Well, hi everyone. Today's comic finally got me to make an account, because it's amazing.
I'm not exactly new. I used to be a member about 10 years ago as a teen. And an avid defender of Dora -- because I related to her, and my abusive boyfriend at the time portrayed himself as a Marten, when really he was worse than... There's no comparable character. The forum's responses to her were kind of understandable, but incredibly damaging for a vulnerable teen. It's just an unfortunate fact that kids end up using the internet to provide spaces that their caregivers won't. So as an adult on an anonymous forum on the internet, I take responsibility to reign in my projections, and be transparent about them when I can't. You don't know who is reading.
Faye, why is this such a shock to you? You've known for ages that you 'cope' with your insecurities by pushing people away by being mean and offensive. All Yay is saying is that you've probably been doing it about twice as often as you thought!
I'm sure that this is tongue in cheek but good question actually.
Big realizations about your gender identity and sexuality in your twenties are exactly like this. It's like,
wait... HOW did I not know??? And it's kind of a big deal because it ends up explaining a lot of issues, trauma, confusion, etc. It's kind of similar to people's stories of being diagnosed with something like ADHD in adulthood.
Also, while I'm here and talking. There is a lot of dislike towards Faye for being violent and a bully. Which, like, ok, I'm not going to talk about the most recent thing because it's a bit of a minefield and might contradict what I'm thinking. But I'm wondering how much of Faye's toxic traits, especially the older ones, are a result of mistaken artistic choices, rather than her actual personality. I'm not trying to defend it as,
"Oh, well, it was a product of its time." But it was a product of its time.
I just mean that when QC was being written then, it was a part of, and a response to, the edgelord internet. It's kind of in the name. It was a contemporary of Cyanide and Happiness. So I saw QC at the time as kind of subverting that norm of men doing f*cked things on the internet, by having a Pintsize counterbalanced by a Faye.
And that's not a unique problem to QC. I was watching The Wire recently. The characters are all supposed to be complex and neither-good-nor-bad, obviously, but you can still tell if the writers intended you to sympathize with them in a certain way or a particular moment. But they do some messed up stuff that I would never find acceptable today (thanks to the hard thankless work of activists and survivors of oppression). It almost seems like a plot hole.
It's like I want to say to the character,
"No, actually, I can't sympathize with you right now, because of what you did last season. No amount of growth or backstory will ever redeem that. Stop manipulating me." Or I want to say to the writers,
"This person is not worth redeeming because they did the irredeemable. Why are you wasting my time telling their side of the story and trying to get me to feel something for them? Ew. Tell their victim's story." I don't have a conclusion for this.
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Topic: WCDT strips 4271-4275 (25th - 29th May 2020) (Read 13245 times)