Which is funny because Becky is being genuinely concerned but Dorothy is concealing the fact that Becky’s past jealousy for Dorothy has been 100% justified by recent revelations.
Yeah, on a second reading this comment sounds absolutely insane. I apologize. I think what happened here is for some reason my mind zeroed in on platonic as the load bearing word in that sentence. I don’t really know. I tend write these comments right before bed when I am very tied and while my comments somehow make sense to me in the moment, I often look back and find they are as strange or incipherable as an alcoholic Martian. Maybe I should switch to commenting in the morning.
I swear this comments section is a multiversal nexus. NGPZ didn’t say ANYTHING about being okay or not okay with anyone cheating on anyone else. Like, I’m not even sure what small crumb of “proof” you even gleaned from this comment that made you think they did??
Steamweed
Avoid reading any comment starting with “Oh, so…” Better that way. 🙂
Nymph
But then I miss out on the multiverse.
True Survivor
You are mostly right. NPGZ did not say anything about being ok with cheating today, but was happy to see them together (and hey, I’m not really judging everybody has their ships) in the comments of previous strips these past weeks. I meant the first sentence as a light hearted set up to the joke about Dina’s velociraptor-like ferocity when angered, but I continuously overestimate my ability to express jovial sarcasm in text and I wrote this whole comment late at night when my brain was fried, so it probably did come across as little mean and ungrounded in any physical reality. I apologize for that.
Walky would be sad that he didn’t get to watch. Joe would be initially disappointed, then sad that he didn’t get to watch. Dorothy and Walky are at this point in a friends with benefits situation, even if that’s not been verbally defined. They’re not ‘dating’ and there’s been no agreement or even implication of exclusivity. Joe and Joyce are in an implied exclusive dating arrangement, but Joe is still fundamentally who he is, and he’s absolutely going to find it hot once he gets over the disappointment of Joyce going outside that arrangement.
Dina’s reaction is harder to predict, but I’d seriously doubt violence would be involved. And it might involve her finding it disappointing that she wasn’t consulted first and given the opportunity to observe for purposes of study. In other words, she’d be sad that she didn’t get to watch, among other feelings.
(Or that could be my personal experience talking, when a college girlfriend hooked up with a friend’s girlfriend one time and didn’t invite us, my friend and I were mildly annoyed at not being invited that time. They made it up to us later. And yes, we still occasionally share sex partners 30+ years later, we’ve both mostly been involved with bi women, our current long term partners are bi.)
The first step in fixing a problem is admitting you have a problem. And as the proverb states the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
honestly I think their one sided rivalry is great, but maaaybe Dotty needs to talk with someone, even if it’s Becky. or at least some hugs, because she’s losing it. ~<3
The Beckster’s probably putting aside her comedic rivalry stance. She can see Dotty’s in crisis. And Dotty knows a thing or three about being in crisis.
I could see Becky kind of going back to it at the end of the conversation. I feel like that’s a common move for her– willing to get into feelings territory, then when it’s about done, bring in a joke to reset things to “normal.” Sincere conversation about it here, than at the end some sort of “I was right/beat you to figuring it out/*self-five for calling it*” thing.
From the tone of Becky’s response, it seems like she would’ve actually been willing to talk to her about her emotions in a mature way. At the same time, the first person (Danny) she (Dorothy) tried to talk to about how she was feeling, used it as an opportunity to dunk on her. So, I understand why she might be apprehensive about discussing this.
Here’s hoping dotty changes her mind, and this is all resolved in an emotionally mature manner.
Becky’s treated her terribly, apparently constantly insulting her and deliberately leaving her skanky filthy laundry out just to annoy her. So it’s nice to see Becky being genuine here and admitting she’s the last person Dorothy should talk to.
Clif
Look, I’m just impressed that Becky can wake up in the middle of the night and immediately have a coherent conversation.
Rex Vivat
I’d say that Becky has had reason to get conditioned to immediately jump to alertness when waking up to something unexpected.
Some of us can do that without even waking up first
Anna Grant
That’s not a fair assessment. Dorothy has told Becky about things in confidence in the past and Becky has kept that confidence. Dorothy is capable of opening up to her sometimes, but this topic is a sensitive one between the two of them, for obvious reasons.
Nymph
“That’s not a fair assessment” is essentially the only way Vanessa talks about Becky.
Charles Phipps
Becky having laundry in a pile is really driving some posters up the wall.
Smallmoon
It’s not about having a laundry pile. It’s about her deliberately making a pile of laundry and drawing attention to it because she knew it would annoy Dorothy. It’s about Becky tossing a cup on the floor and saying “Now you have to pick up my trash.”
AlexanderHammil
It’s friendly ribbing that is, I think, received that way. But the bulk of their interactions have been playfully combative on Becky’s part, so they don’t have a deep enough friendship to have this particular conversation. Like. This is actually fine, no one’s the asshole here, it’s just a tough time for Dorothy and she has to chew through a few dark nights of the soul to digest it. She’ll be okay.
Adept
”Friendly ribbing”? Becky started mocking Dorothy the moment they met, and has been consistently horrible ever since.
Folus
I’m not too fussed with either side of this..
But, I probably would put out there that they were never really on close/friendly enough terms for Becky’s behavior to really land as “playful.”
Yumi
Yeah, I don’t think Becky’s approach is actually cruel or whatever, but a bit that one party can’t opt out of– and it has seemed like Dorothy would like if it wasn’t so constant at times– is likely annoying at times, at least. If Dorothy gave it back, it might seem less “just mean” at times.
Bea
I guess it’s more about how we think she receives it right? Does Dotty actually enjoy or feel gracious about this “frenemies” bit, or does she think pretending not to be annoyed or hurt is the right thing to do because Becky has been through so much?
Nadamás
I mean she doesn’t pretend we know she doesn’t actually cares about it.
Anna
And it isn’t just the laundry, it’s the whole “WE hate each other and I’M fine with that! Go on hating me Dotty! 🙂 :)” From my experience, the one thing worse than someone going out of their way to be mean to you is them claiming that that’s because you were provoking them on purpose.
Nadamás
That is not a thing that she did. Stop making stuff up to be mad at.
Anna
What?
Needfuldoer
Respect the floordrobe.
Steamweed
First time I’ve seen that term. I’m regretting it already. 😛
zee
Becky’s laundry pile is sexually liberated?
Freemage
“Constantly insulting” her? Can you cite some evidence of that? Because I’ve been doing a dive of the archives for “becky+dorothy”, and while there’s a lot of “We’re totally arch-rivals” blather, from beginning to end, she almost never actually indulges in real insults. The closest I found was her saying, “You’re going to take this as an insult, but you’re a terrible politician.”
There’s also that Becky is actually too close to the situation, having gone through it herself. Also, if Dorothy really had a talk with Becky about it, the fully open kind she needs right now, it would also involve discussing her and Joyce’s last conversation and that might just break Becky’s soul.
Heavensrun
It’s also…I mean, Becky didn’t *exactly* go through it herself, because Joyce didn’t reject Dorothy, Dorothy rejected *Joyce*. Which means talking to it about Becky involves telling her “Hey, so, remember how you had a crush on Joyce but had to let it go because she’s straight? Well, she’s not straight for *me* but I let it go anyway!”
I suspect Becky’d take it better than one might think, but it’s still a very fraught conversation to strike up.
StClair
Yup. 😐
Not the sort of thing to have in the middle of the night when at least one of the participants is starting from a position of “just this side of breaking utterly.”
Nah, I’m Team Danny on that conversation. She deserved a dunk or two there. My least favorite Dorothy moment ever is that “hands off me” like he was some perv stranger touching her inappropriately and not (a) someone she, in universe, was in a serious relationship with half a year ago and (b) literally just mirroring the way she touched him in the flashback. Plus, as much as I like Dorothy for a lot of other things, she deserves a dunk or two for how she handled said break-up (and how fast she then got with Walky).
Veronica
In retrospect: extra funny that she broke up with Danny because she knew she’d be moving on to Yale and that mattered more than the relationship and then cancelled going to Yale to be in a relationship (which she wasn’t aware of yet) with Joyce
Bysmerian
I mean there’s more to it than just Joyce. Dorothy is absolutely wrestling with more aspects of her identity than just her sexuality and it feels like even without unrecognized sapphic attraction she would have come to the same conclusion regarding her presidential ambitions
Nymph
It’s so weird to me that people think there’s a period of time after a relationship where it’s like… rude or inappropriate to get with another person. I’ll never understand that.
Dave the Inverted
There are a couple things going on there. At the core is the idea that it takes a certain amount of time to decide you want to be in a relationship with someone. Thus, if you immediately start up with someone else, you either were already looking that way when you were still in your previous relationship, or you’re having a (probably ill-advised) rebound relationship. The other part of it is that, having gone through a relationship and breakup, it is wise to take some time to figure out what went wrong, how to avoid that in the future, and (most importantly) who you are *now* when you’re not in a relationship (as opposed to who you were *before* going into your now-former relationship). YMMV, of course.
Nymph
I’m not saying there aren’t people who relationship-hop at the expense of their own mental and emotional wellbeing, that should definitely be unpacked.
IDK, I just think people relationship-police each other more than is sensible or necessary. If my partner is crushing on someone and wants to start a relationship then they should break up with me (if we’re monogamous, which we wouldn’t be but for the sake of argument). Once we’re broken up, they can hop into whatever they want.
I don’t think it makes them a bad person, but some people seem to and that just confuses me.
Yumi
Yeah, there are a number of popular songs to that effect, and it kinda bothers me when I hear them. It’s totally fine to have your emotions to someone you were with moving on quickly, of course, and to them developing feelings and then ending things… but I don’t think they’ve done anything objectively wrong or worthy of being attacked over or whatever.
Freemage
There are more nuanced takes. For instance, there’s usually a difference depending on whether the person who is rushing into a new relationship is the dump-er or the dump-ee (or if it was a genuinely mutual break-up).
Dump-er is generally going to be viewed as being inconsiderate of their former partner’s feelings, and yes, suspicions will be raised about whether or not you were already cheating on them, at least emotionally, before breaking things off.
Dump-ee, on the other hand, is going to be viewed more sympathetically, but a lot of people will be concerned that you’re just going on a rebound relationship (which is fine, so long as your rebound partner is aware of the situation).
Since no one ever believes that a break-up was mutual, of course, then it will always be considered suspicious if either of you ever dates again. (Yes, I’m acknowledging that a lot of people are just way too damned invested in other people’s love lives… BOOSTER & AMBER.)
Nadamás
I think in Dorothy specific case is that she broke up with Danny because she didn’t want a relationship getting in the way of her plans to go to Yale and then just a few days later started dating Walky.
Nymph
And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. She’s allowed to: change her mind, feel different when it’s a guy she likes more, have a fling, or just outright lie to Danny about why their relationship was ending (I don’t think she lied, I just don’t see any issue with it).
My confusion wasn’t about what she had done, it was about why she “deserved a dunk or two” for it when she didn’t do anything wrong in that case.
perpetual sea
She said “hands off me” BECAUSE Danny was mirroring of her actions in the flashback & making fun of her. It’s essentially a “dude stop it I actually want to talk to you about something”. Idk where you’re getting the pervert angle from at all… But either way, it’s literally always fine to tell people not to touch you, no matter how close you were or currently are : )
Nymph
This!!!
Bysmerian
Yeah. I mean, Danny didn’t know what precisely she was wrestling with, so while his comments about the thirst pics and dealing with same-sex attraction while in a straight-presenting relationship were devastating, but not in a way he had a way of recognizing at the time
If Dorothy’s feelings for Joyce were 100% unrequited, I think Becky would be a good person to talk to. But with Joyce seemingly also maybe kinda having a thing for Dorothy, I think she’d feel very guilty revealing this to Becky.
282 thoughts on “Dotty”
NGPZ
well at least she admitted she’s not okay?
honestly I unironically want them to hug right now in a platonic way, Dorothy could really use it T^T
Vanessa Pinter
Yes, Becky is being helpful. So nice to see it.
Longshot97
I wish this fact was born of a less tragic origin.
Becky’s mother didn’t die from cancer. And I can’t say for certain, but that fact may be quite prominent in Becky’s mind now.
Anonymouse
Which is funny because Becky is being genuinely concerned but Dorothy is concealing the fact that Becky’s past jealousy for Dorothy has been 100% justified by recent revelations.
True Survivor
Oh, so you’re fine with Joyce and Dotty having an affair, but not with Becky cheating on Dina. That makes sense.
Wait … that actually makes sense. Joe and Walky would be sad, but likely unsurprised. Dina would disembowel Dorothy and line the bed with her guts.
Dante
O_O??
Freezer
Seconded
True Survivor
Yeah, on a second reading this comment sounds absolutely insane. I apologize. I think what happened here is for some reason my mind zeroed in on platonic as the load bearing word in that sentence. I don’t really know. I tend write these comments right before bed when I am very tied and while my comments somehow make sense to me in the moment, I often look back and find they are as strange or incipherable as an alcoholic Martian. Maybe I should switch to commenting in the morning.
NGPZ
hey I get that
heck Needfuldoer around here has some very solid advice:
“Coffee then comment. Coffee THEN comment.”
achallenger
no you were right to say what you said
PedanticJerkass
What.
GGiG
Since everyone is simply confused, I’ll say it outright: How in the heck is it cheating to give someone a HUG
Nymph
I swear this comments section is a multiversal nexus. NGPZ didn’t say ANYTHING about being okay or not okay with anyone cheating on anyone else. Like, I’m not even sure what small crumb of “proof” you even gleaned from this comment that made you think they did??
Steamweed
Avoid reading any comment starting with “Oh, so…” Better that way. 🙂
Nymph
But then I miss out on the multiverse.
True Survivor
You are mostly right. NPGZ did not say anything about being ok with cheating today, but was happy to see them together (and hey, I’m not really judging everybody has their ships) in the comments of previous strips these past weeks. I meant the first sentence as a light hearted set up to the joke about Dina’s velociraptor-like ferocity when angered, but I continuously overestimate my ability to express jovial sarcasm in text and I wrote this whole comment late at night when my brain was fried, so it probably did come across as little mean and ungrounded in any physical reality. I apologize for that.
NGPZ
yeah that’s good intention right there
we’re getting less than one Dina appearance this entire storyline, and I think I’m already starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms T-T
Nymph
Makes sense, everyone fucks up the tone in text communications sometimes! ty for the explanation ?
NGPZ
hey no worries we’ll get that too
just gotta wait for someone in the strip to pull the Drama Tag…
Steamweed
Multiverse? Not just one reality but all of them?? Ugh. 1/5 stars. No recoms.
zee
What the fuck.
VicMortimer
Walky would be sad that he didn’t get to watch. Joe would be initially disappointed, then sad that he didn’t get to watch. Dorothy and Walky are at this point in a friends with benefits situation, even if that’s not been verbally defined. They’re not ‘dating’ and there’s been no agreement or even implication of exclusivity. Joe and Joyce are in an implied exclusive dating arrangement, but Joe is still fundamentally who he is, and he’s absolutely going to find it hot once he gets over the disappointment of Joyce going outside that arrangement.
Dina’s reaction is harder to predict, but I’d seriously doubt violence would be involved. And it might involve her finding it disappointing that she wasn’t consulted first and given the opportunity to observe for purposes of study. In other words, she’d be sad that she didn’t get to watch, among other feelings.
(Or that could be my personal experience talking, when a college girlfriend hooked up with a friend’s girlfriend one time and didn’t invite us, my friend and I were mildly annoyed at not being invited that time. They made it up to us later. And yes, we still occasionally share sex partners 30+ years later, we’ve both mostly been involved with bi women, our current long term partners are bi.)
Yumi
Exclusivity has definitely been implied with Dorothy and Walky. For example: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/03-me-and-who-you-say-i-was-yesterday/being-confused/
Joyce has outright stated she is in a monogamous relationship:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/aboutchange/
Things that one might find hot in general are likely to feel much less hot when it involves being cheated on. Unless that’s part of the appeal.
Kintrex
Pretty sure Joe would be devastated if Joyce cheated on him.
Opus the Poet
The first step in fixing a problem is admitting you have a problem. And as the proverb states the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Nymph
“So you ADMIT IT! We ARE mortal enemies!” Becky high-fives herself.
DJTsurugi
honestly I think their one sided rivalry is great, but maaaybe Dotty needs to talk with someone, even if it’s Becky. or at least some hugs, because she’s losing it. ~<3
Nymph
Yeah, she definitely does. I don’t think anyone disagrees she needs to talk to someone.
Steamweed
Leslie is my first thought.
Steamweed
The Beckster’s probably putting aside her comedic rivalry stance. She can see Dotty’s in crisis. And Dotty knows a thing or three about being in crisis.
Yumi
I could see Becky kind of going back to it at the end of the conversation. I feel like that’s a common move for her– willing to get into feelings territory, then when it’s about done, bring in a joke to reset things to “normal.” Sincere conversation about it here, than at the end some sort of “I was right/beat you to figuring it out/*self-five for calling it*” thing.
DJTsurugi
to be fair, good natured ribbing is a better attitude than how some people deal with issues. ~<3
Steamweed
Erk. Last sentence shoulda been “And Becky knows a thing or three about being in crisis.”
Animedingo
Yeah shes only the person who WOULD understand
Fiiiiilo
From the tone of Becky’s response, it seems like she would’ve actually been willing to talk to her about her emotions in a mature way. At the same time, the first person (Danny) she (Dorothy) tried to talk to about how she was feeling, used it as an opportunity to dunk on her. So, I understand why she might be apprehensive about discussing this.
Here’s hoping dotty changes her mind, and this is all resolved in an emotionally mature manner.
Vanessa Pinter
Becky’s treated her terribly, apparently constantly insulting her and deliberately leaving her skanky filthy laundry out just to annoy her. So it’s nice to see Becky being genuine here and admitting she’s the last person Dorothy should talk to.
Clif
Look, I’m just impressed that Becky can wake up in the middle of the night and immediately have a coherent conversation.
Rex Vivat
I’d say that Becky has had reason to get conditioned to immediately jump to alertness when waking up to something unexpected.
Ray Radlein
Some of us can do that without even waking up first
Anna Grant
That’s not a fair assessment. Dorothy has told Becky about things in confidence in the past and Becky has kept that confidence. Dorothy is capable of opening up to her sometimes, but this topic is a sensitive one between the two of them, for obvious reasons.
Nymph
“That’s not a fair assessment” is essentially the only way Vanessa talks about Becky.
Charles Phipps
Becky having laundry in a pile is really driving some posters up the wall.
Smallmoon
It’s not about having a laundry pile. It’s about her deliberately making a pile of laundry and drawing attention to it because she knew it would annoy Dorothy. It’s about Becky tossing a cup on the floor and saying “Now you have to pick up my trash.”
AlexanderHammil
It’s friendly ribbing that is, I think, received that way. But the bulk of their interactions have been playfully combative on Becky’s part, so they don’t have a deep enough friendship to have this particular conversation. Like. This is actually fine, no one’s the asshole here, it’s just a tough time for Dorothy and she has to chew through a few dark nights of the soul to digest it. She’ll be okay.
Adept
”Friendly ribbing”? Becky started mocking Dorothy the moment they met, and has been consistently horrible ever since.
Folus
I’m not too fussed with either side of this..
But, I probably would put out there that they were never really on close/friendly enough terms for Becky’s behavior to really land as “playful.”
Yumi
Yeah, I don’t think Becky’s approach is actually cruel or whatever, but a bit that one party can’t opt out of– and it has seemed like Dorothy would like if it wasn’t so constant at times– is likely annoying at times, at least. If Dorothy gave it back, it might seem less “just mean” at times.
Bea
I guess it’s more about how we think she receives it right? Does Dotty actually enjoy or feel gracious about this “frenemies” bit, or does she think pretending not to be annoyed or hurt is the right thing to do because Becky has been through so much?
Nadamás
I mean she doesn’t pretend we know she doesn’t actually cares about it.
Anna
And it isn’t just the laundry, it’s the whole “WE hate each other and I’M fine with that! Go on hating me Dotty! 🙂 :)” From my experience, the one thing worse than someone going out of their way to be mean to you is them claiming that that’s because you were provoking them on purpose.
Nadamás
That is not a thing that she did. Stop making stuff up to be mad at.
Anna
What?
Needfuldoer
Respect the floordrobe.
Steamweed
First time I’ve seen that term. I’m regretting it already. 😛
zee
Becky’s laundry pile is sexually liberated?
Freemage
“Constantly insulting” her? Can you cite some evidence of that? Because I’ve been doing a dive of the archives for “becky+dorothy”, and while there’s a lot of “We’re totally arch-rivals” blather, from beginning to end, she almost never actually indulges in real insults. The closest I found was her saying, “You’re going to take this as an insult, but you’re a terrible politician.”
Ferret
There’s also that Becky is actually too close to the situation, having gone through it herself. Also, if Dorothy really had a talk with Becky about it, the fully open kind she needs right now, it would also involve discussing her and Joyce’s last conversation and that might just break Becky’s soul.
Heavensrun
It’s also…I mean, Becky didn’t *exactly* go through it herself, because Joyce didn’t reject Dorothy, Dorothy rejected *Joyce*. Which means talking to it about Becky involves telling her “Hey, so, remember how you had a crush on Joyce but had to let it go because she’s straight? Well, she’s not straight for *me* but I let it go anyway!”
I suspect Becky’d take it better than one might think, but it’s still a very fraught conversation to strike up.
StClair
Yup. 😐
Not the sort of thing to have in the middle of the night when at least one of the participants is starting from a position of “just this side of breaking utterly.”
BarerMender
I wonder if Dorothy, as wrought up as she is, is saving Becky’s feelings.
Lee
Nah, I’m Team Danny on that conversation. She deserved a dunk or two there. My least favorite Dorothy moment ever is that “hands off me” like he was some perv stranger touching her inappropriately and not (a) someone she, in universe, was in a serious relationship with half a year ago and (b) literally just mirroring the way she touched him in the flashback. Plus, as much as I like Dorothy for a lot of other things, she deserves a dunk or two for how she handled said break-up (and how fast she then got with Walky).
Veronica
In retrospect: extra funny that she broke up with Danny because she knew she’d be moving on to Yale and that mattered more than the relationship and then cancelled going to Yale to be in a relationship (which she wasn’t aware of yet) with Joyce
Bysmerian
I mean there’s more to it than just Joyce. Dorothy is absolutely wrestling with more aspects of her identity than just her sexuality and it feels like even without unrecognized sapphic attraction she would have come to the same conclusion regarding her presidential ambitions
Nymph
It’s so weird to me that people think there’s a period of time after a relationship where it’s like… rude or inappropriate to get with another person. I’ll never understand that.
Dave the Inverted
There are a couple things going on there. At the core is the idea that it takes a certain amount of time to decide you want to be in a relationship with someone. Thus, if you immediately start up with someone else, you either were already looking that way when you were still in your previous relationship, or you’re having a (probably ill-advised) rebound relationship. The other part of it is that, having gone through a relationship and breakup, it is wise to take some time to figure out what went wrong, how to avoid that in the future, and (most importantly) who you are *now* when you’re not in a relationship (as opposed to who you were *before* going into your now-former relationship). YMMV, of course.
Nymph
I’m not saying there aren’t people who relationship-hop at the expense of their own mental and emotional wellbeing, that should definitely be unpacked.
IDK, I just think people relationship-police each other more than is sensible or necessary. If my partner is crushing on someone and wants to start a relationship then they should break up with me (if we’re monogamous, which we wouldn’t be but for the sake of argument). Once we’re broken up, they can hop into whatever they want.
I don’t think it makes them a bad person, but some people seem to and that just confuses me.
Yumi
Yeah, there are a number of popular songs to that effect, and it kinda bothers me when I hear them. It’s totally fine to have your emotions to someone you were with moving on quickly, of course, and to them developing feelings and then ending things… but I don’t think they’ve done anything objectively wrong or worthy of being attacked over or whatever.
Freemage
There are more nuanced takes. For instance, there’s usually a difference depending on whether the person who is rushing into a new relationship is the dump-er or the dump-ee (or if it was a genuinely mutual break-up).
Dump-er is generally going to be viewed as being inconsiderate of their former partner’s feelings, and yes, suspicions will be raised about whether or not you were already cheating on them, at least emotionally, before breaking things off.
Dump-ee, on the other hand, is going to be viewed more sympathetically, but a lot of people will be concerned that you’re just going on a rebound relationship (which is fine, so long as your rebound partner is aware of the situation).
Since no one ever believes that a break-up was mutual, of course, then it will always be considered suspicious if either of you ever dates again. (Yes, I’m acknowledging that a lot of people are just way too damned invested in other people’s love lives… BOOSTER & AMBER.)
Nadamás
I think in Dorothy specific case is that she broke up with Danny because she didn’t want a relationship getting in the way of her plans to go to Yale and then just a few days later started dating Walky.
Nymph
And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. She’s allowed to: change her mind, feel different when it’s a guy she likes more, have a fling, or just outright lie to Danny about why their relationship was ending (I don’t think she lied, I just don’t see any issue with it).
My confusion wasn’t about what she had done, it was about why she “deserved a dunk or two” for it when she didn’t do anything wrong in that case.
perpetual sea
She said “hands off me” BECAUSE Danny was mirroring of her actions in the flashback & making fun of her. It’s essentially a “dude stop it I actually want to talk to you about something”. Idk where you’re getting the pervert angle from at all… But either way, it’s literally always fine to tell people not to touch you, no matter how close you were or currently are : )
Nymph
This!!!
Bysmerian
Yeah. I mean, Danny didn’t know what precisely she was wrestling with, so while his comments about the thirst pics and dealing with same-sex attraction while in a straight-presenting relationship were devastating, but not in a way he had a way of recognizing at the time
Envy
If Dorothy’s feelings for Joyce were 100% unrequited, I think Becky would be a good person to talk to. But with Joyce seemingly also maybe kinda having a thing for Dorothy, I think she’d feel very guilty revealing this to Becky.
Heavensrun