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WCDT strips 4361-4365 (Sep 28th to Oct 2nd 2020)
Is it cold in here?:
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May gave Dale her word that she would be nice to Marigold. I think less of her.
Oenone:
What if this IS May being nice??? :psyduck:
Tova:
This is May being nice. In fact, I think that they have become comfortable enough with each other that this is a bit of banter being exchanged.
I'm not sure if anyone's noticed, but May has again been offered charity, and it is a sign of her progress since being gifted a new body that she is still able to accept it, albeit with a crack about how much of a nerd Marigold is.
What's more, I don't think that panel two represents someone who has been hurt or upset by what's been said.
She is having fun with this.
Reaver:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 02 Oct 2020, 14:16 ---Lively debate about May's actions is all well and good, but please don't go throwing misogynist slurs on this forum.
I am always a bit aghast at how vociferously a subsection of folks in the WCDTs condemn almost everything May does. I have loathed her as a character for almost her entire existence, but she's also demonstrably a traumatised victim of the penal system.
I'm not saying May is or is not a nice person (mostly because I don't believe in that concept) but simply that... do you guys know anyone who has been traumatised? Who has been homeless? Who has been an addict? Who has been imprisoned? Who has been accused of being a sex offender, correctly or otherwise? Do you know what damage looks like?
I don't mean to imply that nobody could be so cruel about May, a fictional character, if they had met someone like her - if you have known people who have been through situations like the above and stand by this level of character judgement, then coolio, you do you, but we are different people.
Even removing the 'sentient being who has been through stuff' aspect of this, she has literally changed bodies. Changed her entire body. She is the same consciousness, but she is taller and a different shape and can do different things. I'm aware that as a sci-fi concept this is tremendously mundane, but take a second to consider what it might feel like if you reached to get something on a shelf and found that you had accidentally punched through the wall into your garden because your arms are six inches longer and five times stronger? That must be a headfuck and a half in a handbasket.
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Yes I've met people like that, though they typically don't react to people who helped them with "Move shorty cakes" and "Can't wait to see your trash reject bin clothing"
IMO your experiences in life..do not justify you being a massive ahole to people that try to help you, if your frequent response to a kind offer to help is to sneer at someone and say you can't wait to see what reject clothing they've offered you, maybe you should re evaluate how you treat people that are kind to you.
I'm in an area strongly affected by the fires, people have lost their homes, pets, and even family members, and when I've helped them, none of them have back handed my kindness into my face nearly as much as May is being doing to people who genuinely care about her.
And TBH... Marigold said she was being mean, so she was being mean and hurt Marigold's feelings, especially after promising to be nicer to her :/
Reaver:
--- Quote from: Tova on 02 Oct 2020, 18:12 ---This is May being nice. In fact, I think that they have become comfortable enough with each other that this is a bit of banter being exchanged.
I'm not sure if anyone's noticed, but May has again been offered charity, and it is a sign of her progress since being gifted a new body that she is still able to accept it, albeit with a crack about how much of a nerd Marigold is.
What's more, I don't think that panel two represents someone who has been hurt or upset by what's been said.
She is having fun with this.
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...You don't think "If you are going to be mean to me, I am not going to give you anything" is Marigold being upset and represented as upset, despite the words literally coming out of her mouth are "If you're going to be mean"????? Just because May's response is "No I'm not, I'm just so hot I can rock any shitty clothing you have"
Like her default assumption after getting a nice new body is to assume that Marigold is going to give her crappy shit that she won't like or want?????
May just needs to work on not being so harsh and mean to people she's promised to be nicer to.
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