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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)
Cornelius:
Well, you know the rumours about Tesla; maybe the pigeons wanted a strategic advantage.
derris_kharlan:
--- Quote from: vodyanoi on 20 Aug 2017, 23:33 ---I honestly find this strip deeply disheartening. Having May easily accept Winslow's apology further marginalizes the oppressed and onus of marginalized people like myself. The oppressed owe the oppressors nothing, least of all pardoning of your sins. May shouldn't be accepting the apology until Winslow at least ensures she's in as good a place as he himself.
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In what conceivable way is Winslow oppressing May? He has done and is doing NOTHING to oppress her.
What sin did Winslow commit? Being happy? Trying to share his happiness with people he views as friends? Improving his situation in life? At worst (and I don't even buy it but for the sake of argument) he commited a slight social faux pas. May, on the other hand, verbally assaulted an innocent person who had done no harm to her whatsoever and is in no way responsible for her current situation.
May shouldn't be accepting Winslow's apology. She should be offering her own instead. Sadly (and surprisingly based on the rest of Jeph's work) we are seeing the bully rewarded and vindicated. Its a huge shame.
neurocase:
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 21 Aug 2017, 05:30 ---Is shoulder-leaning a universal robot thing?
It comes off as flirty between humans but now we have both May and Momo and May and Winslow doing it. So maybe body language is different in the AI world. ?
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In Momo's case it looked a bit like it, but here, it just looks like Winslow is sorta slouching, due to his hands being in his pockets, and watching the pigeons.
Thus far disappointed with this resolution. Hopefully, there's more, and hopefully, May's blase acceptance of the largely unwarranted apology is not all she's going to contribute to this whole arc. But if the nine pages of last week's thread proved anything, it's that letting yourself be a victim seems to pay off, and people who don't accommodate that are horrible, privileged oppressors or something.
BenRG:
FWIW, I'm wondering if, now the moment has passed, May has lost a lot of her anger towards Winslow and may have more-or-less forgotten the whole issue. Consequently, his apology was a borderline-irrelevance to her whilst she was focussing on her attempt to selectively-breed fire-pigeons. Basically, I don't think that the whole confrontation meant as much to May as it did to us.
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Aug 2017, 05:52 ---I don't think that the whole confrontation meant as much to May as it did to us.
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A lot of people care a lot about her behavior essentially being thoughtless; We care about how much she doesn't care.
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