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WCDT Strips 3011-3015 (27 - 31 July 2015)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Jul 2015, 03:25 ---For what does Dora have to apologise to Faye? For not enabling her alcoholism? For not letting her endanger Dora's business*? For being upset with Faye lying to her to cover up her drunkenness? For behaving like Faye's boss?
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For causing her friend pain, no matter how necessary and well-intentioned.
The first step to a functional friendship is a desire to live in peace. That means being willing to swallow your pride and realise that bad things can come from necessary and good acts and to show the correct level of humility to heal those wounds. Pride (which is nothing like self-respect but is, rather, a selfish view that you are more important than all other things and people) and a stubborn insistence that you were right all along is a short journey to living without friends in social isolation.
Burning bridges seems to be a Bianchi characteristic. I wonder if Dora will have the strength of character to decide to build instead?
swapna:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Jul 2015, 03:25 ---
--- Quote from: jaredstar1 on 28 Jul 2015, 01:14 ---am i the only one sick to freaking death of doras bratty attitude. its like wah my brother has it easy because of natural talent. wah my friends want to bone him wah.
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And of course "Grrr! He hits on my friend and employee, on my business premises*, during the working day, in an extremely creepy, entitled, and inappropriate manner." That, after all, is what Dora means when she says that Sven burned the bridges with her. To describe her view as a "delusion", an observer presumably believes that it did not happen, or that his behaviour was acceptable, or that he has some sort of right to be judged indulgently by his sister regardless of how he behaves. And in-universe, apparently even Sven does not believe that.
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She also forbade Raven to hit on him. Recap: Raven asked her to introduce them, and she threatened Sven with violence. Okay, she also threatened Raven, but she forbade them to flirt/hook up even though they weren't at her shop and, again, none of hers. She flipped out when she heard that Faye hooked up with him, even though that happened entirely on their private time. She set up a situation where Sven was supposed to ask out the girls at the coffee shop, and when Hanners accepted, she got angry. None of the women were coerced, they acted very much out of their own initiative, and what they do in their private lives and who they share their bed with is none of their bosses business.
Dora crosses boundaries all the time, and Sven even helped her enforce her bullshit rules to stay in good terms with her. Sven crossed a big one with Faye, but Faye handled it on her own, and wouldn't even have told Dora about it - she heard it from somebody else.
I wanted to write something concerning pride and apologies, but BenRG, again, put it better than I ever could. BEEENRRGGGGGGG
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 27 Jul 2015, 21:31 ---
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 27 Jul 2015, 21:23 ---
--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 27 Jul 2015, 20:54 ---It's interesting that Hannelore eats fast food. Given some of the stories about fast food food, whether they're true or not, you'd think she'd be paranoid about eating those products.
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This thought came to mind for me, as well.
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Especially since she's previously been reluctant to try Taco Bell. Not sure why she'd consider Arby's to be less terrifying.
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Because despite how it tastes, Arby's serves actual food?
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 27 Jul 2015, 22:17 ---Everyone say it together,
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Thankyew. That was the first thing I thought as well.
--- Quote ---In other news... Okay, in the same news, Sven makes creepy comment and the deathsquads march. Hanners makes creepy comment and it's okay? Because Beatrice would probably utterly ruin the life of anyone if Hannelore asked her to.
It strikes me as a pretty symmetrical bit of boundary crossing, being examples of things both of them probably would have done in the past, without considering all of the consequences. Both are now at a point where they do think about the follow on from what they do but haven't quite fit that into the rules of polite conversation.
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So you're saying she crossed the line twice?
Method of Madness:
Sven's line was eyeroll-inducing, not much more.
Hanners is helping a friend (Sven), even if another friend (Dora) gets helped by result.
Also, I would say that Sven may think he deserved to have the bridges burned, but he would probably still rightly say that Dora burned them.
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