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Girly
Posted on November 14, 2012 by David M Willis

138 thoughts on “Girly”

  1. Herohatch

    Good ol’ Danny.

    1. Leorale

      Plus, his schedule has hardly anything on it. …Ladies.

      1. ironballs16

        His availability IS his best feature!

    2. Rowen Morland

      He’s a good egg.

      1. GrrArg42

        DJ 🙂

        1. Andrea

          Deej

    3. Kamino Neko

      How I hate him.

      1. Kensou

        AAUGH!

  2. David Herbert

    Oh the balls those two must have on them “Hey ex-boyfriend, can you loan my new boyfriend some shoes?”

    1. John

      Eh, it’s not like Danny has enough spine to do more than wangst about it a bit.

      1. Leorale

        It’d still be hella inconsiderate, though.

    2. Doctor_Who

      When you have as few balls as Danny, it’s good to date someone who can make up for your deficiency.

    3. Michael

      Have Danny and Walky met? Walky could play it cool, and just say he’s coming back from a girls, and be real unspecific.

      1. Tan

        Have -you- and Walky met? You want Walky to play it cool?

        1. Michael

          Cool for him. I think he can avoid saying a name. Hopefully.

        2. Historyman68

          Nah, he’ll blurt it. He’s a blurter.

          (sorry, I’ve been watching a lot of Seinfeld)

  3. Noah

    Is she going to ask her ex for shoes for her new guy who slept over? Not cool!

    1. Sensedog

      Hopefully the last panel was just part of the joke. Dorothy should have enough sense not to even consider that as an option. Then again, the comic is titled “Dumbing of Age”, so who really knows?

      1. David Herbert

        Maybe they’ll be brave enough to ask Ruth if she picked up the shoes.

        1. Doctor_Who

          She called a Hazmat team. The shoes were the subject of a controlled detonation.

  4. qka

    Let’s see: running shoes, basketball shoes, work boots, hiking boots, a pair of dress shoes…I’m just getting started.

    Men can own just as many pairs of shoes as women, it’s just that we qualify them differently.

    1. Mrelegos

      I own…shoes. One to two pairs at a time. Currently 2, but only till the Vans wear out for good.

    2. Jackson

      I own a lot of shoes, but only because I never throw the old ones away when they get worn out. Got a pair of no-skids that I wear to work, a pair of running shoes, and then like fifty million running shoes with frayed laces and holes and the toe rubber coming off.

      1. desolation0

        Shoeless Joe, you are not.

        I’ve got dress shoes, work boots, nice boots that are going to be work boots, running shoes, and nice shoes that are going to be running shoes.

        1. Jackson

          Shoeless Joe

          Now imagining Joe making a pass at Sierra. “Scope out these tootsies! You know what they say about guys with big feet…”

          …actually, Joe probably would not say “Scope out these tootsies.”

    3. Random Webcomics Junkie

      Guys, it’s not that men don’t normally own more than one pair of shoes. It’s that eighteen-year-old male KIDS don’t bother to. Walky’s speaking from the perspective of a teenager who probably assumes most men don’t bother having matching dishes when they live alone.

      1. Historyman68

        I don’t… and I’m 27. Is that weird?

  5. Wonder Wig

    Walky just called out some percentage of the male commenters from yesterday.

    1. Yotomoe

      Thank goodness he missed me :3.

    2. GrrArg42

      Oh no! I’m a girly guy? I have 9 pairs of shoes.
      1 pair running shoes
      1 pair old running shoes for painting and yard work
      1 pair sandals
      6 pairs nice dress/work/date shoes ranging in age from 6 months to 10 years old.

      1. Kitsuki Noriyuki

        sandals for painting? Well okay I could see sandals for painting inside I suppose, but why not just be barefoot then? Sandals dont have enough cushion in my experience for ladders and not enough anything for scaffolding.

  6. Yotomoe

    What the fudge is a bed-skirt?

    1. Wonder Wig

      I prefer bed-pants myself.

    2. David Herbert

      I’m assuming a hammock.

    3. Bekah

      It’s that thing your mom puts on between your mattress and box spring so that people can’t see all the porn you’re hiding under your bed.

      1. GrrArg42

        OMG your gravitar is awesome! Way to stay current. : )

    4. David

      A bed skirt is also known as a “dust ruffle.”

      1. Andrew

        This just spawns further questions…

        1. Aizat

          A dust ruffle is a piece of cloth that runs along the bottom part of the bed.

        2. Raoullefere

          So you can hide all the crap you throw store under there. Such as your porn. And your girly twenty pairs of shoes.

        3. Kirt Dankmyer

          GOOGLE, people. There are images of bed skirts and everything! 🙂

        4. Roborat

          Google. It’s not just for porn anymore.

      2. Rex Hondo

        Also known as that thing my wife insists we need, but even though I don’t really see the point, I don’t feel strongly enough about it to argue.

    5. Egg

      Bed skirts are superfluous, dust-gathering hives of villainy and insect(oid) activity @_@

      1. Kitsuki Noriyuki

        theyve also got a high chance of being vomited on by the cats

    6. Mogotoo

      Huh, if that’s what a bed skirt refers to…
      never thought of that as girly. I thought it was just a thing all beds have.

  7. Tom Speelman

    Oh man, I hope this leads to a Danny on Walky fight! Taking bets right now!

    1. Yotomoe

      Danny is above fighting. He will simply spam Walky’s email with hundred of photos of broken knees.

      1. Scott

        Add one part passive for every two parts aggressive.

        1. Nerdman

          Mix, then heat in oven at 375 degrees for 35 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes.

          The results will either be too hot or too cold, but it will always be whichever one you would find more irritating.

    2. Noel Schornhorst

      I hope it ends with Danny and Walky making out!

      1. desolation0

        Boy won’t that confuse Ethan when he walks in on it.

        1. phlebas

          With his thingy.

  8. nexev

    Hey Walky took my suggestion.

    I am crazy good.

  9. Jess

    I have to say, I was “meh” on Danny in the Walkyverse, but Dumbiverse Danny delights me. He is seriously one of my favorite characters in this universe.

  10. JoeMerl

    Wait, if Sierra apparently attends classes barefoot without her professors kicking her out, why can’t Walky?

    1. Bekah

      Walky likes it when things touch his feet.

      1. Yotomoe

        Then wouldn’t being barefoot be ideal?

        1. Raoullefere

          They’re probably too sensitive, then. Either Walky’ll be wincing his way around campus or orgasming his way around campus. Or maybe first one and then the other,

        2. Historyman68

          “orgasming his way around campus” — good grief!

  11. milk experiment

    Thanks for giving me the name of the thing I’ll need to hang a curtain or something across my new apartment’s awkwardly-placed storage nook. “Tension bar” — I’ll have to remember that. And yes, I’m a man with multiple pairs of shoes. What of it? 😛

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      “Closet rod” will also get you what you need, if you specify the temporary kind. “Shower curtain rod” will also get you something similar, but you have to crank them right down to get them to take any weight. If you’re just stringing a curtain, though, that ought to be all you need (although they seem to be about the same price). Measure the width of your opening before you go; they come in sizes.

      Why yes, I have purchased one recently. 😉 Why do you ask?

  12. Heavyoak

    I own about 10 pairs of shoes, and yes, I am male. more to the pint, im so damn manly that it hurts some times.

    1. onfurtherreview

      You should get that checked.

    2. Aizat

      I have a pair of slippers, two pair of sneakers and a pair of shoes. Is that normal?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        For a man, yes.

    3. scabbert

      I have a lot of shoes. 17 or 18 pair, I think. A lot of them are for work, exercise or hiking. Let’s see…
      – I work outdoors in the summer, so 3 pairs of boots, (regular high-top, and steel toe and non-steel toe logger boots)
      – running shoes
      – cross trainers
      – waterproof trail-runners
      – low-rise hiking shoes
      – old sneakers for whatever
      – chuck taylors
      – slip-on merrill clogs
      – 2 pair brown casual shoes
      – 2 pair dress shoes (1 brown, one black)
      – sandals
      – flip flops
      – crocs (for evenings when backpacking)
      – Oh, and cycling shoes w/ cleats for my mountain bike.

    4. Roborat

      Yea, if you aren’t stepping on it, it is slapping you in the face.

  13. cdotsq

    that last panel is a real nonsequitor

    1. Nerdman

      For your consideration:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7muwuQeZk

      Enjoy.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Love that Cromartie, I wonder if Willis will add a ‘Freddie-like’ character to the cast or does Marcie already fulfil that role…

  14. Shade

    To be fair, the suspending a tension bar bit was kind of masculine in the same sense a bedskirt comes across feminine. But I suppose that was the point.

  15. Yotomoe

    I just realized that Dorothy, Danny and Walky are shades of Blue, Red, and yellow, respectively.
    Sonic, Knuckles & Tails.

    1. David

      aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    2. Aizat

      Or the Hurricaneger.

    3. Doctor_Who

      Dina wears green, Mike wears black, and I think Joyce wears enough pink…we’ve got us a team of Power Rangers!

      Seriously, I would actually watch Power Rangers if they were these characters.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Dina is the 6th Ranger? The green ranger had a dinosaur zord if I recall correctly, so it fits her pretty well.

        1. Aizat

          I think it’s called the DragonZord though it doesn’t even look like a dragon, it looks more like Mechagodzilla.

        2. Shade

          All of them had dinosaur zords in the first season, bar the black ranger and his mammoth and you could argue the green rangers was dinosaurish, but not based on a speicic thing.

        3. Tan

          The season 1 zords were dinosaur-themed (they were called dinozords), but Green Ranger’s was the Dragonzord as mentioned. Also Black Ranger got a mastadon and Yellow Ranger got a sabertooth tiger, so Red, Blue, and Pink were the only ones who got actual dinosaurs (t-rex, triceratops, and pterodactyl, respectively)

          Green Ranger also had a dagger which was a flute which made trumpet sounds. I’m only mentioning it because I can hear its tune in my head typing this. Do doot do dododoooo…

        4. Shade

          Ah right, forgot the yellow ranger used a sabertooth tiger.

          Also for the sake of it.
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYnKsuxtz50

        5. Somebody

          A pterodactyl also doesn’t count as a dinosaur.

      2. Roborat

        Well, it would be much better than the current show, and can’t possibly be any worse.

    4. Crumplepunch

      The mystery.

      IT THICKS.

      1. Lucca

        That avatar really adds to the FEEL of that statement.

  16. DanielleM

    I missed commenting on the last comic but Walky’s whole attitude towards the feminine in general makes him my least favorite character. His reaction towards “girly” reminds me of Malay’s reaction towards “nerds” and I find him just as insufferable for it. That being said I have much more faith in him growing as a person and getting over this attitude than Malaya. He is after all only 18 and a fairly immature 18.

    I really hope she’s not thoughtless enough to ask Danny but I could see her asking Joe.

    1. StClair

      Eighteen going on eight.

      (No, actually, make that twelve or so. He’s just discovered girls and hormones and it’s making him crazy, but he adamantly refuses to give up all his favorite kid things. A bit later on, if the progression holds, he’ll be just as insufferable about being totes mature and all grown-up now… and still obsess about girrrrls.)

      1. scabbert

        The whisper-thin teenage moustache should start growing in, any day now.

    2. begbert2

      I like girls just fine and am all for women’s rights, but also see little need for the gratuitous collection of shoes and would not be impressed with the thought of wearing five-sizes-too-small pink ones myself.

      And Walky has a long, long, long way to go before he’s as reactive to girliness as Malaya is to nerds. For starters he would have to dismiss girls as humans and work his way down from there. Whereas at this point he’s made like, two passing comments, fueled by frustration.

      1. Egg

        1) There’s little need for the gratuitous collection of anything, whether it be shoes, toys, comics, books, hats, photographs, or perfume.

        2) There’s nothing inherently “girly” or “manly” about any of those.

        3) The feminine is a regular target of derision in pop culture, and hell, in everyday culture. Them who aren’t affected by this therefore don’t notice and accept it as normal. Them who are affected are justifiably wary of Yet More Of The Same, whether it comes directly from a person, or is being said through fiction, or comes from a fictional character whose views aren’t narratively condoned.

        1. begbert2

          Fact 1: You say that there is no truth to any of the female/male stereotypes of behavior.

          Fact 2: Dorothy *does* have multiple pairs of shoes, and the ones she offered to Walky are, in fact, pink.

          Fact 3: Something about Willis’s opinion on female stereotypes and derision or something. You sort of lost me at the end there – personally I think there *is* a modicum of truth to the stereotypes, which makes referencing them less than wholly evil.

        2. Somebody

          Uh no. No stereotype is true because it applies the same thing to an entire group of people. The fact that some people are like that is irrelevant. A stereotype depends on it always being, so they collapse in on themselves.

        3. Proteus

          You might want to check the definition of “stereotype”, Somebody. It says nothing about stereotypes needing to always be true. A stereotype is a stereotype, regardless of whether it applies to everyone in a group.

          Let’s think about this with an example. Say the stereotype is that players pass go and collect 200 dollars. Except, players don’t always pass go, such as when they go to jail. Does this make the stereotype untrue and collapse on itself? No, because players obviously do pass go and collect 200 dollars. Exceptions do not unmake stereotypes. As a matter of fact, even if a stereotype is largely incorrect, it doesn’t stop it from being a stereotype. I’d like to know where you got this notion that a stereotype depends on it always being true.

      2. David

        “I am all for women’s rights, but” sets off all the car alarms in my mental parking lot.

        1. scabbert

          “Not to sound racist, but…”

        2. Yotomoe

          “I’m not homophobic or anything, but…”

        3. begbert2

          Yep! You caught me. Woman should totally have no rights at all. Chain them to the kitchen! Forbid them from wearing shoes! Relegate thems strictly to the role of childbearing!

          Not to sound reasonable, but I was responding
          to somebody who was grossly overreacting to a very small number of comments by Walky, painting a picture where you have only two options: Embrace the pink and other female stereotypes with enthusiasm, or be a juvenile woman hater. In refuting that I was automatically going to be a juvenile woman hater, but I thought I’d make a token effort to point out that there is a middle ground here.

          Unfortunately for me, I think that my choice of phrase just proved there isn’t one.

        4. DanielleM

          Are you talking about me? If so I’m not quite sure how I was “grossly overacting.”

        5. David

          Yeah, sure, exactly, what “reasonable” person would assume that Walky is “painting a picture where you have only two options” based on a “very small number of comments”?

          It’d be like responding to my one sentence with your first paragraph.

  17. BranTheQuixotic

    Suddenly my affection for Danny has doubled.

    1. Aizat

      Apparently your affection has been doubled.

  18. Aizat

    Real men wear pink is in full effect.

  19. Nerdman

    I think I have one of those…

    I’m surprisingly proud of that.

  20. Onomatopoeia

    Gnghrrgh…

  21. Linkara

    Look, Walky, I’m a guy, too, but you don’t have BOOTS? You know, for winter?

    1. Aizat

      Or slippers for other occasions?

    2. Mrelegos

      I’m a dude, currently bootless. Actually…since my steels ripped clean at the seam, I only have one pair of shoes…

    3. Mogotoo

      Maybe they’re back at home, like mine are.

    4. begbert2

      I’m a dude, currently bootless. Some of us don’t tromp around in the snow much.

      1. Mogotoo

        Actually, when I started high school I stopped using boots altogether because there was no indoor shoes/outdoor shoes system like back in elementary school. I got along fine, mostly because as I grew up I didn’t play in the snow as much.

        1. gangler

          That’s just it. What am I gonna leave my shoes at the door when I enter a building? Am I gonna even have a pair of indoor shoes waiting for me wherever I’m going or do I just pull my dirty sneakers out of my bookbag once I get on campus and throw my wet and dirty boots in there?

  22. gangler

    Surprised to see Walky so worked up over this. In yesterday’s update he looked like he was just going to walk away and figure out who sells shoes in this town. Or figure out something he could put together out of Nachitos bags or something. Didn’t realize he was actually bringing this up to Dorothy as a “Hey seriously, I need shoes within the next hour and you kind of said you had me covered” type thing.

  23. Uniqueantique

    Walky isn’t really a ‘have a fall back anything’ type. So, yeah one pair of shoes is believable. He has 2 feet, he has 2 sneakers. All’s good.
    And God I hope they don’t ask ‘girly man’ Danny contemplating his dust ruffle placement, if he has shoes the new boyfriend can borrow. That would be kinda…rude dosn’t cover it, nor does thoughtless. Mean maybe?

    1. Andiemus

      bongoy.

  24. Seneth Somed

    Real manly men (like me) only use bed-kilts.

    1. Seneth Somed

      That’s… that’s not quite the gravitar I was hoping for there.

  25. Rex Hondo

    Joke’s going to be on the Danny haters when it’s revealed that just out of frame of that last panel is a still half-dressed Amber.

    Bow-chicka-bow-wow

    1. Noel Schornhorst

      Or Mike in an Amber disguise to mess with Danny’s head…

    2. Aizat

      Tier 15, baby, tier 15.

  26. Jesse

    I know a guy who collects sneakers as a hobby. He must have about 20 pairs.

    1. Khrene Cleaver

      Still less than most women

      1. madd

        I only know one woman with more than 20 pairs of shoes. I know 3 guys with more than 20 pairs of shoes.

      2. Egg

        Even my baby sister doesn’t have 20 pairs of shoes, and she loves shoes.

        My mother might have more than twenty, considering she never throws anything away…

  27. T Campbell

    I’m pretty sure that should be “MORE seldomly pink-clad.”

  28. coobee

    As someone who lives in a country with a “barefoot culture” I can’t help but find this storyline a little silly. I mean, they’re just shoes Walky, you can go without for a while, they’re not like pants.

    1. coobee

      Aww bum. Damn you wordpress!

    2. Maycroft

      And in any case, they’re just pants XD

    3. Kryss LaBryn

      Well, to be fair, if you’re not used to going barefoot then your feet will be really tender, and even if it’s concrete you’ll have to go carefully and gods help you if you step on the slightest piece of gravel because that little bastard will hurt like a sonofabongo. Also, it still being fairly early in the school year, it’s got to be around September or October still which, depending on where the campus is, could be too cold for walking around in bare feet, especially if you’re not used to it (Sierra’s obviously used to it and I knew a lady who made her deliveries in the snow in bare feet because she said it gave her better traction so YMMV). Also there’s the thing of showing up to class suddenly barefoot; unless you’ve been doing it all along it’s likely to arouse notice and comment and might even get him in trouble.

      Just saying, it’s not an entirely unreasonable concern, given the circumstances.

      1. gangler

        Broken glass is always an issue. That stuff will just get right up inside your foot and then have fun getting it out. Plus Walky’s in the states so I don’t even know what he does for himself medically past that point.

  29. Sporky

    “Not-ishly” is a good not-word.

  30. TheStranger

    Hey, Walky, if Sierra’s feet are ‘less seldomly’ pink-clad, doesn’t that mean they’d be clad in pink more frequently? 😀

    1. David

      As T Campbell noted above, Walky’s sentence makes little structural sense. But it sounded more natural for him to say than the “correct” way, and Walky’s pattern of speech isn’t above using double negatives.

      1. TheStranger

        Valid. And you are, of course, the artist.

        It just sounds weird to me for him to go from panel 4 of the previous day to double-negative territory.

  31. Cain

    Is it just me or does it look like she’s always got a Cheeto mustache?

  32. Whittier

    Sierra’s going to regret that fashion choice come the first snow.

  33. EdoKara

    Man, another case where Danny is a total wimp. I mean seriously, he didn’t even CONSIDER what color the bedskirt was and how it would look with the wall. And it’d be terrible for it to mess with his meticulously arranged posters. But Danny just has to lame out on us and forgo all the rules of decoration to just “hang a bedskirt”. I am disappointed.

    Wow, I just spent five minutes on that comment. Duly disappointed.

  34. Taigan

    Wait, was Sierra’s barefootedness introduced just for this reason?

  35. Taigan

    Oh Geeze. Knowing what we know about Danny now….

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