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WCDT 14-18 January 2019 (3916-3920)

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Drunken Old Man:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 13 Jan 2019, 20:56 ---Maybe Bubs should ask Momo to do it.  She has a way of disabusing people of the notion that they can just touch her.

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Since Momo's usually method of said disabusing is to administer a painful electric shock, I'm not sure that that's a very good....

.....

Never mind. >:)

traroth:
Ok, until now, I found Faye pretty likable, even if she was often really oblivious of other people's feelings and hurted them sometimes. But here, it really goes too far. You can't talk to a robot-lady, obviously considering she's a person, and then grope her like cattle. At that point, one could even consider she's putting here relation with Bubbles at risk.

neurocase:
It's worth noting the footnote on today's comic is "She thinks she's helping"

My guess is that Faye is (VERY clumsily) attempting to do what one might do with a fellow human uncomfortable with a new look, and give enthusiastic praise and support of the change in an effort to instill confidence and make the person feel better. I've been told quite a few times in my life something along the lines of "[person] isn't really sure about how her haircut turned out and she feels kind of self-conscious about it, so be sure to tell her how good it looks"

Unfortunately, it's obviously a MUCH larger scale of things to be in Roko's situation, so Faye's approach is definitely blunt and cloddish. But then, when have her social graces been anything but?

EDIT: A day later and I only JUST noticed the formatting of this post was wonky.

Fhqwhgads:

--- Quote from: mercykills on 13 Jan 2019, 19:43 ---.......

Panel 3 reeeeeealllly got to me on this one. It just made me think on how a certain race of people in my country(USA) thinks nothing of patting, touching, grabbing, stroking the hair of another certain race's(*cough* mine*cough*) hair completely without asking, warning....

and then look at US crazy when we tell them "no" or smack their hands away. ARRRGGGHHHH...inappropriate touching is inappropriate touching. ALWAYS.

*cracks neck and knuckles*

*exhale*....../siiiiiiiiiigh

Apologies. I know there's bigger things at play here than Faye should've asked first before touching Roko's new bod. Ignore me as I return to silently lurk and grumble in the background.

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Oh. Man. WITNESS. I'm a white dude and my niece is mixed and oh man does she hate this. why would anybody think that's a good idea.

Fellow wonderbreads, protip: NEVER NEVER ask if you can touch their hair. You can't. AND FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T JUST DO IT.

Just, just no

BenRG:
It's what we call the 'my living Barbie Doll' behaviour over on the Dumbing of Age comments threads. Basically (and this is especially a problem if the petter is much older than the pettee), I think that the problem is that some part of the mind just thinks 'pretty baby doll; want to touch!' and there is just no consideration of the other person's agency. Usually, it's symptomatic of a culture and/or upbringing where the rights of the individual are considered to be less important than the whims of authority figures such as parents and other older people.

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