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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
Gus_Smedstad:
Someone remind me what Basilisk’s new business is? Because I’m not clear how / why she’d take on May as a client.
Aniroc:
I think this is sort of good for both of them. They way Roko is directly calling May on her shit is something she needs to hear, and while this isn't the best way for it to happen, that's the frankest I think we've seen Roko be about her situation on screen.
Also I'm just always in awe of the depth of Jeph's characters. That like us they rarely learn the first time. Also I feel like May is abrasive like Faye was but it's taking different turns, as May and who she is close to are still different people. New characters are getting fleshed out and I'm happy that I'm enjoying his storytelling with them as well as I did the previous ones.
alc40:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 10 Jun 2019, 20:14 ---Someone remind me what Basilisk’s new business is? Because I’m not clear how / why she’d take on May as a client.
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An AI rights nonprofit.
But it seemed like Roko got the idea of going into that line of work from May's problems with her body, so I'm not sure why the latest comic makes it seem like some new realization. I suppose Roko might have forgotten about it for a while with the trauma & disruption from her body being destroyed, so this might be more remembering than a new realization.
SeattleCrochetWoman:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Jun 2019, 22:36 ---She’s not being a jerk, either. She’s in a bad place. Just like Momo was in a bad place. She thinks she has lost one of her very few friends. She doesn’t know about the dysmorphia.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s easy for us to judge from our comfortable, omniscient perspective. I would have thought that this audience would appreciate that, honesty.
I would really like to come here and find compassion instead of judgement one day. I would not share details of my life to some of you in a million years.
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I probably shouldn’t comment now, because I mostly lurk and I didn’t say anything at the time. But last week someone said that Momo was “garbage” because of her bad reaction to May sleeping with Sven. Was it a bad idea for her to do that? Yes. Was it immature? Yes. Should she apologize to May? Yes. Should she think about what she did and maybe learn from it? Of course. But to say she’s “garbage” because she acted shitty or like a jerk once is going wayyy too far.
Also a couple years ago, someone suggested that Faye’s sister’s girlfriend should be denied a psychology degree because she suggested that Faye’s feelings for Bubbles May be more than friendship. Was it inappropriate and kind of rude? Yes. Was the girlfriend kind of annoying in other ways? Definitely. But to suggest that she should be denied a degree or reported for a HIPAA violation for something that wasn’t a therapeutic situation—wow!
(I realize I’m actually being judgmental myself here though.)
BenRG:
Well, I have to congratulate Roko for not tolerating May's hostility and anger transfer. By the looks of May's expression in panel 3, this isn't something that happens too often to her. Dale tends to let her run out of steam and then talk to her; Momo and Winslow are more likely to get so upset that they have to retreat. Roko instead tells May the truth: That she's being self-centred in assuming that everyone else is doing things to hurt or demean her and that she is somehow uniquely persecuted.
Panel 4 was a lovely tension-relief though. Yeah, as odd as it sounds, there really are people out there that pay to be shouted at and called a jerk. May isn't one of them and isn't it typical May to basically assume that this is some kind of kinky 'personal service' that Roko is now offering to make ends meet?
--- Quote from: SeattleCrochetWoman on 10 Jun 2019, 21:55 ---[I probably shouldn’t comment now, because I mostly lurk and I didn’t say anything at the time. But last week someone said that Momo was “garbage” because of her bad reaction to May sleeping with Sven. Was it a bad idea for her to do that? Yes. Was it immature? Yes. Should she apologize to May? Yes. Should she think about what she did and maybe learn from it? Of course. But to say she’s “garbage” because she acted shitty or like a jerk once is going wayyy too far.
Also a couple years ago, someone suggested that Faye’s sister’s girlfriend should be denied a psychology degree because she suggested that Faye’s feelings for Bubbles May be more than friendship. Was it inappropriate and kind of rude? Yes. Was the girlfriend kind of annoying in other ways? Definitely. But to suggest that she should be denied a degree or reported for a HIPAA violation for something that wasn’t a therapeutic situation—wow!
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Waving judgement of the characters' moral qualities is an easy position to fall into when commenting on media, often because the author really doesn't see much need to comment on overt aspects of the character's on-screen personality. That said, I do sometimes get the impression that it's a kind of virtue signalling: "I'm a better person because I can stand on my hill and denounce others."
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