I was thinking more along the lines of ‘stop dignifying that godawful list by implying Sal should be annoyed at a 9 and aspire to be higher rather than just think the list is gross and shouldn’t be a thing period’.
Mr D
this is MALAYA we’re talking about.
did you REALLY expect better?
BBCC
I did.
Mr D
I gotta wonder why? She has never, not once, shown to be a decent person all strip. She’s a bundle of hate!
BBCC
She’s an asshole, but for all her flaws, I never figured ‘dignifying nauseating misogyny’ to be one of them.
Mr D
Look, Malaya never showed to be a font of morality. And personaly, I find being a bundle of hatred and misanthropy to be far worse than dignifying the list.
Yes, the list is horrible, I agree, but (quite sadly) there are people who would find that kind of thing to be flattering, in some way, without being actively hateful or horrible. Luckily as the social justice movements advance, more people have understood how things like this list are shit.
You guys are going to love the things that the next generation gets up to.
Zee
Most people don’t think ranking people is a big deal, and Malaya absolutely strikes me as the kind of person to do the same thing for men
BBCC
I know Malaya is an asshole. I just wouldn’t have personally thought ‘dignifying Joe’s grossness’ to be one of them.
@ Clif – Just because other people get up to things that are worse doesn’t mean that the list wasn’t gross and Malaya isn’t being gross by dignifying it.
@ Zee – Most people I know would at least consider ranking people obnoxious, if not creepy. Which also seems to be how most people considered the list before it got leaked.
tommytom
Honestly, I’ve been kind of enjoying Malaya’s approach to things. She has a low tolerance for bullshit, probably because someone (or some people) in her life have fed her a lot of it. She wants to be her own person and explore her own friendships and relationships on authentic terms.
I didn’t like Malaya’s approach to Sal at first, but honestly, looking at Malaya’s approach to everyone else, I can see why she thinks the “act” is all bullshit. I can also see why, as she tries to probe deeper into Sal’s psyche, she likes Sal more and more and actually kinda wants to spend more time around her.
I think this is just an attempt to draw out The Real Sal. Malaya is trying to engage Sal on a level that is neither aloof nor impersonal. It’s not about dignifying the list or not, it’s about competing and interacting in a personal way.
BBCC
“He’s a fuckin’ legend” does not fill me with hope.
carpe_piscis
Can you really say that she’s a bundle of hatred and misanthropy though? The only reason she seems to be that way more so than the rest of the cast because about 80% of the strips she’s in also contain Sal, the one character she actively despises. The only other person towards whom she seems active hostile is Mary and based on what we know of Mary, I doubt it is undeserved. Beyond that, Malaya does come off as unnecessarily blunt and rather tactless, but calling her a bundle of hate seems undeserved.
thejeff
And Lucy.
Does she actually like anyone except Marcie? (How many people have we seen her interact with for more than a panel or two?)
Shogeton
I think she’s not suggesting that Sal should aspire to end up higher on the list, but lower. Suggesting that acting cool towards Joe made her more attractive towards him, and that is unwanted. It’s more of a ‘lemme show you how I discourage creeps’
yeah, my guess is that she’ll come on so strong, that she’ll seem desperate which would actually lower her rating.
thejeff
Except the most obvious reason for a low rating would just be being less attractive. Hard to sell that as some kind of superiority. No, I think she’s aiming to seduce (or at least tease) Joe into giving her a higher rating.
Which likely wouldn’t have been hard a week ago. (Don’t smoke is the obvious first step.) Interesting to see how it works with new Joe. Or just blows up with Joyce and Faz there.
BBCC
Considering the alt text, I don’t think that’s where she’s going with this.
Maybe we’re thinking about The List the wrong way. Joe tends to advertise it as a ‘hotness’ list, but it could also be thought of as a ‘vulnerable to predation’ list. If so, maybe Malaya’s just going to demonstrate to Joe how ‘vulnerable’ she is.
You get a higher score by being more willing to things Joe believes are sexy. The thing is I don’t think he thought too much about the difference between liking stuff and being pressured, annoyed into doing stuff until recently.
And yea Malaya is essentially mocking Sal for not being a ten, Sal hasn’t even read the list though.
thejeff
Well, mostly you get a higher score based on looks and probably how you dressed when he saw you and that’s about it. I don’t think he’s ever actually interacted with most of the girls on his list.
Admittedly it’s…almost nice that Malaya seems to want to hook Joe and Sal up seemingly for no other reason other than ‘oh she likes this guy? I’ll show her how to really grab his attention’. Course, a Sal hanging with her bf wouldn’t be in the room as much, so win-win. Sucks for Carla and Marcie though. But you can’t really fault Malaya for not knowing they’re interested in her.
281 thoughts on “Legend”
Ana Chronistic
Joe Rosenthal:
The Man
The Myth
The “Do” List
Ana Chronistic
Malaya about to get a “nein”?
MasakiSayz
Ana, your perfectly tailored snark is one of the few constants in my life. Never stop being brilliant.
ozzi
Release the Faz
Annonymouse
Nobody expects “The FAZ”!
NO!!! Not “The FAZ”!!!
Doctor_Who
This is gonna mean Malaya encounters Faz. Not sure if that means the obnoxiousness will increase quadratically, or exponentially.
Perhaps there is a graph to explain it.
Passchendaele
There is, but you won’t like the axes. *shudders*
Jamie
If they’re swinging, I’m okay with them.
SeanC
Faz is perfectly fine with swinging, yes
TemplarKnight
Faz stands at the top of swinging!
Safgaftsa
Not sure if I would be more offended by labeling the axes or not labeling the axes.
All-Purpose Guru
I think it will result in a very bloody half-asian body.
Agemegos
Billie?
jeffepp
No, that’s a lovely half-Asian Booty.
Pablo360
…why was booty capitalized?
Deanatay
Because Billie’s Booty deserves special emphasis.
*ahem*
Billie’s Booty
Zaxares
Meanwhile, in the Twilight Zone, Malaya mistakes Faz for Joe and winds up sleeping with him. There is a great disturbance in the Force…
Annonymouse
Exponential, quadratic, logarithmic, heck could even be an Laplace Transform with multiple axis.
David DeLaney
I’m fairly sure that, this being Faz, a quantity of hyperbole will also be involved.
–Dave, and some ellipsis
AnvilPro
Is Malaya about to go purposefully try to lower her score? Is she playing chess while we’re playing checkers?
Emperor Norton II
I think her favourite game is snakes and ladders, without ladders.
Purblebirb
That’s Metal Gear Solid
Emperor Norton II
Snake?
motorfirebox
SNAAAAAAAAKE
MatthewTheLucky
SNAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEE!
Arawn
Badger Badger Badger
Delavan
Mushroom Mushroom!
Pablo360
Friendly mushroom!
Annonymouse
Muskrat, muskrat, muskrat.
Deanatay
Why did it have to be Snake?
Keulen
METAL GEAR?
noiob
What a thrill…
FireSTK
I’m not sure there’s been a MGS game without ladders…
Dark
One of them was even 23% ladder.
Gojira
She’s a pigeon crapping on the board and then proclaiming herself the winner.
Needfuldoer
I always suspected Malaya’s future was in politics.
Doctor_Who
The alt text suggests she might actually be interested in him. Maybe she seeks a fellow jerk.
Let’s hope she never meets Mike.
StClair
she seeks only to score points against Sal.
she can’t imagine that Sal has no interest in that game.
Zee
Mike’s standards are above her. He’d poke holes through her act in seconds
David DeLaney
and then charge her a nickel
–Dave, “for the lesson”
Dean
She’s playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.
BBCC
What the actually fuck Malaya.
jeffepp
So, she has two people begging for her a…
.
.
.
tention. And, she blows them off to go blow Joe.
BBCC
I was thinking more along the lines of ‘stop dignifying that godawful list by implying Sal should be annoyed at a 9 and aspire to be higher rather than just think the list is gross and shouldn’t be a thing period’.
Mr D
this is MALAYA we’re talking about.
did you REALLY expect better?
BBCC
I did.
Mr D
I gotta wonder why? She has never, not once, shown to be a decent person all strip. She’s a bundle of hate!
BBCC
She’s an asshole, but for all her flaws, I never figured ‘dignifying nauseating misogyny’ to be one of them.
Mr D
Look, Malaya never showed to be a font of morality. And personaly, I find being a bundle of hatred and misanthropy to be far worse than dignifying the list.
Yes, the list is horrible, I agree, but (quite sadly) there are people who would find that kind of thing to be flattering, in some way, without being actively hateful or horrible. Luckily as the social justice movements advance, more people have understood how things like this list are shit.
Clif
You guys are going to love the things that the next generation gets up to.
Zee
Most people don’t think ranking people is a big deal, and Malaya absolutely strikes me as the kind of person to do the same thing for men
BBCC
I know Malaya is an asshole. I just wouldn’t have personally thought ‘dignifying Joe’s grossness’ to be one of them.
@ Clif – Just because other people get up to things that are worse doesn’t mean that the list wasn’t gross and Malaya isn’t being gross by dignifying it.
@ Zee – Most people I know would at least consider ranking people obnoxious, if not creepy. Which also seems to be how most people considered the list before it got leaked.
tommytom
Honestly, I’ve been kind of enjoying Malaya’s approach to things. She has a low tolerance for bullshit, probably because someone (or some people) in her life have fed her a lot of it. She wants to be her own person and explore her own friendships and relationships on authentic terms.
I didn’t like Malaya’s approach to Sal at first, but honestly, looking at Malaya’s approach to everyone else, I can see why she thinks the “act” is all bullshit. I can also see why, as she tries to probe deeper into Sal’s psyche, she likes Sal more and more and actually kinda wants to spend more time around her.
I think this is just an attempt to draw out The Real Sal. Malaya is trying to engage Sal on a level that is neither aloof nor impersonal. It’s not about dignifying the list or not, it’s about competing and interacting in a personal way.
BBCC
“He’s a fuckin’ legend” does not fill me with hope.
carpe_piscis
Can you really say that she’s a bundle of hatred and misanthropy though? The only reason she seems to be that way more so than the rest of the cast because about 80% of the strips she’s in also contain Sal, the one character she actively despises. The only other person towards whom she seems active hostile is Mary and based on what we know of Mary, I doubt it is undeserved. Beyond that, Malaya does come off as unnecessarily blunt and rather tactless, but calling her a bundle of hate seems undeserved.
thejeff
And Lucy.
Does she actually like anyone except Marcie? (How many people have we seen her interact with for more than a panel or two?)
Shogeton
I think she’s not suggesting that Sal should aspire to end up higher on the list, but lower. Suggesting that acting cool towards Joe made her more attractive towards him, and that is unwanted. It’s more of a ‘lemme show you how I discourage creeps’
Liliaeth
yeah, my guess is that she’ll come on so strong, that she’ll seem desperate which would actually lower her rating.
thejeff
Except the most obvious reason for a low rating would just be being less attractive. Hard to sell that as some kind of superiority. No, I think she’s aiming to seduce (or at least tease) Joe into giving her a higher rating.
Which likely wouldn’t have been hard a week ago. (Don’t smoke is the obvious first step.) Interesting to see how it works with new Joe. Or just blows up with Joyce and Faz there.
BBCC
Considering the alt text, I don’t think that’s where she’s going with this.
ValdVin
Malaya really didn’t take the list the way I thought.
Emperor Norton II
She read the list in a way that allowed her to try and mock Sal further.
That’s pretty much exactly how I thought she’d read it.
jeffepp
I think she’s trying to imply that she got a 10.
Deanatay
Maybe we’re thinking about The List the wrong way. Joe tends to advertise it as a ‘hotness’ list, but it could also be thought of as a ‘vulnerable to predation’ list. If so, maybe Malaya’s just going to demonstrate to Joe how ‘vulnerable’ she is.
*grabs popcorn*
TemperaryObsessor
You get a higher score by being more willing to things Joe believes are sexy. The thing is I don’t think he thought too much about the difference between liking stuff and being pressured, annoyed into doing stuff until recently.
And yea Malaya is essentially mocking Sal for not being a ten, Sal hasn’t even read the list though.
thejeff
Well, mostly you get a higher score based on looks and probably how you dressed when he saw you and that’s about it. I don’t think he’s ever actually interacted with most of the girls on his list.
Danni
been a while since sal and marcie were in the same general vicinity
Doopyboop
Admittedly it’s…almost nice that Malaya seems to want to hook Joe and Sal up seemingly for no other reason other than ‘oh she likes this guy? I’ll show her how to really grab his attention’. Course, a Sal hanging with her bf wouldn’t be in the room as much, so win-win. Sucks for Carla and Marcie though. But you can’t really fault Malaya for not knowing they’re interested in her.
Emperor Norton II
She’s not hooking Joe and Sal up; she’s hooking Joe and herself up.
Admittedly this is a bit vague without the alt-text.
MM
I dunno, I think Carla and Marcie’s dumbfoundment is pretty clearly communicated.
jeffepp
Yup.
Gojira