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WCDT Strips 4336-4340 (25th-29th, August 2020)
brasca:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 26 Aug 2020, 19:14 ---The end text - epitaph? - is "reminder that May is awful."
This doesn't seem so awful on a May scale to me. It's also something that Pintsize would say and take no flak. Primarily, I think, because of May's attitude while delivering the line, which is profoundly ungrateful for the effort that people are making to help her. Whereas if Pintsize said it, it'd be playful, not serious, and just his tendency to sexualize everything.
Even so, if I were to research a list of decidedly unpleasant things May has said, this wouldn't even be on my radar.
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A lot has been said about May not deserving to be stuck in a substandard chassis after paying her debt to society, but I still find it hard to believe enough people contributed to this fundraiser if they actually met her. Maybe Roko wrote a really heart wrenching story.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: brasca on 27 Aug 2020, 00:20 ---A lot has been said about May not deserving to be stuck in a substandard chassis after paying her debt to society, but I still find it hard to believe enough people contributed to this fundraiser if they actually met her. Maybe Roko wrote a really heart wrenching story.
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My theory is that most QC characters are big softies.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: brasca on 27 Aug 2020, 00:20 ---A lot has been said about May not deserving to be stuck in a substandard chassis after paying her debt to society, but I still find it hard to believe enough people contributed to this fundraiser if they actually met her. Maybe Roko wrote a really heart wrenching story.
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I think that there was a lot of second-hand giving. Dora and Hannelore had an advert for the Gofundme page in CoD, Tai in the library, Faye and Bubbles at UR and Elliot at the bakery (at Roko's request). So, this wasn't just from May's friends and acquaintances but from strangers who felt that the cause was good. (Or because Hannelore and Faye are scary when they talk about social obligations.)
That probably really got May in the coolant pump because the idea that total stragers would want to help her because they thought it was the right thing to do was as different from her cynical view of people as it was possible to get.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 26 Aug 2020, 19:21 ---Ah, May. I too would want strippers.
:D
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We never did hear definitively what the excess funds were going to be used for.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Beast_Reborn on 26 Aug 2020, 18:54 ---All forms of sexual labor, including stripping, are ethically risky under capitalism, or any regime where the possibility exists that someone might be driven to such labor solely because it's the only way they can survive. What's important isn't whether money changes hands, but whether the person is genuinely free and consenting. "This is the only way I can stave off starvation and/or homelessness" does not count as consent for this purpose. In principle, the gender of the strippers doesn't matter, though in practice, the majority of sex workers are women, so it's a feminist issue.
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The few strip clubs I've been dragged to are literally the most depressing places I've ever been to. This statement includes 11 family funerals including those of four grandparents.
I'd wager the 'I'm doing this so I don't starve' combined with the creepy leering old dudes and the broke-ass losers "tryin' ta get with" the strippers are the reason for that deressing atmosphere.
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