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WCDT 3621 to 3625 (27th November to 1st December 2017)
ChipNoir:
I still stand by the sentiment that comedy is pain, and now that Tilly is showing they're not quite as invulnerable as they initially seemed, I feel like I can grow to like them. Up till the last couple, the comedy has been that Tilly is the source of pain, and now we're seeing that they're capable of fear, mistakes (However rare) and are in general, well, human with the best intentions gone entirely to hell so far.
And no, I didn't want Winslow to go this route. Winslow is evolving into a character I actually like, and to have him backslide into annoying illintentioned twee-mode would make me hate him far more than I'd ever hate Tilly, simply because he's made so much progress.
No, I wanna see where Tilly goes with this stuff. And I wanna see Hannelore live up to what she was talking about: She has a LOT of privilege as the defacto heir to two insane legacies. Her parents are no spring chickens, especially not her dad. Within 10-15 years, either or both the company and the space station would fall under her responsibility. And if she can't handle one problematic PA, she'd better make sure her parents leave their legacy in more capable hands, or step up to the plate like she's already made allusions towards doing.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: anahata on 30 Nov 2017, 00:35 ---I'm amused by the way so many posters on this forum were deliberately calling Tilly Taffy while knowing that wasn't their correct name, but have uniformly jumped into line when told to use gender-neutral pronouns.
Is that more important than getting somebody's name right?
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I'll leave that question to the gender-variant people here but I'm prepared to believe a "yes" answer.
Think about the relative abjectness of the apologies you make when you misgender someone versus getting their name wrong.
ChipNoir:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Nov 2017, 13:17 ---
--- Quote from: anahata on 30 Nov 2017, 00:35 ---I'm amused by the way so many posters on this forum were deliberately calling Tilly Taffy while knowing that wasn't their correct name, but have uniformly jumped into line when told to use gender-neutral pronouns.
Is that more important than getting somebody's name right?
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I'll leave that question to the gender-variant people here but I'm prepared to believe a "yes" answer.
Think about the relative abjectness of the apologies you make when you misgender someone versus getting their name wrong.
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Names don't have connotation, at least not first names. It's apart of the identity, but you can't look at a Tilly and project anything from that except perhaps maybe that their parents really liked 1980-1990's NYC type names. And even that doesn't tell you about the person.
Gender projects A LOT. I don't think I need to go into it, but there's a reason transgender and non binary people exist. We project a lot into other and ourselves based on the pronoun used. People prefer to have as few wrong things assumed about them within that brief first impression as is possible.
DesiArxxy:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 28 Nov 2017, 19:55 ---We already knew that Beatrice didn't know that much about Hanners, that she smoked, drank or had her ears repeated pierced.
But really, its a sign of how out of touch that Beatrice is with her own daughter, given that the dossier is out of date and possesses the wrong information.
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There's no evidence at all that Beatrice was involved in creating the dossier, as opposed to Little Creepazoid Stalker being sloppy at "research".
--- Quote ---But its also a sign of how desperate Tilly is to make a good first impression that she's based her enter strategy around wrong information. Which is kinda depressing...and a little pathetic...
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I think it's more giving us further evidence that Tilly is overall incompetent at their purported job. So far, the only thing they've shown themselves competent at is 1) obeying unethical orders without hesitation and 2) bullying customer service reps into a bad deal. The actual PA functions? Zero for three.
Tova:
Negotiation is a PA function, surely.
The bullying idea, while not out of the question, is conjecture.
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