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WCDT strips 3866-3871 (5th November to 10th November 2018)
shanejayell:
"Mary Jane hoedown."
*lol*
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 07 Nov 2018, 19:40 ---So, I'm not quite clear on this... does Tai like to party?
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I'm not sure.
Tova:
In spite of my recent policy to let character-hate posts go through to the keeper, I can't help but register my confusion as to whether the message here is that she should have invited herself or should not have. To an event that is almost certainly not the deep mother-daughter moment you're all making it out to be.
Also, while I know that bashing Marten's backbone, or lack thereof, is a forum sport, he's perfectly capable of showing resistance when he has to.
--- Quote from: chris73 on 07 Nov 2018, 15:31 ---IF you want to insert yourself in a mother daughter thing thats your business but you ask, don't make Marten ask for you
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--- Quote from: St.Clair on 07 Nov 2018, 18:44 ---IMO, it is (at least adjacent to) inviting herself, to something that may well be private, and even asking the question might be considered inappropriate (also inconsiderate, selfish, insensitive, etc etc).
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Anyway, I've just decided that I like Tai even more.
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 07 Nov 2018, 20:39 ---
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 07 Nov 2018, 19:40 ---So, I'm not quite clear on this... does Tai like to party?
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I'm not sure.
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Maybe.
Edit: Forgot to mention. If Marten asks, it won't be at all awkward for Claire to say "no". Whereas if Tai had asked directly, that might have been more socially awkward. Really, this way is much more socially appropriate.
DSL:
In re: Tai's participation in the mother-daughter bong bonding and whether Tai is stepping outside of the boundaries set by her position, allow me:
I was, for 25 years, part of a newspaper newsroom staffed largely by young people not too long out of college, living far from wherever home had been, and in a community that drew definite lines between who was "from here" and who wasn't. Naturally, the young co-workers became social. The younger echelon of the newsroom became a family (sometimes literally; I can immediately think of three -- no, four -- marriages whose spark was first struck on deadline). I know that some of my most enduring friendships were formed in my first two years there, while most of the co-workers who came after (particularly as I became "too old for this sh!t") blur together in, or drop out of, my memory.
These relationships brought the minefields one might expect, the hurt feelings and the favoritism, and I won't argue with anyone who wants to doubt the appropriateness of this, but that doesn't change the reality of them.
My point is that the judgment of whether Tai crossed a boundary may be muddied by the fact that, in such a workplace/social situation, the boundaries may be blurry indeed.
Is it cold in here?:
Boundaries blurred? In QC?
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