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>so it's okay for people to not humor my preferred pronouns, but it's not okay for me to physically assault them?!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1jVcgSViEI
>>152347776Everyone wishes they could choke someone in school
>>152347776Faye's body is perfect.
>>152347776>no wonder they got suspendedHow many Emmetts choked this kid our?Is there a gang of Emmetts?Can they bang Sam?
>>152347776I feel like this is another example of Haques not really understanding how the world works. I don't think kids in fights are choking each other into unconsciousness, usually it's just useless pushing and slappin'. Has Emmett gotten into MMA?
>>152347966Emmett is a pair of twins presented as a singular nonbinary person because of their mother using them as a sociology experiment.
>>152348019What's worse is he's been circling this point for several days in a row without grasping the importance of the distinction between rudeness (if this even qualifies) and violence.
>>152348019>, usually it's just useless pushing and slappin'I take you didn't study in a public school if you actually believe that
>>152348039Im okay with the as long as we get some porn of it
>>152348019I went to a white-ass suburban high school full of mormons and there were still fights with actual injuries. Yeah most of it is literal schoolyard shit but all it takes is one dude who got his growth spurt landing an especially good punch and all the sudden there's problems.
>>152348127I'd rather see Sam eat her feelings.And by that, I mean sucking on Faye's fat tits.
>>152347776Faye's talking like this was the school being performative and not like choking someone out outside a coddled school environment would land you straight in a jail cell with other women or whatever you're pretending not to be. Emmett got off lucky.
>>152348019Depends on the kid. Jeph's actual problem is the setup clearly paints Emmett responding with massively disproportionate force as no one else getting suspended means they weren't fighting. The event had to have played out like:>kids talk shit>Sam throws juice box>kids start frontin'>Emmett immediately chokes one outNo matter how you slice it Emmett's reaction is alarming.
Any time some...person starts talking about gender remind them about John Money.See them works in that sentence because I'm talking about an unknown person.
>>152348192>frontinWhat is this 1997?
>>152347776I hope you die a slow agonizing death in complete solitude, dead ass.
>>152348019if Emmet did do this irl they'd be fucking expelled unless they were a literal retard
>>152348173We all would anon, we all would
>>152348235It's 2003, plus a few weeks.
>>152348236>dead assNeck yourself no cap dead ass bro
>>152348262Do what this anon say. No cap, on God, for real for real.
>>152348253>>152348236>>152348192
>>152348235In your heart, it can be any year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc>>152348240Given his statements about his past, he might be slightly retarded.
>>152348019I broke a kids nose with my skateboard when I was in high school because he'd pissed me off too many times. Never had a problem with him again after that and i only got suspended for a week for it. Totally worth it. I also got into a couple other fights and we weren't just pushing and slapping. Those fights weren't all that brutal or anything, but they were still fights. Definitely wouldn't bother choking someone though, that shit would take too much time and I'd probably get jumped while trying to do it.
>tfw still trying to be a good role model for other broken ass kids
>>152347776honestly i don't think emmett did anything wrong. some people just need to face serious injury at a formative point in life, otherwise they grow up thinking they can be an asshole without consequences. i know i hit a few bullies with bricks back in the day and they turned out better for it
>>152348467she's dealt with a teenage girl without giving herself the cobain mouthwash so she's got a leg up on at least one of her parents
>>152348546>i know i hit a few bullies with bricks
>>152348546Hitting them would have been far better than choking them out. That's way more unhinged and dangerous, deserves suspension and behavioral intervention (which Emmet obviously already needed based on the stories we always hear and never see)
>>152348592Nvm I'm a dumbass who just realized your bricks are literal. That is also freak shit. You have plenty of body parts, no need to stab someone with scissors or something
>>152348546That's valid, and at the same time at a formative point some people need to learn that moral outrage does not absolve you of anything. I think that Jeph is handling this topic very well in that all the adults in the room are "that sucks, but I understand exactly why they did it."
oh no, it's an actual woman realization
>>152348546I do agree with your sentiment but also think retrained violence is just as good. It shows you have the power, and the balls to fuck them up for being to transgressive at your expense. Just not in the way that would make you the villain in the defense story. It shows you are incapable to recognizing social faux pas like childish outbursts when someone takes a jab at you. That gauges your ability to socially interact and that you had friends or want to try to make them. Someone is physically threatening you.You punch them, you don't stab them.
>>152347776>we coulda saved a lotta timeSure, lets just wipe out the remaining modicum of drama that still exists
>>152348905Jeph has a pretty amazing ability to make people acting like mature, reasonable adults the worst course of action.
>>152348945Well no shit, he's writing a soap opera. Mature reasonable adults don't lead lives that are interesting to observe as media, nor do they make fundamentally compelling characters. Joe Schmoe has every right in the world to be boring but a character doesn't.
Yes yes this all fascinating, now we is Sam going to rake Ahn's virginity
>>152349102Please, we all know that Ahn is going to get so turned on by Emmett's violent ways that she's going to rape him/her.
>>152348019>>I feel like this is another example of Haques not really understanding how the world works. I don't think kids in fights are choking each other into unconsciousness, usually it's just useless pushing and slappin'. Has Emmett gotten into MMA?did you go to some kind of private school for pussies? even in grade school i had to get stitches.
>>152348966I've watched worse soap opera melodramatic segments while growing up with my mom watching her dailies. At least with these I know no one is going to wipe out a gun.
>>152349498>wipewhip
>>152348546maybe, but that doesn't mean emmett did nothing wrong. you add 10 years to this scenario, and a juicebox might be assault, but an adult choking another adult is definitely assault and battery.You're assuming that emmett is the one to deliver the consequences of being an asshole to the other, but thats not how laws work.
>>152349688>>152348546kids need to be afraid of authority before they are old enough to get shot by it
>>152347776>So it's okay for people to bully Emmett, but not for Emmett to fight back.Yes. This world belongs to the biggest, meanest and strongest bullies. If you don't like it, well, that's what you get for existing.
>>152349786This is bullshit from a weak willed pussy. You have to have enough will to fight back against bullies, but standing up to them doesn't make you a bully.
>>152349786Not playing into Emmett's mental illness is not bullying
>>152349794>You have to have enough will to fight back against bulliesNo, you have to accept that bullies are the only people who matter, and everyone else exists only to be tortured by the bullies. This world exists to be a playground for bullies, a place where only they are free to indulge their sadism forever. Say it with me: the cruelty is the point.
>>152349810You're pathetic. No wonder you were bullied in school.
>>152349786I fought my bully once and we both got sent to anger management class for a year.
>>152349823Mock me if you must, but I'll be proven right. We are quickly progressing towards a world that empowers bullies to do as they please and punishes anyone who tries to stop them. That is the world that was always meant to exist. A beautiful world of rage and hatred and pain and suffering and unrestrained cruelty.
>>152349843>We are quickly progressing towards a world that empowers bullies to do as they please and punishes anyone who tries to stop them.That the thing. The people who bully the bullies face minimal consequences as most people understand that bullies are shit people. I beat up my bullies in high school and never had a problem with them after that. The consequences were temporary suspension from school (like a week) and nothing else, even reward from my dad who took me out for dinner and ice cream for beating up my first bully.
>>152349835Together? Did you slowly fall in love as you realized where each of you were coming from and your therapist encouraged you to do stuff together and kissed on the ferris wheel and stuff?
>>152349863That's why anyone who dares to defy a bully should be publicly tortured to death along with their entire family.
>>152350024Yeah, I remember being 14 too. It's pretty rough, huh?
>>152350045One day you'll understand that this world belongs to the strong and the cruel.
>>152347830>>so it's okay for people to not humor my preferred pronouns, but it's not okay for me to physically assault them?!Sometimes, when it come to little shithead, violence is the only way.
>>152349763Kids need to learn it's okay to fight back against authority or they'll grew up afraid of being shot by it and not realise it's authority who is afraid of people.
>>152350099>Kids need to learn it's okay to fight back against authorityNo, they need to learn that fighting back against authority will get their entire family tortured to death.
>>152350099>afraid of being shotThat's no longer just fear but also a reality.
>>152350125If you don't want to be shot, stop existing and being so weak.
>>152348430School policies are fucked up. Kind of like your situation but flipped, this one kid I knew in my class kept getting picked on every day by a group of guys who thought they were hot shit and just took it for months on end, then he apparently had enough of it when one of them unloaded a can of silly string all over him; he pushed the other kid away, and in return the first guy used the can as brass knuckles and clocked him in the face. broke his nose pretty bad, blood all over the place real quick. both got suspended for two weeks, but the poor bastard on the receiving end also had a hospital visit. The teachers knew it was happening, they just didn't want to get involved and risk a scene until their "zero tolerance" policy kicked in and they could blame both sides for it
>>152350047Okay so if i kill a bully, that makes me the new bully, doesn't it? Or is bully a genetic thing and only people with the bully gene grow up to be bullies? What makes a bully a bully?
>>152348039This would be better than what ol' Handstab is actually doing because then they could spitroast that little goth slut.Jeph just doesn't understand the subtleties of writing.
>>152350267The criteria are intentionally vague so that they can be interpreted in whatever way screws you specifically over the most. You were arbitrarily selected to be one of society's whipping boys, not because of anything you are or have done, but just because. For all intents and purposes, you were born to be punished for the crime of being born. Yes, it is deliberately unfair, that is the point.
>>152349786>>152349810>>152349843>>152350024>>152350047>152350536meds
>>152347776Buy an ad.
>>152350099>They need to learn to fight back against the authority their media and hollywood talking heads direct them to. Fixed that for ya
>>152348235what a square
>>152350077Where do you draw the line, anon? Because without one, that devolves into "might makes right" or "it's only okay when we do it."
>>152351917When it becomes harassment.
>>152352148As judged by whom?
>>152352217Harassment is already defined by law.
>>152352255So, the courts then. Well that's fair enough, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of juries wouldn't find QC's example remotely enough to justify any kind of force.
>>152352317>So, the courts then.Not the point. Proving it in court can be difficult. That doesn't change that ti is still clearly defined.You asked what makes it legitimate, and there it is. Whether or not you can effectively prove there was harassment is a different matter.(at least, this is what I get from your "where do you draw the line" question which sound more like an enquiry about personal morality rather than legal recourse)
>>152352317>but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of juries wouldn't find QC's example remotely enough to justify any kind of force.Establishing that the person who went physical was the victim of continuous harassment has frequently been part of a legal strategy before.
>>152352384I guess, but I hope you're ready to get in a lot of legal trouble for your moral code.>>152352393Yeah, continuous. As far as we know in these strips it may have only happened once. I think the legal standard for those cases is "it reached the point where any ordinary person would've had a breakdown."
>>152348053But misgendering is violence against the alphabet people.
>>152348583you too eh?
>>152352647Gender is bullshit Back in my day we called them fruits and poofers
>>152347776>lil shit’s folks tryin’ to sue themI mean, you probably should sue people if your child is being assaulted to the point of brain damage. Being a little shit doesn’t mean they deserve to be strangled.
>>152348039I miss Yay’s multiple bodies too.
>>152348192>No matter how you slice it Emmett's reaction is alarmingWell, unless Sam is an unreliable narrator and is exaggerating. Which would be a big departure from the norm for QC. Usually Defh will bend the universe around the characters to retcon things they said to still be technically true, rather than to simply make them lie or misremember or misunderstand.
>>152348207Trans people see Money’s blunder as only reaffirming their beliefs, because they consider David Reimer to have been a cisgender man who was being grossly misgendered from his own preferred gender identity. They relate the trauma that David suffered from his misgendering to their own trauma.
>>152349102>>152349154i wish this thread had less discourse and more artists so we could see either or both of these scenarios put into practice
>>152348546My brother broke my arm once when we were kids because I called him fat. He wasn’t punished because it was just boys will be boys and I was asking for it. He lost custody of my nephew earlier this year for beating him. Totally unrelated, I’m sure.
>>152349498Brun had a rifle once but he changed it to a harpoon after some backlash.
>>152349835Did you learn anything good in anger management? Asking for a friend.
>>152349866
where the FUCK is the slime girl
>>152354738I can't remember any of it but I did end up being more chill. I wasn't really an angry kid, just fed up with my bully.
>>152348019Nah, this is a typical "Wimpy kid actually busts someone's lip but is the only one who gets in trouble because it can be proved" sort of thing that constantly happens in public school. At my old high school, a bully was warned repeatedly that if he didn't stop calling the black kid in his class a nigger, the kid would stomp his face in. Even the teachers heard this warning. Bully calls him a nigger again to his face and punches him. The kid proceed to literally curbstomp the bully. The result? School apologizes to the bully's family, the black kid gets expelled, and the one teacher who tried to stop them got fired for putting their hands on a kid (trying to pull the bully away).
>>152354565>So it turns out that Sam was understating what happened.>Lemme guess, kiddo threw something more painful than a juice box.>No, that's all she did. Turns out Emmett was expelled.>Fucking hell.>And arrested.>WHAT?>Apparently the "chokehold" involved a garrote made from a belt, attacking at the end of lunch long after the altercation had passed, slamming the kid's face into a concrete bench until their jaw and hard palate shattered and collapsed, then dragging the unconscious and oxygen-starved body around the schoolyard while screaming the lyrics to Pumped Up Kicks.
>>152354721Its not like ANY of the characters have violent tendencies aside from the napoleon complex short-people.
>>152355753That probably had more to do with his whales being anti-gun than anyone fearing that Brun might use it. Otherwise, he would have clarified that it was an air-rifle or something.
>>152356840He coulda changed it to a musket because those are still guns, but they’re legal in massachusetts for historical reenactment purposes and so more believable, since you need a permit for a rifle. A harpoon is admittedly funnier for its absurdity, though. And equally as culturally relevant to new england as a musket.
