Grrl Power #730 – Add it to the database
I don’t know how common the term “Eskimo Brother/Sister” is outside of the show “The League,” which is basically the only place I’ve ever heard it. I also don’t know if the term is, like just about everything these days, offensive to one group or another (at the very least, it maybe should be updated to Inuit Brother/Sister.) But in case you’re not familiar with it, it’s simply a reference to a person you have a common sexual partner with.
It’s obviously something Sydney didn’t consider when she fooled around with Frix there in the hottub. Not that there’s any real world impact to having indirect sexual contact with someone beyond anything communicable. Considering that Frix comes from a world with extremely advanced medical technology, Sydney doesn’t exactly have to worry about space HPV or anything like that. She obviously just finds it “ooky” because like many humans from western societies, or eastern societies, or mid-eastern… just people in general, and Americans especially, she is wildly immature when it comes to anything sexual, especially from the perspective of a succubus.
Did you know that (at least in my little corner of the fiction-verse) the succubus language doesn’t have a word for “slut.” They obviously don’t view anything sexual in a negative light. It would also be like a fish having a word for humidity, or drowning. (Yes, I know fish can drown if there’s not enough oxygen in the water, but that’s more like asphyxiation. Work with me here.)
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All the things Sydney has been through the past couple of days (per her timeline) and it’s suddenly realizing that Frix and Dabs have history is what blows her mind!
Or maybe it was finding out that Frix’s penis makes honking noises when someone squeezes it is what actually blew her mind.
It’s like a squeaky toy – keeps the females off his species entertained…
You realize that squeaky toys don’t squeek very well unless they are chewed. Seems to be a bit too painful for me.
Don’t kinkshame, yo.
HA!
That wasn’t kinkshaming; I actually love getting a good BJ. I merely noted that I wouldn’t to be treated as a chew-toy. (No disrespect to Yorp, who really loves chew-toys, even the squeaky ones)
If you’re going to use a term like “kinkshaming,” then at least stand up with the proper definition of it as support.
You have never stepped on one in the middle of the night
Why was your Frix on the floor?
You can step on a Lego, racist.
Frix is literally Honkin’ Huge!
She was likely getting different notes out of his French horn than honking.
To be fair, Sydney’s had her mind blown by a lot of other things too.
Hopefully Fritz is unlike terrestrial felines and is not endowed with a barbed penis! Most cats (as well as many other species), have about 100 small barbs of keratin (a type of hard tissue), on the head of their penis that scrape the walls of the female’s vagina during copulation. The pain stimulates the female’s brain to release hormones that will cause ovulation. It requires at least four matings to build up enough hormones to trigger ovulation. Female lions get it on 100 times per day when in heat.
According to researchers at Stanford University, humans lost their penile spine genes about 700,000 years ago and traded them for bigger brains. I am so glad.
Frix is a Space Woof not a Space Cat as was established several pages ago when Sydney already discovered his ‘barb’ state. State of barbs? Whatever.
Presumably Frix doesn’t have a knot like terrestrial canines, either. I assume this both because that might have been a deal (amongst other things) breaker for Sydney, and because I’m guessing the word balloon where she says “Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” in #705 “Hot tub space machine” is intended to indicated the approximate proportions and shape of his . . . bowsprit (as it were).
Remember that she’s been on board with furries since she got online. That probably just makes it even better.
Bigger brains, smaller minds
Good thing the researchers at Stanford are there to tell us things like that.
Japanese have a word that means ‘Vagina Brothers’.
You figure it out.
In Sweden we say “Bukbröder”, “Buksystrar” and “Buksyskon” – roughly abdomen brothers, abdomen sisters and abdomen siblings respectively.
…. I sincerely think that either, it is a mishearing of “f***brothers” which i KNOW i have heard before, or that it actually originated the word “f***brothers” and through that the term “f***” as a word for copulation.
The lingual (and spelling)similarity is too much of a coincidence.
Nah, legend has it, ‘FUCK’ is an acronym for “Fornicating Under Consent of the King” (because ‘FUCotK’ made no sense… :P)
The rumour fifty years back was that the word had long ago been tatooed or burned onto the forehead as a punishment For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of another.
That’s just a backronym. It’s not the actual origin of the word. The origin of the word is from the latin futuere and old german ficken meaning ‘to strike or penetrate.’
It’s not an acronym for ‘fornicating under consent of the king’ nor is it an acronym for ‘for unlawful carnal knowledge’ – which some people claim.
Only reason I even know this is I’ve heard the ‘consent of the king’ story told to me when i was in high school by a sex ed teacher who thought it was the actual source of the word. Meaning they were teaching things incorrectly in high school based on a joke :). So I wound up doing some research to see what the actual word etymology was, told the teacher, and I was told that I was wrong.
Turns out I was right :).
This is the same explanation I have always heard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck
OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit, and the earliest attested appearance of current spelling is 1535 (“Bischops … may fuck thair fill and be vnmaryit” [Sir David Lyndesay, “Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits”]). Presumably it is a more ancient word, but one not written in the kind of texts that have survived from Old English and Middle English [September 2015: the verb appears to have been found recently in an English court manuscript from 1310]. Buck cites proper name John le Fucker from 1278, but that surname could have other explanations. The word apparently is hinted at in a scurrilous 15c. poem, titled “Flen flyys,” written in bastard Latin and Middle English. The relevant line reads:
Non sunt in celi
quia fuccant uuiuys of heli
“They [the monks] are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of [the town of] Ely.” Fuccant is pseudo-Latin, and in the original it is written in cipher. The earliest examples of the word otherwise are from Scottish, which suggests a Scandinavian origin, perhaps from a word akin to Norwegian dialectal fukka “copulate,” or Swedish dialectal focka “copulate, strike, push,” and fock “penis.”
Another theory traces the Modern English verb to Middle English fyke, fike “move restlessly, fidget” (see fike) which also meant “dally, flirt,” and probably is from a general North Sea Germanic word (compare Middle Dutch fokken, German ficken “fuck,” earlier “make quick movements to and fro, flick,” still earlier “itch, scratch;” the vulgar sense attested from 16c.). This would parallel in sense the vulgar Middle English term for “have sexual intercourse,” swive, from Old English swifan “to move lightly over, sweep” (see swivel). But OED remarks that these “cannot be shown to be related” to the English word. Liberman has this to say:
Germanic words of similar form (f + vowel + consonant) and meaning ‘copulate’ are numerous. One of them is G. ficken. They often have additional senses, especially ‘cheat,’ but their basic meaning is ‘move back and forth.’ … Most probably, fuck is a borrowing from Low German and has no cognates outside Germanic.
Chronology and phonology rule out Shipley’s attempt to derive it from Middle English firk “to press hard, beat.” The unkillable urban legend that this word is an acronym of some sort (a fiction traceable on the internet to 1995 but probably predating that), and the “pluck yew” fable, are results of ingenious trifling (also see here). The Old English verb for “have sexual intercourse with” was hæman, from ham “dwelling, home,” with a sense of “take home, co-habit.” French foutre and Italian fottere seem to resemble the English word but are unrelated, descending rather from Latin futuere, which perhaps is from PIE root *bhau- “to strike,” extended via a figurative use “from the sexual application of violent action” [Shipley; compare the sexual slang use of bang, etc.].
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fuck
just so you know this isn’t my work.
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Like said, ‘legend’, never claimed it was ‘fact’
Sorry, I get very focused about word etymology, as you can see about people who are inaccurately claiming the eskimo is a slur instead of coming from a word that means ‘person who laces snowshoes.’ :)
Teaching things wrong in high school is common when it comes to history. For example, about 90% of what they teach about Christopher Columbus comes from a 19th century novel. The real story is much less romanticized and….well, lets just say Columbus Day would quickly cease to be a thing if they taught the real story.
So of us, American Indians, are protesting the day for a mass murderer.
Because of Columbus, the Caribs no longer exist.
He personally slaughtered an entire people?
Damn, didn’t know he had it in him
I’m pretty sure that, according to the Arawak, the Caribs were actually pretty warlike and used to slaughter the Arawaks, and the two tribes had been in a state of constant war (and the Caribs had also displaced the former occupants of the islands they were on, the Tainos). Columbus’s men (and later European – especially French, English, and Spanish ships) almost definitely had a significant amount to do with the tide of that war changing to the Carib’s detriment. Also, in 1511, King Ferdinand did declare war on the Caribs (Columbus died in 1506). But there were still Caribs up until modern day (there’s still about 3000 indigenous Caribs in northeast Dominica. called the Kalinago, and they elect a chief – the current chief is Chief Charles Williams, who succeeded Chief Garnette Joseph), although the Carib language went extinct in the 1930s. There are also a bunch of Carib descendants in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Grenada, Trinidad, St. Vincent, Antigua, and Saint Lucia. So no, Columbus did not exterminate the Caribs. The major fighting between Europeans and Caribs didn’t even start in earnest until 6 years after his death.
The Island Caribs were at war with several other tribes, PLUS the Europeans, which led to their decimation, although they did hold out longer than most tribes that fought the Europeans (especially the Spaniards). There was also an alliance between the Arawaks and the Spanish, and the Arawaks did present Columbus’ men with gifts of cotton thread, parrots, and javelins in Guanahahi (San Salvador)… which might lead towards the whole story of how the Arawaks were very peaceful while the Caribs were warlike cannibals (although there’s not a lot of anthropological evidence of that, except the Caribs having a practice of taking human ‘trophies’). More likely it was just stories from the Arawak which the Europeans believed based on the ‘human trophy taking.’
Btw, France and England signed a treaty with the Island Caribs in 1660. The majority of the deaths of Caribs came unintentionally from diseases like smallpox, which the natives had no immunity against. The Europeans then, of course, ignored the treaty in 1763 when they annexed both islands that the Caribs were living on. The British Crown then gave them back the northeast coast of the island (Dominica) in 1903.
I could be wrong though – most of this is just based on my watching the History Channel a lot. But I read a bit on this to make sure my information was as accurate as I could get it.
It’s occurring to me that you might mean that Columbus set off a chain of events which led to the Caribs no longer existing.
Aside from the fact that the Caribs do still exist, it’s pretty likely that Columbus was not all that integral to setting off this chain of events, since Columbus was not the only European that would eventually engage with the Island Caribs. He was just the first. So unless you mean that ‘if the Europeans had never reached the new world EVER with ANYONE, then the Caribs would still exist,’ you are probably incorrect.
Plus, like I said … they actually still do still exist, but I’m giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you mean they would have existed in greater numbers, assuming they survived their wars with other tribes.
Btw, my posts aren’t in any way saying Columbus didn’t do a bunch of horrible, evil things. He was NOT a particularly good person, was very greedy and self-aggrandizing, his writings had a lot of hateful things to say about several of the tribes he encountered, and many of the Conquistadors that followed afterwards were downright vicious to the native populations. History is full of people doing a lot of crappy, often evil, things to each and then these facts being romanticized in order to minimalize the atrocities.
But on the same note, we can’t then just go the complete opposite direction and add to the wrongdoings without making sure of the accuracy of those accusations, because it then hurts the validity of the actual wrongdoings, like the broken treaties (broken by the Europeans) that had been made in good faith, the forcible relocation of entire peoples, killing/enslavement of women and children, etc. And then people think ‘well if this wasn’t true, then the romanticized fiction WAS true’ – which is isn’t.
It’s sort of the main dispute some historians have with calling it a genocide, since the majority of the indigenous populations getting killed (especially during Columbus) were from disease, not from war, and it was an unintended introduction of disease as a byproduct of the Columbian exchange of plants, animals, culture, human population, technology, ideas, and…. very unfortunately… communicable diseases and INVASIVE species (of animals AND plants).
How did I start writing a whole lecture on Columbus and the Caribs from ‘Vagina Brothers’ and the original of the F-word?
Pretty sure I went off on the tangent of all tangents.
Your tangents are always educational and informative :D
I try.
But you gotta admit, that was quite the tangent. :)
Not denying its greatness, just saying that it was eduformative :D
Wow, one can’t even reply to these comments for how much back and forth they are.
I sometimes get verbose when I post.
Understatement, I know.
It shares a common Indo-European root with the German word fick, which can mean hit, or have sex with.
Nah, I doubt either. That said, I wouldn’t be very surprised if “buksyskon” was inspired by the similarity.
I usually hear “Tunnel Brothers / Pole Sisters” in Alberta, Canada
A lot of the terms here I have heard probably once each. After pointing out they sound like a term for gay partners people seem to stop using them.
Wow, Sydney took THAT? I am… impressed. Very impressed, Sydney. She’s made out of sterner stuff than I thought.
I think this definitely lends credence to the idea that their fooling around wasn’t quite a home run. Sydney’s a regular ole human and the percentage of people that can make a pringles can vanish are pretty small… And as much as she’s from the corner of the world that knows what Bad Dragon is she doesn’t seem outgoing enough for it.
Yeah, they fooled around, bases were… uh… based? I don’t know baseball, but there’s things they didn’t get up to. Basically, there’s plenty of reasons for a second date.
One rounds a base.
Or touches one…
Or strikes out :(
can one of these bases be stolen?
Yes, but the ump blows the rape whistle.
Yeah, I know a few people (including myself) that can make what is inside a Pringles can disappear, but the can itself, not so much.
Youhad me gong there for a second.
Don’t be so sure. She’s already proven she has a superhuman tolerance to spicy foods. For all we know, he was trying to be gentle and she was screaming, “just SHOVE, dammit!”
ImpTwins said, “I think this definitely lends credence to the idea that their fooling around wasn’t quite a home run.”
DaveB said, “Yeah, they fooled around, bases were… uh… based? I don’t know baseball, but there’s things they didn’t get up to. Basically, there’s plenty of reasons for a second date.”
Something may have been inserted (third base?) but he did not have sex with that woman!
Yeah that’s long enough it would be pushing on her diaphragm and bigger around than Dabler’s forearm (which is about as big as Syd’s leg).
Based on research, exercise is needed beforehand and the guy only gets to use 15%-20%.
Pushing on her diaphragm? More like her chin.
Sydney be smol.
It’s not established she actually did….
Yeah, seriously… that looks uncomfortable large for even “experienced” people to handle.
Maybe that’s what the last orb does. For…diplomacy. Yeah! diplomacy!(they’re alien artifacts.
Don’t forget Dabber has two different sized arms. The upper arms are much smaller than the lower ones and they’re probably suited for fine detail work and motor control,
as opposed to her heavy duty arms for sling and guns and wielding swords.
I dunno where you are getting the idea that Xuriel’s arms are different sizes. Every time she’s shown, they always look the same size to me. Is it actually detailed somewhere? It could be that we are only used to seeing beings with 2 upper limbs that the disparity is making it look like they are different to you. :)
They look the same size here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-729-most-succubus-greetings-involve-entry/
Sounds like you are getting confused with that girl from “Supernormal Step”. She had two sets of arms, with one much smaller than the main
I wonder how Frix will feel. Isn’t that objectifying the man as an object owned by the woman who banged him? I didn’t think anyone on Cora’s Love Ship (read that as someone singing Love Train) would enjoy anything that bound anyone to anyone due to a romp.
Alien species. Consent and familiarity may have entirely different meanings and echelons. We shouldn’t project our mindsets on other members of the galaxy.
For all we know, our most sexual extroverts may be considered downright prude by most civilizations in the galaxy.
As Frix has demonstrated, he has quite the sense of humor, and an open mind. I doubt he’ll be too bothered.
when did Sydney&Frix become an item?
That’s what I’m saying too.
I’m not a millenial, but is this right?
Dabix & Fridney!
Many people get possessive of their most recent sex partner.
Or their first
ImpTwins said, “I think this definitely lends credence to the idea that their fooling around wasn’t quite a home run.”
DaveB said, “Yeah, they fooled around, bases were… uh… based? I don’t know baseball, but there’s things they didn’t get up to. Basically, there’s plenty of reasons for a second date.”
Something may have been inserted (third base?) but he did not have sex with that woman!
Let’s see if this post disappears too.
Looks like you ran out of disappearing ink.
There’s something weird that happens if you post a little too quickly. Most of the time, the post lands, but you just don’t see it immediately. I’ve gone back a day later frustrated by it and seen three posts there as they should be. Just check back later.
Wow you really got explicit with this one. Didn’t realize Frix was a two-hander.
Actually given Xuriel exists he’d probably be more aptly described as a four-hander.
+1
more than implied here. :-) :-)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-705-hot-tub-space-machine/
I’m pretty pleased, my math at the time put him at around 15 inches (based on her viewing angles). Seems to have been in the ballpark.
Dabbler went a bit too far there.
Yeah. Dunno Frix’s views on personal space, but he sure looks like he sure looks like he took a whack.
So Sydney and Dabbler have both been frisky with Frix? Yeah, not surprising, considering Dabbler helped design some of the ship including the tentacle closet thing. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if she got the whole crew involved at times…
Daniel here. Screwball seems to have overheated and shut down. Again. I swear, he’s like a 12 year old kid or something when it comes to anything involving sex…
Eskimo brother/sister is actually slightly less offensive than Inuit brother/sister. Eskimo is a generic term including Inuit, Iñupiat and Yupik peoples whereas Inuit is specific to the Inuit people. A Yupik person would rather be identified as Yupik (not surprisingly), but (generally) would MUCH rather be called an Eskimo than an Inuit.
Actually….. “Eskimo” was originally coined as an insult by the Algonquin towards said groups. It means “Eaters of Raw Meat.” Started being used due to the survival choice of said peoples eating fresh-of-the-animal seal/whale blubber, and folks from further south mistaking it for actual meat.
As for the Yupik, it should be noted that most of them are actually completely fine with being called Inuit. “Eskimo” meanwhile’s actually been asked by both groups to be officially stripped out of records in most of the countries they live in.
Incorrect, I’m afraid. It means “person who laces a snowshoe” and was not originally a slur.
Either way, sounds like I’ve been misinformed. Thank you for correcting my error.
Pendrake, no, it does NOT mean eater of raw meat. It has NEVER meant eater of raw meat.
It means ‘person who laces snowshoes’ or ‘husky.’ What you’re claiming has been LONG since discredited as fake word etymology.
Max: “You can knock it off Dabbler, you’re not getting a rise out of me.”
Dabbler: “No, but then it’s not you I’m trying to get a rise out of, Max…” *Looks at Frix, then the rise she’s gotten out of him*
I dunno. Panel 9 looks to me more like a pain response than a pleasure one.
Well I don’t get the Eskimo sisters reference it seems that what really blows Sydney’s mind is the fact that she’s just now realizing she’s going somewhere the dabbler has already been.
I didn’t get it either but DaveB explained underneath the comic it is from a show and basically just means ‘two people who had the same sexual partner in the past’.
Sydney probably figured she was going where no man has gone before.
But she wasn’t thinking about where Dabbler has gone before….
Where hasn’t Dabbler gone before?
Mission: To boldly go where Gnome Ann has gone before.
Gnome Ann?
Oh you mean the Bard.
Never heard either term before, but I did read that when Pa was off sealing or otherwise gone for some time, another male, usually the same one, moved in [with the apparent excuse that he was keeping her safe, tho all involved knew he was doing other things with her. Anyway, all of her needs were seen to.]
Strictly, we do not know that Sydney and Dabbler are full Eskimo sisters. Girls will use “boyfriend” about a lad they have yet to touch and have no plans to anytime soon. Still, she doesn’t have plans not to.
“Just about everything these days”, well more like “every name that has been tainted with a history of violent-to-genocidal interaction”. “Massachusettsan” sounds silly but is not offensive.
I’ll just add that people don’t choose to get offended about many things. Many subcategories of humans (based on ethnicity, gender, sexuality, language, skin colour, social background or whatever) have been attacked and/or insulted for a long time, and the fact we’re paying attention to that now only feels like “everything is offensive” or “every word is problematic” because we weren’t paying attention before.
We weren’t paying attention to what we were saying, and we weren’t listening when we were told ‘Hey! that’s not exactly nice!’.
The term I’ve heard for ‘Massachusettsan’ is a lot less friendly and correlates specific anatomy with the person’s state of residency.
When I was in Boston, people were straight up offended when I called them anything but “Massholes.” That’s like calling me a “Michiganian.” I am a “Michigander,” thanks.
What’s sauce for the Michigoose is sauce for the Michigander…
Hey! Watch that! Michiganites are very sensitive about that sort of thing.
Come to think of it, I have no idea what you call a person from Massachusetts.
Massachusettite?
Massachusetan?
Massachusettonian?
Massachusetling?
Massachusetshian?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Rhode Islanders got it easy. I don’t even want to know what you call people from Connecticut.
I’ve heard that some people just add an extra ‘n’.
I believe the proper term is “overtaxed”.
“Masshole” is pretty easy to say.
+1
Mass’o’Juices residents: “Bay Stater” is the typical name, but a lot of Bawstonians actually *prefer* “Massholes” for some weird reason.
All joking aside, they’re called Massachusettsans
Massachusettlers
:D
“wildly immature when it comes to anything sexual” By that, you mean emotionally healthy and normal. When you don’t fit into the 80%+ of “normal” people, you’re the weird one.
Shows with tons of violence and gore, fun for the whole family.
Show one (female) nipple, 18+ only because think of the children!
Yeah, sure, totally not immature about anything sexual. I’m not saying to do away with age ratings or even censoring some stuff, but from what I’ve seen about the American media they are a lot more over the top in giving high age ratings and censoring stuff than other (Western) media.
Yes a friend posted how people were losing it over a female character on Game Of Thrones finally getting some, because ‘oh no how could she she’s just a child!’ when she’s 18 at that point in the show with hundreds of corpses in her wake as she’s devoted herself to learning how to slaughter people. So apparently in their minds there’s nothing wrong with a ‘child’ literally bathed in the blood of her victims but it’s horrific that she had consensual sex.
In “Fifty Shades of Grey” Alexandra is 28 when she first has sex, with Christian no less. This in a story written by E. L. James a BRITISH author.
The percentage of smokers has NEVER been even close to 80%. In fact, it has never even reached 50%. They were always in the minority, though there was a time when it was more socially acceptable.
I don’t know, man. Some of those old black and white movies have EVERY character smoking in them. I would believe 80% if you excluded children under the age of 12 or 13 from the tally.
In a lot of early TV shows the sponsors were tobacco companies, and they wanted the characters constantly smoking. Even the Flintstones pushed tobacco.
Movies are fiction.
All the cool people smoked.
I’m not cool. So I’ve never had a cigarette.
Only if you live all your life in the stunted culture of America.
I have lived in a fair number of countries on four continents and several Pacific islands.
Places are different from one another.
The culture in the United States isn’t particularly stunted.
True, definitely not stunted – proportions out of whack with weird growths all over the place and a pox or three but not stunted at all.
I’m afraid I have to take issue with your methodology there. It wasn’t so long ago in this country (and still is in many others) that something approaching 80% of the population smoked. That didn’t make it healthy or normal (sorry – sticking a burning ember into your mouth and sucking on it to fill your lungs with carbon to get a mild high is neither natural nor survival-oriented). Sometimes it really is society that’s broken.
So you’re saying sex, which is a basic human drive, is bad? You’re Ace arent you.
No, they’re actually saying the opposite. Pay attention to the borders to see which post they’re replying to.
Speaking for myself, not McChuck, sex is fine, but social behaviours around sex are a leeeetle more complex. How long ago do you think it was that casual sex was a fast track to some Ghastly Crotch-Rot and/or pregnancy with a high chance of death and non-trivial effects on property and inheritance rights?
Even if we restrict ourselves to modern westerners, it’s still the fastest way to crater a relationship, if handled poorly.
Liberated (?) sex can be had in a mature fashion, but don’t assume all sex is inherently mature.
Heck yes.
As far as I can tell, it wasn’t so long ago that the concept of consent wasn’t very well understood by a lot of guys (and of course it still isn’t the case for a number of them).
When I read stuff like ‘like just about everything these days, offensive to one group or another’ I can’t help but think: yep, social progress is clearly equivalent to people being oversensitive.
Hell, when you look at rates of depression and suicide among men you might think that a lot of us would actually benefit from developing more emotional intelligence. Getting guys to understand that is another matter entirely though :P.
Even in the nineteen forties the actual percentage of smokers was only forty three percent.
As rural residents were much less likely to smoke some cities might have reached fifty percent.
No, that totally did make it normal. It’s just that normal doesn’t mean healthy, morally right or a good idea in any way. “Normal” is just what is culturally accepted as the done thing.
Normal is just average and common sense is what the majority think is approriate.
The does not equate to good sense in any way shape or form.
It still irks me that so many supposedly intelligent and educated people conflate common sense with good sense when the Venn diagram for the two barely touch.
Well we can blame the native Americans for inventing smoking, though it was part of their religion and peace ceremonies (Thus the term “Peace Pipe”) and they didn’t do it NEARLY as often as chainsmokers do.
Hey, it’s not the native Americans’ fault the Europeans went absolutely ape over Tobacco and wanted to smoke ALL the time…some of them must have been thinking: These people have become insanely religious!
I see you also enjoy the works of Larry Gonick.
Mr. Gonick’s books should be used as textbooks in high schools for itroductory classes. He has a talent for boiling down complicated subjects to their essence in a memorable way.
“Run! It’s an escaped chapter from an ADVANCED physics book!” – The illustration at the beginning of the “Relativity” chapter of “The Cartoon Guide to Physics”
The pure, natural tobacco smoked by Native Americans was also not nearly as bad as modern cigarettes with a bunch of junk added to make them taste better and/or be more addictive. Not that inhaling smoke is ever good for you, especially smoke laden stimulants, but at least that’s ALL that you’re getting with pure tobacco.
Not to mention soaking modern tobacco plants in industrial fertilizers, which has the SUPER benefit of biologically concentrating Polonium for your inhalation enjoyment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Tobacco
You also had the introduction of the Kent Micronite Filter, which was marketed as making cigarette smoking safer. Unfortunately the filters were made using a particularly friable form of asbestos, practically guaranteeing that anyone smoking Kents would develop mesothelioma.
Europeans had little, if any, resistance to the affects of tobacco just as American Indians had very little resistance to the affects of alcohol. The results, very high levels of “addiction”, were the same for both groups.
No you cannot, American Indians in the southeast used smoking to seal a deal. Further west they smoked Sweet grass, and even then for sealing a deal. I am of Hodenonsaunee/Iroquois. descent. Sir Walter Riley introduced tobacco to the Europeans, which started smoking often.
Also the term Eskimo Brother essentially means 2 guys who’ve been in the same “igloo.” So as long as Eskimos actually at one point in history lived in those ice block domes, I don’t think it could be considered offensive. Unless there’s something culturally offensive about calling a vagina an igloo.
However, Eskimo sisters doesn’t really work in this case as they each had their own igloo. Maybe Austrian Sisters because they had the same Sausage? Spanish Sisters for sharing the churro? Coney Island Sisters for each grabbing the same foot long? French sisters for baking the same baguette.
It has to be food for the parallel to work I think because it has to be something non-sexually that you take inside you as an igloo is something non sexual you go inside.
Isn’t Eskimo a type of Ice-Cream? I kinda thought the meaning is “Licked the same thing”
Dabbs was definitely trying to find out if “one of the crew had a go with one of the guests” . Of course I’ve had this stupid lyric stuck in my head for this entire sequence.
Considering the only one who had contact with the crew was Sydney, Dabbles could have just whispered names into her ear and see how she reacts (or blushes)
No, this was a direct response to Maxi pouring cold water on Dabbles’ ‘fun’
We have a brand of the name Eskymo in Czechia (Czech Republic). It’s coconut flavored. I have always assumed that it is local or at most known in some other countries of the former eastern bloc.
An Eskimo Pie is a vanilla ice cream bar covered in chocolate.
Sidenote: Had to look that up to make sure I was remembering correctly. “Eskimo brothers” popped up in the suggestions when I was typing it in, so apparently the phrase is at least somewhat common.
And a ‘Joy Bar’ has a layer of raspberry added
Can remember a number of years back, a visiting Inuit complained about one of our local sweets, demanding they change the name and shape
Ironically, while she took offense at the name (“eater of raw meat”), she wanted the shape changed to that of a seal (which is their main source of meat) o_O
Now, if, as other commenters here have said, Inuit is just one of three or four tribes who comprise the Eskimo people, isn’t it a little much for a 21 year old to speak on behalf of the other two or four tribes?
I feel like ‘Eskimo Sisters’ is a pretty obscure turn of phrase for someone who had to reach for the word ‘indistinct’ to know.
Okay, not surprised at Dabs behaviour in the least, she IS part succubus after all (a dishonest man you can always expect to be dishonest,it’s the honest ones you shouldn’t trust).
Frix swinging a zweihander,a bit expected, if only because he IS part of Cora’s crew, he has to have SOME useful ability BESIDES being a medic……..
Given Syd’s reaction, experience tells me she did have sex with Frix, might not have been vaginal sex, but she did have sex with him
He’s the ship’s engineer and medic, how much more “useful” do you need? Besides, even if he wasn’t equipped like that I’m sure Cora would still keep him in the rotation, so to speak.
ImpTwins said, “I think this definitely lends credence to the idea that their fooling around wasn’t quite a home run.”
DaveB said, “Yeah, they fooled around, bases were… uh… based? I don’t know baseball, but there’s things they didn’t get up to. Basically, there’s plenty of reasons for a second date.”
Something may have been inserted (third base?) but he did not have sex with that woman!
I love the look that Dabbler has in the second-to-last panel. “I’ve got something in common with the new kid! Cool!”
Poor Sydney,maybe she’d ought to seek deep therapy…!?
Given Frix’s,ahem, “attributes”, i don’t think she could get much deeper….
She could try of course, but that’s another story….
Syd, you want him?
Better stake an adamantium claim (provided he feels the same way), cause he’s basically a spacer, and God knows how that’s going to work out
I’ve heard the term “Eskimo brother” from my kids, so it’s probably more common than The League.
It’s your universe, Dave; but not even a word that effectively translates to ‘glutton?’
Judging by Sydney’s eyes in the last panel, they just gave her a stroke.
Or was it Frix who got a stroke (and perhaps more)?
Since you bring up polyamory, DaveB, the term in much of that community that describes partners of a shared person who are not partners themselves is metamour
I’ve never heard that word before, but come to think of it, most of the harem novels I read are that way. 1 dude with multiple chicks. Sometimes there are threesomes or more, and sometimes two or more of the girls will pair off, but usually it’s the guy with one of the girls at a time.
I didnt know that! but then, even though I am in a poly relationship I dont have much to do with any so called Poly community. My wife would probably find that hysterical and our cohusband would just be confused, bless his little heart
Yup, seconded! I’ve heard and read “metamour” from my friends and bloggers in the polyam community, that’s the only term for someone you share a partner with that I’ve ever heard.
I just appreciate the somewhat wholesome smile Dab has in panel 11. We know the truth but without words it is rather wholesome.
I think she’s just happy to have something in common with the new kid. She looks just overjoyed.
Maybe they view celibacy in a similar light. Their version of anorexic.
those are some extreme reactions
Even if he is disproportionately large relative to Sydney, he’s from a much more sexually permissive culture, and likely is more than experienced enough that he could have made sure to give her a good time without needing to show her his full power, as it were. Either that or the last unknown orb passively gives her an orifice-based hammerspace of her own.
I believe Sydney has referred to the phenomenon with the applicable term in panel five of this:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-524-importinent-questions/
Panel 12 is “special” in a good way….
I would think in the succubus language/culture being called a “prude” would be the insult used instead of “slut”.
I imagine it’s a relative neologism for them, because they probably didn’t meet any prudes before contacting other sapients.
Since tantric energy is a main form of sustenance for succubi (succubusses? . . . or is that what succubi at Balor U use to get to off-campus footsieball games?), I would think “prude” would be more like “anorexic.” Less likely to be used as an insult, and more likely to be used to describe someone with a potentially life-threatening disorder.
So worth it!
Space HPV = APV.
I don’t get/can’t read what’s going on in the first speech bubble. Someone got a clue ?
that Frix real name. Dabbler can actually pronouce it.
Xuriel is saying Frix’s name.
Speech that can’t be depicted with this alphabet. If our tongue can’t do it then we haven’t produced a way of writing it down regardless of which Earth language we try with. It looks like it has two overlapping components to start with which I doubt is possible without a mouth like a predator and two tongues.
Sydney realizes that she and Dabbler have had an indirect fuck.
And now she wants to remove the indirect
Well, YOU want her to. I’m not so sure about Sydney.
I think DABBLER wants to remove the indirect.
Eskimo brothers/Sisters is a term that refers to men/women who have had sex with the same partner at different points in time. It’s considered offensive (or at least in bad taste).
It is just as offensive as sleeping with someone else’s partner in the first place
Not offensive at all. The use of Brother/Sister specifically means that the two people that had sex with a third person are on friendly, amicable terms and are cool with each other and the situation. .
Look it up, it’s considered offensive.
Yeah and no. the only sources that considered it ‘offensive’ were politically correct, namby pamby, highbrow sites and not very many of them. This is the kind of term that hyperventilates thin skinned, self righteous people looking for an excuse to be offended. Meh, I logged this into my ‘give a shit, give shit, care-care-care” file. No offense intended, just my opinion.
That’s your privilege talking right there. It’s easy to shrug something off if you’re not the one hurt by it. So yeah, you’re just showing why your ‘opinion’ is born of willful ignorance of the subject.
People like you are oversensitive to social progress and upset that people are finally noticing the harm attached to terms. It’s the same reactionary backlash that every single social justice movement has faced.
Is that the same bullshit movement that decides to be offended on behalf of others, just so they can be righteous in their condemnation for something that never happened?
No, that’s you making a bad faith argument because actually addressing what’s been said would force you to admit your own bigotry. Classic white fragility right there
And going by your other comments you also feel entitled to others just because of having had sex with them. So let’s add male fragility to the list.
Now how about you stop trying to shout people down because they’re not putting up with your bigotry? Or does that cut too deep for your thin skin?
DAMN! Dabbles has to be squeezing REAL hard to get that sort of reaction from Frixie
Unless that was actually one of his balls rather than bat…
Holt shit, Frix!! How do you even walk!?!?
How did Sydney even walk afterwards?!?!?!
The brown orb might be a healing orb. Probably best if she held on to it DURING, as well as a quick pass after, for maximally unhindered walking.
*sigh*
ImpTwins said, “I think this definitely lends credence to the idea that their fooling around wasn’t quite a home run.”
DaveB said, “Yeah, they fooled around, bases were… uh… based? I don’t know baseball, but there’s things they didn’t get up to. Basically, there’s plenty of reasons for a second date.”
Something may have been inserted (third base?) but he did not have sex with that woman!
You do realize that that particular organ can fit a baby’s head, right? Frix would have to be gentle, take it slow, and be a caring, careful dude– and his personality seems to be exactly right for that. There’s no reason why Sydney and Frix couldn’t have had sex, given some patience and care.
And lube. Lots and lots of lube.
Dave’s obviously been brainwashed by Tefler’s “John Blake Chronicles” given his over the top depiction of Frix’s equipment.
Or literally every sex comic ever where the guy is so equipped that he would black out every time he got half and erection.
To quote Robin Williams – God gave man both a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to operate one of them at a time.
Dabbler grab them by the genitals. She don’t even ask.
It’s clearly appreciated… except possibly in the case of Frix. As comical as his appearance is in that panel, it implies he didn’t care for it as much.
There’s a Game of Thrones actor who has complained about being sexually assaulted by older women groping his genitals because of some things his character has done (apparently the character is massively tooled and the prostitutes do him for free. Or something. I don’t know, I haven’t watched the show. I haven’t been a fan of George R.R. Martin since I got tired of the Wild Cards and the Thieves World series). That man is NOT appreciative of random strangers grabbing his junk like that… but he’s also stated that he had a lot of fun with it when dating. Meaning that when he was with partners he WANTED to be with, gave his consent to, it was appreciated.
Dabbler appears to believe she has advance consent from them all. Given that they’re all sexual partners (and they’re familiar with each others’ sexually open standards), she’s probably correct.
Well Game Of Thrones is based on Maurice Druon’s “Les Rois maudits.
Martin added in all of the fantasy elements.
The sexual stuff in the story is what it is because the fourteenth century French Monarchy was that way.
Sadly there are people who cannot distinguish between entertainment they consume and the entertainers who produce it.
Yeah I don’t think Dabbler would be allowed on the team if she was one of the genital grabbers who gropes without consent.
apparently the character is massively tooled and the prostitutes do him for free.
I mean, having a big dick doesn’t nessecarily make having sex with someone so gratifying that you would waive payment for something you do professionally. At least, it doesn’t seem realistic to me.
As for what Dabbler is thinking, my read on it is just that she’s more familiar with people than they are sometimes comfortable with. It seems to be mostly played for comedy. Not something I’m really cool with. But you might be right, and this is something that’s understood between them.
I’m suddenly reminded of “the Orville.” Season one, the episode where the blue guy that Kelly had an affair with shows up because he’s the archeologist who is going to end a savage conflict over a planet claimed by two different species. And promptly causes people who touch him to go into mating heat (with the inevitable hilarity ensuing).
The most striking thing about it was how he was genuinely baffled by how other people objected to what was happening. “Look, in my culture it’s considered rude to decline sex.” He kept claiming that they were overreacting, that it was harmless (until he realized that people were actually being endangered by what was going on). What’s more, he proved to be a genuinely decent person – he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, he helped come up with the plan that saved the day and a lot of lives, and his parting words were deliberately coached to make the “maybe” seem as a definite “yes” (even if he knew the real answer was “no, but I want to fix this for them”), in order to help fix the damaged relationship between two nice people that he had inadvertently harmed.
Except that that supposed fact of his culture and biology was not reported to or known by anyone else… the blue “nice guy”, played by Rob Lowe, was a chemical rapist.
“Oh, I didn’t know that you didn’t know” makes no sense in that milieu. As soon as that biological effect was known, it would have been reported to Star Fleet, who would make it absolutely common knowledge so that consent would be possible…. and also so that those who WANTED to participate could get in on it.
It was reported. The reports were censored by some prudes then.
“Chemically-induced consent” is still rape.
Not exactly, at least in the context of how the show presented it.
The alien didn’t put any chemicals INTO them. He just naturally excreted a particular pheromone as part of his basic biology. It’s sort of like when men use cologne or women use perfume, even if pheromones are in it which are supposed to increase a desire in the opposite sex, THAT isn’t rape. Which differs from actual ‘chemically induced’ actions, like slipping a mickey or getting someone drunk.
Plus it’s likely that the laws of the Union didn’t cover ‘these aliens, just by dint of existing, are illegal.’ Because it gets very iffy when it comes to making sentient beings illegal just because they happen to exist, regardless of any actions they committed which were separate from the basic biological fact of their existence. Also might would be a bill of attainder (a legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial), which is against the Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution, against the alien’s entire species just because they have naturally occurring pheromones which gets humans very frisky. He wasn’t ACTING on it to seduce her, since she made the first move, so he made no actions to intentionally use the pheromones. And the Orville’s ‘Planetary Union’s founding legal documents seems to be heavily influenced influenced by the United States Constitution, based on one episode they mentioned it in.
The aliens didn’t even realize that it would be a problem because, in their culture, if someone asks you to have sex with them, they consider it to be incredibly rude for THEM, among their species, not to say ‘sure.’
Plus also, they didn’t actually specify that she had lost the ability to make decisions. Humans also have pheromones. The alien’s pheromones just happened to be a lot more effective at their natural biological function, which is not to ‘control people’s minds’ but rather to just ‘make themselves much more attractive to others.’
I suspect she may soon worry about comparison with a succubus
Hopefully no anxiety there…
Dave, is the honk literal or figurative?
It’s probably figurative. Like ‘En-wolf-en’ and ‘en-bigg-en’ and ‘squeeze.’
I can confirm that Frix’s woof-hood does not make honking noises.