y hullo thar ronin
For any one who thinks that being with Beredette is good for Maytag, I have proof that it's not on page 2. She's turning her back on everything that made her such a unique, engaging and adorable character in the first place.
That's not proof, that's wild conjecture you made up because you hate Bernadette. Maytag would still be just as lovable and interesting without her sex addiction (even if it isn't a sex addiction). If anything it will make her more likable, since a good deal of the the people who have problems with May (like me) will have one less thing to complain about. Besides, she's not turning her back on anything: May made this decision independent of Bern. You need to stop blaming every choice May makes that you don't like on Bernadette. If Bern decided she was okay with threesomes, would I hate it? Yes, but I wouldn't claim May was pushing her into it. Maytag and Bernadette are responsible for their own choices, and you need to see that. When May decides to do something you don't want her to do, it's not automatically nasty old Bernadette pulling poor May's strings.
No. That's not it at all. What makes her so awsome is that she's a free spirit. She's joyful and isn't tied down, she lives her life by the beat of her own drummer and doesn't let others define her. She's a cute, irrepressible imp! Look at her now, and the fire has gone out of her eyes. She is like a caged bird.
But how can you blame Bernadette when May is the one who walked into the "cage" and locked the door, and when she has the key right there behind the bars with her and simply chooses not to open the door? All Bern did was build the cage, yet you blame her for May's self-imprisonment? That's silly.
In addition: I harshly resent your implication that monogamy is a cage. The implication that all people in monogamous relationships are incapable of being free spirits, being joyful, or defining themselves is also offensive. Entering into a loving relationship with one person does not tie your soul to them forever and ever. One in a monogamous relationship is still their own person. It really says a lot about your opinion of Maytag that you think she's not strong enough to maintain her own personality just because she decided to stopped slutting for the woman she loves.
Do you know why the caged bird sings?
Becuase it can no longer fly, that's why.
I don't want to get personal here, but aren't you
married or something? I hope you don't consider yourself caged.
She only chose it becuase she was backed into a corner.
Oh, that is such a load. Bernadette is not Maytag's god, she's her girlfriend. Backed into a corner? She's entirely capable of removing herself from the situation. If May really wanted to keep her lifestyle going, she would leave Bern. She can't have her cake and eat it too, and now she's "dying"? Boo-fuckity-hoo. She's growing up, Ronin. She's behaving like a rational adult and making her choice between two mutually exclusive things she wants, and she's not expecting her lover to cave and let her have everything. Bern even just tried to essentially give her a free pass to keep cheating for a while longer until she's "over the phase", and May said no. How can you possibly blame that on Bern?
Of course, I don't think there is any blame here, because blame implies there's a problem. I think this is good for both of them.
It's not what she really wants. I mean look at her.
She's under the effects of a spell right now. Of course she looks weird.
If Bernedette really wanted Maytag to be happy, she wouldn't let her do this.
Are we reading the same page!? Fourth panel.
Bern: May...
May: I've made up my mind.
This is, if anything, Bern realizing that May is changing herself. Bern is apprehensive about that, since getting over a phase is a natural progression of someone's life, while a conscious decision to change is not. May's mind is set, though, because she's willing to do this for the person she loves most.