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WCDT strips 3666 to 3670 (29th January to 2nd February 2018)
pwhodges:
I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't get to enjoy hot buttered crumpets:
Morituri:
For a lot of people speech about violent acts are just a class of casual metaphor, or even a sign of affection or care, and shouldn't be understood as literal threats. Faye is such a person. "You better do such-and-such or I'll kick your butt" honestly is one of the ways she might express "Doing such-and-such would be good for you and I care about you enough that I'm going to pester to do it, because I want what's best for you (but I don't want this to sound sappy so I'm going to play like it's aggressive, rar)."
That can make her very hard to be around and hard to interpret, for people who have trouble with metaphor and sarcasm. Or for people who've lived in environments where every mention of violence has corresponded to an absolutely real threat of violence.
Some people can be provoked, with sufficient cause, if you do something magnificently horrible, to real violence. Faye is such a person. You seriously traumatize someone she cares about, steal years of their life with a deception, lose their memories, exploit their work, and then try for extortion? Uh, yeah, okay, she lost her temper and *ACTUALLY* punched somebody in the face. She does have a temper, but it doesn't look like she's so uncontrolled that anyone who hasn't done something magnificently horrible has anything to worry about.
What I want to point out though is that her (rare) genuine acts of violence have never had anything whatsoever to do with her (frequent) use of violence in figures of speech and metaphors. People are in no physical danger when she threatens them with violence; it almost has the same connotations as saying 'please' except more aggressively. She absolutely never threatens anyone she's really going to punch.
Conversely, I don't think I remember ever seeing her actually punch anybody she cared enough about to threaten - with the possible exception of Pintsize, and that was kind of a running gag with him for a while.
Akima:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 31 Jan 2018, 00:24 ---Gee, where have I heard something like that before? Oh yes, white people telling me how to feel about racism, men telling me how to feel about misogyny and straight people telling me how to feel about homophobia.
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Yeah... Often.
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 31 Jan 2018, 00:24 ---I see this a lot with the (mostly white) academics that study indigenous cultures.
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Mmm... And the (mostly white) comparative-religion types who want to talk my ear off about Buddhism, when they have essentially the same attitude towards it that an entomologist has towards beetles.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 31 Jan 2018, 00:50 ---Conversely, I don't think I remember ever seeing her actually punch anybody she cared enough about to threaten - with the possible exception of Pintsize, and that was kind of a running gag with him for a while.
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Jeph went through a 'The Three Stooges'-type sitcom phase for a while when Dora was living at the apartment. Pintsize was the oblivious pest/creep who completely failed to respond to threats or even physical violence and just carried right on being vile and obnoxious. Bottom line: It wasn't just Faye who regularly beat up Pintsize. Momo did it too as did Sam and Emily. Recently Bubbles crushed his head for daring to discuss Faye's 'assets'; it's just his role in the slapstick end of the comic.
Tova:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 Jan 2018, 00:41 ---I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't get to enjoy hot buttered crumpets ...
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As an Australian, ...
I'm hungry now.
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