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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… Succubus dirty talk must be weird. Such wildly divergent conceits.
Probably more nuanced and detailed in the acts themselves. Maybe like a sextual taxonomy?
Sexual Taxonomy is my Ska coverband for Marvin Gaye.
they don’t have dirty talk. it’s just office banter
“Hey, Tiger, come over here and kiss me like you respect me!”
“Oooh, baby, I LOVE the way you consent!”
“The ease at which you agree to my advances displays high security in your sense of agency and reflects on our mutual interest in one another.”
“Oh, I just want to respect your boundaries all night long”
(Because, let’s face it – to a succubus, “self-restraint” means “masturbatory BDSM”)
The final frame doesnt really work for me.
I mean if she was zapped with at least 5000 volts, that works, but this is less shocked and more “shocked near death by Storm” ^^
Maybe it’s just the mystery orb’s power
I think we know what all the orbs do now, right? Life Support and Warp Gate were the mysteries.
No, the ‘Warp Gate’ is part of Flight, not the Brown Orb
No, there’s still one orb that we don’t know about. The Warpgate was part of the Flight orb after she started a new row of pips after finishing out the flight speed row.
Until you realise that Dabs was trying to get a reaction from Sydney the whole time and NOT Maxima.
What is that purple text in the bubble on the first panel? Did I miss something?
That’s Frix’s name with correct tongueage.
Which is the reason for the mention of Dabbler having the correct “tongue” for the name…and of course another rib at her being able to do something sexual (aka cunnilingus)
frix correct name aka “ngtk-ghao”
What surprises me is that Xuriel, an experienced interstellar adventurer, is habitualy so rude and insensitve towards people who’s culture isn’t as ‘liberated’ as hers. (And, giving she’s part succubus, she’s probably on the far end of the ‘what’s acceptable’spectrum. You would expect her to be more understanding and respectful of cultural differences – unless of course we’re supposed to accept that EVERY alien culture out there is much more open about sex than humanity. Which, IMHO, is nonsense. Given the size of the galaxy and the many species we’ve already seen on The Fracture, you would expect civis out there to run the whole gamut from ‘mating in public as a way to say hi’ to ‘even showing a square inch of skin/exoskeleton/etc. is porn!’ Heck, some of them probably don’t even HAVE sex and genders like we do!
My point: You would expect Dabbler to be much more accepting of differences in sexual mores and to respect a species’ sensibilities, not being judgmental and always trying to push others as far as she can.
I think Xuriel IS aware, and sensitive, when she needs to be. Here, she’s just getting off on pushing her teammates’ buttons, which is perfectly in character with her past performance.
I think she was trying to push MAXIMA’S buttons… I don’t think she had any idea that it would have pushed Sydney’s buttons because Sydney gets nosebleeds from even the suggestion of naked pictures of her. Dabbler likes to goad with good natured ribbing, but she’s not cruel.
This seems consistent with the level of discretion she has shown around Sydney in the past. While Xuriel does pester her with mild sexual implications she seems to pull her punches compared to what she does with Maxima.
We also see this in how she treats/compares with the succubus on the Council (Decolet?). Decolet is far more reserved and business focused, understanding the importance of decorum in her duties, but this doesn’t stop her from being a sex fiend. IIRC; In her banter with Xuriel, she points out that every succubus is taught that importance, but that Xuriel chooses to violate it for her own amusement.
Also worth pointing out…
Chances are Dabbler was probably earlier under the impression that Sydney was a Virgin, and so was probably treating her with kid gloves. Knowing now that Sydney is officially not, the kid gloves can come off. Not to mention Dabbler is probably ACTUALLY excited to be Eskimo sisters with Sydney.
Also worth noting these are friends that Dabbler hasn’t seen in years, which means she’d be inclined to act more like how she’d expect to act around them and less how she’d normally act around Archon.
She might be treating Sydney with kid gloves because Sydney gets to nervous when it comes to sex, to a point where she seems to get physically hurt (nosebleeds, etc). Maxima, on the other hand, just gets angry, and it can be funny to intentionally make a friend angry. It’s not so funny to intentionally injure a friend. Although Dabbler is probably genuinely happy about them being ‘eskimo sisters.’ It’s probably a succubus thing.
(Thank God for cut and paste.)
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, I feel like it’s less, “Isn’t sensitive” and more “Actively attempts to undermine”. Succubi are demons, after all, even if she’s a very friendly one. I bet that, were this some sort of hyper-puritanical world where celibacy is enforced by uncaring robotic overlords, she might be a little more subtle or hold back some. But this is Earth, where we have petabytes of literature on all things sexual. So she lets loose.
I would think that if a world were that “pure” she would have left it. I think the exact fact that our world is as flexible about the topic as we are (despite being rather strict about it at times) gives her the perfect playground for being herself while also ribbing the pure ones all in the same place.
Considering how ultra sexual and prudish specifically American culture is, I’d fuck around with it every chance I got too
American culture isn’t prudish.
Go live in the Middle East a while.
Also in the news,
“Canada isn’t cold. Go live in Greenland.”
“Rivers aren’t wet. Go to the ocean.”
“Fruit isn’t sweet. Eat raw cane sugar.”
“Cats aren’t fluffy. Hug a Chinchilla.”
“Supersonic jets aren’t fast. Visit the ISS.”
“The antarctic isn’t cold. Check out an absolute zero lab.”
China could just as easily be used as an example of prudity, and it has many times the population of the United States.
Yes, we know, your true point was that the people of the Middle East don’t matter as people, and even though their aggregate population is approximately three hundred and seventy one million they shouldn’t be considered to be real people.
You have made that perspective abundantly clear.
Wow. Just………wow. Nothing like adding 2 plus 2 and coming up with the natural log of e.
+1
Couldn’t have said it better, so left it to someone better to say it
Yeah, I’d have to say both sides are gilding the lily, but Pendantic is clearly closer to accurate.
The US *has* people with sexual morality, but the US *sells* sexual promiscuity both at home and across the world.
If the US had to be deemed at one END of the spectrum, it’s far closer to the sexualized than the nonsexualized end. San Francisco, Hollywood, New York, Las Vegas, etc etc etc, are proof.
To prove the other end you have what, Utah?
Compare any small relatively religious town, and their current views toward sex, inside or outside matrimony, to the views of a typical middle eastern town.
Reversing the analogy to wet=promiscuous/licentious and dry=moral/prudish, rational people can’t argue the US is ocean-wet or desert-dry. Sure, it has a huge bay and beaches, and a couple of tiny arid places.
It’s really more like arguing whether Louisiana is wet. A chunk of it is mostly swamp. Other chunks normally have lots of rain. Not really any deserts in the place, compared to REAL deserts. That’s more what the US is like, currently, with regard tot sex.
Unless you are referring to the US historically, or as depicted by Hollywood, rather than real US places NOW.
Yeah, we’ve had deserts here in the past. So?
No it was Pedantic’s comment about lil Joshu‘s view on people in the Middle East
American cultue is prudish, and hypocritical: yes, you can now show boobs on TV, if they slap an R (or MA) rating on it, and yet, extreme violence gets only a PG rating
I live in the Middle East and find USA prudish. Care to be spesific?
Considering the conversation Sydney had with Dabbler in the shower room where furry sex partners was a slight digression, I’m somewhat astonished that Sydney had not already considered this to be a thing.
You really think that with everything that has been going on in this short window of time that she would have had time to think about that?
Subjectively to Sydney, the whole series comprises not quite two weeks.
It’s too much to really sink all of it in.
We’ve had a few montages, I think we’re well past two weeks at this point.
We’ve had montages of the members of Arc Swat who weren’t stranded.
The author has told us that Sydney only experienced two days while the rest of the team experienced fifty three days.
That was certainly my initial guess as to what “slut” would be in Succubi.
My second thought was that it might translate as “one who can consume without resting for days”! I mean, there HAS to be a point where most succubi have expended more energy than they have taken in… Otherwise the succubi will simply continue until the energy sources are permanently depleted.
…this in reply to Moe Lane on the previous page. Failed to post properly, somehow…
Given that sex equals nourishment for a succubus, I think the word “slut” just means a person with a hearty appetite to them.
I see what you mean. They don’t need a word for “slut”. They just use “glutton”.
slutton :)
technically, the term slut might be used as a pejorative still, just for a succubus that wasn’t getting enough! (like, omg! she’s such a slut! only 2 orgies short of being a prude!)
To a succubi a “slut” would probably be one that has sex without the nourishment part.
Well, that was going to happen.
I’m curious where Sydney got the idea that Frix was ever going to be exclusive with her. I thought it pretty clear that wasn’t the case. At the very least she should have expected to share him with Cora. And it’s pretty much a given that any attractive being open to the idea of casual sex who knows Dabbler has probably done Dabbler.
Or been done by Dabbler.
Or both. Simultaneously. (There’s a fun mental image for you.)
(I is a mature adult. Teehee.)
Dabbler/Xuriel was damaging the merchandise. “DON’T BREAK MY STUFF!”
Of course, we do have one exception; the rule that she does not sleep with Archon personnel due to how it will drastically impair to readiness. Not sure if this rule applies when they are on extended leave.
It bears mention that Sydney still needs to mature a bit in understanding of relationships, particularly sexual ones. She knew that Frix wasn’t a virgin, but didn’t think any further than that, because it’s literally never come up for her before.
The only reason she overreacted like that was because she was inadvertently blindsided by Dabbler – one of Dabbler’s favorite teases when she’s doing it on purpose, no doubt.
I think Sydney is experiencing a mismatch between what she knows and what she understands.
Knows: Frix hangs with Cora and is a free alien who can involve himself as he likes
Understands: Dabbler is a succubus and will steal her guy away forever unless stopped.
And by now we all know how Halo blurts out whatever is on her mind as soon as it occurs to her. Dabbler seems to have noticed this and is taking it in stride, given that she’s friendly/teasing instead of drawing a relationship chart.
Sweet Jesus, Frix.
Are you smuggling an entire weasel down there?!?
Weasel? Oh, no, of course not!
I mean, just because it has whiskers…
That reminds me of that one ‘Epic Rap Battles of History’ where Chuck Norris has a line about “the beard that I grow on my dick”
Well maybe he’s smuggling a wienerwoof. ;)
Ermagerd! Mertiple serx perdners!
Eskimo Brother/Sister
I’m assuming this originated from a racist stereotype suggesting that Eskimos are inbred, or something like that.
And apparently Eskimo itself originated as a term of bigotry.
No Eskimo is not originated as a term of bigotry. That’s a false etymology that has been long discredited, but there are some people on NPR that keep claiming it is a slur, INACCURATELY.
It came from a word that means ‘person that laces snowshoes’ or french/spanish words that mean ‘husky.’
Between trusting a news source with journalistic integrity and you I’m going to trust the former.
To quote NPR:
“People in many parts of the Arctic consider Eskimo a derogatory term because it was widely used by racist, non-native colonizers.”
You don’t have to trust me. You can trust basic word etymology instead. Which the journalists who make the false claim of racism don’t follow apparently. It’s been long debunked, like other things that are parroted in the media despite being false, like the wage gap or Jusset Smollett being attacked in a polar vortex at 2am.
I gave the etymology of the word, that is academically proven to be why the word had been used. There’s is NO aspect of the word eskimo that means ‘eater of raw meat.’ There never has been. You’re propping up something that’s not true.
Unless you think ALL ‘journalists’ (and I use the word loosely nowadays) never make a mistake, or an intentional falsehood for the sake of a narrative.
Nope, refers to actual religious rites that some tribes used once upon a time that were misconstrued by western observers.
When I googled it, I came across an Inuit legend of two brothers returning from hunting and shared the same story of having seduced an ice queen. I know no validation of this as a real part of their mythos or if it’s a true origin to the phrase.
Gotta add “size queen” to Sydney’s resume. Between her small frame an his equipment…
Heh, Sydney should have remembered her American sex-ed. “When you have sex with someone, you’re having sex with everyone they ever had sex with.”
Now you have to live with being one degree of separation from fun-times with Dabbler.
Actually, do they still use that line on kids? They’ve probably replaced it with something equally stupid by now.
sock, shoes, and entire football teams.
It’s actually not stupid in context. It’s used to illustrate the risk of STDs and get kids thinking about using condoms – which really needs to be done – not to scare them away from having sex. In that context it’s a fairly accurate metaphorical statement.
I mean think about this for a second: If Dabbler were not a demon and likely immune to human diseases how many do you think she’d be carrying around? Would you want to be one degree of separation from her?
*Grins. Certainly getting one out of him though.
Dabbler to Frix: “So, how do we compare?”
Frix: “Well, Sydney does have an endearingly shy and innocent nature when it comes to such matters.”
Dabbler: “And me?”
Frix: “And you…don’t.”
And that’s one of the great things about Frix.
A good diplomat finds a way to phrase things which will please both parties.
Frix: “Would you please let go of me now?”
That’s clearly contrasting the two, Frix… how do we COMPARE???
Panel 13:
The Orbs react to Sydney’s Panel 12 mental state by initializing
the Skill Tree Update Routine.
Well, she is gaining an experience…
And more advanced game systems give experience for achievements outside of combat.
So.. everyone Fucked dabbler except the poor math…
See below. I suspect that Leon, Zephan, and the General probably didn’t get with her either. But, good looking criminals… yup! (Doesn’t make much sense when she is into tentacle creatures, but whatever.)
Do you think that this cartoon will explore the concept of “jealousy” and how it might apply to individuals like Xuriel or Deus (or the other super-bodied) when poaching sex from partners of “normals”. Sydney might not want to “share”; this might hurt her quite a bit, and I’m surprised that Xuriel of all people didn’t pick up on a vibe between Sydney and Frix.
Is the “free love culture” in this world/comic only allow for hot bodies and non-uggo women?
Maybe its me, but women will get propositioned by anyone, but dudes… not so much. For example, I haven’t seen Anvil, Harem, Gwen or even Xuriel hitting on Leon, Joel, or Zephan; I presume it isn’t for hygene or personality flaws… they seem like nice guys with something to offer.
Harem did the shoulder boob on leon. That alone was enough to get him stressed/flustered. As for meaningful interaction, sydney stayed up and discussed nerd/geek stuff with him which, while not flirting, is pretty much the one form of courtship he could handle.
Joel is also a side character who has been hardly mentioned and Zephan is happily married. Also by the way you phrased it im worried that you are the type to do an incel rant.
Everything you discussed is culturally peculiar to humans, and even peculiar to certain cultures of the modern age. I’m not sure there have been many cultures so mixed up about sex as the current western (or maybe just American) culture.
What else has empirically been shown to have an actual culture.
Sydney has shown an attraction to Leon, to the point of checking out how “Leon Scoville” rolls off the tongue.
She’s basically shown an attraction to every eligible male (or at least the ‘hot’ ones)
Yeah, but knowing when the narwhal bacons is *substantially* different from having glorious pecs and back hair.
Glad to see how much your art has improved Dave! Looking great!
And Cora repeats herself: “SOOO… Worth. It.!”
Poor Sydney looks like she’s had a Stroke in the last Panel, Unequal Pupils a’nat. Maybe after she calms down she and Dabbler can ……”Compare Notes”? Loved her Outburst though.
I realize it’s just a comic, but comic artists DO realize that the outside of your iris never changes size, right? It’s the pupil that changes size…
Of course, I don’t know why I’m complaining about that, when Sydney’s eyes are so large they would intersect behind her nose and occupy all the space meant for her frontal lobes, unless they’re seriously oblate spheroids like fish eyes.
Beats head against wall muttering “Artistic license, artistic license!”
Just finished binge reading this comic from the start….
Oh, and my guess is that the remaining orb turns turds into ham sandwiches. That’s the only spaceship function missing…
No, that would come under the green orb’s ability to provide breathable air
You’re doubtless right, she just hasn’t bought that upgrade yet.
The level of madness taking place, would make the mad god quite pleased. :P
So are we taking this as the “shenanigans” are definitely sexy times? I always thought that she was too prudish to do it (not as a knock to culture as many people are pointing out, its just that shes got some….personality quirks). I’ve been keeping up, and each time I’m thinking that the shenanigans might have just been shenanigans, and while there were sexy time references, this could also just be Sydneys wild language at work. Even in this case I couldn’t help but think “shes freaked out by the idea of being eskimo sisters as a thought, not as an actuality.” Basically meaning that she didnt do the do, but she freaked out because she almost did the do and would have been sisters, which scares her how close it came.
Word of God has it that they did not go all the way. Which….Ok. Look at Sydney. Petite little Sydney Then look at that package Dabbler’s grabbing.
Simply put, if they HAD gone all the way, it would be a good thing that the guy she was banging also happened to be a medic.
Oh, I don’t believe that. Frix shows every indication of being a compassionate, caring person. He’s not going to just slam into Sydney without a care as to whether or not he’s hurting her, or whether she’s enjoying herself.
Also remember that that orifice is capable of having a baby’s head shoved through it– if Frix is careful enough I don’t think his having sex with a woman Sydney’s size is even improbable.
Those of us who were present when our children were born will attest to the gymnastics that that part of the body is capable of performing– and my wife is smaller than Sydney.
+1
“The gymnastics that that that part of the body is capable of performing…” with several weeks of specific hormonal adjustments to increase elasticity and with an epidural block, you mean? I’m sure that’s a lot of fun.
No, although women vary in size as much as men do, teh normal human range is in the 4-7 inch range, and a median or even +2 sigma human woman is not going to be able to have relatively normal sex with a 15+ inch male with equivalent girth. (10% larger than the largest human male ever recorded.)
Let’s hope Sydney did get the standard issue “vagoo of holding”.
Not that I have any experience with it at all, but fisting is a thing, and that doesn’t involve hormonal treatments as far as I understand. Not all women get the epidural, either.
In any case, all I’m saying is that Frix wouldn’t have to hurt Sydney, and would probably take steps to ensure he doesn’t, including just taking it slow, being careful, and not attempting some things that might be painful.
THAT’S what the last orb is for!!! transformation!!! specifically for a vagoo of holding!!!! yuss!! Am I the first to suggest this? The last orb is for self-transformation! Matter manipulation! something like that.
so.. i never really saw the size difference..
how is sydney able to still walk – let alone be in one piece.
Maybe his thingy responds to the expectations.hopes of the person grabbing it, even shrinking a bit when fully concretified to accommodate lesser structural partners.
Because they didn’t actually do what you thought they did.
Besides which if Sydney can survive eating grakz, she is clearly tough enough generally that she would cope with any other discomfort.
Well it could also be that Frix, being an engineer, has access to products better than astroglide. Which might already be a product of alien origin given the name.
Did… Did they actually establish that they’re dating, or that Frix is Sydney’s “space boyfriend” ?
I really really want that to be a thing (they’re so cute) but I’m afraid Frix is gonna be all “nah”.
Remember, in that tub they were in, he told her that she was now committed to meeting his parents.
Which was a ‘wind up’, rather than a serious point. However that does not stop Sydney from harbouring hopes that it may become more serious, given time.
The other interesting thing about language is that even if the word for the concept does not exist because it’s not something the original native speakers considered, doesn’t mean the word for that concept can’t be imported. eg English relatively recently with schadenfreude, zeitgeist, and more distantly in the past, all of the Latin/Greek words.
So wait, is Frix Blus Ngik Chao actually Sydney’s boyfriend or was it just a casual fling kind of thing? I thought it was the latter based on how they were talking on the ship. Plus Sydney knew that he was also “getting his fur combed” by Cora as well. At least, that’s how I understood it. Is Sydney overreacting or am I mistaken?
Sydney is clearly entertaining the possibility of Frix becoming more than just casual, regardless of what may have been said. As such she is responding according to her instincts, and attempting to drive off any potential rival. So not overreacting, not when you consider who that rival is and how credible a threat she poses (from a monogamous point of view).
Yeah, and once Dabbles sniff’s blood in the water, she ain’t going away that easy :P
The term used in the polyamorous community is metamour. So the line could be, “Does this mean we’re metamours?” I have never heard the term Eskimo sister/brother used in the polyamorous community and it’s a good thing since I have heard that Eskimo is a racial slur.
Eskimo is not a racial slur, regardless of what some people on NPR who don’t know better think of it.
Most Inuit/Inuk/Yupik/Aleut even refer to THEMSELVES as eskimos.
It comes from the Montagnais ‘ayaskimew’ which means ‘person who laces a snowshoe.’ It also means ‘husky’ in French (esquimaux) and Spanish (esquimao).
People who think it’s something offensive only think that because they know nothing about word etymology, and think it means ‘one who eats raw fish’ – even though it’s NEVER meant.
Just as many “Native Americans. Objec,t to the term American Indian. I prefer American Indian. I am part white and American Indian.
Unless you are a 22 year girl who objects to another countries confectionary
Not sure I follow what you said.
Follow the link on the first page, specially about your second sentence
You keep saying that, but the only sources backing you up also claim the N-word isn’t a slur.
No, my sources are word etymology. And you’re also lying about my sources. It comes from the cree word ‘askimew’ (the Cree were familiar with the Inuit and Aleut) and so did the Montagnais tribe, who use the word ‘ayaskimew.’
The N-word, on the other hand, IS a slur. It originated as a slur word from the latin word.
Eskimo originated as ‘one who laces up snowshoes’ in two different native tribe languages, both of whom would have been familiar with the Inuit and the Aleut. It does not, and has never meant, ‘eater of raw meat.’ You’re wrong, and your arguments are flawed.
Step up your game instead of throwing accusations of racism.
By the way …. nice reflection of the overhead lighting in Sydney’s glasses. As a total myopic myself, this looks very accurate. (Hey, I like the small details.)
Yeah I love the reflectiveness thing too :)
Where’s Yorp anyway? I figured they would make a comment about how Sydney stole their look…
*waves paw, wearily*
Just back from a couple of 12.5 hour shifts.
Of course Sydney and I have similar expressions. We are two halves of one soul.
*collapses*
Poor Yorpie.
(I really should make some sort of avatar picture also for greater notoriety.)
I use my Anthro Snow Leopard, as my avatar, which i also use in Second Life. BTW, I refer to it as a polymorph, and being 7.5 feet tall.
I like Second Life. I used to play it. Still have the character in there but havent used it for a while. I used to make money via Lindens in high school playing it and being a DJ at one of the clubs, and occasionally working at one of the virtual casinos :). I should find my name and password and log on some time. Havent since like… college.
Actually… maybe I’ll log onto Second Life (assuming I can find where I put the login/password), take a screen shot of my avatar, and use that.
Just make sure that the email account you use for your gravatar is not one that you use for business or other purposes where such images would not be appropriate. For instance if you make a comment on some law website, you will find your avatar appearing next to it there too. It will not just be used on this website, but on every one that allows gravatars.
I wonder if any cats play ninth life?
Nah, I use my real life name for my office, with PLLC at the end (since it’s a Professional LLC). I’m not that original :).
I don’t think most people would see a lawyer who calls themselves ‘The Pander Firm.’ Makes it look like I’m a professional panhandler.
Blah. Unfortunately someone already took the Pander Gravitar handle. If I make a picture I’ll have to change my name a bit or something. I dunno.
Oh well, I’m still the one that has the email address.
Pander, may I suggest this anthropomorphic panda lawyer? Or would that be… pandering to my sense of humor?
Feels to Phoenix Wright for me.:)
Also your puns have gravely injured me, but I commend you nevertheless.
“Get your slutty paws off my space boyfriend.”………….wow. That’s a chain of words I would have never expected to hear (or read) in one sentence.
Beetlejuice
5 to 1, Dabbler is just messing with Sydney, and she and Frix are just (mostly) platonic friends.
More than friends, just not exclusive
Aaaaand I’m out.
*tomp tomp tomp*
*door slam*
*waves goodbye, with a tear in the eye*
I always find it odd that people say American’s are sex adverse.
They cheat on each other constantly. They’re called out for being addicted to porn. While I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but had heard the gay sex in prison was purely an American (North American?) thing, and not a common occurrence in other countries.
Is it sex adverse to not want to be with someone who cheats on you or is having sex with someone else?
Hell, we have Hollywood, were casting couch got it’s rep for a reason, and most of them weren’t forced, they did it willingly to get a head up in their career, because they knew they couldn’t get it another way.
People also say Americans are sex obsessed, for some of the same reasons. But that thing about gay sex in prison? In America, that’s called rape – there’s a Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) – while in other countries it’s just part of the cost of going to prison.
It starts with teaching kids that love is an either/or thing. “Most of the time, French people would go like ‘Je l’aime un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, pas du tout’. Which means ‘I love him (or her) a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all.’, like it’s somehow difficult to figure out how much we love somebody. So French!” It should be so American!
USAsian’s are hypocrites when it comes to sex: they are obsessed with it, butt at the same time embarrassed about it
Violence (more gratuitous the better) gets a PG rating, show a little leg or (female) nipple and it gets an R (or higher) rating
The Deadpool movies got R-rated, not because of the violence, butt because of the language
and the ‘Holiday Sex’ scenes
Since there is not a unified cultural attitude towards sexual matters in the United States, how can anyone assign a unified cultural hypocrisy?
That makes no sense.
This kind of stereotyping of huge groups of people — intentionally conflating what different types of people say and do in order to make a negative point against the group those different people belong to — is called “bigotry”, and it’s pretty common.
It “makes sense” only from the point of the bigot.
And thus we find out, that in this universe, Wolfman does indeed got nards.
Umm, we haven’t seen evidence of nards, just a honking shlong
Wow, Xuriel is an unabashed female Trump. Well, I guess she is a succubus. *shrug*
I don’t think she can be an unabashed female Trump.
Trump said one could do it when rich and people got upset.
Xuriel actually does it and it would appear the readers are cheering it on. :p
What? Have no idea what that even means
And no, not going to ‘Google it’, you brought it up, you can explain it
I just wish people would take politics somewhere else. This discussion group is great and I’d hate to see political bullcrap ruin it.
I hope I haven’t made things political. But the “grab em by the pussy” bit was the first reference that came to mind. Was kinda surprised no one had said anything about it.
You’re saying that about a webcomic about a government agency dealing with explicitly political matters.
Which had Obama in it when he was President.
You’re quite late in your objections.
Trump bragged about being able to sexually assault women because he’s rich and famous. The only way you could claim not to know would be if you’re either not a US resident, are a US resident but one who gets their news from far right propaganda sources, or are lying.
Actually, that’s a reframing by other people of what he said. Just because women he did NOT reach out and grab would feel that if he did, it would be assault, does not mean that he was describing assault.
If you listen to his actual words, he’s describing to his friend, in private, what it feels like to be powerful and approached by groupies. like you could just reach out and grab them. In that tape, he does not, in fact, say that he did that or does do that. Just that it’s like that. And, given his exact description, he was describing that the act would be okay, that it would be consensual.
He does not specify “whether she wants to or not”, which would be a required factor for the act to be assault. So he wasn’t talking about sexual assault. OTHER people insert themselves into the situation and it becomes assault. That’s it.
Now, I consider the guy a sleaze and wouldn’t vote for him, but I’m capable of differentiating between what he actually said and what other people WANT him to have said.
Yes, you are correct, am not American, or even European or African (although mum is African)
By the way, it would be both amusing and scary if everybody else in the room saw that lightning around her head in the last panel…
I wonder, does this imply that Sydney is thinking of having both a space boyfriend and one down on Earth too?
Do you want the good news or the bad news, Yorp?
Who else thinks the voice of Peridot would be a perfect fit as Sydney?