Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT January 9-13, 2012 (2096-2100)
LTK:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 11 Jan 2012, 04:47 ---Mr. Hodges has it right - respect is earned, not an entitlement.
Some respect is simply earned as a result of being a human being, but not all. It has been my experience that those who demand respect, often don't deserve it. Many of those who do not show respect often have none for themselves either.
--- End quote ---
Opinions may differ. If you don't know a person, do you respect them until they've proven not to be worthy of respect, or do you not respect them until they have proven to be worthy of respect?
Fen:
Why are Faye's and Dora's boobs the same size in this strip?
NotAwesomeAnymore:
This whole respect argument is weird. I feel like everyone's on different wavelenghs. I think Overkillengine's point is, sometimes people treat you badly for no reason and there's no way of earning better treatment. At that point, you have to actually walk away, otherwise terrible people just pile up in your life. "Enforce" is a weird word for it, but getting respect does require some sort of action, like everything else. Right?
The respect issue is similar to the trust issue in that way. You obviously can't demand respect in the same way you can't just demand trust. But sometimes people are so stingy with those things it's irrational, and then it ruins your life.
themacnut:
I don't think it's a matter of respect or lack thereof that has Padma acting this way, I think it's fear. Fear of a tense, embarrassing confrontation over the ending of their relationship/fling/whatever. Marten is also, IMO, acting primarily out of fear-fear of humiliating himself if he pushes further for an answer from Padma. Like I said in my previous post, I think he's haunted by the Ghost of Vicki, or rather the ghost of their dead relationship. I'm sure he sees parallels between the ending of that relationship and how things are now going with Padma, and he doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes he made with Vicki. Hence fear of repeating those mistakes has him acting and saying the things he has so far.
jwhouk:
There's something naggingly wrong about this.
We in this crazy world of being QC fans/readers/obsessives have always seen tSB as something of an "alternate universe" CoD. Hanners and Marten mentioned that the first time they set foot in the place.
To this point, we've pretty much seen everything (or mostly everything) that was happening at CoD happen in tSB. We've commented that the Marten/Padma relationship seemed a lot like Marten's "off screen" relationship with Vicki; the wooing of Padma by Marten even seemed a lot like Dora swooping in to grab Marten after Faye decided she couldn't take it to the next level with our hero.
There's one thing that differs between the two, still - someone dying. In the CoD "universe", it was Faye's dad. In tSB, we're still presuming it's going to be Padma's grandmother.
What if it's not that, though?
I'll just leave my thought there for now. But I've seen enough foreshadowing to suggest someone is about to get written out of the story - permanently.
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