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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
cybersmurf:
I think I'm with OldGoat on this one - May is not evil or bad to the core. It's just poor impulse control, getting caught, and being formed by a "attack is the best defense" environment, where being crude is better than getting attached.
Faye got to Bubbles by constantly pushing her out of her comfort zone, but in a caring way. May's shell. has to be broken with a club, and I've got the feeling this might even be more literal than I'd care to admit. May has to experience first hand being vulnerable isn't a bad thing, or a sign of weakness. And that probably won't work by telling her, but by not having an alternative. Unless Roko finds a way, it's probably gonna be her chassis finally giving in, and other people flat out helping her while shut down (the Svarn Sven incident might just have been the first in a series, making May actually trust other people.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 11 Jun 2019, 15:15 ---I thought this forum was supposed to be more polite than that. Y’know, more like “I don’t agree, and here’s why,” not “WTF you don’t know what that word means.”
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More the fact that this forum tries to avoid hurling around words that describe actual mental health illnesses and use them in a manner that either detracts from how serious they are or them ending up being used as an insult.
jwhouk:
May's not the only webcomic character who's considered a sociopath. There's this busty Latina that (used to be) the star of a comic strip based out of Minneapolis. And of course there's Mike Warner from the Walkyverse.
I agree with OldGoat (CO's unite!) about the way that being "in the system" tends to corner you. Unless you're physically removed from that system (i.e., put in a completely different environment, like moving to a new state or such), your likelihood of getting stuck in a vicious circle is about 100%.
Oh, and as for recidivism in the US? I'd say it's "flip a coin" in many jurisdictions.
snufflebottoms:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 11 Jun 2019, 15:21 ---I think I'm with OldGoat on this one - May is not evil or bad to the core. It's just poor impulse control, getting caught, and being formed by a "attack is the best defense" environment, where being crude is better than getting attached.
Faye got to Bubbles by constantly pushing her out of her comfort zone, but in a caring way. May's shell. has to be broken with a club, and I've got the feeling this might even be more literal than I'd care to admit. May has to experience first hand being vulnerable isn't a bad thing, or a sign of weakness. And that probably won't work by telling her, but by not having an alternative. Unless Roko finds a way, it's probably gonna be her chassis finally giving in, and other people flat out helping her while shut down (the Svarn Sven incident might just have been the first in a series, making May actually trust other people.
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I agree with this. There's an opportunity for character development but I do think she is at a point where if it doesn't happen or head in that direction soon, if I were one of the people she was treating that way, I'd cut off contact. Because on the flip side, people don't deserve to have friends treat them that way, no matter how down and out they are.
Speaking of Sven, I've also seen comments here about how he couldn't be altruistic, is super immature and thinks of no one but himself, etc. I think that's odd since his character flaws seem to be primarily around him not thinking about how his sex life affects those around him. Which, yeah, it's inconsiderate but other than that, he's been as decent a person as the rest of the cast. We know he's been unfaithful in the past and that he didn't end his fling with Faye even though they both knew that they had conflicting expectations. But he also was kind to Hanners, was cordial to Marten after his and Dora's break-up, apologized for how his behavior has affected Dora, handled Faye's barging into his meeting with his lawyer graciously, left Faye alone after Faye rejected his confession and we've never seen him coerce one of his one night stands into having sex. Renee has done more sexual harassment on screen than Sven has.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 11 Jun 2019, 05:01 ---Now, now. No one deserves to be forced to go into the world of CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
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Didn't he reboot the whole thing with a different premise?
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