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WCDT Strips 3436-3441 (13th to 18th March 2017)
brasca:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 16 Mar 2017, 20:03 ---"...shouldn't be allowed to interact with other humans." Renee shows a glimmer of self-awareness. Huzzah.
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I'll say it again. I think this is why she and Brun are friends. They both have problems interacting with people. Perhaps that's how they met.
BenRG:
To me the important lesson is the complete wrongheadedness of automatic categorisations of actions as certain forms of offence. I mean, it's pretty clear that Renee didn't even think of that and so do lots of people so accused. All pursuing it does is create grievance that makes it more likely that the next time it is done with malice.
As to what Renee does think of in panel 4? Well, that's kind of worrying; there is a lot of undirected anger there. Maybe that's the problem in the end. She's always been bad at judging boundaries and treating people in the right way. In the end, she's just given up and decided to respond on reflex. If this goof teaches her nothing at all, it might be to encourage her to try to start thinking ahead again. Jim was right in leaving it at "think about what you're doing next time."
--- Quote from: brasca on 16 Mar 2017, 22:51 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 16 Mar 2017, 20:03 ---"...shouldn't be allowed to interact with other humans." Renee shows a glimmer of self-awareness. Huzzah.
--- End quote ---
I'll say it again. I think this is why she and Brun are friends. They both have problems interacting with people. Perhaps that's how they met.
--- End quote ---
Just because people have different behavioural issues doesn't mean that this is what brings them together.
Shjade:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Mar 2017, 15:03 ---Probably not because being begged to remove her blouse is far more threatening to a woman than it could possibly be for a man.
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"Threatening" isn't the point.
"Creates an uncomfortable/potentially hostile workplace" is the point. It puts Elliot in the position of needing to consider what potential consequences refusing could have on his job/continued working relationship with Renee, etc.
There's a reason laws about this kind of thing exist, and while it is often for the protection of women, it isn't exclusively for women.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 16 Mar 2017, 17:29 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 16 Mar 2017, 04:02 ---I've seen weirder things than that happen goodness knows how many times.
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But it's usually the customers being weird.
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You must have worked with a much more head screwed on bunch than me then.
Although I think few of us would have objected to labels like unconventional or eccentric.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Mar 2017, 00:19 ---To me the important lesson is the complete wrongheadedness of automatic categorisations of actions as certain forms of offence. I mean, it's pretty clear that Renee didn't even think of that and so do lots of people so accused. All pursuing it does is create grievance that makes it more likely that the next time it is done with malice.
As to what Renee does think of in panel 4? Well, that's kind of worrying; there is a lot of undirected anger there. Maybe that's the problem in the end. She's always been bad at judging boundaries and treating people in the right way. In the end, she's just given up and decided to respond on reflex. If this goof teaches her nothing at all, it might be to encourage her to try to start thinking ahead again. Jim was right in leaving it at "think about what you're doing next time."
--- Quote from: brasca on 16 Mar 2017, 22:51 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 16 Mar 2017, 20:03 ---"...shouldn't be allowed to interact with other humans." Renee shows a glimmer of self-awareness. Huzzah.
--- End quote ---
I'll say it again. I think this is why she and Brun are friends. They both have problems interacting with people. Perhaps that's how they met.
--- End quote ---
Just because people have different behavioural issues doesn't mean that this is what brings them together.
--- End quote ---
No, but there is quite the possibility that she was out with a group and having difficulty mingling and the only other having as many problems was Brun.
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