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WCDT strips 4111 to 4115 (7th to 11th December 2020)
N.N. Marf:
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--- Quote from: MrSmith on 09 Dec 2020, 01:34 ---Imagine if this was at a doctors surgery or something, wouldn't be quite as cute or as funny as the author clearly thinks it is
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What makes you think the author, who has shown years of interpersonal sensitivity, thinks it's not horrid?
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The author commentary around the strip, for starters.
"r o b o t b u t t s"
"nice"
Also, see that angling of their heads and their dazed expressions? He's played that joke of this cast admiring butts before.
He also provided some unsubtle fan service in panel 2.
Nah, I don't see any evidence that it occurred to him.
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I don't think that's enough evidence that it hasn't occurred to him. For one, it looks like irony, and a potent set-up for the issue. Bubbles & Faye, focused on the object of their work, forget to consider the patient's comfort---much like how many hospitals are efficient at just the medicine part, disregarding the patient's mental well-being. And then Brun, clueless, is enthusiastically reaffirming their objectification, exacerbating Millefeuille's discomfort. Sam is actually trying to be halfway decent---leering away while others are ogling (tangential: she's becoming a fine young woman, in this frame), stifling the snigger from the ``nice ass'' comment---but it seems mainly due to taboo, instead of consideration.
That would suggest that it's too early to know---the offending situation has happened, we'll see what happens next---if it's addressed, how it's addressed---or, by the emphasis on them disregarding Millefeuille's mental well-being, and her mental (un)well-being from their actions, one might suggest that it did, in fact, occur to him.
Oenone:
Ogling uncomfortable people is old QC joke, like with Marigold and her boobs.
MrNumbers:
I get why other people are uncomfortable at this joke, but I laughed super hard at the idea of being proud of its craftship.
traroth:
About JJ not seeing the problem with his characters' behavior, I will suspend my judgment until the end of the arc.
On another level, that's the first time we see Brun showing some interest for anything... let's say... another person's body related.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Dec 2020, 23:21 ---Right now, Sam finds adult sexuality an intensely funny thing to watch. In some ways, I'm looking forward to the first time she sees a guy or girl whose physical attributes are hypnotic to her, just to that Faye and Bubbles can mock her in return!
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Um. Speaking as someone who only discovered sexuality at age 46... it was far more hilarious and disconcerting than you can imagine. Especially since I discovered I was straight, when I had assumed that if it happened, I'd be Lez.
I'd observed sexual attraction before then of course. I knew it existed. I knew that it had made rational human beings do things that could and sometimes did get them killed. It was obviously powerful JuJu. I just didn’t understand it, nor could imagine myself experiencing it.
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