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WCDT 2927-2931 (30 March to 3 April 2015)
Reaver:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 02:13 ---
MARTEN (off panel): "Claire, I love you; you're beautiful, funny and intelligent but you've got to stop being so cruel to people!"
CLAIRE: "But..."
MARTEN (off panel): "Putting people down like that isn't cool and it isn't funny! It's unattractive Claire! It makes you look ugly and small!"
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Why on earth would ANNNNNY boyfriend make sure to bring up that it makes his girlfriend "Ugly and unattractive"????
Of all the things to bring up, why her physical appearance due to an attitude a problem???? Touch on the sexist side and very un Marten like don't you think? Possibly
"But you've got to learn when to stop! It's starting to grate on some people and I want them to LIKE my new girlfriend as much as I do!" Possibly but not "YOU ARE PHYSICALLY UNATTRACTIVE AND UGLY WHEN YOU DO THESE THINGS" that's just...silly.
SeaWoodStage:
--- Quote from: tywren on 02 Apr 2015, 08:49 ---
--- Quote from: CaptainFish on 02 Apr 2015, 06:49 ---
--- Quote from: tywren on 02 Apr 2015, 00:13 ---And therein lies the problem, when she said those things to Marten, she was trying to draw his attention to the fact that his girlfriend was tap dancing all over her last nerve. To which he replied with an "I Know, Isn't It Great" attitude. After trying twice and failing, Faye took maters into her own hands, and i really can't fault her for it, because the person who should have been telling Clare to tone it down, was instead passively encouraging her to take it up to eleven.
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Yeah, he really should've controlled his uppity girl. How dare she comment on a metal penis. Girlfriends should be seen and not heard.
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Better to say he should have been more attentive to the situation, and reined in his guest.
I don't know, maybe my circle has different social dynamics, but for us, taking responsibility for a guest is a thing. If you invite someone over who gets drunk, and they shit in the sink, you get to clean it up; if your guest blows their stack, and starts punching holes in the walls, or knocking out windows, you pay for the repairs; and if your guest is being an obnoxious ass, who's pissing other people off, it's on you to tell them to knock it off, or take them home. So in my mind, when Faye turns to Marten as the person who invited Claire, and not once but twice calls attention to the fact that her shit is wearing thin, it was his responsibility to take some form of action. Instead he keeps going "I Know" with that "isn't it so wonderful" smile on his face, completely oblivious to the fact that what he finds so cute, and endearing, others find grating on the same level as masturbating with a cheese shredder.
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I disagree with you here. Shitting in the sink, punching holes in the wall, and knocking out windows are all things that you should take responsibility for if it’s your guest that did those things. But “being an obnoxious ass”? Claire isn’t being an obnoxious ass. She went too far, and turned joshing into something that was too close to the bone, but that’s a lesson she has to learn, and here might be her place to learn it. Faye could stand to learn that lesson as well. I also don’t agree with your take on Marten here. I was actually pleased that he didn’t overreact, or jump to the defense of either Claire or Faye. This is a very complicated situation, and it’s probably best that Faye and Claire figure out how to understand each other in their own time.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Reaver on 02 Apr 2015, 09:05 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 02:13 ---
MARTEN (off panel): "Claire, I love you; you're beautiful, funny and intelligent but you've got to stop being so cruel to people!"
CLAIRE: "But..."
MARTEN (off panel): "Putting people down like that isn't cool and it isn't funny! It's unattractive Claire! It makes you look ugly and small!"
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Why on earth would ANNNNNY boyfriend make sure to bring up that it makes his girlfriend "Ugly and unattractive"????
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There is such a thing as 'metaphor', you know. The most beautiful woman in the world can be made ugly in someone's eyes by an ugly streak in their behaviour, just as a person of only mundane looks can become divine in appearance by a beautiful streak in their behaviour.
Reaver:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 09:16 ---
--- Quote from: Reaver on 02 Apr 2015, 09:05 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 02:13 ---
MARTEN (off panel): "Claire, I love you; you're beautiful, funny and intelligent but you've got to stop being so cruel to people!"
CLAIRE: "But..."
MARTEN (off panel): "Putting people down like that isn't cool and it isn't funny! It's unattractive Claire! It makes you look ugly and small!"
--- End quote ---
Why on earth would ANNNNNY boyfriend make sure to bring up that it makes his girlfriend "Ugly and unattractive"????
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There is such a thing as 'metaphor', you know. The most beautiful woman in the world can be made ugly in someone's eyes by an ugly streak in their behaviour, just as a person of only mundane looks can become divine in appearance by a beautiful streak in their behaviour.
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Maybe women get enough shit about how they look everywhere else, and you should just focus on the fact their bad attitude makes them harder to get along with/ to like, instead of twisting the knife of "you're not being pretty!"
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 07:52 ---
--- Quote from: Gareth on 02 Apr 2015, 07:51 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 07:18 ---only the resident bitter transphobe has criticised her).
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This is absolutely not an okay way to refer to another forumite.
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I feel that I should state, unequivocally, that I was not referring to anyone who is a current member of this forum. Valky was just being funny in her own way.
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I should have been more specific. Former forumites are also not to be discussed in such a way as they are not here to defend themselves.
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