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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
BenRG:
Okay, Chris? Let's set aside all of the strawmen here and get down to cases:
1) This is about Marten, not me, not you and not anyone else;
2) Marten clearly didn't feel abused because, even if he wouldn't have responded, his various girlfriends certainly would have - Definitely Dora;
3) The fact that nothing ever came of it indicates that Faye's behaviour was never as threatening or as abusive as you perceive it to be.
End of story.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 04 May 2018, 01:38 ---Physical violence is worse than any spoken or written word
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I respectfully disagree with you. You have a very understandable personal bias against physical abuse, and I don't want to sound like I'm trivializing that. But verbal abuse can cause just as much psychological damage, and on a much more frequent basis. And verbal abuse can go entirely unnoticed by outsiders, so it tends to go on for a much longer time span. And possibly the worst part about it is that the abuser may not even realize that they are doing it unless someone points it out. I know a father whose 8-year-old son looked at him and said "Dad, you scare me." He was floored. He had no idea the effect he was having on his children up until then.
Don't get me wrong, I also think that some people are way too sensitive about certain subjects, but that has nothing to do with any kind of abuse.
That notwithstanding, I agree with you that Faye's treatment of Marten is infuriating. Sure, she has issues, but even she herself admitted that those are no excuse for behaving the way she does. She calls him her best friend, and yet routinely treated him worse than the bastard offspring of the neighbor's half-breed mutt. I am kind of a real-life Marten - I'll go out of my way to help people that others won't give the time of day - but there's no way in hell I would have put up with her hitting me more than once. Granted, I am bigger and stronger than Marten, so I could actually stop her if she swung at me. But even without the wherewithal to physically defend himself, Marten could still have given her a simple ultimatum - either knock it off, or find a new home.
Tova:
I'm staying out of this, but I did want to request that posters do be careful when quoting, because if posts end up under the wrong peoples' names, the conversation gets a bit difficult to follow. Thanks!
chris73:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 May 2018, 02:35 ---Okay, Chris? Let's set aside all of the strawmen here and get down to cases:
1) This is about Marten, not me, not you and not anyone else;
2) Marten clearly didn't feel abused because, even if he wouldn't have responded, his various girlfriends certainly would have - Definitely Dora;
3) The fact that nothing ever came of it indicates that Faye's behaviour was never as threatening or as abusive as you perceive it to be.
End of story.
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Thats the damn problem, she is abusive, physically abusive and no one calls her out on it, ever and shes never had to face up to the repercussions of her violence
Maybe if there was a storyline where she addresses her violence and understands what that violence does to others I might start to think of her differently but at the moment she lives a life where she can punch anyone she likes, threaten anyone she likes and generally be intimidating to whoever she likes and everything's hunky dory
ankhtahr:
Let me just ignore everything in this thread.
It's obvious why Faye's freaking out. The nature of Bubbles' back rubs has been established before. :claireface:
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