Grrl Power #536 – Dressed to compress
Maxima doesn’t like words like slut and whore because they’re less descriptive than they are judgmental. Also she hates there’s nothing equivalent for men.
“If you ever need proof of the non-egalitarian nature of society…” she starts as everyone eyes the exit.
She’s not a fan of slut shaming even if some women act in ways she thinks reflects poorly on her gender as whole. But man, sometimes you’ve just got to call a spade a spade. In those situations she prefers slightly more comical adjectives like floozie and trollop. Anyway, “Colossal Space Floozie” makes me laugh every time I read it.
As I was drawing it, it occurred to me that this is as close to a skintight superhero outfit that Max is likely to ever get in to, barring some sort of skintight clothing ray, or a situation where the only clothes available are from Dabbler’s suitcase. Who knows, maybe it’ll happen one day.
Almost forgot to post this page. I was heading to bed when I remembered it was Wednesday evening. After A-kon I actually caught a case of con crud, which has never happened before. It was pretty mild, but enough to zone me out for a day or two, and my wife is out of town, so totally lost track of what day of the week it was. But I’m over it more or less. Hopefully I can get to the gym today. Mysteriously, there’s little else in the world that motivates me to work out more than attending a comic convention.
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Do comic artists fap while drawing?
If they did then the art wouldn’t be this good…
who knows maybe it would e BETTER if they weren’t ;P
We are talking about superpowers here.
That´s true. But they can take breaks.
You might wanna google Dynotaku… He’s had that thought in his pre-Grrl Power days… :P
I had been looking for his pre-GP name. Thank you.
It doesn’t affect the quality, just the time it takes to finish the drawing.
… That sounds like talking from experience.
“time it takes to finish” Ha!
Well, even though DaveB shares his life with a “significant other,” apparently she doesn’t seem to mind that DaveB has openly admitted that he’s done research into Boob Physics for the sake of this comic. If it weren’t for the unfortunately placement of those two word balloons, I might say he’s been branching out a bit with his topics of study…
so you are saying she really will inflate if she farts.
Maybe dave’s significant other was the test subject for his boob research.
I dont ever say boob lasers. After all, whats the point in saying boob lasers? I am pretty certain you will never be hearing me say boob lasers just because everyone else is saying boob lasers like some sort of boob lasers peer pressure.
Boob lasers.
Why & How is there a ‘pop’ in panel 5?
i think dappler pinched a bit of max’s wetsuit and pulled on it.
Agreed. Nicely put.
Given dabblers comment I agree with Pyro. She likely pulled on maxes shoulder and her wet suite popped back
Yeah I couldn’t think of how to illustrate that in a single panel better. Maybe some little lines radiating from her shoulder would help.
I think “snap” might be a better word choice than “pop”.
but not “crackle”, of course…
Panel 6 ain’t it? And I think it’s Dabbs playin with Max’s suit.
It’s Dabbler pulling on the wetsuit, and letting go. (and it’s panel #6)
So, it’s a bright sunny day and they are under attack from the air but are stuck on the ground with no blasting powers, what do they do? They put Maxima in a bikini and turn her into a laser.
Or something like that. Interesting that Maxima’s whole body is a weapon without her doing anything but just stand there, mostly naked, on a bright sunny day.
Boob lasers. The word you are looking for is Boob lasers. Although I think any woman would love the idea to have lasers come out of their boobs just to blind the guy that was staring at them. That would be a hilarious power.
I think for a focused laser, Max would have to use a part of her body that is concave, not convex. Which would definitely require more strategic fruit stickers.
Lasers coming out of a woman’s… yeah. I think I saw art like that once. Japan is weird.
Belly button, you prev :) . Tho there choices where a larger caliber is possible.
Armpits spring to mind.
Max has blasting power. So does about 80% of the team.
Of course. It was a hypothetical to illustrate the potential uses of ‘boob lasers’ and even full body lasers created by her highly reflective golden skin and sunlight.
Well, if the light reflected off of Maxima a juuuuuust the right angle…
:D
But mostly because we like saying “boob lasers”.
Is Dabbler’s swim wear going to be the new vote incentive? I would appreciate that, if it was.
I second that motion :D
Illegal motion in the backfield
10 yard penalty
First Down
Unlike a football referee, Dabbler would allow going Down more than a mere four times…
You… I like you.
DaveB mostly saves that kind of pic for his Deviant Art account. Most (if not all) of his vote incentives have been PG-13 rated, like his comic, as far as I can remember.
I did detail the area under the bubble on the frontal pic, not… too egregiously, because I knew it’d be covered up. The vote incentive is super stale at this point though…
Nay! I wish to know who the eyes belong to!
I would like to have a completed version of that too. But the disembodied eyes (and the faceless bodies, on the right) would vanish, as they are just reference sketches.
Although I would love it if the eyes were from a four-eyed Cheshire-cat-woman, currently all invisible barring her eyes. The same way that, when Pixel turned invisible, her spots remained visible for a moment, before they too vanished.
You mean, the bodies aren’t two Daphne’s? o_O
*carefully examines pool scene, above*
Nope, she definitely has a face. And hands, for that matter. Mind you, without more clues to go by there are more options, if those are not just references, other than just Harem.
Mind you inking in two faces, for Daphne, would be symbolically appropriate. So I approve your suggestion.
just dave trying a new vorp look for the playful one.
no not dabbler the other playful one.
I didn’t mean sydney either.
kenya doesn’t vorp…….
really you’re just trolling at this point saying max.
Ok, so they are at the pool and out of uniform in the middle of a day because it’s a training/testing exercise to see if they can get some reaction out of Sydney’s two “because fuck them” orbs. Got it.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who had this as the primary take-away from this strip. I read it and thought “Oh, that’s why they’re out there. Now this segment makes sense and has some purpose” and then I got to the comments that were nothing but talk about girls in revealing suits and/or Maxima’s choice of terminology. Sigh.
I have read many comments on the internet. (and made a few) I am convinced that maturity is a myth.
Maturity is an ailment that occurs, when life is too rough, to allow you the luxury of whiling time away, making comments on the internet.
Gigolo, catamite, gunsel, lothario, casanova, pimp, playah, actor, politician, playboy, philanderer, lecher, lounge lizard, satyr, whoremonger, debaucher . . .
Apparently Maxima didn’t spend 10 minutes on the internet.
Some of those (gigolo, casanova, playah) are positive in tone. Others (catamite, gunsel, lothario) exist only to be used by people who think they’re showing off how erudite they are (fun fact: a catamite is the junior in a pederastic relationship, or the receiver in anal sex). Others still (lounge lizard, satyr, playboy) are oldfashioned (who hears “playboy” these days and thinks of something other than the magazine?).
The only ones I’d pull out as fitting the criteria is “lecher”, and even then it’s a bit of an oddity – I mainly know it because it gets used by mediocre anime subtitles as a translation for エッチ or 変態. I’ll also give you the noun “pervert”.
how about bastard, and dick.
Not specific enough.
How about FuckBoi
Its new but it fits.
A derogatory term for young men who only think with their dick.
If its applied to someone old enough to know better it is actually worse.
I read Too Much Information. The May 11, 2011 comic, aptly titled “Re-Doubled Standard,” seems to apply to this discussion. If you don’t want to visit (and get thoroughly hooked) on Yet Another Webcomic, the transcript reads:
So, Man-slut.
A Bastard is a child born out of wedlock. It says nothing about your sexual habits, it just says that you are an illegitimate child.
Out of all the terms used, this one offends me the most. Labeling a child illegitimate because the parents failed to provide proper paperwork or relationships is bullshit. Bastard is either a male dog or a legal distinction that needs revision.
That is the technical definition, but not the general definition. And yes, they can be different*. I’m pretty certain that most people who sling around “You bastard!” as an insult are actually claiming that the person was born out of wedlock and are using the term to indicate that they are a person of “low breeding” or low social status. After all that status does not carry the same stigma today as it did a hundred+ years ago in the USA.
* I mean, just take “Fuck you!” as another example. Is the person who screams that at another actually offing to have sex with them?
To Australians of a certain age, being greeted by a friend with “G’day you old bastard” is a sign of great friendship, not derision, though the word still was considered shocking as it meant sex outside of marriage. As the stigma of out of wedlock birth became less and less, so did the usage of the word as a friendly greeting, though it is still common in rural areas among older (40+) Aussies.
Interesting.
I know an ex-pat British couple who do that (and more). Or did. I mentioned to him that his wife really hates it, despite giving as good as she gets. I do not recall any of that going on the last time we met up. So hopefully he has mended his ways. Mind you we all swear a lot, so it may just have been me not paying attention.
“Gigolo” (assuming I spelled that right) literally means the same as “whore” or the gender-neutral “prostitute,” and has about the same negative connotations as the first of those two words.
But yes, one of the double standards that is in favor of men is the notion that a male static lookup table is a conquering hero of some sort, whereas a woman with many partners is impure.
There are other ways the double-standards work against men, but they’re less commonly brought up. My favorite game of inverting the sex of every character and keeping things as otherwise identical as possible without turning it into a farce is good at highlighting all of these.
Floozie is fairly awesome, IMO. It’s not quite the same level of negative connotation as “slut” or “whore”, and has a more “tinny” feel than the “woody” words. “Floozie” is a bit tinny and a bit woody.
It also has “flirt” and “c*cktease” elements involved as well and yet, again, not so strongly negative as those words.
A gentler word from a more innocent time. I applaud DaveB’s choice.
Lecher is the only one of those that sounds negative to me. Gigolo, lothario, casanova sound like variations of “ladies man”
The female equivalent of gigolo isn’t slut but callgirl.
Playah has positive connotations as well as negative ones.
Frat boy has connotations of lazy, stupid and and immature as well that slut doesn’t have which makes it not equivalent. I agree with Dave.
I always thought of “slut” as non-gender specific. I like Floozie and Hussy as they’re more mild and suggest proclivity rather than explicit action. There are not as many male-centric pronouns due to the huge disparity between societal reaction between the same actions for differing genders. Pardon any misspellings, I’m still giggling over the fart comment.
Hussy!
The Gentleman and The Hussy!
Zsa Zsa Gabor as Sonya Lamore in a Guest appearance on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582980/quotes#qt0273282
“Yes, I did it. And he deserved to be slapped. “
How about perv, that’s usually given to promiscuous men
When I hear “perv” I actually think of a guy who can’t/doesn’t get some and so goes creeping to get his rocks off.
What ‘perv’ evokes for me is the 40+ year old guy who hits on girls barely of legal age. Just shy of a pedophile.
So full of love, they can’t help but get some on you. (paraphrased George Carlin)
It covers both of those, and more, just being an abbreviation of “pervert”. Thus the definition is:
“a person whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.”
The male equivalent for whore and slut are… whore and slut.
gunsel actually just means “criminal with a gun”, although I think there’s an implication of “shooter / assassin / mercenary” in there as well.
Originally it meant the same as “catamite”, but it was slipped into an old movie without context as a way of getting crap past the radar, and NOW it means “criminal with a gun” because that’s how the audience interpreted it.
If you ever need a conveniant cesoning do what anime does random cartoon animal
“Also she hates there’s nothing equivalent for men.”
Uhhh yeah there is and no it’s not “Player”. Please tell me you don’t subscribe to the ridiculous idea that people with half a brain think promiscuous women are sluts and promiscuous men are awesome.
It’s more acknowledging that, while I think that is a dumb idea to consider men who get laid a lot differently to women who get laid a lot, I acknowledge that society as a whole seems to judge things that way. (“a key that unlocks a bunch of locks is a master key, but a lock that gets opened by a lot of keys is an awful lock” Yes, I have heard someone earnestly saying that in an debate. :/).
It’s pretty broadly in popular culture even. Contrast and compare Kelly Bundy and Barney Stinson. Or Penny and Joey.
Whore, Ho (abbreviation): Prostitute.
Slut, Rake: a woman who chooses to have multiple sexual partners. Generally does not get paid for it.
Stud: Male version of a slut. Yes, Maxima there is a male version of a slut, but in many contexts is not seen as negatively as a slut, because of, well, the mammalian sexual model: Females have to be choosy about who is the father of her children, but males can start several pregnancies in short order. The social implications go on top of that.
I’m getting a “Uryuom Suit” vibe from Dabbler’s suit.
Not familiar with the reference and my web search got bupkis.
I was getting a “Gantz” vibe from Dazzler’s… uniform? I guess? Attire or Garb? More like a battle suit than mere swimwear.
Suddenly words are the enemy here…
It’s from a comic called “El Goonish Shive”- (the title was a random choice by the author) that incorporates fantasy and science fiction elements into a modern setting. Starts off a bit rocky, but improves significantly as far as plot and characters go later on, and has enough wackiness at the start to hold attention until the comic matures. Worth a read-through if you’ve got the time.
Seconded. EGS is one of the better webcomics out there.
I’m thinking Sue Richards in her Malice getup, especially with the dominatrix mask.
Sue-Malace has too much skin showing for a Uryuom Suit, which is just like what Dabbler is wearing: A skin tight and form fitting one-piece or coverall that goes from wrists to ankles. Sue’s typical costume is more like it.
Thank you!
I’m working on it, but geez, that’s a monster archive with a mythology/world building exercise that’s… very dense. :D)
Max in a bikini? Two words: Vote incentive.
It’d just be nearly white-gold image with a vague blur of Maxim’s outline.
Not if done at night
Please to be noting that Maxi didn’t say she wouldn’t wear a bikini, just not in front of her subordinates (but she did say she would be rocking in one)
I have deduced Dabbler’s real intent for her outfit. She is trying to get Maxima to say the center item on the bottom line of the Maxima bingo card. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1358
Too bad Sydney spoiled the chance of also getting Maxima to say the middle item on the top line.
It’s possible that the card Sydney might have by now doesn’t have “fart” on it at all…Bingo cards aren’t all alike, ya’ know. It might be Sydney’s way of deliberately deflecting Maxima away from other contestants from having Max say it.
Sydney can be a lot craftier than most people tend to think…And sometimes craftier than she thinks about herself too.
;)
Found Sidney’s: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2119
No fart but some words are cut off.
I still can’t help but wonder just what context led to getting her to successfully say “trouser ferret”.
That would probably have been in a case shortly before Sydney joined ARC-Swat, in which the (still unofficial) team followed a lead all the way to the UK. They were successful in foiling a plan to unleash flocks of carnivorous ducks on Ilkley Moor, but nearly lost a member when a traditional sport made an unexpected appearance during the climactic confrontation.
Note that any reference to nerve weasels refers to a completely different incident. Also, I know there were some round here, but they seem to have escaped.
well, she just appear again and i litteraly fell of my chair from laughing… this comic should be called “the dabbler and halo show”
Please, please, please let this be the start of the arc to define the powers of the last two orbs. Been driving me crazy for friggin’ years.
::forms a queue behind WLU::
::pulls out a little green flag and a little pinkish flag and waves them vigorously::
Especially since she’s been mildly injured and they didn’t test them after that.
At one environment test per month (this is the second comic prelude to “test water” after all, and I doubt it’ll be all wrapped up in only 1 more comic) Let’s see… (pulls out paper and pencil, scribbles furiously), mutters “Carry the 4 … lunar eclipse … e^(x^2) … second derivative … leap year … √i … very large values of 2 … fuschia … ok, got it!”
It will be exactly 2 years and 14 weeks more before they are standing in a cloud of gnats while the smoke from a spotting charge also swirls around them…
And that’s just for the first orb!
That assumes they don’t figure out what it does by that time
As – thankfully – many have pointed out, the claim that there are no “male equivalent” terms for whore in the English (let alone any other) language is utter horseshit.
That is why you DON’T get your language comprehension from your local gender studies-graduate but from actual linguists and etymologists.
It is furthermore the reason why I get veins as thick as tree trunks whenever those anti-intellectuals cast open their useless yaps and spout some new and impressively retarded semantic reinterpretations.
These people can seriously go dive under a truck when they’re not busy demonstrating their linguistic incompetence by farting out nonsense like “Shero”, “Hertory” or “Mansplaining”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJUz-Y8AEw.
You said a lot of words there, but failed to say what the male equivalent word is?
Whore and slut generally work pretty well from what I’ve seen.
“You said a lot of words there” is a very roundabout way to say you’re too lazy to read, especially since the very first of my “lot of words” were “As many have pointed out…”
Assuming your mouse includes a mousewheel and you can muster the energy to use one of your lard-encased fingers, you might even figure that one out on your own.
Snark aside, I do realize that your laziness is mainly intellectual in nature, so I’ll leave you to take your pick between whore and slut always having been applied to either gender, over already mentioned terms like gigolo and the (since the 17th century redundant) man-whore, down to skirtchaser and horndog. Not going into regional, more obscene and yes, outdated terminology here. Afraid I already used “too many” words for you.
Lastly, in a vain attempt to maybe set a fucking spark, consider that the assumption of there not being such words stems from the ridiculous notion that in the almost 500 years since the word “whore” came into existence in its current (!) form no one ever thought to describe a promiscuous man in a derogatory way.
When the more likely option is that you are simply ignorant to such terms due to aforementioned laziness and/or disinterest.
Someone’s feeling bizarrely salty….
Yes, it’s true that ‘whore’ applies to both genders, but it is very rarely used for men. Most of the words that mean ‘a man who sleeps with lots of women’ are complimentary (e.g. stud) or at worst mildly disapproving (e.g. horndog). ‘Slut’ and ‘whore’, when applied to a woman, carry far more condemnation.
I understand that you prefer the understanding of words to come from etymology; I’m right there with you. The thing to remember is that etymology only provides denotational meaning, and the connotational overtones are actually more important.
Just to clarify:
FFKonoko was saying that, amongst the many words you used in your post, none of them were the aforementioned ‘male equivalent’ words.
Many, as a linguist like yourself clearly understands, is a word used to describe numbers in excess of the quantity that can be easily ascertained at a glance, in addition to its other, more derogatory uses (in relation to the relative simplicity of the word; the assumption that the use of simplistic verbiage is indicative of a simplistic mind which is then reflected back upon the target of the speaker through the use of tone and contextual clues), inflammatory as they may be when interpreted in that manner.
If this were plotted like an ’80s teen movie (or a 90’s sitcom) at this point we would see Math walk out the building saying: “Well, I have been staring at internet boobs for three whole days, and I can now safely say that I am totally over my obsession.” He gets a look at Dabbler’s outfit and at the other team members in the beach chairs and says: “Uhh…never mind. Back to the computer.” and walks back inside.
Yeah, Dabbler’s suit would be giving him two new reasons to go back to the computer, as he now gets a “forward & backward” look at the issue…
I stared at the succubus nipples for over 5 mins.
Where did the *pop* sound come from?
What happens when you pinch the sleeve of a wetsuit, pull it out an inch or two, and then release it?
Understood! Thanks! :D
You get slapped? o_O
Okay, how about showing us Maxima in indirect sunlight: a hot summer night under the moon?
I don’t believe Dave B. has ever established what time of the year all these comics have taken place. (Not that it really matters.) But clearly they’re not in an Alaskan winter.
Any chance to there being a uncensored deviantart version?
Personally, I like to use the word Slut. As a gender-neutral term. And I capitalize it – because when you think about it, the word “Slut” means GOOD things.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slut
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/slut
There’s three basic definitions. 1: a licentious person (particularly a woman) who is casual about sex. 2: an unkempt and dirty woman with low standards of hygiene. 3: a female dog. And none of the superheroines (or superheroes) in this comic appear to be unclean or filthy, and AFAIK none of them are weredogs or the like. So I’d call Dabbler a definite Slut – with an emphasis on the capitalization, because you know she’d consider it a title of honor.
I’d also call Math a Slut. Again, with capitalization because he’s proud of it. Ditto Maxima’s “maybe/kinda” ex-boyfriend (“It was NOT a date!”), given his boasting. And again: none of that is a bad thing. It’s like using the word “Jew” as a pejorative, the way it was used back in the Shakespearean era. I’m proud to be Jewish. I’m also proud to be a Slut.
Have never heard a female dog be referred to as a ‘slut’ before
Me either, just “Bitch”.
Second post, because it just occurred to me. Could Maxima’s treatment of Dabbler in this comic be construed as sexual harassment?
I don’t think so.
On the other hand, it could be construed as cultural insensitivity, or even some form of racism/xenophobia. After all, it’s a cultural matter for succubi…
Dabbler is trolling Maxima again. Well everyone needs a hobby.
That is incorrect. For Dabbler to be trolling Max again, she would have had to at least briefly stop trolling Max. And that hasn’t happened.
Dabbler is trolling everyone. I suspect that she is feeding of trolling as well as tantric energy. Maxima is litterarily feeding the troll.
“Colossal space floozie” is the best thing ever.
I really like the art in this comic. Could I get a version without the speech bubbles? You know, so I can appreciate the art…
Funny Dave should mention Kitty Pryde when it comes to tight catsuits. There was that time in Excalibur she was disguising as Rachel Summers (Phoenix II/ New Marvel Girl), wearing the supertight catsuit and spikes Rachel wore at the time and was complaining to Rachel how it was tighter than her own skin.
Rachel explained she had to use her powers (riddiculous levels of telekenetics) to get it on one molecule at a time.
You should check out the early issues of the original Excalibur comics if you like to see it.
I blame that comic for my fetishes of geek-girls, short hair and catsuits.
You forgot facial tribal tattoos, but yes, it was a bad idea to have Excalibur available in my teen years… :-)
(on the other hand, I also blame these comics – and a few others from Marvel – about my preference for strong, wilful and competent women instead of weak, submissive ones…)
Agreed.
Interesting things is, i read somewhere that Kitty was supposed (by editorial fiat iirc) at first to be a traditional “Damsel in Distress”, but quite quickly turned into a strong teen, and just kept getting more fleshed out and strong young woman. (Which i have had a long, long nerd-crush on.)
True or not idk, but it does ring true with how John Byrne works with most female characters.
That’s because one of her first big solo stories was against The Brood
She was supposed to be a damsel in distress? Wasn’t her first or second appearance when she actually saved the X-Men after they got captured by the Hellfire Club in Chicago, while she was not even trained to use her powers?
Honestly, the way female characters are depicted in most Marvel comics (I think the X-Men were the first super team actually led by a woman – Storm, when Cyclope first retired) makes me wonder why we must still wait two years for a Captain Marvel movie… for once, DC beat them with Wonder Woman…
And Jubilee’s first appearance, was helping save Logan from the Reavers in the Outback
Why? Was she also supposed to be a damsel-in-distress?
I will not complain, but maybe someone should give Byrne and Claremont (or Marvel) a literature encyclopedia explaining the concept of “damsel-in-distress”… ;-D
She easily could have been: a homeless mall-rat, suddenly transported to the Outback, with an injured stranger, hunted by nasty people intent on killing (or worse) said stranger
True, she could have been a damsel-in-distress, but, if I remember correctly, she was shown at the start as able to defend herself against mall cops (yeah, okay, not exactly the same threat as the Reavers) and live a pretty good life for a homeless orphan.
If they ever imagined her as a damsel-in-distress, they failed as soon as they put her into the comics…
Now I can’t get the image of Morph (from Treasure Planet, turning into a miniature copy of Dabbler (or Max) and repeating “Colossal Space Floozie” in a high pitch voice.
https://youtu.be/kcp_7-nugv4?t=11s
Though, ‘Colossal Space Floozie’ just doesn’t have the same meter as ‘Spaceport Floozies’ which Dabbler probably qualifies as too.
Colossal Spaceport Floozie perhaps?
I just said “you can’t go wrong with shiny”, nice to see that somebody agrees.
Actually Slut and Whore work for men too. Just that men don’t get as upset when called that.
If you can see the muscles of her legs, arms and abs, that is a very tight suit. Unless it is providing some environmental effect, she might as well be wearing nothing. I guess it could act as a female condom or provide bra support. Getting in and out of it might be a little challenging.
Not necessarily. Dabbler is a scientist, among her many other talents, remember? Could be something she invented. (No fabric made on earth clings like that. Yet.)
EDIT: Dabbler does say explicitly that it’s an “unearthly” material. So that settles THAT. (It could still be something she invented. Just proves that she didn’t make it on earth.)
Also, since there is nothing but sky in the background, is this a rooftop pool?
Yes. DaveB said as much in his comments on the last page.
Side note: Are we actually sure that Dabbler is even wearing a suit, and not a detailed Illusion designed to appear as clothing? despite what she says? I could just see her being perverse enough to like the idea of walking around almost nude all the time and no one else being aware of it..
Sydney could test that theory easily enough by using her true sight orb.
I wonder if Dabbler can project individual images to different people. The Dr Who episode ‘The Time of The Doctor’ had the Doctor needing to be naked due to some religious rite but had the Tardis project the image of clothing into Clara’s mind. Then they happen to show up at a party where the others had NOT been induced to see clothing on him. As the old saying goes, ‘hilarity ensued’.
Sydney might be too scared to try.
Sydney: Hmm, I wonder what is up with that anyway. [ Grabs yellow orb ] Yeeea! Dabbler, you can’t run around with just an illusion for clothing! Put something real on!
Dabbles: [ Taking a shoulder-width stance ] 1) I am not running. 2) I go around wearing just an illusion all the time. 3) I’m having fun here.
Max: How much fun are you going to have running 10 miles with a full pack in full, non-illusionary, uniform, you insubordinate trollop?
Dabbler is just trolling everyone who has truesight. Sydney’s eyes will pop out the second she touches the orb.
How about the phrase “colossal negative space wedgie”?
/obscure?
I used to hear that skit about every third time I listened to the Dr. Demento show.
“Plot complication showing up on the ship’s sensors now, Captain, I’m switching to visual…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioH0POPyeEQ
Truly a classic. Stay Demented!
I think the Kitty Pride reference is supposed to be a pun.
You’re killing me here, Dave. I’m a sucker for busy women in bodysuits.
Sydney asks a valid question.
And I’ve heard guys called “man slut” and “man whore”. But I will fully agree that there is a revolting double standard there. Men are supposed to fuck everything, and yet women are supposed to be chaste and virginal until they meet their one man. Hell, men will disparagingly call the women they are having sex with sluts or whores, when the guy is every bit as promiscuous as the woman, if not more, which I always find extremely irritating.
I always wonder though, who exactly are the men supposed to be fucking if they are fucking everything but the women are staying chaste and virginal?
I knew a guy in high school who was very good with the girls, I somewhat jokingly referred to him as a ‘stud’ once, he replied he didn’t like that term, he preferred to be called a ‘slut’. I laughed really hard. In retrospect, I think he was good with the ladies not because he was a good bullshitter, but that he was charming and actually treated them with respect, including recognizing a bullshit double standard at a young age – and to my knowledge he didn’t have multiple women on the string at the same time, its just if one relationship ended, he didn’t have much trouble getting a new one.
As has been stated before, Xuriel and Maxima are different types of feminist. Xuriel just does whatever she wants and doesn’t give a shit if someone doesn’t think she can or should do it, and completely owns her sexuality. Maxima is more the type that is extremely sensitive to slights, and always on the lookout for negative stereotypes and such, and will sometimes see them even when they aren’t there. I personally think Xuriel has the better angle, don’t put up with people being an asshole to you (for *any* reason), but otherwise just forget ’em, just go out and be amazing – your success is the best revenge, and the greatest inspiration to the next generation.
But as said, don’t put up with people being an asshole to you. I think that’s good advice for everyone, not just women facing sexism.
hmm…
how do we know that Xuriel isn’t actually naked
and that her “wetsuit” isn’t just an illusion.
she does use her glamour and illusions very frequently
and she does like being both sexy and naked on a frequent basis
Two words: ‘Truesight orb’.
I don’t happen to have one on my side of the 4th wall, so I will just have to use my imagination.
Hmm, it appear that Dabbler is actually wearing lederhosen and a sombrero.
I guess Max has never heard the terms Whore Dog or Horn Dog which are very much the equivalent of whore or slut for men (at least when I was growing up for sure). Given the boob stare a few pages back and now this desire to see Max in a bikini seems Harem is feeling pretty “les be friends” were Max is concerned. Must be something about all that glorious gold skin.
I have to admit, I’m actually more intrigued by her “bathing cap”/half-helm than anything else.
I find it interesting too. It conjures up a variety of images. Some of them more disturbing than others.