I'm not meaning to criticize, just a bit confused! Where you live, are museums a bit like libraries used to be, where there's a cultural expectation of quiet/keeping conversations relevant to the works? Just checking so I can avoid future faux pas lol 😅
I'm confused too because if I was in a museum and ran into someone I knew and wanted to briefly catch up with them (at a respectable sound level), and some stranger did this to me I would think THEY were the one being rude.
I’d say it’s contextual because there are some areas where this is fine, and others where it’s not.
Van Gogh Museum has as an exploration area for families with kids that is logically not exactly quiet, but the main exhibit with the paintings which has a lot of text to read is, more like a library.
I don't agree. If you're talking at a level that's not disturbing those around you then you can talk about whatever.
If the person I'm speaking to wants to keep it strictly to what's on the wall—and talk elsewhere after—then that is on that particular person to say that, and not a random stranger.
In the comic, we do not know if the other person is speaking at a volume that is disturbing other museum patrons. If that were the case, I can understand the reaction. But if that were the case/intention, then that needed to be conveyed better within the comic.
I'm looking at the comic a little more now and I think what's being conveyed is someone off page is trying to speak to the green fox, so I understand what's happening now, if that's what was meant to be conveyed.
I thought the conversation starter was talking to someone else they knew off page.
I think that’s the point. What Green is complaining about is that these people off panel were talking too loud. Everyone eventually talks, you can also talk in a library, but definitely not louder than the staff or museum guide. Patrons don’t need to be audible across the room.
If that's the case then again, that needs to be conveyed better in the comic itself. There is no change in any of the speech typography, in any panels, so volume level is not being properly conveyed to the reader which is making things confusing.
Weird take:
Sometimes.. you gotta put some emotional weight behind your words when you draw a boundary line.
Otherwise the wrong kind of people won't listen.
(Just, don't do it on a whim please.)
(Reasonable people don't deserve it.)
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Glad to see you are feeling better.
Van Gogh Museum has as an exploration area for families with kids that is logically not exactly quiet, but the main exhibit with the paintings which has a lot of text to read is, more like a library.
If the person I'm speaking to wants to keep it strictly to what's on the wall—and talk elsewhere after—then that is on that particular person to say that, and not a random stranger.
I thought the conversation starter was talking to someone else they knew off page.
Sometimes.. you gotta put some emotional weight behind your words when you draw a boundary line.
Otherwise the wrong kind of people won't listen.
(Just, don't do it on a whim please.)
(Reasonable people don't deserve it.)
also hope you’re feeling better!