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WCDT strips 3721-3725 (April 16th-20th 2018)
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: Gyrre on 21 Apr 2018, 07:53 ---But, Faye also knows that Bubbles is an AI inhabiting a chassis. So I'd wager that Faye's reaction in panel 4 might be a logic conflict between that visceral reaction to seeming injury and her intense interest in advanced robotics.
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That she had that visceral reaction implies that her viscera are treating Bubbles's chassis like the body of an organic friend.
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Exactly.
Is it cold in here?:
We know she treats Bubbles as an equal and a friend but if she starts emotionally regarding Bubbles as an organic, that's a step along the shipping road.
awgiedawgie:
I think it's more active vs. passive, or maybe conscious vs. subconscious. I don't think Faye is actively (or consciously, if you will) treating Bubbles as an organic, but rather she is simply not treating Bubbles as any different from herself, because she doesn't think of her as different. Sure, she knows there's a physical distinction, but not the person inside. But that's really how she acted toward a lot of the AIs at the skate park. Even Jeremy, when he was only an assembly arm, was just one of the guys. And they all respect her for it.
So it's understandable that she would be simultaneously freaked out and fascinated by Bubbles being able to bend in ways that would land a normal person in the hospital.
WoaLG:
A while ago I remember a similar conversation on these forums based on Veronica Reed giving Sam and Momo cookies and then realizing that Momo couldn't eat them.
Is it cold in here?:
That one was profound. Momo simultaneously headed off guilt and and (what would in other people be) defensiveness and made a demand for major effort from the organics.
"If everyone does their best" is totally different from good intentions.
That means independent study of what matters to most of the people in a marginalized group. That means scrutinizing what you publish. For example, even though "normal" can have a neutral meaning, there's a message of exclusion when calling the majority "normal".
That means owning up to mistakes. Someone here, who definitely had good intentions, answered criticism without defensiveness but with "I regret causing offense. You deserve better.".
That means, when someone is angry, listening.
There's more. Momo set the bar high.
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