Snakey_Boi 34 points35 points 8 months ago

I’m glad you commented this. I think Penny should have asked George if he needed assistance rather than assuming he needs help (the assumption that disabled and old people are completely helpless needs to go). But the way people are commenting, it seems like Penny pushed George off the wheelchair and beat him up a couple of times. We shouldn’t vilify kindness, we should opt to educate and empathise.

CRtwenty 20 points21 points 8 months ago

Yeah if she'd asked first it would have been a totally situation and if George got angry he would have been in the wrong instead.

I don't understand the knee jerk reaction to her here. She's wrong yes, but her actions aren't exactly uncommon among people who haven't dealt with someone with a physical disability before. It tells us a lot about her character and how she's basically never interacted with the world outside of Stardew Valley.

Snakey_Boi 1 point2 points 8 months ago

I also feel it’s a reflection of her living with an alcoholic mother.

Lumisteria -6 points-5 points 8 months ago

But :

  • It's not a real character so people are free to not feel forced to educate and empathise.

  • Burden of educate and empathise is often put on the same people, when people can use "good intention" as excuse to get away with a lot of thing.

  • In fact, if you are forced to be nice and all in a lot of situation, a fictional situation when you don't have this burden can be, for some, a relief.

  • Especially in the game that has its limit and when your education and empathy will anyway not change anything to the result.

People can do the difference between what happen in a real situation with all the complexity and a limited event in a game. A lot of people are even confronted to lot of situations when they have to be patient, polite, understanding and forced to educate and empathise, when they don't always get a fair share of the empathy themselve (and when we don't see the amount of stuff that happened before).

So a fictional character being a case when they can be "ok, not this time, i did enough" ? It's fine. It's not the sign that they will never be kind to other again.

Snakey_Boi 3 points4 points 8 months ago

I think my main point is that responding with vitriol doesn’t do much of anything (it never does)