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WCDT Strips 4006-4010 (20th-25th May, 2019)

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oddtail:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 19 May 2019, 22:05 ---That specific phrasing out of context would be inappropriate, yes, but there are social contexts for establishing such a dialog and way to do so that are just as directly to the point without being crude.

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I'm not saying May is completely wrong. I'm saying she's extremely reductive, which makes me sceptical as to whether she really understands what she's talking about, given how she typically interacts with others.

Plus, she seems to have a pretty "outsider" view of sex. As a rule, I think anyone who looks at an emotionally-charged issue from the outside and makes snide remarks about how others don't do it right, while also not having an (emotional) horse in the race themselves, is at the very least suspect.

Milayna:
Hahhhh...Yeah, sex doesn't QUITE work like May thinks it does. Would be nice if it did though. And for a good-looking guy like Sven it probably could. But for the most part, nah.

Wonder if May is going to get laid. Like, for real, not Pintsize-being-a-weirdo-for-$20 laid.

Wait, remind me of what Sven's whole thing was again? He wrote angsty country songs for money he didn't believe in, was good looking so women threw themselves at him, had a "fuckbuddies" relationship thing with Faye that they both blew off till he had some other chick over and fucked her and they blew up over repressed feelings, and then he moped around being randomly obtrusive to the other cast for awhile?

BenRG:
May is actually giving us an interesting lesson here: Imagine a mind that had no intrinsic sexuality and whose only real understanding of it came from sneaking a read of fringe hard-core pornography. Because that's basically what we're seeing here. May really doesn't have much conception of the emotional end of human sexuality; to her it all about hormones and endorphin releases (often in some pretty non-standard ways). So, she's talking to Sven in that way.

It's interesting that Sven said he could have a one-night stand without being an asshole 'in theory'. I strongly suspect that he really doesn't trust his ingrained behaviours to let him do it, no matter how much he wants to.

Penquin47:

--- Quote from: Milayna on 19 May 2019, 22:36 ---Wait, remind me of what Sven's whole thing was again? He wrote angsty country songs for money he didn't believe in, was good looking so women threw themselves at him, had a "fuckbuddies" relationship thing with Faye that they both blew off till he had some other chick over and fucked her and they blew up over repressed feelings, and then he moped around being randomly obtrusive to the other cast for awhile?

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The thing that made Sven an asshole instead of just a guy having lots of casual sex was how he would involve other people in his drama without their consent, just so he could avoid having to deal with consequences.  The first time we see this, he's pretending Faye is his girlfriend so he can get out of an awkward conversation with a girl (Faye does not play along), and then the next time he threw Marten to the wolf of an angry ex he was avoiding while he slipped out during the distraction.

Tova:
He was all, "This is just a casual thing, though" with Faye, and look how that turned out.

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