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Momo and faye
Oilman:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 30 Jan 2015, 04:14 ---No, he's defining 'immigrant' as 'minority,' which is absolutely correct (what countries have a population that is anywhere close to 51% immigrants?), and any minority faces stigma and discrimination. You're focusing on the immigrant comparison instead of the minority comparison.
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Well, they arent the same thing.
Thrillho:
Which is irrelevant. This is about minorities, not about what makes them a minority. And the AI in QC may well be allegorical.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 30 Jan 2015, 04:32 ---Well, they arent the same thing.
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No, of course not. It was an analogy.
Neko_Ali:
If it makes it better, I've always kind of felt the analogy is a bit more like AIs to trans people. But that's personal experience. They are often seen as similar to human but markedly different. Or for cases where they have chibi frames like Pintsize, seen more as objects and toys than people. Though AIs probably do face some of the same prejudices that immigrants do in the 'strangers coming here to take our jobs/land/stuff' mindset. It could be argued that no matter where they go they are outsiders because they are a new form of clearly intelligent life on the planet.
On topic of the OP though... I don't see that Momo would even know that Faye has a problem. She is at best a friend of a friend and has had little interaction other than the lake party and stopping to get coffee with Marten. If people who work and live with Faye didn't see how bad she was getting, how could someone who may interact with her a few minutes a week? And even if she did, about all that she would likely be expected to do is ask Marten if she was okay.. which as far as he knew, she was hurting over the break up, but he didn't know how bad she was.
Pintsize I think did see how bad Faye was getting. But because of his personality and reputation he is never taken seriously by anyone and he knows this. Most of the time he revels in it because it removes him from responsibility for most of his action. Until he's disassembled or tossed into a wall or stuffed into the freezer. The flip side being that when he does need to be taken seriously, nobody ever will. He probably still should have talked with Marten about how much Faye was drinking but well... it's part of the story.
Oilman:
analogies, allegories, woop de doo!
Allegory for what? Analogy to what? Padma was/is Indian and treated Marten pretty poorly. Emily is some sort of Asian and completely out of her tree, on occasion. The other coloured intern (Gabby?) just drifted off. Tai has some sort of generic non-white ethnicity and behaves like a 6-year-old at times. The white characters seem a great deal saner than the non-white ones, with the notable exceptions of Faye and Dale (who is a genuinely all-round good bloke, as far as can be seen).
Momo is a very different proposition from May, who is a pretty nasty piece of work on the limited evidence. Pintsize is a complete dick, most of the time (incidentally, DOES he have a chibi chassis? I'd say not, on the grounds that he is quite non-human. Winslow, as basically an animated iPod, is "full size" after all)
I don't see the point?
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