, maybe because she looks so much like her when she was younger. I don't know that this explains anything, but assuming that Marten and his mother talked alot, this may have been her version of OTP, and thus she was unhappy when it fell apart. This does, I admit, induce certain squicky thoughts which I'll carefully step over.
Considering what happened when Marten got drunk, I'm not sure having him stoned and near Dora's mom's breasts is necessarily the best idea. Just sayin'.
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