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WCDT Strips 3206 to 3210 (25 to 29 April 2016)

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K1dmor:
 "I don't even like romantic comedies."
 Are you sure Claire?

USS Martenclaire:
My final thought on this was that at the very beginning Clin-ton very specifically *did* ask for outside input on his dating life: "I'll let you date my sister if you help set me up with someone" (paraphrased but that was essentially the gist of it). But I do also agree that Claire was being at least a little interfering.

mikmaxs:

--- Quote from: USS Martenclaire on 28 Apr 2016, 00:33 ---My final thought on this was that at the very beginning Clin-ton very specifically *did* ask for outside input on his dating life: "I'll let you date my sister if you help set me up with someone" (paraphrased but that was essentially the gist of it). But I do also agree that Claire was being at least a little interfering.

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And they *did* help set him up with Claire. What he didn't ask for help with was continuing the relationship without his knowledge, desire, or consent. If you ask for my help moving to a new house, you're still going to be understandably pissed off if I show up a month later and start rearranging your furniture.

neurocase:
I sincerely hope that all the people who seemed to be trying their best yesterday to paint Claire as a manipulative, thoughtless person take a good look at today's strip and realize that it wasn't intentional manipulation on her part.

I read so many posts that just reeked of accusatory statements about how Claire is a manipulator and ALWAYZ DUZ THIS and she's NO GOOD WITH BOUNDARIES, and not one of them ever seemed to take into consideration the fact that Claire not only thought she was doing the right thing, she's as socially inept as Clinton is! She didn't respect his boundaries because she didn't even see them. That doesn't remove her of all blame, but the way some posters here were absolutely dragging her, you'd think she'd done something a thousand times worse than what she did. Y'all seemed ready to run her up the flagpole for doing something like this, while instantly absolving Clinton of his -sometimes overwhelming- faults because he got rejected for a second date and oh noes that's so terrible. This is intended as character growth, please read it as such. Clinton is growing out of the person he was when he got super creepy with Hanners (sort of), and Claire is now growing because she's realizing she can't fix everything around her. She's been shown to compulsively want to fix things, and make them better. It's not an entirely selfless drive, but it has the absolute best intentions. She's now learning that it's not possible to fix everything for everyone, and that not all people want their "problems" to be "fixed" at all.

JimC:

--- Quote ---[romantic comedies]and yet I absolutely love writing and drawing one
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I'm sure Jeph has learned this one as a musician too. You may not necessarily much like listening to what you really like playing. Which is why there are (or were when I went to see such bands) very few audience members as old as the band at metal gigs. That stuff can be great fun to play even if you don't much enjoy listening to it any more.

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