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WCDT: 2470-2474 (17-21 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Jun 2013, 10:26 ---Jim may not have much dating experience if he doesn't know what "I'm not ready for a relationship" means.
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What does it mean if not that?
Pilchard123:
Possibly there is sometimes an unspoken "with you" on the end of that sentence.
someone:
:? I don’t know why that the dad is upset. He had one date with Dora some time ago. Dora has moved on. She is now locked into a co-dependent future with her crazy, walking personality disorder girlfriend who will treat her to future of anguish, hearing about the various groups her therapist refers her to, and a series of breakups/desperate reunifications couched in drama revolving around Tai's needs. He should be glad.
He also should ask Jacques to move him to the Harem Manga portion of the comic where Marty the slacker hangs out with all the charming girls. That is way more entertaining and uplifting. He also won’t have to worry about his daughter learning life skills from Tai. In today’s world, girls are best not mentored by drug addled narcissists that use sexual recklessness as a self-esteem coping tool.
In defense of these poor souls, they are actually the most realistic characters in the comic. My wife’s caseload at the community mental health center is full of women like this. Maybe unintentionally, Jacques has created characters that are actually useful if he was doing a web comic that was not supposed to be as comedic.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: plusorminus on 18 Jun 2013, 11:18 ---I have issues with Jim. He has more or less stated he prefers younger women when he made that quip that he would have asked Dora out even if she were *gasp* 30. Kind of strange for a man who has had a vasectomy. Many women in the age-bracket he seeks would consider that a deal breaker.
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Hmm. I agree that it would be a deal breaker for many. But is it not impossible that Jim would have brought up his vasectomy then and there (in strip #1958), if Dora had reacted to his quib differently? Not the most tactful way of bringing up the topic, but can you suggest a better one (other than may be waiting for the third date).
--- Quote from: plusorminus ---If it makes me a hypocrite, so be it. I am gay, so I obviously have no problems with gay relationships. I do have problems with entitled men with teen daughters opening businesses that attract a younger crowd (ie a coffee shop) in a college town who clearly prefers to date significantly younger than himself. JMO.
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Here I disagree. Jim is running a bakery. May be simply because that has the highest market value among his talents? May be for some other reason (founded by his great-grandfather five generations back)? Bakeries may attract different type of clients than coffee shops. Look at the interior of tSB. A bit different from CoD! I betcha his not playing heavy metal either! I cannot tell, whether tSB is designed to appeal to younger people. But even if it were, it could easily be explained as making sense business-wise given that it is in a town, where a significant fraction of the population are college women.
Anyway, Padma seemed to be in charge of the daily operations. Have we ever seen Jim behind the counter? The suggestion that Jim is trying to use tSB as a way of meeting single young women is just stretching the available evidence a bit IMHO.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 18 Jun 2013, 09:37 ---OK, I'll bite: So what's wrong with relationships with an age difference?
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