More data supporting that what pop culture, and guys, think women want not being what women want. Up next, not being able to generalize specific preferences over populations between 2 and 3.5 billion.
n.b. That’s between 2 and 3,500,000,000 not between 2-3.5 G
I’ll take that bet. Most people want their partner to be alive. there you go, generalizing across the vast majority of 3.5 to 4 billion people. Now, when I say ‘partner’ I’m talking about frisky times. actual partnerships like business or bad marriages (and let’s face it, they’re all bad, only the level of denial and delusion save the few that survive) it’s not necessarily true…but for frisky times, the vast majority of people prefer a live, warm, affectionate partner.
I recently made the mistake of shaving because I was tired of how my beard was tickling my partner. Their reaction was… not as hoped – I kind of look like a 13 or 30 without the beard.
Though I did get to enjoy two full days of clean shaved snuggling with them (your skin is extra sensitive right after you shave hair you’ve had for a while).
My partner shaved their head. For a couple of days after I could blow gently at her from the other end of the couch and get a reaction to the subtle change in air currents 😀
Note there’s a difference in meaning between “justified” and “deserved” or “encouraged”. You seem to be interpreting them as identical. Justified just means you can, well, justify it. That is, give reasonable grounds for the action. Doesn’t necessarily mean you should do the action.
We don’t KNOW Booster that well yet. seriously, Booster could just be flirting-ish, even communicating a sincere interest by planting seeds of doubt. We still don’t KNOW Booster very well, what Booster actually digs, how Booster goes about finding it.
While at the same time Joe is continuing to engage in verbally objectifying women in a public space. Thus he broadcasting a message in a public forum. If he shutup and stayed, fine he’d have grounds to object, but since he remains and continues (as he has every right to) Booster also continues (as he has every right to).
That said, in this particular game I don’t think there are any winners, just losers. (source: it takes one to know one)
Demoted Oblivious
*they/theirs. Sorry Booster
Nono
Joe’s being an ass. But Booster also isn’t actually calling him out on it at all, just taking potshots at Joe’s appearance.
If they’d said, “your objectification is creepy and I’m trying to eat, knock it off”, then I’d be more in their side. As is, it’s just two mutual butts.
CJ
You think this is not calling out Joe? It has more chance of not only shutting him up but actually making hi. Think than telling hi. Objectifying people is bad. He knows and doesn’t care.
Meagan
Seriously. This is much more likely to get the point across. And in a rather clever way.
Tunasammich
Yeah I’m definitely on team Booster here. Give Joe a taste of his own medicine
Joe’s feels like a dismissal because it is one. That’s not rude when a complete stranger butts into your conversation, unsolicited, and then continues pestering when you’ve said no. As noted, what Booster’s doing *is* the kind of shitty thing people like Joe do to women. It’s not rude when a woman says no to that kind of attention, and it’s not rude when Joe says no to that kind of attention.
What Booster’s doing is nothing like what Joe does to women. It’s marginally rude – though college norms make a difference and Booster’s not a “complete stranger, but a floormate. It’s not threatening, it’s not objectifying.
Which Joe, talking loudly enough about women’s attributes for “complete strangers” to over hear is doing.
Right when my spouse starts shaving hers as part of her transition… I get a boyfriend with equivalent stubble. The universe just wishes me to chafe, I believe.
(Disclaimer: we’re poly and everybody knows about everybody else. Also they were good friends since before I got together with either of them, lol. …Oh geez, we’ve all at least vaguely known each other for half our lives now, what the heck is this? I feel old)
I’m really sad you had to preemptively defend this. I get WHY and what a headache saver it is… but the fact you felt you’d be attacked in the forum of a very dynamic inclusive comic rather than asked questions first is… well… I’m sorry people aren’t more supportive of the way you guys express your love.
I really like Booster, while I understand why some people dislike them, they are my kind of person, not afraid to say what some people should or need to hear.
Discussion (247) - “At length”
Ana Chronistic
that’s why I want a bearded one
but the one I have keeps shaving it just when it gets nice
Bunny
Oh understandable! I loves me a big beard!
brionl
I stopped shaving a couple of months ago to go with my deranged psycho hairdo, and my girlfriend likes my weak scraggly beard more than I do.
Demoted Oblivious
More data supporting that what pop culture, and guys, think women want not being what women want. Up next, not being able to generalize specific preferences over populations between 2 and 3.5 billion.
n.b. That’s between 2 and 3,500,000,000 not between 2-3.5 G
Deanatay
Heh, giga-people.
Daniel M Ball
I’ll take that bet. Most people want their partner to be alive. there you go, generalizing across the vast majority of 3.5 to 4 billion people. Now, when I say ‘partner’ I’m talking about frisky times. actual partnerships like business or bad marriages (and let’s face it, they’re all bad, only the level of denial and delusion save the few that survive) it’s not necessarily true…but for frisky times, the vast majority of people prefer a live, warm, affectionate partner.
fridge_logic
I recently made the mistake of shaving because I was tired of how my beard was tickling my partner. Their reaction was… not as hoped – I kind of look like a 13 or 30 without the beard.
Though I did get to enjoy two full days of clean shaved snuggling with them (your skin is extra sensitive right after you shave hair you’ve had for a while).
Librain
My partner shaved their head. For a couple of days after I could blow gently at her from the other end of the couch and get a reaction to the subtle change in air currents 😀
Ana Chronistic
Airbender!
Doctor_Who
Panel 5: Joe making a Doonesbury Face.
Durandal_1707
As long as he isn’t doing… whatever that third panel was yesterday, I’m okay with it.
sammyred8
I went back to look again yesterday after reading this comment… and wtf is even happening there
also screw you i wouldn’t have noticed anything if you hadn’t saidLibrain
I assume that he has his eyes closed and just a weird black dot has appeared temporarily on his forehead.
I would rather not be disabused of this.
Jay M Ferguson
Boom. Egoshot.
Clif
Spitroasted.
Needfuldoer
Snarkin’s a good job, mate.
Nick Piers
Boom. Gottem.
DT
The sickest burn.
Demoted Oblivious
Whisker burn?
Side burn?
Crash and burn?
Needfuldoer
Razor burn. (Perma-stubble avoids it.)
Eldritchy
Slap some sideburns on Joe and put him in a Super Robot.
Daniel M Ball
honest here, I can’t tell if it’s a burn, or Booster’s a flirt.
Azhrei Vep
Don’t see why it can’t be both!
Proto_Eevee
-And in one line I have completely forgotten why I didn’t like booster
Clif
Wait for it.
CJ
They‘ll probably remind you soon, but this was very well played and Joe deserved it.
Nono
I mean they’re both kinda rude here but Booster is more rude here I think?
Joe’s feels like a dismissal, Booster is a ‘yeah, you’d be lousy in bed if we’d even get that far’, like some weird form of negging.
JetstreamGW
It’s not negging. It’s just insulting.
Nono
Booster calls him impressively built in the same sentence, so it felt like a mix.
Pablo360
it’s called “sick burns”
HeySo
That’s exactly why you shouldn’t rub stubble up against your nethers.. >.>
Meagan
Way to bring it back on topic.
Bunny
They’re mirroring Joe’s treatment of women. It could be a learning experience for Joe.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
So it is behavior that is justified as long as the target deserves it?
MatthewTheLucky
That is the definition of justified, yes.
GreyICE
In the most Old Testament sense of the word “justified”.
Doongus
Love me some Old Testament!
HeySo
Note there’s a difference in meaning between “justified” and “deserved” or “encouraged”. You seem to be interpreting them as identical. Justified just means you can, well, justify it. That is, give reasonable grounds for the action. Doesn’t necessarily mean you should do the action.
BarerMender
Oh, now I get it. Booster is standing in for “chicks” Joe wants to “nail.”
Daniel M Ball
We don’t KNOW Booster that well yet. seriously, Booster could just be flirting-ish, even communicating a sincere interest by planting seeds of doubt. We still don’t KNOW Booster very well, what Booster actually digs, how Booster goes about finding it.
we have insufficient information to judge here.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Booster is more rude because for continuing to talk to someone who has very clearly said to leave them alone.
Demoted Oblivious
While at the same time Joe is continuing to engage in verbally objectifying women in a public space. Thus he broadcasting a message in a public forum. If he shutup and stayed, fine he’d have grounds to object, but since he remains and continues (as he has every right to) Booster also continues (as he has every right to).
That said, in this particular game I don’t think there are any winners, just losers. (source: it takes one to know one)
Demoted Oblivious
*they/theirs. Sorry Booster
Nono
Joe’s being an ass. But Booster also isn’t actually calling him out on it at all, just taking potshots at Joe’s appearance.
If they’d said, “your objectification is creepy and I’m trying to eat, knock it off”, then I’d be more in their side. As is, it’s just two mutual butts.
CJ
You think this is not calling out Joe? It has more chance of not only shutting him up but actually making hi. Think than telling hi. Objectifying people is bad. He knows and doesn’t care.
Meagan
Seriously. This is much more likely to get the point across. And in a rather clever way.
Tunasammich
Yeah I’m definitely on team Booster here. Give Joe a taste of his own medicine
tbf
Booster gave an unsolicited critique on a hot guy behind him and Joe conceded that he’s not wrong.
tbf
s/him/them
It’s late. Mea culpa.
Tunasammich
Was he not talking about Joe? I’m pretty sure he was. Now I’m confused I guess
Tunasammich
They! Sorry! Ugh
a/snow/mous/e
I think tbf meant “…a hot guy behind them, and Joe conceded that they’re not wrong
Jamie
Joe’s feels like a dismissal because it is one. That’s not rude when a complete stranger butts into your conversation, unsolicited, and then continues pestering when you’ve said no. As noted, what Booster’s doing *is* the kind of shitty thing people like Joe do to women. It’s not rude when a woman says no to that kind of attention, and it’s not rude when Joe says no to that kind of attention.
Ironic, though, yes.
Clif
And the irony is not lost on Joe, though it doesn’t please him.
thejeff
What Booster’s doing is nothing like what Joe does to women. It’s marginally rude – though college norms make a difference and Booster’s not a “complete stranger, but a floormate. It’s not threatening, it’s not objectifying.
Which Joe, talking loudly enough about women’s attributes for “complete strangers” to over hear is doing.
Corneel
Complete stranger? They were introduced by Walky.
Spookyfox
shouldn’t he be looking the other way for 11 o clock
Yumi
In a twist, this arc will actually be about Joe learning to tell time.
AY
thank you, this one made me laugh really hard
Doctor_Who
Booster totally shoulda’ said “5 o’clock” thus also a making it a pun on Joe’s permanent facial-fuzz state.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
They need to stop and establish the proper common reference frame for the notional clock face.
Nono
Could be eleven o’clock from Dan’s point of view?
Nono
Could also be why Booster says six o’clock, because from Joe’s point of view it would be looking back at himself.
Dave Van Domelen
Boosted.
JetstreamGW
Pfftahahahahahah
ian livs
Right when my spouse starts shaving hers as part of her transition… I get a boyfriend with equivalent stubble. The universe just wishes me to chafe, I believe.
(Disclaimer: we’re poly and everybody knows about everybody else. Also they were good friends since before I got together with either of them, lol. …Oh geez, we’ve all at least vaguely known each other for half our lives now, what the heck is this? I feel old)
Seregiel
I’m really sad you had to preemptively defend this. I get WHY and what a headache saver it is… but the fact you felt you’d be attacked in the forum of a very dynamic inclusive comic rather than asked questions first is… well… I’m sorry people aren’t more supportive of the way you guys express your love.
Fiddler115
Re the alt text: I believe you meant spit roasted.
MaximumZero
Nice.
Switchchris
I really like Booster, while I understand why some people dislike them, they are my kind of person, not afraid to say what some people should or need to hear.
Nono