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WCDT Strips 3476 to 3480 (8-12 May 2017)
War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: ronbo on 10 May 2017, 06:28 ---I'd just like to offer a little defense for Marten here. He is a guy. We aren't very observant. A guy's vision works kind of like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Waive something interesting in front of our face and we are all over it. Wear a different shade of lipstick? Yeah, that kind of stuff is invisible to us.
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Eh. I'm a woman, and I am as observant as a brick. Change Blindness effects all!
Do women expect men to notice things like lipstick? I always figured women didn't dress up for men; they dress up for other women. Of course, there's a heavy bias there.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 10 May 2017, 16:02 ---It would seem that Marten is still somewhat intimidated by Bubbles.
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To be fair, how much time have Marten and Bubbles spent together, just them? I mean, Marten knows that Bubbles is Faye's friend from the repair shop, she's had problems with CW and her life before and that Bubbles was in the military. But outside of that, have either of them had any conversation that wasn't bumbling and tripping over themselves?
Morituri:
I don't actually care about those things, but many of the people I know do; And because of that, I make a very deliberate effort to keep track of them. A new perfume, a dress I haven't seen before, a different hairstyle - noticing these things and acknowledging them in conversation is part of being polite and maintaining friendships.
I came late to it though; I did not pick up on many socialization clues "naturally" the way a lot of people did, and a lot of "Normal" emotional buttons just don't seem to be hooked up to anything for me. On the other hand I did not learn to ignore socialization clues "naturally" the way many people did either; I struggled with them for years.
I learned things, one at a time, in many cases years too late. I had no idea for example that there was an expectation to call someone the day after a date, until once for some unrelated reason (schedule of something the following week) I happened to and she said she'd been "afraid you weren't going to call...." and after my brain cranked that one through I realized at least one of the things I'd been doing wrong and one of the reasons I'd been a social failure. I also had no idea that people were expected to hate their exes, or hate their exes' new romantic partners, or even that some kinds of romantic relationships were considered "normal" and others weren't, until after I'd been doing things, sometimes for years, that ran contrary to the "normal" expectations. I never got the thrill of "Transgressive" behavior for example; for me it was an empty category.
On the one hand I was utterly oblivious to what apparently is obvious to most normal people socially from clues I never noticed; on the other I was always observing and trying to learn to do better. (Gender roles: HOO BOY gender roles. I never even frickin' NOTICED that there WERE gender roles until I heard people talking about whether or not they felt suited for them. I'd noticed sometimes that people called one thing or another that I did typical of one gender or the other, but that was mostly irrelevant; they were the things that I did because I did them, not because of any gender thing. The idea that somebody's idea of what "male" or "female" was supposed to be, could be a really important contradiction to their own idea of who THEY were supposed to be, was a mind-blower for me).
But anyway, the short version. It's that paying attention thing. The process of picking up basic socialization well after I was supposed to, requires constant attention to individual people. But among other things, paying attention to individual people, all by itself, is one of the most important parts - maybe the MOST important part - of social behavior.
Tova:
Interesting bit of trivia, which many of you possibly already know. When filming Babe, the producers had to use many piglets for the main character because they grow up so fast. They gave Babe a distinctive tuft of hair on her head so that all of the piglets would look like Babe, in spite of any other minor differences. It's a bit of misdirection, essentially. Caricatures work on a similar principle.
I suspect that Marten is still so preoccupied with Bubbles' intimidating stature that any other "minor" differences will fly under the radar.
I'm a little surprised to find QC forumites placing much store by gender stereotypes. FWIW, if you were to guess various characteristics of my female partner and I based on gender stereotypes, you would get more incorrect answers than correct ones.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: learn2run on 09 May 2017, 23:56 ---Bubbles looks taller to me without her armor. She makes Marten look like tiny.
Do we know how tall she actually is? She's gotta be at least 6'5" (195cm).
I'm just trying to picture how intimidating she'd be if I met her walking down the street...
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Bubbles is taller than Marten's refrigerator, so probably.
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