Like a bastard file. Like sandpaper made out of sharp, pointy rocks. Like Mick Jagger on crystal meth. Like a tiger’s gaping maw. Like broken glass glued onto a morningstar flail. Like the three little piggies after being put through a woodchip-
Oh, wait. Damn, that one is actually smooth.
It’s an entirely standard type of file. Files come in bastard cut (coarsest, for filing away stuff quickly), second cut (medium) and smooth (for fine work and finishing).
I’d expect, if it’s a machine for making chips out of wood, that there’ll still be quite a few jagged chunks of bone and the like inamongst all the gooey entrails…
As if the ramifications of an RA and her not-boss hitting on her weren’t bad enough. I don’t think a teacher would be a good thing to add to this mix, no matter how much the fanbase clamors for it.
I’m with ASO. That idea just has disaster written all over it for all concerned.
Andiemus
If by “disaster” you mean “pending nuclear apocalypse”.
Josh
and by “pending nuclear apocalypse” you mean “absolutely amazing”!
Dibullba
and by “absolutely amazing” you mean “Willis does it cause screw morals”
showler
I can see arguing about the fans reaction to Billie being harassed, but blaming Willis seems a bit odd.
Does everyone not see Daisy desperately trying to excuse her actions because she knows she went over the line?
begbert2
Or because she’s worried about being perceived as going over the line.
No argument that Ruth committed assault – she slammed Billie against a wall and forced a kiss. Daisy, on the other hand, got slammed (at her own request), and made a kissy-face. I’m not sure an actual kiss even happened. Personally I don’t consider the two serieses of events all that comparable.
Fnord
Yeah, I’m with Begbert. Ruth’s action creeped me the hell out, especially given her history of bullying, Daisy’s wasn’t nearly as obviously terrible.
Gordon Blvd
@Josh – your avatar mixed with your comment…………….
just PERFECT! Just imagine if Penny was the next
person Bille ran into……………….and this “trend”
continued? Remember last we saw Ms. Penny, she
was pretty “frustrated” herself, as I recall lol
Actually, I think that would be a good idea. Leslie would be compassionate, understanding, non-judgmental… she wouldn’t dismiss things as ‘not counting’ because Ruth is a girl, plus, she’d be an ideal person to talk to if Billie is, as seems to be the case, having mixed feelings about what happened.
But no way would she hit on a student.
It’s not sexual harrassment because the readership finds it hot!
🙂
Aizat
Not that, the “If a guy do it, it’s wrong but if a gal does it, it’s A-OK” thing. For the life of me, I never understand that.
coobee
Actually please ignore what he said. It’s NOT okay for either to do it; please note that in the comic Billie is angry and upset that these women have assaulted her and bothered by the event.
However, women have been hurt by men for a very long time and it was considered okay, even natural, for a man to whack around a woman if she stepped out of line and to exercise sexual control of her as he wished. I’m not making this up; it’s entrenched in law in several cultures including westernized civilizations until fairly recently.
What this means is that reversing this trend has been very difficult and has changing laws, moral notions and huge cultural shifts in the sexist (to both genders) notion of manhood as being dominant.
On the other hand, there is no historical precedent for women mistreating men in this way and no evidence that this behavior is as deeply rubbed into our culture as that male-on-female violence or sexual assault. As such, a woman assaulting a man or even another woman doesn’t carry as much WEIGHT, historically and culturally, as if a man were to do it.
Essentially, if a man assaults a woman, not only are there often the attendant physical dis/advantages at play (often but not always!) but also the huge recall of centuries – millennia even – of systematized, lawful oppression in which this was allowed and encouraged to happen. The other way around suggests just “regular” violence or assault.
Just to repeat; assault is never okay whoever is involved. Fiction assault can be a part of a satisfying narrative but shouldn’t be excused in real life.
And no, women are NOT more likely to be domestic abusers (what????) or rapists (whaaat??????????). I have literally no idea where that’s coming from other than simple conspiracy theorizing and misogyny.
The comment was removed. I think that’s a good move by Willis. It’s gender racism and can cause flame war.
David
*looks over everything*
Man, I really can’t have a story about two ladies mackin’ it in the bad way without the manfolks makin’ sure everyone else knows they’ve got it bad too, can I?
Y’know, fellas, sometimes things ain’t about us.
*wipity wipe wipe*
Thor
Part of it is the average age of your audience. You need to have acquired a certain amount of life experience to be able to chill out, take a step back, and consider that mitigating factors and context just might trump what seems to be clear and inviolable boundaries.
Yeah no. The theory behind sexual harassment laws is that they apply equally well to any other sort of workplace harassment, and workplace harassment creates a “hostile work environment” iirc and people have some sort of a right to be socially comfortable at work. Discriminatory has not that much to do with it.
It clearly is sexual harassment, and I don’t think anywhere Willis has indicated that its not. It’s not assault, the way it happened to Joyce, but it is understood as wrong for all involved.
In this case, didn’t billie push daisy up against the wall? I’m not sure making kissie lips is in-and-of-itself harassment when it’s the other person who’s instigating facial closeness.
Daisy still at fault though. She want to know what happened between Billie and Ruth and asked her to demonstrate it so she did. Facial closeness happened because she reconstruct what happened last night and not asking for a kiss from Daisy.
madd
Daisy didn’t ask her to demonstrate. She said “tell me.” I think Daisy was wrong to think it was a good time for kissy face, but I’d like to clarify that she did not ask Billie for physical contact.
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Michael
Smooth
Skull025
Like a bastard file. Like sandpaper made out of sharp, pointy rocks. Like Mick Jagger on crystal meth. Like a tiger’s gaping maw. Like broken glass glued onto a morningstar flail. Like the three little piggies after being put through a woodchip-
Oh, wait. Damn, that one is actually smooth.
E.C.
So are a tiger’s fangs, ideally. 😉
Historyman68
A bastard file. This intrigues me.
ik
It’s an entirely standard type of file. Files come in bastard cut (coarsest, for filing away stuff quickly), second cut (medium) and smooth (for fine work and finishing).
tahrey
I’d expect, if it’s a machine for making chips out of wood, that there’ll still be quite a few jagged chunks of bone and the like inamongst all the gooey entrails…
Jenny Creed
Like scotch straight from the distillery.
fatemaster1
Like undistilled scotch.
Sir Robin
Now we just need to introduce Billie to Leslie
ASmellyOgre
As if the ramifications of an RA and her not-boss hitting on her weren’t bad enough. I don’t think a teacher would be a good thing to add to this mix, no matter how much the fanbase clamors for it.
that bard
No, don’t you see?! That just makes it even better!
E.C.
I’m with ASO. That idea just has disaster written all over it for all concerned.
Andiemus
If by “disaster” you mean “pending nuclear apocalypse”.
Josh
and by “pending nuclear apocalypse” you mean “absolutely amazing”!
Dibullba
and by “absolutely amazing” you mean “Willis does it cause screw morals”
showler
I can see arguing about the fans reaction to Billie being harassed, but blaming Willis seems a bit odd.
Does everyone not see Daisy desperately trying to excuse her actions because she knows she went over the line?
begbert2
Or because she’s worried about being perceived as going over the line.
No argument that Ruth committed assault – she slammed Billie against a wall and forced a kiss. Daisy, on the other hand, got slammed (at her own request), and made a kissy-face. I’m not sure an actual kiss even happened. Personally I don’t consider the two serieses of events all that comparable.
Fnord
Yeah, I’m with Begbert. Ruth’s action creeped me the hell out, especially given her history of bullying, Daisy’s wasn’t nearly as obviously terrible.
Gordon Blvd
@Josh – your avatar mixed with your comment…………….
just PERFECT! Just imagine if Penny was the next
person Bille ran into……………….and this “trend”
continued? Remember last we saw Ms. Penny, she
was pretty “frustrated” herself, as I recall lol
Raen
Daisy’s kind of an idiot, and Ruth’s out of her mind. Leslie’s got her head screwed on too well to pull a stunt like this.
…although given this arc’s title, I’m wondering whether this is leading Billie into the arms of Conquest…
madd
I concur, on the Leslie front.
Tortoiseshell Bat
Actually, I think that would be a good idea. Leslie would be compassionate, understanding, non-judgmental… she wouldn’t dismiss things as ‘not counting’ because Ruth is a girl, plus, she’d be an ideal person to talk to if Billie is, as seems to be the case, having mixed feelings about what happened.
But no way would she hit on a student.
LS
Apparently Billie is particularly harassable.
IT’S NOT SEXIST BECAUSE LESBIANS.
Aizat
Yeah, how does that work again? I don’t get the sexist claims thing.
Ridureyu
It’s not sexual harrassment because the readership finds it hot!
🙂
Aizat
Not that, the “If a guy do it, it’s wrong but if a gal does it, it’s A-OK” thing. For the life of me, I never understand that.
coobee
Actually please ignore what he said. It’s NOT okay for either to do it; please note that in the comic Billie is angry and upset that these women have assaulted her and bothered by the event.
However, women have been hurt by men for a very long time and it was considered okay, even natural, for a man to whack around a woman if she stepped out of line and to exercise sexual control of her as he wished. I’m not making this up; it’s entrenched in law in several cultures including westernized civilizations until fairly recently.
What this means is that reversing this trend has been very difficult and has changing laws, moral notions and huge cultural shifts in the sexist (to both genders) notion of manhood as being dominant.
On the other hand, there is no historical precedent for women mistreating men in this way and no evidence that this behavior is as deeply rubbed into our culture as that male-on-female violence or sexual assault. As such, a woman assaulting a man or even another woman doesn’t carry as much WEIGHT, historically and culturally, as if a man were to do it.
Essentially, if a man assaults a woman, not only are there often the attendant physical dis/advantages at play (often but not always!) but also the huge recall of centuries – millennia even – of systematized, lawful oppression in which this was allowed and encouraged to happen. The other way around suggests just “regular” violence or assault.
Just to repeat; assault is never okay whoever is involved. Fiction assault can be a part of a satisfying narrative but shouldn’t be excused in real life.
And no, women are NOT more likely to be domestic abusers (what????) or rapists (whaaat??????????). I have literally no idea where that’s coming from other than simple conspiracy theorizing and misogyny.
Tucker
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Aizat
You said it. I was just asking for clarification.
Tucker
It’s a touchy subject for a lot of people.
AckAckAck
@Coobee
The comment was removed. I think that’s a good move by Willis. It’s gender racism and can cause flame war.
David
*looks over everything*
Man, I really can’t have a story about two ladies mackin’ it in the bad way without the manfolks makin’ sure everyone else knows they’ve got it bad too, can I?
Y’know, fellas, sometimes things ain’t about us.
*wipity wipe wipe*
Thor
Part of it is the average age of your audience. You need to have acquired a certain amount of life experience to be able to chill out, take a step back, and consider that mitigating factors and context just might trump what seems to be clear and inviolable boundaries.
Plasma Mongoose
Sounds good to me. 😀
taekwondogirl
Sexist isn’t the same as sexual harassment; that’s not what is being discussed.
Yotomoe
And even then…Only Ruth really harassed her.
Raen
It sort of is – the theory behind sexual harassment laws is that they create a discriminatory workplace, not just an uncomfortable one.
taekwondogirl
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that theory.
Dranorter
Yeah no. The theory behind sexual harassment laws is that they apply equally well to any other sort of workplace harassment, and workplace harassment creates a “hostile work environment” iirc and people have some sort of a right to be socially comfortable at work. Discriminatory has not that much to do with it.
Historyman68
It clearly is sexual harassment, and I don’t think anywhere Willis has indicated that its not. It’s not assault, the way it happened to Joyce, but it is understood as wrong for all involved.
testestes
In this case, didn’t billie push daisy up against the wall? I’m not sure making kissie lips is in-and-of-itself harassment when it’s the other person who’s instigating facial closeness.
AckAckAck
Daisy still at fault though. She want to know what happened between Billie and Ruth and asked her to demonstrate it so she did. Facial closeness happened because she reconstruct what happened last night and not asking for a kiss from Daisy.
madd
Daisy didn’t ask her to demonstrate. She said “tell me.” I think Daisy was wrong to think it was a good time for kissy face, but I’d like to clarify that she did not ask Billie for physical contact.
David Herbert
At least Billie didn’t choke her like it looks like she wants to.
NeutroBlaster96
Man, Billie is killing it with the ladies! Wish I was that smooth.
ASmellyOgre
From the looks of it, the ladies are just lucky Billie isn’t killing them.
Skull025
KILLER BILLIE!
Darth
Kill Billie
Felix Kütt
no, no, it’s killie billie, I’m most adamant about it!
Raibean
I bet Billie will run into Mike next… after all, he’s not a man. He’s a force of nature.
Henry
After all, he’s whatever you don’t want him to be.
Krogaladin
so Mike will become a lesbian?
Yotomoe
Mike is a lesbian? Be right back while I draw this.
Yotomoe
MikeMichelle is whatever you don’t want her to be.AckAckAck
Michelle is surprisingly cute.
Plasma Mongoose
Nice style you have there Yoto.
Osaru Sensei
It’s a
Yotomoe style.Plasma Mongoose
+1 🙂
Raen
I’m just wondering where she got that blouse on such short notice.
Leorale
Magnificent.
begbert2
I love it. The facial expressions… 🙂
Led
You do not run into Mike. Mike runs into you.
Wonder Wig
For a good time call Ruth. If you’re in the mood for a fight, or lady love.
Resne
There’s a difference?
Yotomoe
Sex is a lot like a fight. You just punch with your crotch, more.
Kemp
She fails to bed a man, and is hounded after by women.
Aizat
Bad Luck Billie.
Mkvenner
Billy needs a keg.
Aizat
A really big keg.
Kernanator
The biggest keg. The King Keg, if you will.
Aizat
No, the Mega Keg.
Plasma Mongoose
A keg of woop-ass!