Grrl Power #735 – Reindeer games and the inclusion thereof
I think it was a fair question, to be honest. Leon maybe could have put it more delicately, but if you’re coming up with a comprehensive list of solutions to Sydney’s conundrum, that question should be asked at some point.
An unfair question, in my opinion, is “Why would you jump straight to that!?” Honestly, if the guy in a M/F/F triangle doesn’t consider the possibility of a threesome at some point… well, I don’t even know what to say to that. I’m not saying every guy in that situation would be bucking for it, some guys might be intimidated by the idea. I mean, there are performance considerations. But he’d still have the idea. Even if he thought it’d be disastrous, it’s probably on a lot of guys’ buckets lists. Heck, it might be on a lot of women’s bucket lists for all I know (though probably the M/F/M variant) but no one should honestly be surprised when a guy mentions it at some point. “Hah hah, I’m just kidding about a threesome, but seriously, what’s the deal with that? It’s a joke! But just for fun, let’s make a short list of your friends and sister… ow!”
So, can Krona hack people’s minds and personalities? Well, we know she can hack people’s bladders at any rate. If she hacked someone who didn’t like pickles so that they liked pickles, is she hacking their mind or their tongue?
The answer is, given Archon’s reaction to the news that she might be able to hack time, Krona has not been at all forthcoming as to the extent of her abilities. She doesn’t hold a grudge against Maxima, she understands what Archon was worried about, but she doesn’t want to give them any additional ammunition when it comes to evaluating her threat level. As for us readers, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Edit: Huh. Well, reaction to this page has caught me by surprise. I didn’t think anything of the ‘little girl gives guy a bonk on the head for acting like a dope’ trope but a lot of people are reacting like Sydney and Krona are attacking Leon with knives. Which, again, is surprising, considering that they’re not (cartoon bumps ≠ medical emergency) considering that Sydney could obviously cause grievous bodily harm if she wanted to. Krona could at the very least make Leon wet himself or make his keys move 10 feet from where he normally keeps them, and in my case that would mean they would effectively be lost forever.
Okay, so a few points. Some people are saying Leon isn’t even being included in the discussion, but Sydney’s question about monogamy was for both of them. It’s just that Leon jumped straight to the sexual aspect of it. Granted, both Krona and Sydney assumed that he’d be okay with it. They happened to be correct.
For anyone asking if it’d be okay if the situation was reversed and two guys were beating up on a girl? I mean, part of me wants to say that if it was playful little arm punches, in an ideal world free of all trace of sexism… yes? But that’s not the world we live in. In the real world, while there is such a thing as female on male violence, domestic or otherwise, I don’t think anyone can argue that a shitload more women get beaten or killed by men than the other way around. So no, of course the reversal of the above situation wouldn’t work.
But – I’ll give it some thought. It never occurred to me that this page would trigger such vehement reactions, so maybe that’s on me.
I have a book recommendation. This one is not a harem book nor does it have any sex in it (I know, who are you and what have you done with Dave, hah hah) but it is a superhero book, and I’ve been burning through the series ever since I picked up the first one. As you can see (or not, the thumbnail is kind of small) it’s called Arsenal, and is about a wheelchair bound super tinkerer who develops a suit of armor and proceeds to kick a lot of butt. (She can kick in the armor. And walk.) Of course she upgrades the armor constantly. I’m halfway through the 6th book, and I think she’s up to the Mark VII now? Good stuff. Oh, and half the books have egregious cliffhangers, so be prepared for that. :)
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Yes, a shitload of men get abused by women, and the abuse is equally as violent and deadly, and equally as common.
In any case, it doesn’t matter. The acceptable amount of violence that your partner isn’t consenting to is zero. Whether it causes serious injury or not, whether you think it’s emotionally traumatizing or not, whether you think they deserve it for “being a dope” or not (of course, women can never be dopes, because the genders are completely equal, and women are just better than men, and that’s not a contradiction, because cognitive dissonance is fine as long as I never admit to anyone that I experience it, including myself).
Speaking only for myself, I don’t have a problem with the comic. Characters don’t have to be perfect (nor should they be, nor could they be, at least in the case of humans). They don’t have to behave morally, and they don’t have to share the moral beliefs of the author or anyone in the audience. This is preferable to me; a fiction where everyone shared the same beliefs is one I probably wouldn’t read.
I only ask that real people stop repeating false statements that can eventually cause real harm to my loved ones. Repetition creates truth, as far as the human mind is concerned. And certain repetition leads to people who run male domestic abuse shelters being forced to shut down out of fear for the death threats their families receive.
Sorry, that probably comes across as emotional blackmail. You don’t have to do anything. I’m only offering this information because I figure, if you’re being malicious, then you won’t be affected, and I’ll have lost nothing. But if you’re just a victim of the same poor education on this that I and most everyone I know was, maybe I’ll have had some tiny positive impact on other people’s lives, and without coercion. That’s enough for me.
it’s not false though.
I haven’t seen the “girl hits guy on head for saying/doing something stupid” in a long time. It was a funny callback to old times for me.
Whoa. Doesn’t Leon get a vote in dating Sydney? I mean, once we establish Krona opinion, they just move on. That’s not how that shit works. Full and enthusiastic consent. You can’t just … assume somebody’s consent because they don’t complain. It’s creepy.
It looks, to me at least, more as though Sydney’s trying to negotiate in stages. First stage is trying to work out with Krona what scenarios she might be open to, since they are the two who are potentially in direct conflict-of-interest with each other. Second stage would then be presenting (an) acceptable scenario(s) to Leon as a suggestion, in the belief (rightly or wrongly) that any conflicts-of-interest between him and their joint position would be less complicated to negotiate.
Unfortunately, Leon is displaying more brains than sense. In trying to clarify what’s being suggested and/or establish what options are and aren’t on the table, he’s jumping ahead of where Sydney and Krona are in getting their heads round the implications, and he’s completely failing to read how quickly they’re processing the situation. While his suggestions need not be unallowable per se, or at least in the category of ‘mentioned to confirm not workable’ he’s making them while the other two are still at the stage of “should we try to make this work” rather than “how can we make this work”.
Y’know it just occurred to me…
… But given my tendency to regard co-operative multiplayer gaming in an analogous manner to the way most people regard sex… I find it strange to realise I would actually be uncomfortable with more than 2-player couch co-op. I just never thought about it before.
I’m married now, so it’s a moot point (it is for me; I know it’s not the same for everyone), but I have been propositioned to get involved in an “alternating” polyamory situation before. I turned it down on the basis that I’m not good enough at managing my time to be able to do that. I didn’t even consider whether I’d be comfortable with the setup (either being the shared partner or sharing a partner with someone else), and I still don’t know if I would. But like I said, it’s a moot point now.
it’s not a lie though?