Nothing really. He’s probably okay. His love of rules and disdain for buffoonery does give off some cop energy though. I don’t know where I’d stand with him. Very season 1 Amazi-Girl type aura. He got my back if a cop pulls me over or I’m underage drinking in the parking lot of Walmart? What if I wanna fist fight a rapist at a republican congressional rally? I don’t know.
Needfuldoer
Hopefully his love of order and disdain for buffoonery means he won’t take anything Raidah says at face value, but instead as something to follow up on with Sarah later. Don’t make a judgment without all the facts, etc.
I don’t know where anyone is getting this “Tony is a wannabe cop” narrative, other than because he’s a wealthy white dude. We’ve seen no indication he’s conservative and quite a lot of indications to the contrary.
Hexx
@Wright of Void The reason he seems untrustworthy is because he voiced support for the cops who raided the protest. Given recent IRL events, would you trust someone who did that? With ANYTHING you value more than monetarily?
Carl Muckenhoupt
Heck, his coppishness could make Raidah’s information backfire. “She rid the campus of a druggie? Cool.”
Leorale
Yeah, whatever Raidah is about to say has an uphill battle against Tony’s lawfulness and disdain of nonsense.
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Tony seems like he’d be unsympathetic to illegal drug use, highly sympathetic to a need to study, and practically intolerant of trivial gossip.
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Plus it looks like he knows and dislikes Raidah already, she talks to him only because she wants something; he’s on guard against her social machinations.
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With all that against her, let’s see just how convincing a lawyer Raidah might be.
In his last appearance before this one, he said “without law and order we have nothing” while literally facing the 4th wall. That would be a totally reasonable thing to say under normal circumstances, but in the current US political climate it basically means a whole bunch of other stuff.
Victor Mortimer
Yep. In 2026, “law and order” is code for “I’m fine with living in a police state”. And that’s a HUGE red flag.
thejeff
In US politic speak “law and order” has meant “keep the minorities and agitators in line” for decades.
Whether a white college freshman realizes that and is using it the same way or not is a different question.
Raznaak
I said this on that strip and I said it again, he said “Without *rule of law* we have nothing”.
The “rule of law” is NOT the same thing as liking anything the police and politicians do, the rule of law is the concept that anyone and everyone should be beheld to the same laws, and it opposes the “rule of man”, where the people in power make laws that don’t apply to themselves and their cronies.
thejeff
Fair and I should have checked. “Rule of Law” is not a dog whistle the way “law and order” is. It was also a comment about the police needing a warrant and thus the search being unjustified.
Altogether a positive appearance.
NGPZ
“Law and order exist to establish justice, but when they fail in this purpose they instead become dangerously structured dams which block the flow of social progress.”
— Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Alright, here we go, time to see if Tony is a real one.
I kinda hope Raidah succeeds in breaking them up though. Mainly cuz I need Sarah to crash out so bad.
Well, the stuff about Sarah reporting her pothead roommate will only raise/reaffirm his esteem of her. And that’s the only thing I can think of that Raidah has to weaponize.
Sarah is covering for her roommate Joyce who was prominently at the student protests. For Tony, “not narcing” may be more of a problem than vice versa. But it is not a safe bet. Authority followers are in the business of _deferring_ to others’ judgment, and examples in their respected environment may trigger reevaluation.
Searcher
Is Sarah covering for Joyce? Doesn’t everyone recognize the girls in the famous picture?
Tony’s always been fairly direct. If this is the story of how Sarah got her roommate removed, I feel like Tony’s the kind of person who’d be more offended she allowed someone to break the rules for so long.
Yeah, Tony strikes me as a very straight up and down sort of guy, I mean not so much as Sarah but only by like 5 inches. <-This is a truly terrible pun and I'm sorry
I’ve been saying for months now that it was a narrative weakness that we’ve only ever seen Sarah’s side of everything that happened with Dana. Hopefully we’re finally gonna see how Raidah actually saw everything.
Doubtful. Last time she told the story she just tried to do the hwole “Sarah is a bad person who hurts people who don’t fit the norm” while giving minimal context because she’s well aware the entire context will set off alarms of most anti-drugs people.
And I have a feeling Tony is very anti-drugs.
Raidah has only the information she has to work off of. And quite frankly having Sarah’s side of the story, I think she was pretty clearly in the wrong.
Bill Erak
Was she?
Girl wanted to have a future. Being wholly unable to sleep because your roommate is spiralling and instead of getting help they just get more and more high is a problem. She didn’t know Dana’s home wasn’t good for her (And that’s just what Raidah said anyways, and it’s been proven Raidah is a manipulative untrustworthy individual)
Dot
Get a roommate transfer then. The mistake here is assuming that the solution Sarah chose was the only one available to her.
Doopyboop
Sarah did try to reach out to Dana’s friend group to let them know Dana wasn’t dealing with the death well. They were the ones who basically responded like “well she seems fine to us”. Getting a room transfer wouldn’t solve the fact that Dana was becoming dependent on weed because she was depressed. Although we don’t know what Dana’s father is like, at least she did have Dana’s dad informed so he could take care of his daughter rather than reporting her to school officials, which would have given her a criminal record and expelled from the school.
Sirksome
It’s a good thing Dana will never show up again to clarify the state of her home life and mental health, thus forever leaving Sarah and Raidah in an arbitrary stalemate of believing the other person in their petty rivalry is the devil! Yup!
thejeff
Also, getting a roommate transfer apparently takes months (unless the authorities intervene as they did with Jennifer).
But mostly, I think that Sarah was more concerned about Dana than about herself. That she’d downplay that to make it look like she was just concerned about her grades would be strange from most people, but fits nicely with Sarah’s pretense of general misanthropy. Can’t have anyone seeing that she actually cares.
zee
Roommate transfers take months, Sarah’s grades were already slipping. Dana was getting worse and worse every day. I think reaching out to her dad was the most responsible thing she could have done. Besides, something I don’t think people talk about enough- if the university ever did a random search of the room, maybe the weed smell got reported. They have a rich white girl and some dark skin black girl on scholarship- who do you think they’re gonna pin it on? Sarah couldn’t gotten kicked out at best, arrested at worst. There’s a whole racial overtone to the situation that leaves a nasty ass taste in my mouth. Sarah did what she could to survive as a black woman in an institution that’s inherently hostile to her and it feels disingenuous to ignore that aspect. She did nothing wrong
thejeff
@zee: I think that’s all true, but despite her protests, I don’t worries about what might happen to her were her real concern.
The racial overtones are definitely real and not mentioned enough.
Honestly, I think we’ve seen Raidah’s POV on the Dana thing just fine. The only other thing she could do at this point would be the same embellishing she’s been doing all this time.
I agree that we’ve seen Raidah’s side just fine. Sarah’s original flashback story was actually hugely sympathetic for Raidah.
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What we haven’t seen is Dana’s side. That, imho, is the shoe waiting to drop here.
BadRoad
Which part?
Bysmerian
I found the whole flashback really interesting. I’ve observed a couple of times that Freshman Raidah seems like a significantly less hard-nosed, more anxious person than what she’s made herself in the wake of Dana’s departure. She’s had a character arc, we just really haven’t seen it and also the results are someone who isn’t really likeable and honestly doesn’t care. She was already networking back then but it was almost more friends with (platonic) benefits than the naked social climbing that she seems to be engaging in presently.
I dunno, maybe I’m reading more into it than intended. But it’s something I wouldn’t mind coming back to.
Li
@BadRoad: put simply, whose side Dana would take, however many months later. Is Sarah right that calling Dana’s dad was actually the right thing to do for Dana, or is Raidah right when she claims that Dana’s in a worse place now than she was before Sarah’s intervention?
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Dana agreeing with Raidah won’t make Sarah a villain, or anything, but it would cast Raidah’s grudge in a more sympathetic light.
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Meanwhile, if Dana ever admits to Raidah that she was in a really bad place and maybe even at risk of self-harm, it could make Raidah second-guess her grudge.
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(And if Dana tries to tell Raidah the above and Raidah doesn’t care, then we’ve got a Raidah who’s both less sympathetic AND less likely to get a redemption arc.)
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@Bysmerian: I enjoyed reading your comment but don’t really have much to add. Agreed!
raidah’s language in jettison is very telling: “Sarah HAD Dana sent home”. she makes it sound like manipulating influence, the pulling of a string. sounds to me like if raidah was projecting any harder you could point her at a blank wall and watch Mean Girls
I don’t think Sarah was in the wrong either way, but how is that different from what she actually did?
Qube
telling the RA means Dana gets punished. telling the father means Dana gets help. it’s a big enough difference
Li
I mean, an expulsion would also mean Dana wouldn’t be able to come back to IU.
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(But I would not necessarily assume that telling Dana’s dad didn’t turn into a punishment. I agree that punishing Dana wasn’t Sarah’s goal, but it was certainly a foreseeable outcome, given the drug use, and also that not all parents handle depressed teenagers very well.)
thejeff
Probably more than expelled. Telling the school would have led to them telling the cops and the father.
Just going to the father doesn’t necessarily mean she wasn’t punished, but it’s the best chance of getting help. If the father was actively abusive it could backfire, but I still don’t see any real reason to think that. It’s possible, but not something Sarah had any reason to suspect.
The only real alternative I see that puts Sarah in the wrong is if Raidah was right and Sarah just misjudged the situation entirely. Dana was sad and smoking a bit too much weed to deal with it, but she would have just gotten over it naturally fairly quickly.
Li
@thejeff: I was just noting that I’m not sure telling her dad about it wouldn’t also have gotten her punished.
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But you are correct that non-medical marijuana is still illegal in Indiana, at least for the moment, which I hadn’t realized. (I’d assumed it was just that IU is a dry campus, which presumably also meant no drugs as part of its policy.)
Well considering up to the this point she’s been portrayed as a two-faced snake who vales people for their connections more than their character, I don’t think we’re suddenly gonna get “Raidah was right” twist anytime soon.
I mean a two faced snake horribly wronged by Sarah and actively working for the betterment of minority groups. The problem with one dimensional Raidah is that she’s a product of the fans rather than the comic.
Bill Erak
>horribly wronged by Sarah
Please show me this example. Getting Dana back home may not have been the best option, but Dana refused to get help and Raidah sure as shit didn’t do anything.
>betterment of minority groups
Believe it or not, doing good things on the grand scale doesn’t mean you get to be a shit person to everyone around you. Sarah kind of got this spelled out for her very early on.
Raidah isn’t one-dimensional in theory, but she only has 1 reliable character trait which is “manipulative asshole”. The only time her comments had a positive impact on anyone was Dorothy.
embe13
@bill a lot of people on here don’t like how sarah handled raidah and jakes relationship situation + joyce. also many are saying in raidahs view sarah has wronged her by taking away parts of her network.
c.t. i think many readers have the veiw that raidahs “work” for the betterment of minority groups isnt actually for the benefit of anyone but herself, the read and vibe i get from her is that if anyone benefeted from her actions to a greater extent than she did she would regret tha action/work to undo what she did because someone else got a greater beneflit than she did. raidah strikes me as an “everyone is equal only in their inferiority to me” person
Unless there are some drastic revelations – that Raidah for some reason has never yet used as a weapon against Sarah, her side is that Dana wasn’t that bad and things would have been fine if Sarah hadn’t snitched on her.
I’m not sure what you’re expected that couldn’t be easily covered by “Raidah didn’t realize how bad Dana was getting”.
It’s kind of hard not to. Raidah is oddly fascinating because she so badly wants to be a freaking supervillain but the only people who fall for her shtick are the very naive or those who just met her nine seconds ago. There’s no subtlety, no pretending to be friends, just her deciding who she likes, who she doesn’t, and assuming that badmouthing one against the other with all the finesse of a sledgehammer is gonna win the day.
Gurl, I am begging you, if you wanna be that ‘power behind the throne’ or ‘puppet master’ then you have got to up your supervillain game. A child could see through it, and more than a few actually have (yeah, I know referring to college students as ‘children’ is a bit of stretch, but you get my meaning, I suspect.)
Look, when I was in my early 20s, the fact that people would think of me as a kid was, like, offensive. It’s completely infantilizing, those are adult people, man! They pay taxes!
Then you turn 30, and it’s like, “oh, God, I’m still not sure I’m not children. Young adults are babies.“
Shade
I mean that’s why we have the term young adults, sure they’re adults but they’re also still you know… young.
embe13
also most current medical resaearch on brain maturity basically says adulthood happens around 35, basically by the times our brains have full matured we are hitting the point where reproducing has increased risks
Hey I mean Tony knocked incelerators lights out so I’m sure he’d at least hear out Sarah’s reasons before coming to any conclusions. He clearly doesn’t like raidah and Sarah was remorseful for the punch so he might look past it
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Sirksome
Don’t trust either of them.
TrueSurvivor
Raidah is obviously self-serving and machiavellian, but what is it about him that makes you distrust Tony?
Sirksome
Nothing really. He’s probably okay. His love of rules and disdain for buffoonery does give off some cop energy though. I don’t know where I’d stand with him. Very season 1 Amazi-Girl type aura. He got my back if a cop pulls me over or I’m underage drinking in the parking lot of Walmart? What if I wanna fist fight a rapist at a republican congressional rally? I don’t know.
Needfuldoer
Hopefully his love of order and disdain for buffoonery means he won’t take anything Raidah says at face value, but instead as something to follow up on with Sarah later. Don’t make a judgment without all the facts, etc.
Wright of Void
He literally punched an incel in his first major appearance.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/dreams-and-aspirations/
I don’t know where anyone is getting this “Tony is a wannabe cop” narrative, other than because he’s a wealthy white dude. We’ve seen no indication he’s conservative and quite a lot of indications to the contrary.
Hexx
@Wright of Void The reason he seems untrustworthy is because he voiced support for the cops who raided the protest. Given recent IRL events, would you trust someone who did that? With ANYTHING you value more than monetarily?
Carl Muckenhoupt
Heck, his coppishness could make Raidah’s information backfire. “She rid the campus of a druggie? Cool.”
Leorale
Yeah, whatever Raidah is about to say has an uphill battle against Tony’s lawfulness and disdain of nonsense.
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Tony seems like he’d be unsympathetic to illegal drug use, highly sympathetic to a need to study, and practically intolerant of trivial gossip.
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Plus it looks like he knows and dislikes Raidah already, she talks to him only because she wants something; he’s on guard against her social machinations.
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With all that against her, let’s see just how convincing a lawyer Raidah might be.
Booster97
In his last appearance before this one, he said “without law and order we have nothing” while literally facing the 4th wall. That would be a totally reasonable thing to say under normal circumstances, but in the current US political climate it basically means a whole bunch of other stuff.
Victor Mortimer
Yep. In 2026, “law and order” is code for “I’m fine with living in a police state”. And that’s a HUGE red flag.
thejeff
In US politic speak “law and order” has meant “keep the minorities and agitators in line” for decades.
Whether a white college freshman realizes that and is using it the same way or not is a different question.
Raznaak
I said this on that strip and I said it again, he said “Without *rule of law* we have nothing”.
The “rule of law” is NOT the same thing as liking anything the police and politicians do, the rule of law is the concept that anyone and everyone should be beheld to the same laws, and it opposes the “rule of man”, where the people in power make laws that don’t apply to themselves and their cronies.
thejeff
Fair and I should have checked. “Rule of Law” is not a dog whistle the way “law and order” is. It was also a comment about the police needing a warrant and thus the search being unjustified.
Altogether a positive appearance.
NGPZ
“Law and order exist to establish justice, but when they fail in this purpose they instead become dangerously structured dams which block the flow of social progress.”
— Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Freezer
He gives off big #AllLivesMatter energy.
Bill Erak
Alright, here we go, time to see if Tony is a real one.
I kinda hope Raidah succeeds in breaking them up though. Mainly cuz I need Sarah to crash out so bad.
Amós Batista
Come on, one more couple to crash? How many more? hahaha
Getes
Well, the stuff about Sarah reporting her pothead roommate will only raise/reaffirm his esteem of her. And that’s the only thing I can think of that Raidah has to weaponize.
David
Sarah is covering for her roommate Joyce who was prominently at the student protests. For Tony, “not narcing” may be more of a problem than vice versa. But it is not a safe bet. Authority followers are in the business of _deferring_ to others’ judgment, and examples in their respected environment may trigger reevaluation.
Searcher
Is Sarah covering for Joyce? Doesn’t everyone recognize the girls in the famous picture?
CT Phipps
Unlike Lucy, Tony will tell her to f off.
Mr. Random
Tony’s always been fairly direct. If this is the story of how Sarah got her roommate removed, I feel like Tony’s the kind of person who’d be more offended she allowed someone to break the rules for so long.
Dot
Tony is definitely gonna be on the side of supporting having someone using illegal narcotics removed from campus.
TrueSurvivor
Yeah, Tony strikes me as a very straight up and down sort of guy, I mean not so much as Sarah but only by like 5 inches. <-This is a truly terrible pun and I'm sorry
Bryy
Yeah, if this is about Dana, it’s not going to go well. If it’s about Jacob….. maybe.
clif
Jacob. Sarah’s temper – assaulting not just her, but also at another time, another student with a baseball bat.
tunasammich
I can’t remember… did she even know Sarah was involved in that?
bliss
To Cliff
Sarah assaulted a Townie not another student.
clif
Old slashface was a townie?
RassilonTDavros
So this isn’t the first time she’s tried this, then.
Dave Van Domelen
“What do you want?”
“Drama.”
Steamweed
She is attempting drama because she knows he rejects buffoonery.
Dot
I’ve been saying for months now that it was a narrative weakness that we’ve only ever seen Sarah’s side of everything that happened with Dana. Hopefully we’re finally gonna see how Raidah actually saw everything.
Bill Erak
Doubtful. Last time she told the story she just tried to do the hwole “Sarah is a bad person who hurts people who don’t fit the norm” while giving minimal context because she’s well aware the entire context will set off alarms of most anti-drugs people.
And I have a feeling Tony is very anti-drugs.
Dot
Raidah has only the information she has to work off of. And quite frankly having Sarah’s side of the story, I think she was pretty clearly in the wrong.
Bill Erak
Was she?
Girl wanted to have a future. Being wholly unable to sleep because your roommate is spiralling and instead of getting help they just get more and more high is a problem. She didn’t know Dana’s home wasn’t good for her (And that’s just what Raidah said anyways, and it’s been proven Raidah is a manipulative untrustworthy individual)
Dot
Get a roommate transfer then. The mistake here is assuming that the solution Sarah chose was the only one available to her.
Doopyboop
Sarah did try to reach out to Dana’s friend group to let them know Dana wasn’t dealing with the death well. They were the ones who basically responded like “well she seems fine to us”. Getting a room transfer wouldn’t solve the fact that Dana was becoming dependent on weed because she was depressed. Although we don’t know what Dana’s father is like, at least she did have Dana’s dad informed so he could take care of his daughter rather than reporting her to school officials, which would have given her a criminal record and expelled from the school.
Sirksome
It’s a good thing Dana will never show up again to clarify the state of her home life and mental health, thus forever leaving Sarah and Raidah in an arbitrary stalemate of believing the other person in their petty rivalry is the devil! Yup!
thejeff
Also, getting a roommate transfer apparently takes months (unless the authorities intervene as they did with Jennifer).
But mostly, I think that Sarah was more concerned about Dana than about herself. That she’d downplay that to make it look like she was just concerned about her grades would be strange from most people, but fits nicely with Sarah’s pretense of general misanthropy. Can’t have anyone seeing that she actually cares.
zee
Roommate transfers take months, Sarah’s grades were already slipping. Dana was getting worse and worse every day. I think reaching out to her dad was the most responsible thing she could have done. Besides, something I don’t think people talk about enough- if the university ever did a random search of the room, maybe the weed smell got reported. They have a rich white girl and some dark skin black girl on scholarship- who do you think they’re gonna pin it on? Sarah couldn’t gotten kicked out at best, arrested at worst. There’s a whole racial overtone to the situation that leaves a nasty ass taste in my mouth. Sarah did what she could to survive as a black woman in an institution that’s inherently hostile to her and it feels disingenuous to ignore that aspect. She did nothing wrong
thejeff
@zee: I think that’s all true, but despite her protests, I don’t worries about what might happen to her were her real concern.
The racial overtones are definitely real and not mentioned enough.
Doopyboop
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/feigned/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/jettison-2/
Honestly, I think we’ve seen Raidah’s POV on the Dana thing just fine. The only other thing she could do at this point would be the same embellishing she’s been doing all this time.
Li
I agree that we’ve seen Raidah’s side just fine. Sarah’s original flashback story was actually hugely sympathetic for Raidah.
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What we haven’t seen is Dana’s side. That, imho, is the shoe waiting to drop here.
BadRoad
Which part?
Bysmerian
I found the whole flashback really interesting. I’ve observed a couple of times that Freshman Raidah seems like a significantly less hard-nosed, more anxious person than what she’s made herself in the wake of Dana’s departure. She’s had a character arc, we just really haven’t seen it and also the results are someone who isn’t really likeable and honestly doesn’t care. She was already networking back then but it was almost more friends with (platonic) benefits than the naked social climbing that she seems to be engaging in presently.
I dunno, maybe I’m reading more into it than intended. But it’s something I wouldn’t mind coming back to.
Li
@BadRoad: put simply, whose side Dana would take, however many months later. Is Sarah right that calling Dana’s dad was actually the right thing to do for Dana, or is Raidah right when she claims that Dana’s in a worse place now than she was before Sarah’s intervention?
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Dana agreeing with Raidah won’t make Sarah a villain, or anything, but it would cast Raidah’s grudge in a more sympathetic light.
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Meanwhile, if Dana ever admits to Raidah that she was in a really bad place and maybe even at risk of self-harm, it could make Raidah second-guess her grudge.
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(And if Dana tries to tell Raidah the above and Raidah doesn’t care, then we’ve got a Raidah who’s both less sympathetic AND less likely to get a redemption arc.)
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@Bysmerian: I enjoyed reading your comment but don’t really have much to add. Agreed!
Qube
raidah’s language in jettison is very telling: “Sarah HAD Dana sent home”. she makes it sound like manipulating influence, the pulling of a string. sounds to me like if raidah was projecting any harder you could point her at a blank wall and watch Mean Girls
tunasammich
Sarah wouldn’t have been wrong if she just told her RA and got her roommate expelled
nadamás
I don’t think Sarah was in the wrong either way, but how is that different from what she actually did?
Qube
telling the RA means Dana gets punished. telling the father means Dana gets help. it’s a big enough difference
Li
I mean, an expulsion would also mean Dana wouldn’t be able to come back to IU.
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(But I would not necessarily assume that telling Dana’s dad didn’t turn into a punishment. I agree that punishing Dana wasn’t Sarah’s goal, but it was certainly a foreseeable outcome, given the drug use, and also that not all parents handle depressed teenagers very well.)
thejeff
Probably more than expelled. Telling the school would have led to them telling the cops and the father.
Just going to the father doesn’t necessarily mean she wasn’t punished, but it’s the best chance of getting help. If the father was actively abusive it could backfire, but I still don’t see any real reason to think that. It’s possible, but not something Sarah had any reason to suspect.
The only real alternative I see that puts Sarah in the wrong is if Raidah was right and Sarah just misjudged the situation entirely. Dana was sad and smoking a bit too much weed to deal with it, but she would have just gotten over it naturally fairly quickly.
Li
@thejeff: I was just noting that I’m not sure telling her dad about it wouldn’t also have gotten her punished.
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But you are correct that non-medical marijuana is still illegal in Indiana, at least for the moment, which I hadn’t realized. (I’d assumed it was just that IU is a dry campus, which presumably also meant no drugs as part of its policy.)
Cameron Stone
Well considering up to the this point she’s been portrayed as a two-faced snake who vales people for their connections more than their character, I don’t think we’re suddenly gonna get “Raidah was right” twist anytime soon.
C.T. Phipps
I mean a two faced snake horribly wronged by Sarah and actively working for the betterment of minority groups. The problem with one dimensional Raidah is that she’s a product of the fans rather than the comic.
Bill Erak
>horribly wronged by Sarah
Please show me this example. Getting Dana back home may not have been the best option, but Dana refused to get help and Raidah sure as shit didn’t do anything.
>betterment of minority groups
Believe it or not, doing good things on the grand scale doesn’t mean you get to be a shit person to everyone around you. Sarah kind of got this spelled out for her very early on.
Raidah isn’t one-dimensional in theory, but she only has 1 reliable character trait which is “manipulative asshole”. The only time her comments had a positive impact on anyone was Dorothy.
embe13
@bill a lot of people on here don’t like how sarah handled raidah and jakes relationship situation + joyce. also many are saying in raidahs view sarah has wronged her by taking away parts of her network.
c.t. i think many readers have the veiw that raidahs “work” for the betterment of minority groups isnt actually for the benefit of anyone but herself, the read and vibe i get from her is that if anyone benefeted from her actions to a greater extent than she did she would regret tha action/work to undo what she did because someone else got a greater beneflit than she did. raidah strikes me as an “everyone is equal only in their inferiority to me” person
thejeff
Unless there are some drastic revelations – that Raidah for some reason has never yet used as a weapon against Sarah, her side is that Dana wasn’t that bad and things would have been fine if Sarah hadn’t snitched on her.
I’m not sure what you’re expected that couldn’t be easily covered by “Raidah didn’t realize how bad Dana was getting”.
mindbleach
I appreciate Tony being wise to Raidah’s bullshit.
We’ll see if the plot says that holds up.
Bryy
Both Raidah and Jennifer are going through humbling arcs. So we’ll see.
Tequila Mockingbird
It’s kind of hard not to. Raidah is oddly fascinating because she so badly wants to be a freaking supervillain but the only people who fall for her shtick are the very naive or those who just met her nine seconds ago. There’s no subtlety, no pretending to be friends, just her deciding who she likes, who she doesn’t, and assuming that badmouthing one against the other with all the finesse of a sledgehammer is gonna win the day.
Gurl, I am begging you, if you wanna be that ‘power behind the throne’ or ‘puppet master’ then you have got to up your supervillain game. A child could see through it, and more than a few actually have (yeah, I know referring to college students as ‘children’ is a bit of stretch, but you get my meaning, I suspect.)
Throwatron
Look, when I was in my early 20s, the fact that people would think of me as a kid was, like, offensive. It’s completely infantilizing, those are adult people, man! They pay taxes!
Then you turn 30, and it’s like, “oh, God, I’m still not sure I’m not children. Young adults are babies.“
Shade
I mean that’s why we have the term young adults, sure they’re adults but they’re also still you know… young.
embe13
also most current medical resaearch on brain maturity basically says adulthood happens around 35, basically by the times our brains have full matured we are hitting the point where reproducing has increased risks
Jess
oh this’ll be good
Nono
So is she going with the Dana thing. Or the “Sarah assaulted me” thing
zee
Hey I mean Tony knocked incelerators lights out so I’m sure he’d at least hear out Sarah’s reasons before coming to any conclusions. He clearly doesn’t like raidah and Sarah was remorseful for the punch so he might look past it
DiDi
Well, it was about time the dramatics came from elsewhere.
Muttski
Unpleasant, thy name is Raidah.
nadamás
God you can tell that Tony has heard Raidah usual song and dance before and it’s not a tiny bit impressed.
Dara
Raidah, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – Never take networking advice from Jennifer!“