Question Jade

Don't feel bad. I recently saw, I think, Stephen Colbert using the word "poopyhead" on live TV.

I dont see Jade as a bully, even in the case of Danny, they lack any malicious intent,

Lack of intent doesn't mean it's not bullying. It might be unintended but it still is.

Yeah, I think that while Jade can't imagine that anyone wouldn't want to be a member of wondercute (especially Danny who is cute personified to her [and being bullied because he's looking very androgynous these days]) she also can't imagine why he wouldn't want to be a girl... Not that every boy should want to be a girl in her mind but... If they aren't Stephen, and are headed that way... Well you sort of get the picture I think. Basically she is being a bully to Danny, and to Ribbon (though Ribbon is handling it better). Even with all this criticism of Jade though, if I had one wish, it is that her author would return to writing her story.

Anne wrote: Yeah, I think that while Jade can't imagine that anyone wouldn't want to be a member of wondercute (especially Danny who is cute personified to her [and being bullied because he's looking very androgynous these days]) she also can't imagine why he wouldn't want to be a girl... Not that every boy should want to be a girl in her mind but... If they aren't Stephen, and are headed that way... Well you sort of get the picture I think. Basically she is being a bully to Danny, and to Ribbon (though Ribbon is handling it better). Even with all this criticism of Jade though, if I had one wish, it is that her author would return to writing her story.

Are you related to Scrambler?

Actually ribbon by dent of life experience can't really be bullied in the way jade bullies because she isn't malicious about it. Ribbon just finds it super annoying. It's like kids winning daddy please I want that one. And he has already said no. Ribbonhas lived a full like and gone his at the time own way in the face of peer pressure.

I mean really if your well rounded mostly and out of your teens and maybe college does peer pressure even work on you anymore as a rule? I mean it never really worked on me to begin with. It was always let's go do something stupid you have to do it because every one else is. And I'm like nooooooo unlike not having broken legs. (Cept that one time we were all on a three day bender and decided to make ransuers and go hunt wild boars. But I think that was the booze more than peer pressure lol)

RoseBlack wrote: I mean really if your well rounded mostly and out of your teens and maybe college does peer pressure even work on you anymore as a rule?

I mean really, if you're a well rounded adult, do you even still confuse easy homophones like your and you're anymore?

Unfortunately, peer pressure does work on plenty of basically normal adults. The extent to which it works will vary, but the overwhelming majority are at least a little susceptible. Social norms would not be norms otherwise. Of course, the people who are as susceptible as you're talking about are a minority, but they're not at all a small one. And while you can argue that they're weak -- and I'd agree -- they are not abnormally weak.

I would guess that a lot of rioters are a result of "peer pressure." Everyone else is doing it, so let's join in.

Kay: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

Jade is people.

Wondercute is a prime example of the Lemming principle. individually, they are bad, but together the "cute" feeds on itself and intensifies. I would draw the comparison to any leader that is seen as Charismatic, you can draw in your followers to your ideology en masse and it will increase exponentially. There was a PBS series I watched a few years back called The Dark Charisma of Adolph Hitler that explored the mob mentality in his particular case.

All you need for such things to snowball is someone that has that Charisma, and Jade has it.

Reminds me of the political landscape in America today. A charismatic leader tells people that immigrants are all "rapists, drug dealers, and murderers" and it snowballs from there. I have seen numerous attack ads this election, mostly from one party reiterate that statement. That's how the collective mindset changes from "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to be free" to an isolationist xenophobic mentality where people are greeted with "You are in 'MURICA, you should speak 'Murican"

Likewise, even if Jade isn't aware of the issue of the "Wondercute mindset", she is amplifying it and making it a greater issue, due to her charisma.

Kettlekorn wrote:

RoseBlack wrote: I mean really if your well rounded mostly and out of your teens and maybe college does peer pressure even work on you anymore as a rule?

I mean really, if you're a well rounded adult, do you even still confuse easy homophones like your and you're anymore?

Unfortunately, peer pressure does work on plenty of basically normal adults. The extent to which it works will vary, but the overwhelming majority are at least a little susceptible. Social norms would not be norms otherwise. Of course, the people who are as susceptible as you're talking about are a minority, but they're not at all a small one. And while you can argue that they're weak -- and I'd agree -- they are not abnormally weak.

Actually I have dyslexia and a few other problems I don't normally mention which screw with my ability to spell and work syntax correctly. Some days I can barely read. Thus I lean alot on my autocorrect and well the one on my phone blows. But it's better than the mangled mess I would end up typing otherwise. So yeah thanks for pointing out my mistake.

Valentine wrote:
Are you related to Scrambler?

Of course not. There are spaces and punctuation in that post

RoseBlack wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote:

RoseBlack wrote: I mean really if your well rounded mostly and out of your teens and maybe college does peer pressure even work on you anymore as a rule?

I mean really, if you're a well rounded adult, do you even still confuse easy homophones like your and you're anymore?

Unfortunately, peer pressure does work on plenty of basically normal adults. The extent to which it works will vary, but the overwhelming majority are at least a little susceptible. Social norms would not be norms otherwise. Of course, the people who are as susceptible as you're talking about are a minority, but they're not at all a small one. And while you can argue that they're weak -- and I'd agree -- they are not abnormally weak.

Actually I have dyslexia and a few other problems I don't normally mention which screw with my ability to spell and work syntax correctly. Some days I can barely read. Thus I lean alot on my autocorrect and well the one on my phone blows. But it's better than the mangled mess I would end up typing otherwise. So yeah thanks for pointing out my mistake.

I'm sorry to hear that, and I apologize for my friendly poke turning out to be a finger jammed in a wound. I assumed it was just a random typo; it's a very common mistake that plenty of us make even without dyslexia.

Forgiven. I was so sore I just now logged back in.

But yeah without the aid of auto correct I doubt my posts would be legible at all. And it tends to mix up words by using the most frequently used. And let's be honest you're isn't all that commonly used lol. And I just don't always catch those miscorrections in my sweep before I post esp if I'm tired or in a hurry.

The J-Team can be a Devise test by looking for Mutant Energy in suspected Devises, no?

Is that saleable? Did we discuss already?

Which story had Jade begging Nikki to change her?

Cryptic wrote: Which story had Jade begging Nikki to change her?

Do you mean Sara instead?

It has been a long time since I read the Jade stories, but didn't she beg both Nikki, and Sara to change her (not at the same time) at some points?

I don't recall Nikki, but I do remember the Sara conversation, and Sara explaining that it would require trading something that would be too great.