Oh wait that’s right, she’ll only show up once and then disappear for like five years except for the occasional “I’m still a character!” phone call strip before coming back and transitioning to essentially another main character in a massive multi-arc storyline!
… why?
The whole point is that baseball is a thoroughly unsexy game.
If it’s because “opposite” then I feel the need to point out that lesbians are not the opposite of straight guys.
If it’s because some lesbians like to play softball – well, some straight guys like to play baseball, so the reversal still doesn’t work.
The logic behind it is that baseball is a thoroughly ‘man’ activity. No girls. So for straight dudes, that’s the turn off. So for lesbians, a softball team full of girls… doesn’t work the same way.
ktbear
I don’t know what Americans think softball is but considering the New Zealand men’s team are multiple world champions in softball I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of scope for lesbians being turned off by it.
CJ
I think in the USA, playing softball and being a lesbian are kindof treated as being the same thing? Speaking from the book I read that mention softball. (Used to be the same thing with women‘s soccer in Germany, but nowadays all suddenly sport loooong hair to avoid the idea).
Bogeywoman
While i generally disapprove of steteotypes, my softball team is definitely over 50% lesbian…. and that’s not including any bisexuals
milu
well it’s not a stereotype if it’s a deliberate dating/socializing strategy =P
SillyGoose
So we need a new solution, more inclusive and less specific.
How about thinking about Lego? Definitely non-sexual. Will hurt if you step on them. Kid’s toy. Not gendered. I hereby declare Lego to be the inclusive baseball.
Despite Rage
I’ve seen flocks of lesbians recruiting baby lesbians for their softball team at least a couple of times. Yes, it is a deliberate dating/socializing strategy.
TBH, it’s one of the most cringy dude-bro things I’ve ever seen women do. I was not nearly brave enough to point that out.
not someone else
A remarkable amount of the social expectation is that softball is baseball for girls because it has the word “soft” in it, in my experience.
As a girl, I can say that thinking about other girls in baseball or softball uniforms gets me feeling some kind of way. I’m grey-ace, but I assure you it’s not a turn off at least. Not like Becky is suggesting.
Seconding this. Becky’s definitely more sexually frustrated than either Lucy or Joyce right now.
SillyGoose
And I don’t think we saw anything from Lucy that says she represses even half as much as the other two.
She might not have sexpals right now, but I guess she’d be up for it if she did. And well, having sex is a great way to be less frustrated, so there’s hope for her yet ^^
Just to clarify, Joyce, Becky is one of those people who are the exception that proves the rule.
I am glad though that Becky was able to address the pink gorilla sitting in the middle of the room. Yes, Doris is Dorothy (and, I think, Joe) and possibly represents the issues Joyce still has in understanding the secular world.
I’m sorry to break this to you, Becky, whom I love, but that look of world-weariness Dotty has going on? Only Joyce can make her project that kind of “oh my God, no” energy. For all your attempts at rivalry, you will never elicit that expression from her.
100 thoughts on “Foil”
Ana Chronistic
because Joyce is transparent as glass
Ana Chronistic
not “thinking about badminton”?
wait no that’s a particularly bad example
UAW
Could try thinking about shuttlecock…
milu
think about women’s tennis! ….ooooh shit oh NO
Sunny
Goodminton then?
Nono
What kind of glass, though? Tempered glass can get kinda opaque at times.
Juanoku
It changes every week
Sirksome
Where’s Becky’s self insert, repressed bisexual outlet, fantasy fulfillment character!?
Sirksome
Oh wait that’s right, she’ll only show up once and then disappear for like five years except for the occasional “I’m still a character!” phone call strip before coming back and transitioning to essentially another main character in a massive multi-arc storyline!
Regalli
Besides, she was on the phone like three strips ago! Hi Betty!
Doctor_Who
If political science doesn’t work out for her, Becky would be a natural as the wacky drop-in neighbor in a sitcom.
Sirksome
If this were a live action sitcom, Becky would be the character with the laugh track even though no other character has one.
JessWitt
It was Becky all along! 😉
Fist_of_Life
But Becky didn’t kill the dog.
Kyrik Michalowski
Becky your presence continues to be both a delight and a tragedy.
How does she do it?
Opus the Poet
Because we know her back story too well. She is tragicomedy personified.
Needfuldoer
A delightfully comedic shell with a gooey tragic center. She learned the “smile and ignore it” coping mechanism well. 🙁
Shitbird
Close, but softball players are hot, honestly, athletes in general are hot
Deanatay
Eh, overly muscled humans with <2% body fat aren't my idea of sexy.
The Other Mike
I agree, but when someone’s described as “athletic,” I picture someone leaner than that. Someone who actually is sexy.
Agemegos
Leaner than <2% fat?
StClair
Swimmer or runner physiques rather than bodybuilders.
Regalli
Okay that last panel face of Dorothy’s may be my new favorite.
Joyce, meanwhile… hoo boy. Hooooo boy.
Octopus Ink
“Not everyone is obsessed with sex”.
Dorothy leads such a sheltered life.
Someday she will sadly be exposed to the internet.
Nono
Eh, even in their peer group, Dina, Jacob, Sal. I’d even argue Sarah.
Sirksome
Yeah, but Joe more than makes up for all of them, and most of the cast in other webcomics too.
The Other Mike
As well as all the population who aren’t members of the cast and who aren’t as horny as he is.
He Who Abides
Nono, I’ll counter your mention of Sarah with her wanting to use Jacob as “stress release”.
Jamie
I wasn’t aware stress release was a kind of obsession?
Regalli
Also Carla.
GreyICE
She’s in college. As I remember, the answer to “is everyone obsessed with sex” was “yeah.”
James the Bruce
I wasn’t obsessed with sex in college. But I wasn’t screaming it from the rooftops.
Leorale
When I was the age of these characters, I probably would’ve identified as asexual, had I known the word. I did a lot of other college stuff.
IIRC, Carla, Dina, Jacob, Danny, Lucy, and Sal aren’t obsessed with sex. (Some of them have crushes right now, but they aren’t obsessed.)
Sam
A lot of people being horny on main doesn’t mean everyone is obsessed with sex. It just means the obsessed ones are loud.
Nono
Wouldn’t thinking about softball be a lesbian turn-on? So baseball would work for Becky. Not hot ladies there, usually.
He Who Abides
I’ll ask my sister, she should know.
RacingTurtle
I definitely believe that thinking about softball would not make Becky less horny
Rose by Any Other Name
… why?
The whole point is that baseball is a thoroughly unsexy game.
If it’s because “opposite” then I feel the need to point out that lesbians are not the opposite of straight guys.
If it’s because some lesbians like to play softball – well, some straight guys like to play baseball, so the reversal still doesn’t work.
Rose by Any Other Name
Oh, and if I just ruined your joke by overanalyzing it…
Sorry, not sorry.
Nono
The logic behind it is that baseball is a thoroughly ‘man’ activity. No girls. So for straight dudes, that’s the turn off. So for lesbians, a softball team full of girls… doesn’t work the same way.
ktbear
I don’t know what Americans think softball is but considering the New Zealand men’s team are multiple world champions in softball I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of scope for lesbians being turned off by it.
CJ
I think in the USA, playing softball and being a lesbian are kindof treated as being the same thing? Speaking from the book I read that mention softball. (Used to be the same thing with women‘s soccer in Germany, but nowadays all suddenly sport loooong hair to avoid the idea).
Bogeywoman
While i generally disapprove of steteotypes, my softball team is definitely over 50% lesbian…. and that’s not including any bisexuals
milu
well it’s not a stereotype if it’s a deliberate dating/socializing strategy =P
SillyGoose
So we need a new solution, more inclusive and less specific.
How about thinking about Lego? Definitely non-sexual. Will hurt if you step on them. Kid’s toy. Not gendered. I hereby declare Lego to be the inclusive baseball.
Despite Rage
I’ve seen flocks of lesbians recruiting baby lesbians for their softball team at least a couple of times. Yes, it is a deliberate dating/socializing strategy.
TBH, it’s one of the most cringy dude-bro things I’ve ever seen women do. I was not nearly brave enough to point that out.
not someone else
A remarkable amount of the social expectation is that softball is baseball for girls because it has the word “soft” in it, in my experience.
BBCC
These two will never live this comic down and I love it.
Carla's #2 Fan
As a girl, I can say that thinking about other girls in baseball or softball uniforms gets me feeling some kind of way. I’m grey-ace, but I assure you it’s not a turn off at least. Not like Becky is suggesting.
StClair
Modern MLB style, or old-timey “League of Their Own” etc?
Stephen Bierce
“What are you boys doing?”
“Putting on the FOIL.” [/Slap Shot]
Grimeyville
I will never let Dorothy’s exasperation face go.
Nayann Martinelli
I love the “Doris” in the first panel, Dorothy just humoring Joyce by not pointing out again that she knows she is “inspiration” for the character.
And then Becky happens.
Josh Spicer
Well A. that read text is hilarious.
And B. got ‘er.
Deathjavu
Got em both!
Bagge
BETTY!
Thag Simmons
Well if Joyce wants to learn about writing conflict, a golden example is about to present itself
ADLegend21
oh y’know, it’s Joyce’s incredibly repressed attraction to Dotty, manifesting in art form.
Romanticide
this was probably a very needed moment for Becky to do her thing….
cmasta1992
So who is going to burst into a sexually frustrated heap first: Lucy or Joyce?
Sporky
Becky. C’mon, she’s right there!
Keulen
Seconding this. Becky’s definitely more sexually frustrated than either Lucy or Joyce right now.
SillyGoose
And I don’t think we saw anything from Lucy that says she represses even half as much as the other two.
She might not have sexpals right now, but I guess she’d be up for it if she did. And well, having sex is a great way to be less frustrated, so there’s hope for her yet ^^
C.T Phipps
Dorothy, you’re terrible with people. Have you considered this is a bigger issue than grades in becoming POTUS?
Sporky
I’m not sure if I’m upset by Becky calling comic strips unsexy because I agree with her or disagree with her. But it’s botherin’ me.
Needfuldoer
She’s clearly never heard of webcomics.
(She’s right about newspaper comics, though. The closest those get is 9CL, and that’s merely horny.)
Yossarianduck
Comic strips are unsexy because 9 Chickweed Lane absorbs all the horniness around it, like a vortex made of legs.
Also, poor Becky needs to learn to JO or something, this is untenable.
Agemegos
I think maybe it is impure.
BenRG
Just to clarify, Joyce, Becky is one of those people who are the exception that proves the rule.
I am glad though that Becky was able to address the pink gorilla sitting in the middle of the room. Yes, Doris is Dorothy (and, I think, Joe) and possibly represents the issues Joyce still has in understanding the secular world.
Varangian
I’m sorry to break this to you, Becky, whom I love, but that look of world-weariness Dotty has going on? Only Joyce can make her project that kind of “oh my God, no” energy. For all your attempts at rivalry, you will never elicit that expression from her.
DarkoNeko