It appears you were responding while I was in the process of editing my last comment, hence the comment order. Just pretend my last comment came before yours.
You’re the one agitating the readers with all your shots at the characters, which most of us love.
It is the peculiar aspect of this comic strip that the fans so vigorously defend the characters even when I am talking about the foibles put there by the author. For example, Lynn Johnston has a running joke about Elly being a terrible cook. But, when I write a comment like, “Lynn Johnston has a running joke about Elly being a terrible cook”, I get responses from people who are personally offended that I would suggest that Elly was anything other than perfection. Interestingly enough, if I make similar sorts of comments about other comic strips, I do not get this kind of feedback. For Better or For Worse has a different fanbase.
The character of Gordon Mayes is interesting, because the author goes out of her way to have other characters praise Gordon for being a hard-working, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of guy. However, any time I see an author try and show a guy is a good guy by having people talking about how good a guy he is, it makes me wonder if the guy really is a good guy. What does he actually do? So, I take a closer look. For people who have bought into the dialogue, they are personally offended, as you have demonstrated. Nevertheless, there are people on this forum who like to have that conversation, who like taking a closer look at the story and the characters. My comments may agitate, but I am not pointing out anything that is not right there on the comics page.
You poke the bear but can’t deal with the consequences.
I like to think I deal with the consequences by reminding people not to resort to personal insults when they go to them. Occasionally they will respond to that as you have (thanks), but most times I just get more insults.
Yes. When you resort to personal insults instead of talking about the comic strip you are no longer talking civilly. I specifically and intentionally make a point never to insult other people commenting. That’s what makes a civil conversation.
You can disagree with what I say all you want and still be civil about it. Get the difference?
You agitate and annoy people all day with your negativity and you wonder why people don’t like you?
No. I do not wonder. The internet is full of mean-spirited people who do not feel the slightest regret about being terrible to other people under the guise of anonymity. The only question in my mind was whether I’m Here for the Funnies is one of them.
That’s one way to know, but the other way is Mike’s reaction. He and Rhetta have been dating for 2 years now and if the idea of being married to her is causing those eyeballs to bulge like that, then Mike already knows that Rhetta is not the one.
Thirty-four percent of the time, married couples who had lived together before they were engaged or married ended up divorced within the time frame studied. That’s in contrast to less than one-fourth of the marriages of those who were engaged or married before they decided to move in together.
Back in 1995, when this comic strip was originally published, the average age for the man to marry was 29 and for the woman it was 27. Mike is only 18, almost 19 years old, but he is dealing with an author who got married when she was 20.
It appears you were responding while I was in the process of editing my last comment, hence the comment order. Just pretend my last comment came before yours.
You’re the one agitating the readers with all your shots at the characters, which most of us love.
It is the peculiar aspect of this comic strip that the fans so vigorously defend the characters even when I am talking about the foibles put there by the author. For example, Lynn Johnston has a running joke about Elly being a terrible cook. But, when I write a comment like, “Lynn Johnston has a running joke about Elly being a terrible cook”, I get responses from people who are personally offended that I would suggest that Elly was anything other than perfection. Interestingly enough, if I make similar sorts of comments about other comic strips, I do not get this kind of feedback. For Better or For Worse has a different fanbase.
The character of Gordon Mayes is interesting, because the author goes out of her way to have other characters praise Gordon for being a hard-working, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of guy. However, any time I see an author try and show a guy is a good guy by having people talking about how good a guy he is, it makes me wonder if the guy really is a good guy. What does he actually do? So, I take a closer look. For people who have bought into the dialogue, they are personally offended, as you have demonstrated. Nevertheless, there are people on this forum who like to have that conversation, who like taking a closer look at the story and the characters. My comments may agitate, but I am not pointing out anything that is not right there on the comics page.
You poke the bear but can’t deal with the consequences.
I like to think I deal with the consequences by reminding people not to resort to personal insults when they go to them. Occasionally they will respond to that as you have (thanks), but most times I just get more insults.