“női” didn’t translate automatically. Manually looking it up, it says women’s/feminine/female/womanly/ladies’, so I just picked one that sort of fit. Sorry if it’s not exactly right.
“női” didn’t translate automatically. Manually looking it up, it says women’s/feminine/female/womanly/ladies’, so I just picked one that sort of fit. Sorry if it’s not exactly right.
That’s an interesting point, but it’s not 100% clear to me what Pusztai was exactly going for with a rotating cast of dates & BF’s. I.e. was she a serial gold-digger (or similar), or was it more a case of not wanting to limit it to just one or two, because then he’d have to become a main character, which is a common-as-dirt dilemma across all kinds of series.
Personally, I think the fact that absolutely everyone besides her is changing in the series tells the tale. Also, that the strip is in no way serial or story-based heavily tends to emphasize that. In the end, the other characters have no particular importance other than to make a quick joke work, and that’s them gone.
So… sure, I get your POV, I just personally haven’t really seen that behavior from her before, and judging by the votes, most others aren’t crazy about it either.
She seems to strike me as basically a clever, competent, libertine.
I wouldn’t class that as a gold digger.
A gold digger, imo, would be someone who basically leeches the max amount of money / stuff out of another, and then swaps to next when the first target is drained.
I don’t get the sense that she does that, seems more like she’s just bouncing around all over the place, thus could not be making any credible false promises nor false impressions of long term commitment.
To me, ‘libertine’ best matches the personality that she seems to have by way of the format of the comic strip: Everything is an opportunity to maximize entertainment/experience , not wealth.
Like uh, how many different kinds of jobs has she worked, haha?
Ah, I can’t really agree with you on “libertine.” Now, traces of it? Sure.
But she’s also demonstrated compassion, principles and a mind for justice in any number of her other strips. Hence my surprise. I’ve probably read close to 100 of her strips so far, and have put together collections like this: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
The reality to me is that like many others, she’s really just a recurring vehicle for Pusztai’s gags, not unlike a Cowboy Henk, for example. To define her too clearly would be a writerly-mistake, because then she loses that much flexibility.
I don’t think any deep analysis or debate is really needed here, so I’ll bid you adieu.
Compassion is an experience, the point of being a libertine is to experience as broad a range of things for yourself as possible, but ok adieu.