At least she’s acknowledging Dorothy having a sex life, though I’m inclined to think Sarah’s probably closer to the mark. Even ones who don’t own dedicated toys still own fingers and pillows, so…
Was “Other Walky” in a slipshine or did I miss it in a strip that showed it off? Or are we guessing the size? Also I love this euphemism trend, it is hilarious to me, not entirely sure why.
Oh Joyce, you are so naive it is almost endearing. It isn’t endearing, but it almost is. I almost guarantee Dorothy has had one since before/near the time she started dating Danny. Sarah may not be 100% accurate, there may be 1 or 2 other people on your floor without one, but I’m willing to bet their reasons aren’t sexual repression. They might be asexual or just use a different kind of toy, but you are probably the only one in denial about sex at least on your floor, from what we’ve seen.
Some asexual people have a sex drive, they just don’t exprience sexual attraction. So… I don’t know that would rule her out.
BBCC
Carla’s also sex repulsed and that seems to go for anything sexual, based on a few things:
A) Established sexuality carries over from the Walkyverse (where Ultra Car was sex repulsed and only willing to engage in sex when she could use a spare extendable hand and didn’t have to be anywhere near it). Unlike Danny, who never actually stated he was straight in the Walkyverse, it was a plot point that Ultra Car found sex repulsive.
B) Carla’s made several comments that are leaning in that direction (“Billie – Ruth wants to die, you get in there and do GROSS things to your girlfriend!”)
And
C) Willis has said before that Carla wouldn’t be into being in the Fuckzone pin ups (which also included things like masturbation and posing).
Not D'kcaw
(oh god please let this one go through)
It’s interesting how the needle has shifted on ace discourse–not with regards to Carla specifically, just in general. Asexuality is finally hitting the mainstream which means it’s developing a sect who have a vested interest in making assimilation clean and easy. It used to be that only sex-repulsed aces got any acknowledgement; now, they seem to be as much on the margins as aces who like sex once were.
I dunno how many of the people speculating Carla might not be sex-repulsed in this universe are coming in from the Walkyverse, but I’m going to speculate: people are speculating that Carla isn’t sex-repulsed even though Ultra Car was because they feel understandings of asexuality have changed, and Carla being okay with sex is somehow the more progressive option. It’s not. There’s no hierarchy at play here. Sex-repulsion is not a stereotype that needs to be evolved beyond in 2018. It’s how some people are.
(This is why just having one representitive of an entire social group is kinda not great)
Not D'kcaw
(To clarify: aces who like/tolerate sex are real, it’s good that they’re getting more attention, but equally, this attention is being pushed by the same sorts of people who’re, like. Gay people who brag about how unflamboyant they are. It sucks that society can pit even people who share an identity against each other by dangling acceptance in front of them like a carrot on a stick.)
Yknow if I hadn’t had some insight to the context Joyce’s comment would just be some playful riffing. But yeah, there is an underlying judgement that’s pretty much uncalled for, and conveniently ignores her own sexual awakening in turn.
There’s nothing wrong with not being a very sexual person. I should know, I’m ace. But of course, we know from Audience Omniprescence, as well as just general understanding of her behavior, that Joyce is a horribly repressed sexual being, whose struggles with that repression are honest and understandable but also lead to some behaviors, from the pretty innocuous statements above to the horror show that is this arc with Jacob.
Mary is evil and has just as twisted of a viewset as some of the people from Joyce’s town but she also doesn’t seem repressed. As evidenced by her and her boyfriend all but dry humping in that one scene. Can’t remember which strip it was though.
I’m not a subscriber yet, but there is a Slipshine of Mary, solo, and I seem to recall that there was a preview panel. As best I remember, she was fantasizing about Ronald Reagan, but I don’t know if some sort of Other Ronnie was involved.
I wouldn’t put it past her to masturbate and have some religious excuse about it not being masturbation, but it’s more difficult for her to rationalize a dildo or vibrator.
Freemage
More to the point, I think she’s paranoid enough to not own a vibe, because if found, it would constitute evidence of her hypocrisy.
At most, she has one of those neck massagers. I mean, the ones that aren’t dildo-shaped. Allows clitoral stimulation and plausible deniability at the same time.
Nah, my money’s on Mary’s being a Hello Kitty vibrator. The kind that looks like a Pocket Rocket with Hello Kitty on the end. It’s a pretty discreet model. Although technically it was sold as a ‘shoulder massager’, so it would meet your criteria too.
I’m not catching the reference and Google isn’t helping. Is it just that laughter is supposed to make you healthier, or is there some pop culture thing I don’t know about?
And why would Sarah object to adding years to her life?
Laughter supposedly making you healthier I think, as well as a stronger sense of living. As for Sarah’s objection – because she’s a grumpy curmudgeon who likes to talk about how much she hates people (while simultaneously doing things like taking Joyce as her honorary little sister).
She’s a grumpy person so more years is the opposite of what she wants. Sarah wants to take an example from that Rachel Bloom song, “Die When I’m Young.”
Warning: If you watch that song on youtube, do so at your own risk it may offend some people, not sure if I should link it so I’ll err on the side of caution and not do it.
I don’t see how that video could possibly be offensive, unless you have no sense of humor.
Kyrik Michalowski
There are plenty who find it offensive, what with the subject matter, even if I personally find it hilarious. But I also enjoy dark humor and Rachel Bloom’s music, so that song is great to me. Still, everyone has different tastes.
I took it to mean that making her laugh that hard was aging her prematurely, and therefore shortening her life.
It wasn’t adding years to the end of her life, but to her present.
The common saying is “taking years off my life” while referring to stress. Sarah is saying Joyce’s statement is so hilarious it’s having the opposite effect.
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Ana Chronistic
okay TECHNICALLY she has a “massager” (that looks suspiciously phallic)
JetstreamGW
It’s a Bibrating Back Massager ™
Batman
No its an obscure weight loss machine. The thrust master 5000
Roborat
I thought that was a joystick . . . . Ok, I see the joke now.
Walky_Talky
It’s called The Twister. Because it takes Dorothy “over the rainbow”.
H3xx
You win.
ShinyNeen
Aww, Joyce. Already awkward to think about how far you’ve come since starting college, huh?
Clif
College is educational. Who’d of thought?
Eldritch Gentleman
Except she picked the wrong knowledge tree to allocate her points into!
Snippy Harold
Statistically only 50% of college women own a vibrator if you only count the two standing in the room.
Shiro
I’m not sure about that sample size…
Reltzik
I dunno, that sample size seems pretty well spelled-out. It’s the
deviationvariance that I’m not sure about.Bladeglory
It’s not the size that matters, it’s how you
use itlabel the axis.Joe Moose
I didn’t realized Joyce could be so unintentionally naughty.
MatthewTheLucky
Unintentionally?
Stephen Bierce
*plays Barry Manilow’s “Read ‘Em & Weep” on the hacked Muzak*
Mephron
The Meat Loaf version is a little better.
But that may be the point….
DailyBrad
At least she’s acknowledging Dorothy having a sex life, though I’m inclined to think Sarah’s probably closer to the mark. Even ones who don’t own dedicated toys still own fingers and pillows, so…
butts
Have you seen Other Walky? It’s… impressive.
Kyrik Michalowski
Was “Other Walky” in a slipshine or did I miss it in a strip that showed it off? Or are we guessing the size? Also I love this euphemism trend, it is hilarious to me, not entirely sure why.
Fiddler115
It is and it’s glorious.
toby
Wait, I know I’ve seen the slipshine/regular strips where Other Jacob shows up, where does Other Walky come in?
…I swear that pun was unintentional, but you know what, I’m gonna own it.
das-g
Just please don’t objectify other Rachel.
Schpoonman
…Goddamn Joyce in a white button-down.
Also holy shit, yes, Joyce needs to stop slutshaming.
butts
She’s getting better. I think. A little.
ShinyNeen
The change is clear as day once you use a magnifying glass!
Stu
Honestly, that came across less as “slut-shaming” and more playful – the original version of “thrust you to hell” would be slut-shaming :P.
Freemage
That’s how I read it, too.
auroki
Next she will be going sockless! the end is nigh lol
Keulen
Joyce is not wearing a sweatervest! What is the world coming to?
motorfirebox
Other Jacob, mostly.
Kyrik Michalowski
Oh Joyce, you are so naive it is almost endearing. It isn’t endearing, but it almost is. I almost guarantee Dorothy has had one since before/near the time she started dating Danny. Sarah may not be 100% accurate, there may be 1 or 2 other people on your floor without one, but I’m willing to bet their reasons aren’t sexual repression. They might be asexual or just use a different kind of toy, but you are probably the only one in denial about sex at least on your floor, from what we’ve seen.
JessWitt
Yeah I think we can rule out Agatha as a vibrator owner. Carla too since she’s asexual (I think?)
Amy
Maybe? Some ace people do masturbate for various reasons. So she might have one too.
Ronnie
Some asexual people have a sex drive, they just don’t exprience sexual attraction. So… I don’t know that would rule her out.
BBCC
Carla’s also sex repulsed and that seems to go for anything sexual, based on a few things:
A) Established sexuality carries over from the Walkyverse (where Ultra Car was sex repulsed and only willing to engage in sex when she could use a spare extendable hand and didn’t have to be anywhere near it). Unlike Danny, who never actually stated he was straight in the Walkyverse, it was a plot point that Ultra Car found sex repulsive.
B) Carla’s made several comments that are leaning in that direction (“Billie – Ruth wants to die, you get in there and do GROSS things to your girlfriend!”)
And
C) Willis has said before that Carla wouldn’t be into being in the Fuckzone pin ups (which also included things like masturbation and posing).
Not D'kcaw
(oh god please let this one go through)
It’s interesting how the needle has shifted on ace discourse–not with regards to Carla specifically, just in general. Asexuality is finally hitting the mainstream which means it’s developing a sect who have a vested interest in making assimilation clean and easy. It used to be that only sex-repulsed aces got any acknowledgement; now, they seem to be as much on the margins as aces who like sex once were.
I dunno how many of the people speculating Carla might not be sex-repulsed in this universe are coming in from the Walkyverse, but I’m going to speculate: people are speculating that Carla isn’t sex-repulsed even though Ultra Car was because they feel understandings of asexuality have changed, and Carla being okay with sex is somehow the more progressive option. It’s not. There’s no hierarchy at play here. Sex-repulsion is not a stereotype that needs to be evolved beyond in 2018. It’s how some people are.
(This is why just having one representitive of an entire social group is kinda not great)
Not D'kcaw
(To clarify: aces who like/tolerate sex are real, it’s good that they’re getting more attention, but equally, this attention is being pushed by the same sorts of people who’re, like. Gay people who brag about how unflamboyant they are. It sucks that society can pit even people who share an identity against each other by dangling acceptance in front of them like a carrot on a stick.)
Tualha
Granted that Mary’s a huge hypocrite, but I can’t see her having one either …
Tualha
Whoops, already addressed below. Hard to follow these threads …
Roger
Yknow if I hadn’t had some insight to the context Joyce’s comment would just be some playful riffing. But yeah, there is an underlying judgement that’s pretty much uncalled for, and conveniently ignores her own sexual awakening in turn.
There’s nothing wrong with not being a very sexual person. I should know, I’m ace. But of course, we know from Audience Omniprescence, as well as just general understanding of her behavior, that Joyce is a horribly repressed sexual being, whose struggles with that repression are honest and understandable but also lead to some behaviors, from the pretty innocuous statements above to the horror show that is this arc with Jacob.
Sidebar, some great Sarah faces today.
Roger
To be clear the innocuous statements are about Dorothy and Walky not the slut shaming
brasca1
What about Mary?
butts
Oh you know Mary’s got one of those anime vibrators
Kyrik Michalowski
Mary is evil and has just as twisted of a viewset as some of the people from Joyce’s town but she also doesn’t seem repressed. As evidenced by her and her boyfriend all but dry humping in that one scene. Can’t remember which strip it was though.
Shiro
Mary’s got this one
Deanatay
OMG does Jesus have an erection
Kamino Neko
No, I think that’s the top layer of his loincloth.
Sunny
It’s really hard to tell. Maybe it was left intentionally vague for extra heresy.
Daisy
that’ll teach me not to check links before I click…
Aislashu
Oh my God that is exactly what I was hoping it was! Lmao
Marsh Maryrose
I’m not a subscriber yet, but there is a Slipshine of Mary, solo, and I seem to recall that there was a preview panel. As best I remember, she was fantasizing about Ronald Reagan, but I don’t know if some sort of Other Ronnie was involved.
brasca1
Yes and spoiler alert… She was using her hands.
I wouldn’t put it past her to masturbate and have some religious excuse about it not being masturbation, but it’s more difficult for her to rationalize a dildo or vibrator.
Freemage
More to the point, I think she’s paranoid enough to not own a vibe, because if found, it would constitute evidence of her hypocrisy.
Mollyscribbles
At most, she has one of those neck massagers. I mean, the ones that aren’t dildo-shaped. Allows clitoral stimulation and plausible deniability at the same time.
Tawdry Quirks
Nah, my money’s on Mary’s being a Hello Kitty vibrator. The kind that looks like a Pocket Rocket with Hello Kitty on the end. It’s a pretty discreet model. Although technically it was sold as a ‘shoulder massager’, so it would meet your criteria too.
BBCC
Sounds like Sarah had a better afternoon than Joyce.
tim gueguen
Love the way Sarah looks in the last couple of panels. Too bad she doesn’t have more reasons to laugh.
Marsh Maryrose
“Adding years onto my life.”
I’m not catching the reference and Google isn’t helping. Is it just that laughter is supposed to make you healthier, or is there some pop culture thing I don’t know about?
And why would Sarah object to adding years to her life?
BBCC
Laughter supposedly making you healthier I think, as well as a stronger sense of living. As for Sarah’s objection – because she’s a grumpy curmudgeon who likes to talk about how much she hates people (while simultaneously doing things like taking Joyce as her honorary little sister).
Ophidiophile
There used to be a TV show called “Laughter is the Best Medicine”, started by a guy who cured himself of something by reading joke books.
Kyrik Michalowski
She’s a grumpy person so more years is the opposite of what she wants. Sarah wants to take an example from that Rachel Bloom song, “Die When I’m Young.”
Warning: If you watch that song on youtube, do so at your own risk it may offend some people, not sure if I should link it so I’ll err on the side of caution and not do it.
Clif
There’should a moral obligation in such cases to Rick Roll people instead.
Dark
I don’t see how that video could possibly be offensive, unless you have no sense of humor.
Kyrik Michalowski
There are plenty who find it offensive, what with the subject matter, even if I personally find it hilarious. But I also enjoy dark humor and Rachel Bloom’s music, so that song is great to me. Still, everyone has different tastes.
cbwroses
I took it to mean that making her laugh that hard was aging her prematurely, and therefore shortening her life.
It wasn’t adding years to the end of her life, but to her present.
Gunslinger
The common saying is “taking years off my life” while referring to stress. Sarah is saying Joyce’s statement is so hilarious it’s having the opposite effect.
Keulen
I’m assuming that since Sarah doesn’t like people, “adding years to her life” would mean more years that she’d have to deal with people.
Kernanator