Early update for February 2, 2023
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Looking more carefully at the art, I note that Dorothy starts by addressing Joyce, but turns her whole body save her head in panel 5 to face a new direction. She's still speaking in Joyce's direction, but she's setting a new course for herself.
Dan Rabin
2023-02-01 23:41:00 +0000 UTCThe drying might still be running, Dorothy, just sayin
Bagge
2023-02-01 17:05:19 +0000 UTCI hope this is her understanding what she is doing to Joyce…
Mason king
2023-02-01 10:24:18 +0000 UTCThere is also the inherent problem that taking 'fixing people' on yourself has so much baggage with it, much of it bad. There's issues of consent. There's the fact that if you are not a trained professional you will be mostly beating your head against symptoms and not main causes. Not to mention that the person you are 'helping' might engage only in perfunctory efforts and that unless you know exactly what you are doing, your attempts to help may well prove counterproductive. I really don't like this.
Simon Magid
2023-02-01 06:54:16 +0000 UTCAs usual with Willis's Big Moments, this Dorothy Moment has more than one emotional current running through it. 1. There is, of course, the surface level given in Dorothy's dialogue: she sees that she chose the consequences when she chose the activity. In the preceding strip she tried to extract thanks from a very high-on-sex Joyce, and got only a perfunctory "thankies"; today she realizes she has to do the dishes after the guest of honor has left the feast. Dorothy now confronts her lot, and she declares that she has chosen to be indifferent to thanks and glory. THIS IS NOT WHAT POLITICIANS DO: they need the credit, and they select their actions accordingly. So today's strip cuts deeply into Dorothy's self-image. 2. In terms of her friendship with Joyce, Dorothy's realization that she has chosen must also contain a realization that Joyce has chosen. Dorothy has repeatedly framed the masturbation lesson in terms of protecting Joyce from making bad choices. The preceding strip made a comic transfer of this motivation to the issue of Joyce being without pants in the lobby, but Dorothy attempted only a mild vocal intervention: she recognizes that Joyce choses her own attire. Dorothy may have thought she was *protecting* Joyce from choices, but she has now *unleashed* new choices for Joyce. Dorothy imagined a contest with Roz for Joyce's use of sexual freedom, but Dorothy has actually been the instrument for the success of Roz's point of view that all the choosing belongs to Joyce. 3. Whether friends can be therapists was a topic of discussion in Booster and Ethan's strips: this applicable to Dorothy's work with Joyce. These threads didn't have to happen in the same day's story, but David Willis so arranged them. 4. Jennifer recently made the point to Dorothy that Dorothy is upset by finding something she's not the best at. Dorothy acknowledged the insight at the time, and she's probably been chewing on it ever since. There is also a contradiction in that being the best Joyce-fixer is not a permanent job if one is actually successful in fixing Joyce.
Dan Rabin
2023-02-01 06:15:10 +0000 UTCIn the words of Walter White: “Dorothy, what the fuck are you talking about?”
Sajuuk-Khar
2023-02-01 06:07:16 +0000 UTCI think she went with Joyce instead of going to a meeting for it.
C.T. Phipps
2023-02-01 05:35:40 +0000 UTCDid she just decide not to transfer to Yale?
Sydney Ashcraft
2023-02-01 05:31:44 +0000 UTCIs it a choice you like, Dorothy?
BBCC
2023-02-01 05:08:08 +0000 UTCThus continues Dorothy's descent into manipulative and helper syndrome based villainy
Chidumebi Njoku-Browne
2023-02-01 05:07:51 +0000 UTC“I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Mastur-Girl!!”
AE Gonzalez
2023-02-01 05:04:45 +0000 UTC*Mr Miyagi voice* "wacks on… wacks off"
Fart Captor
2023-02-01 04:59:57 +0000 UTC
