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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
techkid:
--- Quote from: Rainforce on 06 Oct 2012, 03:34 ---So I was just reading the comic and lurking on the forums for other people's reactions (for fun and profit), and then SUDDENLY someone has an outbreak of "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT OK YOU KNOW" and everything goes downhill.
I don't want to be offensive here (I just am, probably), but:
Whoever thinks that something he/she read on a webcomic is applicable to real life has probably some serious Issues.
AS DO THE PEOPLE THAT WRITE ENDLESS PARAGRAPHS ABOUT ONE COMIC STRIP FEATURING A WRISTSLAP.
can we PLEASE not argue pointlessly and excessively about things that don't mat............no wait, that's actually all we do here.
can we please not argue pointlessly and excessively about topics we deem far too serious?
--- End quote ---
Well said, Rainforce.
Let's draw away from the comic and turn to NCIS for a minute. How many people watched the show and enjoyed it... and then turned on it IMMEDIATELY after Agent Gibbs smacks Agent DiNozzo (had to look up the spelling) upside the head for the first time in the series? Anyone?
Now, in a properly organised society, there wouldn't need to be any arguments about the portrayal of violence. There wouldn't be any violence. People would behave as they should. Real life isn't like that, though, and that is what Jeph is depicting in the comic (I suppose...). That we are not perfect, that we all have our faults, and that we still try to live with each other and have fun despite all that.
I grew up in a rough neighbourhood, and I learned at an early age about the physical and emotional scars that goes with domestic violence (not from personal experience, mind you, but it was pretty much all around me), but I still saw this in a light-hearted way. Most women, if they saw their boyfriend/husband/love interest staring at another lady's ass would want to, and maybe also do, the exact same thing. I also saw the humour in the skillet incident, enjoyed the Vespavenger mini-arc, and grinned when Momo beats up Pintsize, and every other point along the way (drama, dramatics, swords and all (I tried to find the comic where the college girl talks to Dora about her failed moves on Marten, but I used all my archive-fu skills on those three tidbits)).
To sum it up: nobody lives life like The Brady Bunch (not even their real-life selves, apparently). Keeping yourself in a politically correct bubble will not change the fact that the world is like that and worse sometimes. QC comics shows this in a light-hearted and humourous way, and we can either enjoy the occasionally bumpy ride, or unbuckle our seat belts and leave for smoother, wildly unrealistic PC pastures.
pwhodges:
I would also add that there can be an element of play. Faye and Angus can perhaps be considered as merely joshing around. Do we stop kids from rough and tumble play because they are learning to accept violence? I'd be unwilling to suggest that that is a necessary change in the way we bring up children - and well-adjusted adults still have a bit of child in them too.
jwhouk:
I'd like to point out two things:
1. It IS a comic strip. Most of what's done here is for the lulz and to keep the characters - well, in character. Faye has had a history of punching since the double-digits in strip numbers, and it's how she responds to things. She HAS been called on it by Raven (too lazy to look up the exact strip, but it's the one where she compares her to "a kitty who scratches all the time").
2. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY. NO ARGUING on my birthday in MY THREAD.
Carl-E:
YOUR thread?
You just built it.
We have to live here...
jwhouk:
Hey, I live here, too! :P :wink:
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