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WCDT Strips 3231 - 3235 (30th May to 3rd June 2016)
brasca:
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 03 Jun 2016, 06:50 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Jun 2016, 06:41 ---I suspect that Brun may have a difficult time persuading Renee to give her the number. Not out of malice but out of protectiveness; as Brun said, she doesn't trust Clinton!
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If Renee withheld or deleted the number, it'd be a shitty move regardless of her motivation. Renee is entitled to express her opinion on anybody Brun meets, she's entitled to offer Brun any advice Brun is willing to listen to. She sure as hell isn't entitled to a veto on who Brun spends time with.
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Perhaps Renee will give Brun the number on condition that she gets to meet him. That's got all kinds of potential right there.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 31 May 2016, 07:13 ---
--- Quote from: APersonAmI on 31 May 2016, 05:33 ---In my opinion, this is an inappropriate reaction to someone helping your friend when her apartment burnt down. It isn't ironic, because in the situation some of you called back to, Clinton did not yell at or threaten Marten, and while Clinton wasn't nice , it is in no way the equivalent of this scene. In addition, I also do not find it funny, because pointless harassment isn't funny to me.
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That's the way some people, mostly women, think; a male stranger (or even acquaintance) is automatically a threat, a potential stalker/rapist/serial killer until proven otherwise beyond the shadow of a doubt. And if Brun (or Renee) had a bad experience with such a person in her past, this would make Renee extra-suspicious of men she doesn't know well. I've been acquainted with such women myself in my life, and they tend to be generally unpleasant to be around, so I avoided them as much as I could.
EDIT: On the other hand, since there's no way to know a helpful stranger's true intentions ahead of time, some degree of caution is warranted when dealing with such strangers. We the readers know Clinton's harmless, but Renee doesn't.
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Unfortunately, there's good reason and precedence for such assumptions and precautions. It's enough to want to deck any guy who says "not all men". I know that. Women know that. But it's too much of a risk right now for women not to take precautions.
Change is slow, but possible.
Healing from such a traumatic event takes time. And interacting with someone trying to recover from such an experience takes patience and understanding. Communication is key, as is knowing when to give them space.
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Jun 2016, 06:53 ---She wouldn't be the first person who assumes that they have the right and duty to manage the lives of a friend with mental health or other behavioural issues and then tell themselves that it's 'for their own good' and that they 'need to be protected from themselves'.
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Amen. AMEN. AMEN!!!!!
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 31 May 2016, 07:42 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 30 May 2016, 20:11 ---Would it be funny if Brun was related to Padma?
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I know this isn't Asterix and not everyone is drawn as an ethnic caricature. But Padma definitely looks Indian, and Brun looks, if anything, Persian.
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My older brother looks like a Brit, my younger brother looks like a Swede, and I look half German half ambigous ethnicity (I've gotten guesses ranging from Jewish to Pacific Islander).
Case:
--- Quote from: heyjames4 on 03 Jun 2016, 06:06 ---Well this has been a fun ride.
Clinton's had a real chance to shine in this arc. Good character development.
You notice that before the fire he' s mostly resolved the social & emotional fallout from the mornings events?
He starts the day getting shot down by Emily, yelling at his sister, and getting harassed at the bar when he'd rather ruminate.
But then he gets over Emily, makes peace with Claire via text, and starts to make friends with Brun, all before the sparky sparky boom.
After the fire happens he's not the hyperventilating robot dweeb we met two thousand strips ago, he keeps cool head, gets Brun and Barry out, and provides a pillar of support to Brun during her no-good-very-bad day. Does this new confident Clinton's birth trace to Emily's influence? or to him standing up for himself at the bar between the harpoon and the lemon wedge?
Chad/ClaireMom does throw him for a loop, but we can't expect him to resolve all his neuroses in one traumatic day.
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Well, this is the best part of how that 'growing up'-thingy happens IRL - just when you think you have your course set/everything is FUBAR foreverandever, something happens and throws you onto a completely new course.
And afterwards, the stuff that was so hugely important before ... is put into perspective.
And if you're really lucky, you've learned more about that person you call "me".
The thing you do get to decide is whether you let life 'form' you in that way, or whether you hurt yourself clinging to your pain and disappointments, or the dreams of a person that is no longer you.
(Yes, I'm a big fan of Herman Hesse.)
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Wisdom from the 80s:
"Life is what happens while you were making plans"
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