(Mod edit to add a courtesy link to El Goonish Shive.)
Yay! Its back again! I stagger my reading of it to Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday cause there aren't enough good webcomics on those days, so I am not the best person to lead a real time discussion, but it really needs a thread. So in Monday's we see the mysterious return of the dark figure. (linky)
Who is starting to sound really, really desperate.
Also, is it just the art upgrade, or does Ellen's green ray seem more... jeeze, what is a same word to use? Powerful? More powerful then usual?
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Come to think of it, this illustrates a flaw in the Golden Rule. I mean, it's a good introduction to the concept of empathy, but eventually you're going to have to graduate from that and start considering the feelings of people that think differently from you.
Relevant Freefall strip
. I also enjoyed the Vorkosigan saga book where a particular count was mentioned as always giving people liver treats because he enjoyed receiving them, and could never understand why no one returned the favor...
If the example involved guys hitting on him, Larry would be singing a different tune.
Don't know about the rest of you but last I checked guys getting hit on by women is enough of an uncommon phenomenon that it makes sense that one's primary reaction would fall under appreciation.
Except for me. I might in some minor manner but primarily I would be suspicious and paranoid that something was up due to the massive unlikelihood of such an event.
But then it has never happened so I don't know how I would react but I can definitely assume dismissive paranoia considering that's how I take compliments on my obviously hideous appearance.
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She might have been better going with him having a guy hit on him yes but it's not quite the same because as a het girl she isn't inherently averse to guys.
On the subject of the Double Standard, I'll concede that there are unattached het adolescent and post adolescent males who would be disturbed by having a girl aggressively hit on them but I can't recall ever having met any.
Trump delenda estHrumm, You know, this strip reminds me of the Hammers. Or, what their original purpose is, think we can expect Jerry in the near future to weigh in?
Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.Well, speaking as someone who's been on both sides of the situation, any flirtation attempt that comes of as exceptionally desperate is going to be undesirable regardless of what other factors are there (even if you're in a situation where you hope to be hit on).
Another theory on why Larry might not be grasping the problem is that he lacks sufficient information and/or imagination to come up with a situation where he wouldn't want to be hit on. I know the stereotype is "hurr hurr, he's a desperate nerdy teenage guy; of course he always would want to be hit on," but I suspect, with enough rational thought, Larry could come up with several scenarios in which it would be awkward at best (and I don't mean due to Incompatible Orientation; besides, discussing unwanted flirtation in regards to that reeks of Unfortunate Implications).
Overall, it feels like watching a baby bird get kicked out of the nest, and you hope a wing flap starts happening soon.
edited 5th Aug '14 7:49:57 AM by 32_Footsteps
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Larry's issue here is a matter of incompatible experiences.
It's not exactly sexism, but it's a factor that plays into the difficulties in gender-relations. As I observed yesterday, Larry appears to have very little experience with the female gender. He almost certainly has never experienced unwanted female attention, and is instead on the other end of the spectrum: desperate for any kind of female attention. Someone dying of thirst cannot comprehend drowning.
edited 5th Aug '14 8:45:04 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I know it's not just guys who feel this way, some girls do too. I know a few will hear stories about girls who will have guys flocking to them, stalking them, and their gut reaction will be "why can't I have that? Am I not pretty enough to have a few people crushing on me?"
Not making a point or anything, just bringing up an interesting fact in terms of how the hit-on thing can really blind you until it happens to you.
Unfortunately in fiction it's usually executed so the guy is being hit on by a supremely ugly girl to "get the point across"
Read my stories!And, of course, while it's generally considered less than germane to point it out to people arguing the social aspects of sex in humanity, there's a degree of biology involved too. In many mammalian species, the male is always ready for sex while the female is only interested in the case of estrous. In humanity, where we have a hidden system of fertility, this has historically translated out as males always being ready for sex while the female tries to control their circumstances for optimal reproduction. Sure, things have a changed a bit in these days of easy (if not infallible) contraception, but there's a degree of the animal still in us.
Personally, I'd argue that part of what makes us human is our ability to overcome such animal instincts, but nonetheless, it is present, and results in sexual behavior being more than just a social construct.
Except that that stereotype was inverted from previous times, where women were the constantly horny.
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I'm so used to how things are today that that old fashioned perspective makes absolutely no sense to me.
That quote seems to make sense, from what I understood from history classes and Latin classes, back in that old culture guys porked each other for fun and they only had sex with women if they were planning on having kids.
Well, I saw where that was going.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.

I know it took me a very long time to realize there might be instances where I would not want to be hit on by women. I finally figured it out without it ever actually happening—fortunately, I had figured out that women usually don't appreciate random "hitting on" somewhere in junior high.