Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Nov 15 - Nov 20th (4656-4660)
Ghanima Atreides:
This seems...unnecessarily mean-spirited of Claire. There's being competitive, then there's embarrassing your brother in front of a large online audience just for kicks (I know they're avatars and nobody knows who they really are -for now- but she's doing it purely to annoy him.)
oddtail:
Yeah, I sometimes feel like Claire, both in-universe and as far as the comic's narration works, never really gets called out on being just plain mean and unpleasant to Clinton. I don't know if it's the cuteness factor meaning she gets cut more slack or what, and I understand sibling rivalry and that some nasty jabs might be acceptable to an extent, but today's comic makes me real uncomfortable.
Especially given how their mom reacts. I mean, she can't really outright scold Claire on-air, but if she doesn't say anything at all when they go offline, this is gonna be a big "yikes" moment for me. This feels like enabling bad behaviour that almost borders on bullying, and I think dealing with that is part of the job of being a mom.
I dunno.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Ghanima Atreides on 15 Nov 2021, 02:48 ---This seems...unnecessarily mean-spirited of Claire. There's being competitive, then there's embarrassing your brother in front of a large online audience just for kicks (I know they're avatars and nobody knows who they really are -for now- but she's doing it purely to annoy him.)
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Aurelia did immediately shut it down, though.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 15 Nov 2021, 02:58 ---
--- Quote from: Ghanima Atreides on 15 Nov 2021, 02:48 ---This seems...unnecessarily mean-spirited of Claire. There's being competitive, then there's embarrassing your brother in front of a large online audience just for kicks (I know they're avatars and nobody knows who they really are -for now- but she's doing it purely to annoy him.)
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Aurelia did immediately shut it down, though.
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"now, now, dear" is shutting it down? That's pretty much as flimsy a non-response as I can imagine.
I mean, if Claire stopped, I guess it's all that was needed, but the punctuation ("Now now, dear-") implied to me that this was not the end of the conversation. And implies to me that Aurelia left the sentence hanging and/or was interrupted by Claire proceeding, although admittedly I'm reading deep into this. Maybe too deep.
EDIT: although, given that Clinton says "YOU BETTER NOT" and then says "she's probably gonna (...)", he doesn't seem to think Claire is going to stop now, either. And if he has a reason to think Aurelia's response is not enough to end this part of the conversation, maybe it isn't.
St.Clair:
I agree. :meh:
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