Her eyes have become jellyfish and are naturally climbing towards the daylight so that they can drop upon unsuspecting fish. Actually not unlike her job as an overactive RA.
No no, they are bi/pan. There was a whole thing about it. :p
Chris Phoenix
They are gay the way Obama is black.
(Obama had one light-skinned parent and one dark-skinned parent. Calling him “black” is a symptom of our culture’s weird attitudes toward skin-tone-genetics. In a sane culture, there wouldn’t even be a word for Obama’s skin-tone-genetics except maybe “brown” or “tan.” In a differently insane culture, we’d still be calling him “mulatto” and we’d also be using words like “octaroon” as though they were meaningful.
Imagine, if you can, a culture so sane that we didn’t need words like “gay” and “bi” and “straight” but just said “Do you think s/he’d be into me?” It’s not like “bi” people are into every human being on the planet!)
raza
Except you can’t disregard race as a social construct that is very real in reality. It has no scientific basis whatsoever, and is entirely socially constructed. That doesn’t make it any less real for Black people. Obama is Black. Unless you can actually pass for white, if your Black and White mixed race or whatever, your still Black. Also, Black people come in all shades no matter their heritage. My father and uncle are full brothers with no European in their genetics that they know of and my father is super dark, and my uncle is lighter skinned than I am – and my mother is German/Dutch.
Because race isn’t an actual scientific category, you can’t just say someone who has lived the experiences of a Black person not Black because they have a non-black parent.
altalemur
yeah, sometimes labels are used for oppression and other bad stuff. but i am pretty grateful for labels that help me to explore who i am and express that in a way that other people can easily understand. just like i wouldn’t say “that small hairy thing in my house with a long tail and triangle ears that prefers to eat fish” instead of saying “my cat.” maybe there is some perfect world that doesn’t need labels like “genderfluid” or “cat” but i can only imagine a world in which choosing the label “genderfluid” and “pansexual” doesn’t lead to oppression rather than a world without labels.
DinaWho
The best explanation I’ve seen is one that is clear to anyone who has ever been around a cat: ‘There’s a big difference between putting yourself in a box and getting put in a box by someone else.’
Lin
Yeah, um, don’t do that. Sexuality and race are not analogous things and every time (inevitably) white queer people try to draw these parallels, we end up stepping in some bad shit. Both race and sexual orientation are constructs, sure, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have real consequences and impacts. And they’re not the SAME consequences and they don’t function in the same way.
Chris Phoenix
Sorry if I miscommunicated. I wasn’t saying that sexuality and race are analogous. It’s clear that they’re not – race is often visually apparent, and sexuality often isn’t; the patterns culture associated with each are very different; the patterns of oppression associated with each are also very different.
I was saying that calling Obama “black” highlights the construct nature of race-labels… and I was jumping from there to asserting that our sexuality-labels are also constructed, and that not having them might be a symptom of a society that’s saner about sexuality.
I’m actually white, straight, probably Aspie, and a member of two other stigmatized minorities that don’t show unless I talk about them.
Imagine how different society would be if sexuality were as un-charged as singing? Some people like to sing, some don’t, and unless you’re looking for people to sing with, it just isn’t very important.
Altalemur is glad that labels exist to help ver explore who ve is. Sure, in the current society, that’s incredibly useful; there aren’t enough examples of non-straight sexuality.
And maybe labels for sexuality would be useful in any society. But imagine if children had to decide, early in the process of exploring their creativity, whether they were or were not a “singer.” I’d think it would be better for children to grow up around singers, and decide for themselves how much, where, and how they wanted to sing.
So, I agree, race and sexuality are not analogous social constructs. But American society has a number of insanities about race, and also has a number of (different) insanities about sexuality. I think it’s useful to imagine a society that is sane about both – a society where the labels have so little charge, and so little utility, that “gay” is like “singer” and your skin tone is mainly of interest to your fashion consultant.
Jhon
And now I’m picturing a world where “bass” is a persecuted minority.
“What do you mean, I can’t sing in your choir?”
202 thoughts on “Meet-cute”
Ana Chronistic
“WHY must I share EVERYTHING with you, CHEEZ, I bet you wanna share a coffin, too”
“it’s cool, we can be cremated”
Ana Chronistic
also I bet Brick Mansome is just a pseudonym of Brick M. Stonewood
Steampunkette
Blast Hardcheese, actually.
LadyThrimbletrimmer
I think you’ll find it’s Roll Fizzlebeef.
Zorpheus
No no, it’s Bulk Vanderhuge!
This Is So Lemons
That’s Big McLargeHuge to you
motorfirebox
That’s DOCTOR Big McLargeHuge to you.
MutantSentry
Bob Johnson…wait
LittleMountain
Slab Meathunk!
The Other Mike
Slab Bulkhead.
Arkham
Punch Rockgroin.
Originalslugboy
Bob Johnson.
Kannyn
That’s the name of a Chevy dealership near me. Swear to god.
Originalslugboy
Dealerships in our area sound like bottom-barrel porn stars: Dick Masheter, Tom Raper, Dick Ruhl, Sexton Dick.
Kryss LaBryn
Sebastian Lance.
And if you get that reference I’ll love you forever. 😀
Rutee
Walky crosses another name off the ‘change my name and move to the west coast’ list
Bicycle Bill
J. Studley Hungwell, actually.
Captain Button
So which one is going to start collecting those superthick magazines full of funeral dresses, flower arrangements, etc?
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Tom T.
Billie’s going to want a destination funeral.
zoelogical
what if they get married in funeral clothes and are eternal goth lesbians
Ana Chronistic
a FINAL DESTINATION funeral
Pierre-Eric
Being cremated is the opposite of being cool, though…
Hielario
That depends on how much you’re going to spend in the funerals, these days. And there are a lot of interesting options for urns.
Pierre-Eric
You… you missed the pun
a snow ʍousɐ
In one urn, I assume
Tayo
friends who stay together DIE TOGETHER
Captain Button
And then do it all over again.
Yu'Karaya
This morbid codependency
Reflex76
Those last two panels are black comedy to a tee.
Stephen R. Bierce
*plays Elton John’s “Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” on the hacked Muzak*
Kepod
That’s some eyeroll, Ruth.
Alden
I think she nearly sprained an eyeball with that one.
Captain Button
Actually she is looking up at that cabinet where she keeps the remains of her last obsessive lover. And feeling guilty for infidelity.
Cerberus
“Oh gin bottle, I’m so sorry for cheating on you again.”
N0083rP00F
Gin? Nah, a bottle of Caribou Crossing Single Barrel.
Jason
Ow! I’ve never seen anyone roll their eyes that hard. That looks painful!
StClair
“EHHHHHHHHHHHH.”
MrZombieScordo
I wish this had been the first comment, I literally busted out laughing.
John
Her eyes have become jellyfish and are naturally climbing towards the daylight so that they can drop upon unsuspecting fish. Actually not unlike her job as an overactive RA.
neeks
“i, for one, HONOR my sexy lesbian suicide pacts.”
tim gueguen
It will eventually be revealed that Brick Mansome is Joe’s screen name on a popular dating site. Perhaps the one run by Orville Redenbacher.
Mr. Mendo
Billie’s got her there.
Cattleprod
What’s the marginally more realistic name of Brick Mansome’s DOA counterpart?
Jay Eff
Rick Mansome, of course.
Tom T.
B. Rick Mansome. The B stands for Beverly.
Kirby
Rick “The Brick” Sume
Captain Button
I am now picturing him as Ethan’s separated-at-birth identical twin.
Tacos
If novellas have taught me anything, it’s that the identical twin separated at birth is evil and that he will go by the name, “Reynaldo” >.>
inqntrol
And has also a goatee.
Kryss LaBryn
Well, that goes without saying.
Raul tsi
Even if it’s female?
Captain Button
Only interdimensional evil twins have to have goatees. But in that case, yes, all genders have them.
Morrison
Meep.
Makkabee
Sweet, yet horrifying.
Doctor_Who
“Whatever. I’m going to bed.”
“OUR bed.”
“Dammit, if you’re going to be like this, you can just get out of my room!”
“OUR room.”
“Be that way. Do you want some more of OUR booze?”
“MY booze.”
Cerberus
*slow clap*
Dean
I’m pretty sure that Brick Mansome is gay.
Opus the Poet
Well so are they…
Rezby
No no, they are bi/pan. There was a whole thing about it. :p
Chris Phoenix
They are gay the way Obama is black.
(Obama had one light-skinned parent and one dark-skinned parent. Calling him “black” is a symptom of our culture’s weird attitudes toward skin-tone-genetics. In a sane culture, there wouldn’t even be a word for Obama’s skin-tone-genetics except maybe “brown” or “tan.” In a differently insane culture, we’d still be calling him “mulatto” and we’d also be using words like “octaroon” as though they were meaningful.
Imagine, if you can, a culture so sane that we didn’t need words like “gay” and “bi” and “straight” but just said “Do you think s/he’d be into me?” It’s not like “bi” people are into every human being on the planet!)
raza
Except you can’t disregard race as a social construct that is very real in reality. It has no scientific basis whatsoever, and is entirely socially constructed. That doesn’t make it any less real for Black people. Obama is Black. Unless you can actually pass for white, if your Black and White mixed race or whatever, your still Black. Also, Black people come in all shades no matter their heritage. My father and uncle are full brothers with no European in their genetics that they know of and my father is super dark, and my uncle is lighter skinned than I am – and my mother is German/Dutch.
Because race isn’t an actual scientific category, you can’t just say someone who has lived the experiences of a Black person not Black because they have a non-black parent.
altalemur
yeah, sometimes labels are used for oppression and other bad stuff. but i am pretty grateful for labels that help me to explore who i am and express that in a way that other people can easily understand. just like i wouldn’t say “that small hairy thing in my house with a long tail and triangle ears that prefers to eat fish” instead of saying “my cat.” maybe there is some perfect world that doesn’t need labels like “genderfluid” or “cat” but i can only imagine a world in which choosing the label “genderfluid” and “pansexual” doesn’t lead to oppression rather than a world without labels.
DinaWho
The best explanation I’ve seen is one that is clear to anyone who has ever been around a cat: ‘There’s a big difference between putting yourself in a box and getting put in a box by someone else.’
Lin
Yeah, um, don’t do that. Sexuality and race are not analogous things and every time (inevitably) white queer people try to draw these parallels, we end up stepping in some bad shit. Both race and sexual orientation are constructs, sure, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have real consequences and impacts. And they’re not the SAME consequences and they don’t function in the same way.
Chris Phoenix
Sorry if I miscommunicated. I wasn’t saying that sexuality and race are analogous. It’s clear that they’re not – race is often visually apparent, and sexuality often isn’t; the patterns culture associated with each are very different; the patterns of oppression associated with each are also very different.
I was saying that calling Obama “black” highlights the construct nature of race-labels… and I was jumping from there to asserting that our sexuality-labels are also constructed, and that not having them might be a symptom of a society that’s saner about sexuality.
I’m actually white, straight, probably Aspie, and a member of two other stigmatized minorities that don’t show unless I talk about them.
Imagine how different society would be if sexuality were as un-charged as singing? Some people like to sing, some don’t, and unless you’re looking for people to sing with, it just isn’t very important.
Altalemur is glad that labels exist to help ver explore who ve is. Sure, in the current society, that’s incredibly useful; there aren’t enough examples of non-straight sexuality.
And maybe labels for sexuality would be useful in any society. But imagine if children had to decide, early in the process of exploring their creativity, whether they were or were not a “singer.” I’d think it would be better for children to grow up around singers, and decide for themselves how much, where, and how they wanted to sing.
So, I agree, race and sexuality are not analogous social constructs. But American society has a number of insanities about race, and also has a number of (different) insanities about sexuality. I think it’s useful to imagine a society that is sane about both – a society where the labels have so little charge, and so little utility, that “gay” is like “singer” and your skin tone is mainly of interest to your fashion consultant.
Jhon
And now I’m picturing a world where “bass” is a persecuted minority.
“What do you mean, I can’t sing in your choir?”
Tacos
Brick Mansome sounds like it’d be the name of a Lego or Kre-o version of Brock Samson…
Disloyal Subject
What the heck is Kre-o?
Tacos
The Hasbro version of Legos basically.
inqntrol
Anyone remember Mega Blocks?….No?( Ok, I’ll show myself out)
Tan
Pepperidge Farm remembers
thejeff
Pepperidge Farm dismembers
Kryss LaBryn
Still have lots, actually. 😀