Subject: Interesting, but I see a problem.
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Posted on: 2014-04-25 06:15:00 UTC

Namely, that Sues are typically immune to humiliation. Anybody who disagrees with or disapproves of a Mary Sue is obviously mean or stupid or evil or repressive, etc., so why should the Sue listen to them? She is obviously kinder/smarter/better/stronger, so their words are to be stoically ignored (or prettily angsted about, if her LO is around to console her) while she proceeds to do exactly as she pleases. Same goes for the males, too, of course.

I'm not sure what to suggest as an alternative. Repeated applications of logic and consequences, perhaps? The clinic would have to be set somewhere like a Reality Room, where the Sue can't simply exert her will to change things to her liking.

~Neshomeh, who is up late tonight.

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