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WCDT Strips 4316-4320 (27-31 July 2020)

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chris73:

--- Quote ---In his place, I might get angry, too. That emotion might come up. But, in his place, I'd rather not get angry; instead, simply ending the relationship. (I mean entirely. Dora would become no more than a person behind the counter of a café I go to sometimes.)

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Yeah he had every right to be angry but the best thing for Marten would be if Clare gets a job offer in another location and Marten follows her, not because I want to see them leave but because Marten is far too comfortable in his present situation and, unfortunately, he needs a spur to change

de_la_Nae:
Sometimes I wonder how many of the fans of this comic are the working poor.

Maybe as someone who's spent most of her life in, among, and as one, communication styles like May strike me as a lot less 'crass', which sometimes seems to be the cardinal sin of whether someone is allowable to this crowd, see Pintsize, Yelling Bird, May, etc. Since violence and repression doesn't seem to bug the majority of the fans the majority of the time over the years, see Faye, Emily, Bubbles, Momo, Marten, so on and so forth.

disclaimer: this is something i've mostly kept to myself for years now, though a couple others around here know I've mused about it. This thread isn't all to blame for any means, of me bringing it up. Just.... thinking out loud, of a sorts.

i'd love to know sitnspin's take, as someone else i know has significant experience in and among rough folks. more than me, anyway, though i've known my share of felons and so forth, not all of them for non-violent offenses.

de_la_Nae:
i should note that i'm not all-seeing either. i just... occasionally see things here. on other social sites. and Jeph's own framing and commentary, at times, around his work. i'd argue he's shared in it too, but y'know, it's a little murkier with the one who actually creates the 'crass' people

sitnspin:
I do notice a lot of righteous indignation hurled at characters for not making the perfect and most appropriate response to stressful situations. As if everyone should be expected to perfectly collected and rational at all times. As if real people aren't a hot mess of emotions and irrationality.

As someone who kinda shares May's sense of humour and colourful verbiage and is closely associated with a lot of other people who do as well, I don't understand the magnitude of the hate she gets from certain members of the audience.

Is it cold in here?:
It is easy, right or wrong, to read her communication choices as reflecting contempt for those around her.

The Gottman research on relationships found contempt to be toxic and death to relationships.

Anyone who has lived with someone contemptuous is going to react to May. Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell?

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