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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)

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traroth:
Seriously, just compare Amanda's and Evie's reactions. Which one seems to be the healthiest and the most willing to help?

sitnspin:
Evie is actually making the attempt to learn how Faye feels. Amanda on the other hand is projecting, assuming, and poking fun. Evie hasn't asked anything inappropriate and is being perfectly polite.

Jeemy:
I know we (if I may include myself, a long-time lurker and infrequent poster) are in the habit of over-analysing these strips. We enjoy discussing the ramifications and debate is healthy. We must not however forget that they are entertainment.

In addition I feel that in the current circumstance, when you are out to dinner with sisters and partners, asking 'personal' questions is nothing more than getting to know one another.

My family is scattered all over the world. When we meet, its for a few intense days and then we may not see each other for a long time. On that basis, I don't actually "know" my sisters-in-law, and other relatives *that well*. But to not ask personal questions means never getting to know them better.

Of course people are welcome to take offense or decline to answer. But I don't think its overstepping boundaries in such a scenario to jump straight into deeply personal matters when its family.

Zebediah:

--- Quote from: Case on 25 Jan 2018, 01:41 ---
And that's before thinking about ethics committees and rules on conduct with human subjects in research (not that I have the first idea what those rules are, I just know that Zimbardo raised quite a stink with his Stanford Prison experiment) - it's not Berkely in the 1960s anymore. The finest paper ain't worth it when you don't have a career left because no researcher outside North Korea will even talk to you (let alone be seen with you) ...


--- End quote ---

Seriously? You honestly believe that Evie would be professionally blacklisted because she once talked to her girlfriend’s sister about feelings?

She hasn’t tried to use this in her research and I don’t see her doing so in the future, so how would her professional peers even know in the first place?

Cornelius:
While I agree that in the comic itself there is no cause yet for alarm, the context, both of Evie's research, and the title of today's comic, might infer that such research might not be too far fetched. And in that case, it would not be unthinkable. Thus far, it's unlikely.

Personally, I don't think that that is what is going to happen. But then, I consider Evie more as a handy character to provide exposition (hence her field of study), and as a catalyst (hence her relationship with Amanda).

But then, that's my interpretation of her function in this narrative. It might be that the story will still take us elsewhere.

Edited for spelling, as always.

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