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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
awgiedawgie:
There's a time to be colorblind, and a time to be color-conscious. If you can overlook a person's race when it really doesn't matter, but respect it when it really does, then you're on the right track. When you mention discussing difficult topics and activism (there's also different medical problems, for example, that affect different races), that's what I was talking about where race is a relevant detail. And of course there's also people's personal background to consider. For example, a white person who has lived in an African country for 15 years will have different views and different concerns than say a white person living in Little Rock, Arkansas. They tend to think and act a lot like the native Africans, even if they relocate to a predominantly white area in America.
Morituri:
There are a lot of people for whom some level of violence is in fact a "normal" part of their relationships. And they're not stockholm-syndrome zombies, they're pretty ordinary people who mostly don't hesitate to reciprocate in kind.
Thing about that is, they aren't trying to actually hurt each other. They don't regard it as traumatic or even problematic. Nobody gets more than a bruise, they're still friends the next day, and they don't consider themselves or their partners to be "abused."
Faye isn't even going that far. Has Faye ever actually injured someone in this comic? I can't recall a single time. In the absence of any indication that anyone has ever been actually physically hurt by her, I don't think I can take her so-called violence as an indication that she's physically abusive.
She makes threats, which is emotionally abusive. But the other hallmarks of emotional abuse aren't there; she doesn't try to drive people away from their other friends nor deprive them of support the way classic abusers like Corpse Witch do. Think of Corpse Witch trying to manipulate Bubbles into never going out, mistrusting all humans, and having no friends beyond the skatepark. THAT is emotional abuse. Faye doesn't reduce anyone's options for dealing with her that way, nor make arbitrary demands that prevent anyone from living a normal life. And nobody's life is reduced to the point where a major part of their reality is just being her victim over and over, which someone has to be trying to do before I'd be willing to even call them a bully. Think of CreepyBot and the delight s/he took in the prospect of deliberately torturing someone reduced to a helpless state, forever. That's a bully. That's not what Faye's doing.
All told, it looks more like she has trouble controlling her temper, in general, than it looks like she's engaging in any kind of calculated abuse, like Hanners' mom or Corpse Witch or bullying, like CreepyBot.
Maybe you're just using these words to refer to different kinds of behavior than everyone else?
Faye needs a better vocabulary for talking about her feelings, better negotiating tactics, more willingness to respect others' boundaries.... but I don't see any support for the idea that she's a 'bully' or a 'thug' or any serious kind of 'abuser.'
Near Lurker:
I feel like it's a joke of its time, like Marten and Dora's transphobic banter or Faye's exhortation Sara rape "hump" Marten against his will (NB: when this joke was censored, the objection addressed was apparently to referring to holding a man down over a counter and enveloping him as "rape," not to the act itself), to which this is a self-flagellating callback that merits far less scrutiny than Faye's admission Bubbles' backrub physically turned her on.
Morituri:
I just noticed in the archive that Claire has probably been shipping Faye & Bubbles too.
THANK GOD she resisted the urge to push.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3605
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 04 May 2018, 17:24 ---I just noticed in the archive that Claire has probably been shipping Faye & Bubbles too.
THANK GOD she resisted the urge to push.
--- End quote ---
That's a comforting sign that she has learned from the mistakes she made with her brother.
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