“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”
Amazingly, yes! You can even choose to not have sex in a stable relationship, let alone things like what Joe is trying to avoid here (which, btw, kudos to Joe for having enough character growth to realize that he would be taking advantage of her to go through with it).
So he’s a pointy boob. Like, a boob when it’s cold out, or in one of those old-timey bras, or one of the Fembots from Austin Powers with the machine gun barrels.
…I forget what we were talking about, but whatever it was I conclude that Danny is a robot.
Speaking of which, just looking at the strip and the comments section is kinda hard for me right now.
Just wondering, is anyone else besides me trying to do a No Nut November?
Rose by Any Other Name
**head tilt**
I have heard of this odd tradition before, but I will admit that it utterly baffles me. What precisely is the point of men not orgasming in the month of November?
Zach
Masochism
Rose by Any Other Name
Seems to me there are easier ways to accomplish that.
Nipple clamps for one.
Subjektivity
You are totally correct…. that would be easier. But some like it….harder….
Delicious Taffy
Or even, like, nails. On the person’s back. Real hard-like. …not that I’d know, mind you.
Regalli
I’d previously been assuming it was the same vague prostate cancer awareness thing that No Shave November is about but honestly if it’s not, I don’t really want to know.
The Wellerman
People do it for multiple reasons. Sometimes it’s to raise awareness, sometimes it’s for masochism, sometimes it’s out of shear curiosity.
As for my reason to participate, here’s a hint —
“Food tastes better when you’re hungry.”
Rose by Any Other Name
Re: Food tastes better when you’re hungry.
True. However, a full month starvation isn’t usually necessary to gain those results in food – merely a few hours. And, back to the BDSM, orgasm denial and/or edging achieves basically the same results (for both men and women) in, again, an hour or two.
But to each their own. Your body your choice and all that.
Stifyn Baker
If it is about prostate cancer, then a month of not ejaculating would achieve pretty much the same thing as eating all the pies in order to raise awareness about dieting. Regular ejaculation keeps the prostate healthy.
The Wellerman
Very true!
If I’m willing to sacrifice that bit of health maintenance for a time to eventually make it more enjoyable, I wonder what that says about me.
DrunkenNordmann
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t that whole thing start because some right-wing nutters are obessed with the idea that masturbation makes you weak or some shit?
Kinda weird how that became a thing the internet as a whole seems to give a shit about.
Thag Simmons
Either pornhub or reddit made it mainstream. Potentially both
BarerMender
It started as a satire thing (don’t ask me; I don’t understand satire), but somehow caught on as something serious. The hard right seems to have taken it up. If you go to the NNN website, which I decline to link to, you’ll find such expressions as “nigga nigga nigga nigga” and “I hate Jews.” This is supposed to be funny. I didn’t laugh.
I’m not gonna try to claim you’re doing this, but I definitely feel like there’s this issue where people think “Right wing people like this thing so now it’s bad”. Like I get that it can put a bad taste in your mouth but at the end of the day, statistically right wing people are gonna like things that other people like too. Right wing people are people who interact with media and the internet too. The problem is when people allow people they don’t like to effect their opinion of that thing because that honestly just relinquishes it to them. Then it truly DOES become a right wing thing because everyone else stop liking it because they did.
I dunno I feel not everything has to have this “actually under the surface there’s this”. Just do/like something because you like it. If you don’t like the people behind it reclaim it. It’s why I didn’t want to let that dickweed who did the inktober thing Ruin inktober for me. Because I liked inktober before I knew he existed and I’m not gonna let him take something I like away from me.
Spencer
I think there’s a sensible conversation in discussing stuff that comes from alt-right circles or otherwise questionable places, like the term “friendzone” can be casually used these days as “I like them, but they don’t like me back”, but it started as “I am entitled to a woman’s vagina if I’m nice to her” and the only problem there is how someone else reacts to you saying it because of the context they know of it that you don’t.
Then you get stuff that’s just outright harmful, like “I identify as an attack helicopter!” which is an explicitly transphobic joke, but share it with ten people and most of them will go “that’s silly, people can’t be helicopters” and eventually it gets so widespread that the official Sonic the Hedgehog twitter account makes this joke. There’s not really any value in that, and there’s not really a way to redefine it either.
Then I think about stuff like the OK symbol or having 88 in your username, which you just can’t do anymore because of Nazis I guess? And they just took it so now we can’t do them anymore and then eventually a forum I frequent starts questioning whether the new Matrix should have the Red Pill/Blue Pill scene because of what Red Pill has come to mean to the modern alt-right movement, except the Matrix is the most trans narrative in the universe made by two trans women, why the fuck would we take that from them?
Pepe the Frog was a cartoon some dude drew and then Nazis made it theirs over the protests of the guy who made it as his creation became the mascot of the alt-right as he’s attempted to take it back. Life comes at you funny sometimes.
Frankly, I do agree that capitulating in that “oh but they do this” is kinda spineless, because we’re just letting them take stuff from us, which they will do anyway. If Steven Universe and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind were the only works of fiction to ever exist, you’d still get some berk trying to claim them as an expression of their based redpilled worldview. There’s no point in negotiating with them and even less in letting them take away stuff you love, you just gotta start hitting them.
Really, the only thing that’s up for debate to me is why did someone come up with an entire month of not touching your bits? That’s wack.
Yotomoe
Yeah I feel like that’s the problem with trying to avoid things with a bad connotation. It just relinquishes those things to bad actors. The nazi party took and corrupted a symbol representing peace and prosperity, the manji and associated it with hatred and genocide. And now it’s gone. The name adolf? Gone. Hell even the toothbrush moustache is gone. The sheer power of bad people is their ability to take things from us forever. And honestly I’m sick of that. Agree with its usage or not I admire the idea of the black community to reclaimed the [N-word]. Personally I’m sick and tired letting assholes all the power.
Spencer
It is a super danged weird thing.
Like, they just start using it, much to my chagrin they exist and do appropriate symbols, and then we just give it to them forever because we’re afraid of other people associating us with them.
khn0
I know a region where half mail adresses being or end with 88.. because it’s the département administrative number. It’s weird because there are also a neo-nazi presence there, but they can’t use it as a beacon since it’s widely neutralized.
Also a form of svastika is used byt bask independantists, without it being thougth as affiliation o nazis. It has to do with their antifascist stance, ofc, but not only.
What I’m saying is that you can’t, alone, claim the use of a symbol, be it a word, without a social context favoring it.
Personnally, I’m all about nazis being easy to identify because the alternative is frightening (and already happening).
the swastika is absolutely everywhere in India. they don’t really care about nazism, that’s always been a traditional Hindu symbol for good things, and they just went right on using it that way I guess.
as for the Hitlerstache and the name Adolf, i mean… does anyone miss those? like… really?
Spencer
Hey, Charlie Chaplin made it work.
But, I think the idea is more that the reason we hate them is because of the real life evils they’ve become associated with.
Granted, that hard rejection is way more understandable in the case of actual World War II Nazis.
oh that’s definitely the reason we hate them. i’m just saying to me those things sit at the “meh” end on the spectrum of things we can’t touch anymore because of nazis.
also, Charlie Chaplin wasn’t called Adolf you ding dong!
I think it’s great to keep doing lnktober if you want, but at the same time, there are SO MANY variants of exactly the same thing that AREN’T called lnktober, like the Botober entries I did!
That said, it is your choice. It hurts no one. It makes you happy. Therefore, here’s rooting for your success. May you find that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Early on in the comic Dorothy sent Billie to Danny for a lead on Amazi-girl for a story and she was having a low self esteem moment and decided to spontaneously bang him.
But it ultimately didn’t happen because Danny was reluctant do to a mix of coming off Dorothy’s harsh breakup with him and developing a connection with Amber. But I don’t think there would have been anything wrong if they hooked up except that Danny didn’t want to which is fine. I think people expect guys to always be wanting sex, but when a dude is this worried about it, it almost feels like they’re being used. Which was my point in the first place.
Goodness, I think this was the strip where young yoto was like “alright this Billie girl is pretty damn hot”
(I had not yet read the walkyverse. Also Dumbiverse Billie is hotter)
Nine years ago today I would have been deciding what to buy myself for my upcoming twenty-ninth birthday in a few days.
zee
Haha, i was 11 when that came out. I think that would’ve been a year before my buddy got me into doa and sp.
I wonder if he still reads the comments…
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255 thoughts on “Semi-anonymous”
Ana Chronistic
people can… choose… NOT to have sex??
*head a splode*
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“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Clif
And so, if I am unfaithful, you must blame it either on the woman or God. Your choice.
Sombrero
Spoiler: it’s never God.
JBento
It’s also never the woman (unless it’s the woman being unfaithful).
Sombrero
But the rules of the game are that you must blame someone and never never take responsibility.
JBento
*flips the board*
Decidedly Orthogonal
You always sneeze like that when you’re losing.
JBento
I have INCREDIBLE allergies to bullshit rules. Blame Big Pharma for making the medication so expensive I can’t keep them under control.
Dr. T
Amazingly, yes! You can even choose to not have sex in a stable relationship, let alone things like what Joe is trying to avoid here (which, btw, kudos to Joe for having enough character growth to realize that he would be taking advantage of her to go through with it).
Ana Chronistic
There is supposed to be a /s tag embedded there but I can’t type
Decidedly Orthogonal
It was clear enough, but the internet be internetting.
Yotomoe
I dunno Danny. I think you’re a boob.
Yotomoe
Also I’m willing to bet money that everyone is racing to make that same joke.
Doctor_Who
He’s a boob who’s currently making a good point.
So he’s a pointy boob. Like, a boob when it’s cold out, or in one of those old-timey bras, or one of the Fembots from Austin Powers with the machine gun barrels.
…I forget what we were talking about, but whatever it was I conclude that Danny is a robot.
Yotomoe
Pointy bras are underrated. I dunno what it is but I love a good ol’ fashioned pointy bra.
Chris (the other one)
Look up Chansonette or Bullet Bra .. they were the in style of the 1950’s
Clif
Your impeccable logic compells me to agree.
Clif
That was a reply to the Doctor, which is not to denigrate point bras.
RacingTurtle
Boobs are nice and Danny is nice, so by the transitive property…
The Wellerman
Speaking of which, just looking at the strip and the comments section is kinda hard for me right now.
Just wondering, is anyone else besides me trying to do a No Nut November?
Rose by Any Other Name
**head tilt**
I have heard of this odd tradition before, but I will admit that it utterly baffles me. What precisely is the point of men not orgasming in the month of November?
Zach
Masochism
Rose by Any Other Name
Seems to me there are easier ways to accomplish that.
Nipple clamps for one.
Subjektivity
You are totally correct…. that would be easier. But some like it….harder….
Delicious Taffy
Or even, like, nails. On the person’s back. Real hard-like. …not that I’d know, mind you.
Regalli
I’d previously been assuming it was the same vague prostate cancer awareness thing that No Shave November is about but honestly if it’s not, I don’t really want to know.
The Wellerman
People do it for multiple reasons. Sometimes it’s to raise awareness, sometimes it’s for masochism, sometimes it’s out of shear curiosity.
As for my reason to participate, here’s a hint —
“Food tastes better when you’re hungry.”
Rose by Any Other Name
Re: Food tastes better when you’re hungry.
True. However, a full month starvation isn’t usually necessary to gain those results in food – merely a few hours. And, back to the BDSM, orgasm denial and/or edging achieves basically the same results (for both men and women) in, again, an hour or two.
But to each their own. Your body your choice and all that.
Stifyn Baker
If it is about prostate cancer, then a month of not ejaculating would achieve pretty much the same thing as eating all the pies in order to raise awareness about dieting. Regular ejaculation keeps the prostate healthy.
The Wellerman
Very true!
If I’m willing to sacrifice that bit of health maintenance for a time to eventually make it more enjoyable, I wonder what that says about me.
DrunkenNordmann
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t that whole thing start because some right-wing nutters are obessed with the idea that masturbation makes you weak or some shit?
Kinda weird how that became a thing the internet as a whole seems to give a shit about.
Thag Simmons
Either pornhub or reddit made it mainstream. Potentially both
BarerMender
It started as a satire thing (don’t ask me; I don’t understand satire), but somehow caught on as something serious. The hard right seems to have taken it up. If you go to the NNN website, which I decline to link to, you’ll find such expressions as “nigga nigga nigga nigga” and “I hate Jews.” This is supposed to be funny. I didn’t laugh.
Yotomoe
I’m not gonna try to claim you’re doing this, but I definitely feel like there’s this issue where people think “Right wing people like this thing so now it’s bad”. Like I get that it can put a bad taste in your mouth but at the end of the day, statistically right wing people are gonna like things that other people like too. Right wing people are people who interact with media and the internet too. The problem is when people allow people they don’t like to effect their opinion of that thing because that honestly just relinquishes it to them. Then it truly DOES become a right wing thing because everyone else stop liking it because they did.
I dunno I feel not everything has to have this “actually under the surface there’s this”. Just do/like something because you like it. If you don’t like the people behind it reclaim it. It’s why I didn’t want to let that dickweed who did the inktober thing Ruin inktober for me. Because I liked inktober before I knew he existed and I’m not gonna let him take something I like away from me.
Spencer
I think there’s a sensible conversation in discussing stuff that comes from alt-right circles or otherwise questionable places, like the term “friendzone” can be casually used these days as “I like them, but they don’t like me back”, but it started as “I am entitled to a woman’s vagina if I’m nice to her” and the only problem there is how someone else reacts to you saying it because of the context they know of it that you don’t.
Then you get stuff that’s just outright harmful, like “I identify as an attack helicopter!” which is an explicitly transphobic joke, but share it with ten people and most of them will go “that’s silly, people can’t be helicopters” and eventually it gets so widespread that the official Sonic the Hedgehog twitter account makes this joke. There’s not really any value in that, and there’s not really a way to redefine it either.
Then I think about stuff like the OK symbol or having 88 in your username, which you just can’t do anymore because of Nazis I guess? And they just took it so now we can’t do them anymore and then eventually a forum I frequent starts questioning whether the new Matrix should have the Red Pill/Blue Pill scene because of what Red Pill has come to mean to the modern alt-right movement, except the Matrix is the most trans narrative in the universe made by two trans women, why the fuck would we take that from them?
Pepe the Frog was a cartoon some dude drew and then Nazis made it theirs over the protests of the guy who made it as his creation became the mascot of the alt-right as he’s attempted to take it back. Life comes at you funny sometimes.
Frankly, I do agree that capitulating in that “oh but they do this” is kinda spineless, because we’re just letting them take stuff from us, which they will do anyway. If Steven Universe and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind were the only works of fiction to ever exist, you’d still get some berk trying to claim them as an expression of their based redpilled worldview. There’s no point in negotiating with them and even less in letting them take away stuff you love, you just gotta start hitting them.
Really, the only thing that’s up for debate to me is why did someone come up with an entire month of not touching your bits? That’s wack.
Yotomoe
Yeah I feel like that’s the problem with trying to avoid things with a bad connotation. It just relinquishes those things to bad actors. The nazi party took and corrupted a symbol representing peace and prosperity, the manji and associated it with hatred and genocide. And now it’s gone. The name adolf? Gone. Hell even the toothbrush moustache is gone. The sheer power of bad people is their ability to take things from us forever. And honestly I’m sick of that. Agree with its usage or not I admire the idea of the black community to reclaimed the [N-word]. Personally I’m sick and tired letting assholes all the power.
Spencer
It is a super danged weird thing.
Like, they just start using it, much to my chagrin they exist and do appropriate symbols, and then we just give it to them forever because we’re afraid of other people associating us with them.
khn0
I know a region where half mail adresses being or end with 88.. because it’s the département administrative number. It’s weird because there are also a neo-nazi presence there, but they can’t use it as a beacon since it’s widely neutralized.
Also a form of svastika is used byt bask independantists, without it being thougth as affiliation o nazis. It has to do with their antifascist stance, ofc, but not only.
What I’m saying is that you can’t, alone, claim the use of a symbol, be it a word, without a social context favoring it.
Personnally, I’m all about nazis being easy to identify because the alternative is frightening (and already happening).
milu
the swastika is absolutely everywhere in India. they don’t really care about nazism, that’s always been a traditional Hindu symbol for good things, and they just went right on using it that way I guess.
as for the Hitlerstache and the name Adolf, i mean… does anyone miss those? like… really?
Spencer
Hey, Charlie Chaplin made it work.
But, I think the idea is more that the reason we hate them is because of the real life evils they’ve become associated with.
Granted, that hard rejection is way more understandable in the case of actual World War II Nazis.
milu
oh that’s definitely the reason we hate them. i’m just saying to me those things sit at the “meh” end on the spectrum of things we can’t touch anymore because of nazis.
also, Charlie Chaplin wasn’t called Adolf you ding dong!
Ana Chronistic
coming in late
I think it’s great to keep doing lnktober if you want, but at the same time, there are SO MANY variants of exactly the same thing that AREN’T called lnktober, like the Botober entries I did!
Yotomoe
As an artist, I make it my goal. Nay my DUTY to get as many people as I can to fail No nut November.
The Wellerman
You’d make a great demon, that’s for sure!
None of your recent pieces have gotten me to that point so far, but I encourage you to keep trying!
Yotomoe
Didja see the one I did tonight?
The Wellerman
As a matter of fact I did.
While it was appealing aesthetically, it didn’t quite *get* me like that.
In fact, just about nothing has been getting me recently. Which is kind of why I’m doing this No Nut November in the first place.
Rose by Any Other Name
You fight the good fight, Yotomoe. And no, I haven’t yet – is it linked here somewhere?
Yotomoe
https://imgur.com/a/AFSqWqV
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I thought it was some food allergy thing.
newlland(Henryvolt)
2 days so far isn’t really a issue.
Delicious Taffy
No, because I don’t like pointlessly depriving myself of things just cuz an unfunny internet meme told me to.
The Wellerman
“Hunger is the best sauce.”
– Anonymous, wise one
Keulen
I’ve never seen the appeal of it, and if I was trying I would’ve failed already anyway.
Spencer
… that’s a real thing?
zee
I think i failed at the literal beginning hours
Yotomoe
Ditto.
OBBWG
Not doing it. Doubt I ever voluntarily will.
That said, it is your choice. It hurts no one. It makes you happy. Therefore, here’s rooting for your success. May you find that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
RacingTurtle
What on earth happened under my comment
Ana Chronistic
DoA fans gonna DoA
Kim
Boo[…b]!
Ana Chronistic
shit, did I type that code wrong |=’
Ana Chronistic
and not reply in-thread
[cut losses here]
Sirksome
Yeesh. If Joe’s actually fretting this much about it he just shouldn’t do it. It almost feels wrong on his end now.
Jamie
I mean, it’s wrong in the exact same sense it was wrong for Danny to have sex with Billie.
My bet is still that Joe goes for it. I’m glad I didn’t actually put down stakes.
Johan
Wait when did that happen in this universe?
Sirksome
Early on in the comic Dorothy sent Billie to Danny for a lead on Amazi-girl for a story and she was having a low self esteem moment and decided to spontaneously bang him.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/business/
But it ultimately didn’t happen because Danny was reluctant do to a mix of coming off Dorothy’s harsh breakup with him and developing a connection with Amber. But I don’t think there would have been anything wrong if they hooked up except that Danny didn’t want to which is fine. I think people expect guys to always be wanting sex, but when a dude is this worried about it, it almost feels like they’re being used. Which was my point in the first place.
Rex Vivat
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/eyecontact/ it’s been a bit
Yotomoe
Goodness, I think this was the strip where young yoto was like “alright this Billie girl is pretty damn hot”
(I had not yet read the walkyverse. Also Dumbiverse Billie is hotter)
Nono
That was 9 years ago, geez.
Yotomoe
I would been about 17 going on 18.
newlland(Henryvolt)
Aagh yes going down old memory memory lane.
Needfuldoer
Let’s see, nine years ago I was…
oh no
[Aging sequence from Saving Private Ryan dot gif]
Azhrei Vep
Nine years ago today I would have been deciding what to buy myself for my upcoming twenty-ninth birthday in a few days.
zee
Haha, i was 11 when that came out. I think that would’ve been a year before my buddy got me into doa and sp.
I wonder if he still reads the comments…
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