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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
Case:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 18 Jan 2018, 09:00 ---You know when you meet someone and you just KNOW, like "Ugh, this one is going to be a problem"?
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Yes.
--- Quote ---"... feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice
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War Sparrow:
If you happen to remember the author, could you share with the class?
brasca:
The impression I get from a lot of people on this board is the only way to avoid ever hurting someone’s feelings is to avoid interaction altogether. :roll:
Wombat:
--- Quote from: brasca on 18 Jan 2018, 11:19 ---The impression I get from a lot of people on this board is the only way to avoid ever hurting someone’s feelings is to avoid interaction altogether. :roll:
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You know what? Probably. I mean, you could probably limit yourself to the odd harmless interaction now and then and otherwise live in a cave and MAYBE you'd be able to live a life in which you didn't hurt others. But for most of us? We hurt people's feelings, whether intentionally or not. So I think it's important to be able to own what you've done and try to learn from it, to be better moving forward. (It's also great to get better at forgiving people, in my opinion, but it's a lot easier when people take responsibility for what they've done and apologize.)
As for Evie, she doesn't seem to realize that she hurt Bubbles. That's not great, but also not at all uncommon. People who aren't trying to be offensive often don't realize that the reactions they get from others may, in fact, be offense. Some are better at picking up at it than others; Evie seems like the type who might need a "HEY THAT WASN'T COOL" shoved in her face. I'll judge her character more from how she reactions when that (hopefully) happens.
--- Quote from: Vern LaVey on 18 Jan 2018, 10:29 ---It's scary to me that someone who is being unintentionally (or even ignorantly) offensive is causing far more hate and discussion here than someone who is being intentionally exploitative and dishonest.
Neither is a good thing, but someone being exploited should be the far bigger worry over someone being offended.
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I assume it has to do with tone; the tone of the Melon strip, as most strips with Melon, was humorous and ridiculous. In the strip with Evie and Bubbles, while there may be some humor in Evie's obliviousness, there was less of a sense of "cartoon wackiness," and so it invokes more of a serious, real-world response. Then there's the element of people being more invested in Bubbles as a character compared to Melon and her interaction with Evie perhaps resonating with more commenters' experiences than Faye and Melon.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: brasca on 18 Jan 2018, 11:19 ---The impression I get from a lot of people on this board is the only way to avoid ever hurting someone’s feelings is to avoid interaction altogether. :roll:
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Kind of like the one guy on the pub that brags he's never even had a citation, much less an accident with his car. He doesn't have one, but quite regularly has to be picked out of a ditch he drunkenly drove his bike into.
Sometimes I get that impression too, and not just here. But then, closing oneself off gives other problems again, which, sometimes, may provoke much the same outcome.
Personally, I think Bubbles' reaction might also have to do with the fact that this is the first time she sees Faye with family. She might just be very lonely right now. Do remember, the people she cares about most have been deleted from her memory, leaving just the pain of mission them. A feeling that Evie's quasi lecture will have exacerbated. After all, no matter what happens, Faye knows she has a sister somewhere. Bubbles, on the other hand, stands very much alone. No doubt we'll see more clearly tomorrow.
I doubt that it had anything to do with what she accepted from Melon. Bubbles would have been more direct. Besides, she did tell Melon the truth on what she found. If she then insists on the alternate explanation, and offers that much, I think Faye can accept. Just think how much you'll pay a vet just to tell you your pet is fine, and not to worry.
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