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Are there any truly unsympathetic MALE characters in this strip?
akronnick:
--- Quote from: DSL on 15 Jun 2011, 14:34 ---I'd say: "There ain't any."
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I'd say: "There ain't no."
DSL:
Yeah but tat's a double negative, and those just jam your camera.
Now, two negatives make a positive. It can be shown two positives make a negative.
akronnick:
Depends on whether you're adding or multiplying.
And I ain't got no camera.
questionablecontentfan:
Okay, so. Dale is neither creepy (well, maybe slightly) nor mean. He is just playfully flirting with Marigold--yes, flirting. He likes her, and maybe she likes him too. Like Mari, Dale's kind of awkward, and might not have had much luck with girls (like Marigold's had rough luck with guys), so his flirting looks like meanness. I hope he shows up in the story again, there's definitely something there.
Edit: ooh, ooh, what if he somehow showed up at the party and asked Marigold to dance??? Ok, yeah, not likely, but I can hope.
And Jeph may not like writing arseholes, but he certainly likes to write bitches. :evil:
:-D
wrwight:
wow this thread has twisted all around every sort of subject.
First: OP, I appreciate your decision to disagree with some of the replies, but I don't think you appreciate their decision to disagree with you. Not including Steve in your list of "proposed unsympathetic male characters" is pretty much just censoring others' opinions because they don't match your own. I mean, it is only a proposed list, right?
Now, my opinions: I like Steve, but I think if I had to choose an unsympathetic character, it would be him. He's a pretty well fleshed out character, so of course he has redeeming qualities (no one is purely evil), but he seems rather self-centered a majority of the time. He has had exceptions. Anyway, I don't think I actually contributed anything here that wasn't said already. I just wanted to agree with it.
Dale is not creepy. This is a matter of opinion, because depending on your point of view, he certainly seems creepy. Since we have very little background on him, there's a lot of assuming about his motives. He may or may not be flirting, but he is almost certainly being playful. I know people who are hardcore WoW nerds (this is not meant as an insult. I was married to one, as well as having several acquaintances on my old server when I played that fit this category. I was pretty addicted for a while as well), and I would say you kind of have to use a different standard of "normal" when applying motivations to Dale and Marigold. You also have to have more information to go on than we do, so really it's open to speculation at this point. I'm kind of basing a lot of my opinion of him on his rapport with the rest of the cast, which seems fairly normal. It's likely if he were really a creeper, they would be more hostile toward him.
English lessons: I think this tangent is winding down, but as pertains to double negatives, I like to think of them like multiplication, if you consider "positive" to be the same as "not negative" in the context of language. Then again, I'm from the south, so I have a tendency to ignore certain grammatical rules (or at least relax them), kind of like drunk Faye. It just comes out sometimes.
I think I've covered all points that I care to cover.
TLDR: Censoring=bad, Dale=good, English=math
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