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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Why do I think that Maxima’s reaction to Sydney’s question is uncontrollable laughter?
And to order more refried beans be served in the mess.
sadly no. decorum dignity of command, and all that rot will mandate that she keep a straight face. that said, I think an urgent trip to a far away ladies room is in her near future.
and yes beans are going to be on the menu. or something that Dabbler has a characteristic response to.
fan art! get on this!
If you abbreviate “fan art” you get…
“Does it blow up, like a balloon, if you fan art in it?”
Yep, Harem just shot [enter liquid here] through all her noses.
[censored]
+1
and you owe me a keyboard
You have been warned before: No eating or drinking when reading Grrl Power. No refunds.
That’s why I invested in a keyboard cover. It makes cleaning up the little crumbs and spilling of coke convenient.
I could do with one. Sounds like it might interfere with touch-typing though? Hard to find the home keys, for instance. Unless you have a very fine and thin cover? Which sounds like it might wear out or easily be damaged.
*looks at kitten on lap meaningfully*
You got me there you little rascal.
If I had to wager a guess, every Harem just suddenly got an explosive nosebleed.
That’s not the only place they gushed >_>
Andsince Maxima had ordered at least one of Harem to be in proper uniform at all times, I sort of wonder what kind of awkward situation that may happening to the uniformed Harem…Is she on guard duty? Instructive class? Duty Section Meeting? Inquiring minds want to know.
Does it matter what kind of awkward situation? The plain fact is that the all five Daphne are right now motionless from the unexpected sight succubus in a extraordinarily form fitting suit that I’m guessing is for raising “masts” when she’s going swimming or making her meal beg for her touch, maybe both. The situation is awkward for people that notice she’s zoned out pretty damn good quite suddenly in the middle of some task, no need to postulate what sort of things are happening around herself or what is going on beyond that.
There are words like slut and whore for men. It’s slut and whore. They’re truly genderless pronouns.
Yeah, that was pretty much my thought too.
lothario or rake off the top of my head
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/lothario
Those don’t have quite the negative connotations that slut or whore does. I agree with Endilbiach, though – slut and whore work perfectly well for men. Any other “equivalent” word that is gendered towards men won’t have the same impact because those words are gentrified by the fact that we are not judged as harshly for having an active sex-life. Hell, we’re even celebrated for it.
Personally, I don’t consider “slut” an actual negative descriptor. Having an active sex life is not necessarily* a bad thing. But as that is obviously the intent of the word in common usage, I wouldn’t use it of someone who didn’t first use it to describe themselves positively and in good humour. And i would only do so to their face(I have a couple of friends who regularly went with “slut and proud of it” as one way to describe their sex life when they were single). :P
*I say “necessarily” because it could also, for example, be a symptom of some bad shit going on, or having gone on, in the persons life. Or hypersexuality (aka. satyriasis/nymphomania), for that matter.
I think you’re slightly wrong. A slut isn’t someone who has an active sex life per se. It’s someone who can’t help it. That is a floozy or just someone who “gets around.” Someone who’s built their personality around, and defined themselves by, their active sex life, to the point that it’s the major aspect of their personality as a whole, is a slut. And a whore is someone who exploits their sex life for personal gain or power.
BTW if you think men aren’t stigmatized for “getting around” you aren’t paying attention. I won’t pretend that it’s in any way as severe as the female stigma, but it’s simply false that the stigma against sexually overactive males doesn’t exist at all. Casanovas might be liked, but as a rule they’re less likely to be trusted. A man who can’t stay in a stable relationship is not usually considered to be as steady or dependable as a man who can. That’s a stigma.
Our society is still geared around marriage, or at least the nuclear family, to the point that other arrangements (gay pairings, common law, “living together”) have to deal with constant comparisons to marriage and vice versa, and someone who can’t stay in a more or less conformist relationship, or insists on sexual privileges that are “supposed” to be saved for marriage will always have that “instant gratification culture” smell to them. It’s a social enforcement mechanism that is as old as human neurochemistry and it’s never going away. It’s part of how the social norms stay normal. That’s why a tolerant society is not defined by the end of stigma, which is never going to happen, but instead by how people act based on those stigmata.
I think you might want to re-read noerartnoe’s post, because they most certainly did write and indicate according to what you just said concerning promiscuous men.
Also, I disagree with you on slut. It might be used somewhat according to the sense of satyriasis or nymphomania, which seems to be what you mean with the word, but it is used at least as much for, and by, regular, healthy people enjoying sex and having an active sex life without necessarily committing to one single partner.
What is that suddenly “stigma” what word of identification is used that most men find demeaning?
POTUS? o_O
:-D
Not generally speaking, no.
They don’t carry anywhere near the same emotional implications.
That part is just down to social attitudes. As their number of conquests can often be a point of pride, with men, calling one a ‘slut’ might well be intended as a compliment.
This does tend to fall in line with genetic interests, if looked at from the point of view of ‘the selfish gene’ (i.e. if only concerned about ensuring genetic continuity). For men there is no loss in simply impregnating as many women as possible. The more they behave like that the more their DNA gets passed on.
Whereas women (albeit less in modern times) have a risk of death in childbirth, have to devote a lot more of their lives to the actual process of reproduction, and are usually the ones in charge of child rearing. So are wise to pick and choose their partners, more selectively, both to ensure their offspring gain a good DNA mix, and to increase the chances that the male will assist in the child-rearing process.
The bit that makes me curious though is how much of that is socially driven? These are logical choices, which can be consciously made, after all (albeit ones that would be callous, in ignoring the welfare of the mother and child, for men not intending to help rear them). Although social traditions, like marriage, can cloud this, on one side.
If there is an instinctive component, to this, I wonder what it would be triggering off? Would it just be a greater libido, for men? Or could there be other layers, with more subtle cues or effects, which reinforce this evolutionary advantageous behaviour?
Call a guy a slut or whore and he will mostly beam with pride. Reproductive strategies are like that
SHELDON COOPER: Penny, I feel compelled to warn you, that you have a poor reproductive strategy.
Hmm, what would Smelly Shelly know about ‘reproductive strategy’? o_O
There are loads of textbooks on that subject. He reads. And he knows that he has inadequate understanding of social matters, so does seek to improve that.
Plus Leonard’s mum will probably have written a paper or two on the subject. Which he would probably have examined, out of curiosity, to see if there may be any insight into Leonard’s psyche, or explanations for his deficiencies.
This reminds me of that old comic where the extremely awkward “broette” was attempted to be pulled off. It’s just “bro”. They’re not gender specific
How about dudette?
Dude and dudette both work for women, but you can use dudette if you want to specifically pointificate the gender. Like if you want to say “dudes and dudettes”. But “dude” in itself isn’t gender specific neither
…when spoken TO a person I mean, as in “Dude, stahp”. No need to say “Dudette, stahp”, that’s just awkward.
Casanova is a good male-specific term.
Whoops, someone already mentioned that one.
You would never call Genghis Khan a slut. Definitely NOT genderless.
Man-ho? Gigolo? Beta male? Cuckold? Prison bitch? Bottom Feeder? Dog? Pig? Goat?
The Bible probably has some good ones if you don’t mind being homophobic.
I’d never call Genghis Khan a slut… To his face. Luckily, he’s been dead a looooong time, so, yeah, he was a slut. Such a slut, in fact, that a significant percent of humanity can ultimately trace a part of their lineage back to him.
Now I’m wondering if everyone present is cleared to know that Dabbler is in fact a space floozy.
well.. its not as if we can hide the fact that she has four arms and… well… ummm… is easier than a 4 piece puzzle.
Don’t you mean a two piece puzzle?
maybe a one piece puzzle. she certainly has a one track mind.
Harem is cleared to know, and I think Anvil may be, but I’m pretty sure Jiggawatt isn’t, nor is Xochitl, who were both around the pool in the previous comics.
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Yup. But as far as anyone not in on ‘the secret’ is concerned, Dabbler is just a super who has demonic-looking form that she can shapeshift into. And seems to prefer that more than her human form, from what they have seen over the last few days, anyhow.
That said though, Hawkrider is perfectly correct in saying that Maxima’s temper may have just made her slip secret information. That may not have been DaveB‘s intention mind. If not then you have done a good job in mentioning it, so that he can consider whether that should stand.
Maxima’s temper is indeed one of her flaws, so it is in character, from that point of view. Although I would hope that she might compartmentalize secret information better than that, as a senior officer, who will often be in front of the world’s press.
That said, as gaffs regarding giving away top-secret information, by accident, it is not as bad as some cases. This could very easily be taken as just a colourful turn of phrase. Unless anyone listening had some reason to suspect that Archon was covering up the existence of extra-terrestrials, in their midst.
A most implausible sounding hypothesis.
I completely agree with you, I was in fact supporting Hawkrider’s post. The “why is she in her battle form” issue has been dealt with previously (“four arms!” was the answer, if I remember correctly).
I also agree with you on Maxima’s temper being a plausible cause for such a slip of the tongue (no, Dabbler, you misinterpret again), but it would be less of an issue if she called her a demonic floozie: Dabbler’s “battle form” has a definitive demonic look, after all (cleaved hooves, horns, fangs…), so it could be interpreted as a figure of speech instead.
oh they could just see it as max trying to be creative with the insult and sticking to what she feels is just wrong to say just because you call some one a well basterd if you mind the cuss that does not mean they are in fact one(by the way that word orginaly ment a child born for something like wetlock or cheating sex)
Fundamentally, I agree with you that it could be construed as simple “flavour” to express her displeasure.
However, it is a very strange flavour to use. Universal or galactic could be considered, to increase the scope of the insult, but “space”? Whenever did you use “space” as an emphasis for anything that was not, indeed, related to space?
That’s why I suggested that demonic epithet would be more approrpiate, since her appearance is closer to the idea everyone has of what a demon should look like. Though surprising, “demonic”, “hellish” or “hellspawned” could thus be used with “floozie” with better credibility (and deniability).
Could be seen as a riff on space cadet, slang which is not directly related to space, except as in “spaced out”, so more like “spaced out floozie”?
That is the least functional gimp bathing cap I’ve ever seen.
Actually that is the most functional gimp mask, that I have ever seen!
One of the key functions of any garment is to accommodate the wearer’s anatomy. And Dabbler has more of that, on her head, than any human. Therefore having more functional requirements than a human has. That mask catering for not one, but two sets of horns. Along with her very prominent ears.
Whilst still looking good on her, which is, of course, the primary function.
Are her bits talking……
Think its like a censor but with more character
Then again… They do have extra muscles that human women don’t…
Yeah, I think the “this thing is really tight” & the “seriously you guys” are censor bars with why they’re there written on them. I mentioned I wanted to see what’s under, but Daniel the Human just laughed at me & said I’d be hypnotized “Sydney Vs Hypnoboobs” style then freeze up & overheat. Hate the way he’s always right…
Yes, you should heed the Human on this instance…As any electronic engineer would know, heat is bad for electronic circuits
Anybody else wondering if a Succubus hybrid has a regular groin outline?
I mean… I could easily imagine that things are somehow more accentuated anyway, not even taking into account what extra muscles a succubus hybrid could possibly have.
I’m sure that even while possibly looking, and being, different it would somehow come across as incredibly arousing from a purely visual perspective. Probably hypnotic like her bust as well.
It runs horizontally and vertically, at the same time…
The ultimate camel-toe.
you went there
So… is Dabbler wearing Sydney’s bald Merkin?
Not to mention whatever her other half is.
Dabbles is married? o_O
One sixth. Per the cast list:
I think the odds of 1/6th anything falling under the broad description of ‘space floozie’ will have just shot up, in the (top secret) Archon betting pool.
charles81: “Anybody else wondering if a Succubus hybrid has a regular groin outline?”
Well…Maybe, maybe not. I conjecture that Dabbler is like the TARDIS…Bigger on the inside.
…She probably has to be in order to have room for those extra muscles, I mean.
And there I was thinking you were running with Sydney’s ‘vagoo of holding’ theory.
I find it rather telling she uses the verb “rocking” to describe wearing a two piece.
Yup, she knows she looks hot, but she hates that that is all anyone focuses on first
Holy shit do you have a version of this page without speech bubbles?
What Alex said, with a side thought from everyone’s favorite fabrikinetic-
*Drooling* “I… must… have… it… I must have that fabric! THE POSSIBILITIES! I’LL NEVER BE WITHOUT CLOTHING AGAIN!”
*Finds version of page without speech bubbles, but still with both censor bars…* :P
That would make an excellent vote incentive, I think…
(Hint, hint. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge aimed at DaveB)
Phew!
Thank goodness you resisted doing that until after Dave usually posts the comic (on its timer, for later release).
Never nudge an artist at work!
Ok, after quite a bit of reading through diver’s forums full of fart jokes and potty humor, I finally found some competent information on this topic.
1) Farting in a Wetsuit will do very little as the wetsuit is porous enough to let the gas escape.
2) If using a drysuit it will trap the gas, but it actually has the same buoyancy as it did when it was in your body. No change there.
3) There is a potentially dangerous situation which I find funny for this particular comic since the organization they work for is Archon, and everything is Arch-this and Arch-that.
Also: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qwbr4BbnLK4/UZQH54Igk_I/AAAAAAAAn-o/eKqqhg8_M8w/s1600/batman-farts_bits.jpg
The Argon thing is most likely a joke. Argon is one of the most non-reactive gases that exist and it’s extremely hard to make compounds with it. From wikipedia:
C60 is a buckministerfullerene of carbon, a molecular ball containing 60 carbon atoms. This does not occur in flatulence.
Darn, beat me to it. I was also going to mention that argon is very non-reactive. Any of the compounds formed with noble gasses are extremely unstable as the noble gas is fine on its own and if something else comes along, the rest of the compound will want to react with the other stuff and not the argon, helium, neon, etc. This switcheroo is general exothermic.
Good thing it doesn’t. Have you ever tried one of the lubricants based on C60? That would bring a whole new level of meaning to the term ‘greasy fart’. xD
Well, how many wet- or dry- suits do you know of that are that form fitting and made out of unearthly material? o_O
The only point I will make, is that that is not a earth wet suit, it is Dabblers super science version of what she believes a “wet suit” should be, and do. So any normal wet suit info is not necessarily valid. Add to it Dabblers alien/magical hybridization body, and who knows what can or cannot happen with that suit.
First off, Dabbled makes me want to puke.
Second, I’ve been called “slut” plenty of times. It’s a gender neutral descriptor.
And whore is an occupation. Maybe not a politically correct term, but still an occupation. I’m sure everyone has heard of the term man-whore :-\
*puts paws over Dabbler’s delicate ears*
Don’t listen. You are lovely!
Well, consider that a succubus literally eats Tantric energy, it could be said that Dabbler is a whore…About as much as anyone else would be for holding a sign that says “Will work for food.”
First off, not denying your right to be nauseous, butt, what about Dabbles makes you that way? o_O
Well, for starters, it’s her hooves. Like ew. All I can imagine are farm animals with muck and ick stuck inside the grooves of her hooves. (Hey! I rhymed!)
Next, her figure is implausibly extreme. It’s so “sexy” it wraps back around to being unsexy and gross. My love of tiny, petite women aside, Dabbler looks like one of those women who’ve had WAY too much plastic surgery. Like that one women who modded her body to look like the perfect Barbie doll.
I like her extra arms. It’s one of the things about Spinnerette (another webcomic) I like. In fact, it’s basically the only thing I like about Spinnerette.
But yeah, that’s about it. Basically. The only other thing is that she’s too outwardly sexy. It reminds me of a religious person who’s trying to force their religion on others; Dabbler is so outwardly sexy, it goes beyond flaunting to outright invasion of the space of everyone around her.
Like here for example. Dabbler is supposed to be in a professional setting. What she’s wearing isn’t appropriate attire for a professional setting, and she knows it, too. She’s doing this deliberately to provoke everyone, especially Maxima.
So yeah, that’s why I don’t like Dabbler :-\
All perfectly reasonable.
I think you are probably right about Dabbler’s motivations too. However we should consider that she is an alien and that she may actually misunderstand some things, at times. Human behaviour can be pretty nuanced after all, and there would not be a book of etiquette for nearly naked situations, that she could have studied to ensure she got it right.
Failing that and it is fair that she would respond according to her own species default assumptions, for such situations.
Not that such would be a mitigation for you though, I am sure. If you dislike an over-sexualised individual, you probably are no more keen on a species which behaves like that either. And I am not too fond of that aspect of her either, myself. Plus she is a bit too horny.
Enjoying winding Maxima up, and her cheeky smile though, those are things I like about her.
Yorp: ” However we should consider that she is an alien and that she may actually misunderstand some things, at times.”
Somehow, I think Dabbler “misunderstands” her outgoing sexuality as much as she “misunderstood” the proper term for “mammary trap.” She’s a succubus who understands all too well that part of her very core of existence, sexuality is literally a kind of Survival Instinct. I think what Gray Phantom objects most to is the fact that Dabbler deliberately overemphasizes her sexuality just to pick at Maxima…Heck, that description right there is even in Dabbler’s profile info.
I did start with “I think you are probably right” for good reason.
I was just exploring the other possibility, to avoid falling into the trap of over anthropomorphising an alien species myself. I agree that she did deliberately trick Maxima, with the mammary trap. But that was something she will have known from reading the dictionary definitions. So she was utilising those to deliberately steer Maxima into correcting her.
Something that, Maxima would only be likely to do, without raising suspicion, if she had experienced Dabbler genuinely making mistakes in the past.
Plus Maxima will know Dabbler a lot better than us. Clearly they have been working together for quite some time even before the comic started. She is very used to Dabbler teasing her, so can probably read the cues (when not distracted, for instance by a massive battle). In this case though Maxima accused Dabbler of “misreading the circumstances”.
So on those factors, the clever money would probably go with that. But add in Dabbler being ultra-intelligent, she could well be hiding her tells, and fooling Maxima. Therefore I still think A Gray Phantom has likely called it right. I was not just blowing smoke up his butt and then giving a contrary opinion.
Her hooves are probably cleaner than most hyu-mons’ bare feet (or the soles of their shoes)
Her figure isn’t really that much different to most of the female supers (just look at Blondini, or even Maxi when she’s not going out of her way to remove all femininity, like with that padded wetsuit she chose)
As for her being ‘too outwardly sexy’, she is a half-succubus, there is literally nothing she can do about that, even if she dials it down it’s still going to be at least a 7 or 8, she just enjoys cranking it up to 11 to mess with Maxi :D
Again, not saying you can’t feel the way you do, was simply attempting to explain, and if you still the same way, then that’s fine
Dabbler never goes below a 10!
:-D
A. I love how you made Maxima’s breasts look squashed rather than lovely teardrops, which is how breasts should look when squashed by something like that…and how the wetsuit is NOT skin-fitted (which is different from skin-tight; Max’s suit IS skin-tight, but is not skin-fitted like Dabbler’s).
B. Sydney’s comment is 100% perfect and not the least bit gratuitous. For reasons. Of Scientific Inquiry™. (Though we really don’t need to know.) (Maybe.) (Ish.) ( . ) ( . ) isn’t accurate, but ( . . ) is, when wearing a wetsuit over full endowments…
Dabbles isn’t wearing a wetsuit, she’s wearing a skinsuit
…If Dabbler rachets up her Glamour, everyone else winds up wearing a wetsuit…
Lol.
Your pun is nice, but doesn’t work because Dabbler is unfazeable.
phase = synchronize / go through / something
faze = affect (esp emotionally)
Homonyms count in punnage.
Most assuredly!
Besides which, unless there really are aliens on the planet, then they are the only ones who can do the counting.
So, will we learn about those two orbs of unknown power????
Hopefully not. Not just yet anyhow. That is one of the draws that keeps people coming back. So I think the first mystery orb should not be revealed until some really dramatic arc on its own. The longer the second one is kept unknown, the greater the mystery.
But I bet Dave has been itching to show us.
“Dang these are so sweet! No, no, must not do the reveal yet. … But I want to! Maybe a little hint? Real subtle like. Nobody will notice yet. Months or years later they will go DAMN, look it was revealed way back then!”
‘Actually we have already learned that they are hypnotic — oh you meant Halo’s orbs! Well she isn’t given to exhibiting as much as Dabbler is… Wait did I get that wrong as well?
If Dabbler did indeed cut one,it should be similar to the ending of this commercial for a Japanese bar soap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd0vk9j2L00
“there is no equivalent term for men” its weird how, even though “social justice” is just a bunch of ideas, it has the same symptoms as massive head trauma.
DaveB Can we get a panel of Bored Math at a set of computers with random censored boob shots being cycled faster and faster while he tries to meditate?
Then cut scene from above and our security guru spit taking his soda on a screen when dabbler makes her entrance?
Math- I sense a disturbance in the force… and his eyes cast about and then zero in upwards and left of panel…
THE POOL SHE-nannigans at the pool!
Tries to run up topside but there is a crowd so thick that a fire marshall would have a conniption fit between the dressing room and the exit to the Executive Swimming Pool…
Math- ohhh a challenge….I love challenges.. (spies a bottle of tanning oil w/alien lettering…
Starts to apply it so he can EEL his way through the crowd.
time cut/ back to the room he started in trying to train himself from being distracted by evil boobies…
His skin is every odd shade of rainbow and his hair is dancing like eels…
He’s meditating again…
computer monitor comesback in himself wearing new shirt pants… and then spit takes when he sees math…
punchline comment…// or // Math sees teh memory stick in his handler’s hand, but decides he doesn’t need more trouble…
Brodder: “Math- I sense a disturbance in the force…”
…as if a billion libidos cried out in anticipation, but were suddenly silenced by two censor balloons.”
Oh, you are on a roll.
Lol.
Has anyone else noticed that Maxima’s eyes are yellow instead of their usual purple?
Zooming in, that’s reflection
Maxima: “Take off that thing right now Dabbler!”
Dabbler: “Well you insist!”
Max: “No! I didn’t meanm…Put it back on!”
Dabbler: “Make up your mind will you.”
Max: “Put. It. Back. On.”
Dabbler: “Fine, but it’s going to take a minute — this fabric doesn’t glide well over bare skin.”
[Dabbler ports in a bottle of lubricant and begins applying it to her upper body.]
[Math (who was informed of the goings on by one of the Harems) bursts through the door, takes in the scene, and explodes.]
Dabbler trolling Max. This stuff writes itself.
+1 per line, to each of you. :-D
Oh man, At first I thought the censor bubble was actually a character speaking. I was like is the suit alive what’s going on. Finally I figured it out.
Ditto. I assumed it must have been ‘the crowd’ (being behind our point of view, in the first panel we see that). But they were in sight, with the second one. So I discarded that, and guessed it must be commentary, in a circle rather than the usual square, so then just moved on.
The significance of the strategic placement flew right over my head! My SmutDar is broken!!!
Doctor! Is there a doctor in the house?
It kinda makes you wonder about the Venom symbiote, doesn’t it?…
This would be a good time to expect fashion ninja.
Ahhhhhhhhh,,,.. **updates his waifu top 5 ** 1 Space Wet suite Dabbler, 2. glamour Dabbler, 3. Booty Short Dabbler, 4) Clubbing Dabbler, 5) Naked on top of Super Hair stylist
**updates his waifu top 5 ** 1 Space Wet suite Dabbler, 2. glamour Dabbler, 3. Booty Short Dabbler, 4) Clubbing Dabbler, 5) Naked on top of Super Hair stylist and the return of the WHY boner… not gettin gup for break or lunch now.
If you are walking around the office with a full tent (without saying or doing anything else sexual), do YOU get in trouble with HR for harrassment, or does the person who notices the tent get in trouble for staring at your crotch?
DO NOT experiment to find out; I am just wondering out loud.
Bang zoom, I have a new phone desktop image ;P
What do you mean, “there’s no male counterpart to slut”? What about “lech”?
Lecher, rake, womanizer, wolf, philanderer, playboy. Also, pervert and degenerate (technically gender-neutral, but more often applied to men – similar to whore with women). Plenty of choices: the difference is they don’t get hurled around as insults intended to demean other men.
You would agree that Math fits the objective (i.e. dictionary) definition of a lecher, wouldn’t you? The same applies to Dabbler with the epithet (meaning descriptive word) “slut”. Both of them constantly make casual sexual advances on people who clearly aren’t comfortable with them (i.e. sexual harassment). It doesn’t matter that in both cases the harassee is usually female: if Math was gay or bi, other men would be just as uncomfortable about it if not even more so, and there are bound to be heterosexual men who don’t want Dabbler (beyond the influence of her succubi powers).
the thing that hasn’t been said on this subject… Slate reported on a study about Slut and Whore. which gender uses the terms more? if you guessed women to describe other women you’d be right! and its not even close. so its difficult to argue that its men objectifying women with those words. now one could argue that slate is a right wing hate web-sight.. but i won’t try and take any side of that.
I don’t understand the “misread the situation” part. Did I also misread the situation? O.o
Also, Dabbler’s outfit reminds me of the Uryuom suits in El Goonish Shive! Similarly form-fitting.
Maybe it’s not just “reminding”. Maybe it IS the same material. :-)
I just asumed Dabbler would wear something… less, loots of less to be true.
She can’t wear any less than nothing at all, and, she knows she would never get away with that (and not just from Maxi), so, this way she can still be (technically) wearing something, and still wind Maxi up beyond 11 :D
Got to say, I did laugh at this page. A lot. Mostly because (aside from Max and Sydney’s responses), I remembered all the bad comic-book art where the artists make virtually all spandex costumes look like “liquid spandex” (with the notable exception of the censored bits). Seriously, for awhile there it seemed that all superheroes, male and female, sprayed their costumes on in the morning.
Ok, guys, I’ve just gotta throw this out there.
“This thing is REALLY tight.” is positioned over her crotch.
Is it referring to her costume or her vagina?
….. or both?
… Yes
Two words for you my friend, camel and toe.
Gotta admit its a clever way of censoring.
Not quite as clever as DaveB putting a small bump on a speech balloon covering Anvil’s profile in the shower, mind you…But still clever, nonetheless.
If it were not for the comment, blocking our view, there would be nothing left to the imagination.
We would be able to tell if Dabbler’s four arms indicate that other parts of her anatomy are… unusual.
BLEH she’s wearing a condom, LOL
ha ha ha haha h ah aah; Dab would do better to just wear her normal clothing. its pretty much a bikini any how. the skin tight look doesn’t do a thing for her and blunts any ones interest in short order. never understood why folks think it enhances anything when there is no mystery involved.
kinda the same idea around wrapped presents, most of the pleasure is in the unwrapping. after its out of the box it become hohum in short order.
unless of course Succubi magic is involved. It makes you stare like a virgin seeing boobs for the first time on the day puberty hits, all over again each second.
Just did a reread. YEESSH! Hours and hours of reading, and I had to force myself to not cruise the comments, or I would still be reading.
But…
The identity of the drow ninja at the Grand Canyon still eludes us. All other questions pale in significance.
That wasn’t a drow, that was an extra terrestrial on holiday
Nuh-uh!
Don’t feel blue about it. He is just a cliff-hanger.
Damnit Sydney! I was enjoying that soda! >.>!!!!!
Dabbler and Empowered must shop for costumes at the same place.
Except that Empowered’s extraordinarily tight suit of unearthly material does mysteriously smooth out the camel toe, established and even commented on in-universe. I’m sure of course that Dabbler’s could be designed (or tweaked) to do the same, if she cared to do so. Of course, given some of the other attributes of Emp’s suit, maybe it was in fact designed by space-succubi!
At the Empowered comic, it was also emphasized that Emp has to shave down there because the suit would not “smooth over” even her hair.
“call a spade a spade” Is a racist phrase, “Spade ‘ being an old insult for Blacks.
A spade is also a digging tool (similar to a shovel, but different shape), it’s also a suit in a typical deck of playing cards
Historically, black people may also have been seen as digging tools.
It’s more like a reference to spades being the black suit of cards though (as opposed to clubs, which were green).
When was clubs ‘green’? o_O
Next you will say diamonds were blue
Apparently that 4 colour deck was always the intent but had to be scrapped early on due to poor colour fastness at the time. I will admit, though, I have not fact checked this.
I read through the history of cards and the page on four colour cards, on Wikipedia. Neither gave any clue, as to that.
Wikipedia has proven to be useless, on a point of interest!
*throws cards out of pram*
It certainly is not. It originated in ‘Moralia’ in the 1st Century AD. It was translated into English in 1542.
It has nothing to do with the racial slur ‘spade’.
Question: Has anyone discussed the different colored speech bubbles with different font? With no arrows or lines, I’m assuming it’s Dabbler, but why the change for two bubbles?
Both of those are like one of these, used like this.
Funny, your “Cameo” blue bird reminded me of another censor bird from somewhere else…
(I seem to recall one where it had thought bubbles or something, but can’t find it again)
Given Harem’s persistent bug-eyes, I’m wondering if she might be thinking that, maybe, being pleasured to within an inch of her life by an alien demon sex goddess wouldn’t be *that* bad.
*nods*
“The muscles! I…remember…”
Probably wondering if she used all five of her, would she last longer, for SCIENCE!!!
So nobody has tried to make out all Halo’s skill tree details, on the blackboard (through the door, in the background), in panel 4?
Crap I am SOOOOOO slow! I just got that the dialogue over Dabbler’s groin and butt is to hide her camel toe! I kept wondering who was saying or thinking in the yellow balloons but it was Dave all along. Im gonna go sit in the corner and face the wall for a while now.
Come out of that corner right now! It may be possible that you’re like Heatwave in that you’re not really “slow” but merely process information in a different order than most people.
You are in good company. I missed the first part myself too (and was confused over the latter initially, for that matter). Plus we are not alone.
*hands out a selection of pointy hats, and puts one one too*
Panels 5&7: And all of a sudden harem was animated by Tim Burton. XD
+1
Soooo, in panel four her vagina is talking and in panel five her anus is? Interesting…
No, that would be the commentator. The bubbles just happen to be positioned covering areas that interest you.
Slut, and Whore, are actually gender neutral. Just generally used for women, because guys having lots of sex is good, apparently….