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WCDT January 9-13, 2012 (2096-2100)
gopher:
--- Quote from: Tova on 13 Jan 2012, 02:15 ---* If you're not a Douglas Adams fan, I do apologize for that reference.
http://www.otostopcu.org/yazi/h2g2/b2c15.php
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Sorry, but what? I think you may have terminally disrupted my world view. Some people aren't Douglas Adams fans? Madness!
Dr. ROFLPWN:
truestatic, I would like to commend you for being someone with an opposing viewpoint who has articulated it without resorting to generalizations/sexism/general tomfoolery and I don't feel I let you know that you are in fact p. cool.
But I also think that if you really believe he wasn't trying to hurt her, that he wasn't trying to give her a taste of her own medicine, that you give him way too much credit and are fooling yourself for Marten's sake, just a little :P
truestatic:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 13 Jan 2012, 05:09 ---truestatic, I would like to commend you for being someone with an opposing viewpoint who has articulated it without resorting to generalizations/sexism/general tomfoolery and I don't feel I let you know that you are in fact p. cool.
But I also think that if you really believe he wasn't trying to hurt her, that he wasn't trying to give her a taste of her own medicine, that you give him way too much credit and are fooling yourself for Marten's sake, just a little :P
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I probably sympathize with him more than I should, objectively speaking. He is the protagonist though, so that'll happen. And thank you, that's cool of you to say. Despite Jeph's twitter and some general accusations of sexism, pretty much everyone here has seemed to promote a pretty pleasant atmosphere, yourself included. "I disagree with you, but I respect your opinion" is a rare commodity on the internet, and its nice to find it here. =]
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: truestatic on 13 Jan 2012, 05:18 --- Despite Jeph's twitter and some general accusations of sexism, pretty much everyone here has seemed to promote a pretty pleasant atmosphere, yourself included. "I disagree with you, but I respect your opinion" is a rare commodity on the internet, and its nice to find it here. =]
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Yeah, much as I admire the guy, I think it's pretty presumptive of Jeph to pop in, look at ONE single post by a newbie then assume the entire forum is acting that way. We try pretty damn hard to get along around here and such. We aren't all running around here screaming about pooping on people's hearts, ya know?
One single off-color post by a new guy out of hundreds and hundreds of posts is pretty damn good, from my perspective.
tjradcliffe:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 13 Jan 2012, 05:09 ---But I also think that if you really believe he wasn't trying to hurt her, that he wasn't trying to give her a taste of her own medicine, that you give him way too much credit and are fooling yourself for Marten's sake, just a little :P
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People--even fictional QC people--are complicated and their motives are rarely pure. I'm sure there was an element of "getting back at her" in Marten's behaviour. But there are two important factors: 1) it really is her own behaviour he's putting back at her and 2) he has a right to protect himself emotionally.
She has withdrawn from him. She's gone from "I want to see more of you" to "I'm too busy right now to make time for you". Fair enough: she's not exactly been up-front about it, but she's young and confused.
For her to then turn around and say, "OK, having put you off and rebuffed your every approach for the last few days and given you time to experience emotional separation from me I now want to see you so you can go through the pain of separation again" is pretty second rate, and Marten has every right to say, "I've already done it once, I really don't feel like doing it again, thanks (you bitch)." That terminal parenthetical is certainly there, and doesn't do Marten any credit, but it's not the whole story.
Having been on the receiving end of behaviour like Padma's (and who hasn't? why do women DO that? Do they think we don't have any emotional reality of our own? If you prick us do we not bleat?) I've gotta say my sympathies are mostly on Marten's side here.
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