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Momo Hate Crime

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ankhtahr:
Thank you Zoe, my thoughts exactly.

mikmaxs:

--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 15 May 2015, 08:22 ---I can't see any actual violence happening -- that would be much darker than anything JJ has done in the strip. However, I could see someone being offensive in some less violent way -- refusing to serve her in a shop, or alllow her into a bar.

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Personally I feel that depressed drinking to the point of attempted suicide (Whether totally intentional or not) is darker than a violent hate crime. (In this setting especially, since it'd be against someone who you can't really kill or cause physical pain against.) I realize that this is pretty subjective, but in terms of darkness I wouldn't see it as any further than the recent storyline with Faye. It's a someone different kind of dark, external sources causing pain rather than internal, but I wouldn't say it's any worse.

(This also depends on how it's handled. Faye's storyline was handled with a lot of tact and the worst parts were cut away from where they could be without robbing the scene of punch. I'm assuming that anything with Momo would be handled the same way.)

mustang6172:

--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 15 May 2015, 23:50 ---Thank you Zoe, my thoughts exactly.
Boy you said it, Chewie.

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Corrected.

Deadcoder:
I think such shocking events would be within his range; because worse things have been mentioned or shown:
* Faye drinking to a point of suicide.
* Mentionings of transphobic violence, "To the point that Claire and Clinton are very careful about who they open up to about her."
* AI discrimination is openly shown.
* Early in the strip, there was the arc with Faye's sister coming out as a Lesbian, and the issues with their mom.
* The fact "Prolapse Monthly" is a thing that exists.
* The girl with a robot scooter who was a low-grade hitperson "low grade means just assault, not murder".
* All the stuff that happened off-screen with Hannelore's mother. "I'm assuming she used that shark tank other than the time she was talked out of it."
Having a hatecrime happen would be absolutely vanilla, by his standards. Though it would probably happen off-screen.

mikmaxs:
Deadcoder, it's all a matter of what's shown, what isn't, and what's meant to be taken seriously. Prolapse Monthly was a joke. Hannelore's mom is pretty much a joke. The Vespavenger was a joke, even if it wasn't one I thought was particularly funny.
(click to show/hide)(I think this was briefly mentioned, but imagine if that story had been genderswapped. Don't matter if you play it for laughs, it's really too horrifying to be particularly funny to me, especially when you consider how little research the chick did before nearly murdering a bunch of people.)
Even the previous  AI hate crime and mentioning of Clare's issues haven't really been *shown*, just mentioned.

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