Talky stuff, no real punchline. Which I'm fine with, for the record. Part of the purpose for Rock's agency is to help socialize fictional badasses, and even with the implication of "comic" not every strip has to have The Funny(tm).
All your safe space are belong to TrumpI love the way he summarizes cyborgs like Robocop or Raiden as "five pounds of flesh strapped to a robot".
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Eh, I still think it's pretty funny, in an understated way.
Part of it, of course, is that the comic has shown that five-pounds-of-flesh-strapped-to-a-robot
isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Also, heh, Tank's comments are a Call-Back, of sorts, to Commander's comments about people accepting his body
. All in all, looking at Tank is like what I imagine looking at Commander B was like some years before the start of the comic.
No punch line, but some references provide levity. One was to Daft Punk.
The sad, REAL American dichotomyThe same way it works when they aren't.
Whether or not a person is physically capable of defending themselves from assailants has almost no bearing on domestic abuse one way or the other.
edited 20th Nov '17 1:31:05 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.See also: Psychological and emotional abuse. And financial abuse.
Domestic abuse doesn't always fall into the stereotypical structure. Yes quite a bit is male physical abuse of women, but many other scenarios exist and people are often afraid to speak because they won't be taken seriously.
The sad, REAL American dichotomyAnd I'll note that part of the reason people are reluctant to come forward is because they know that this particular line of argument is inevitably going to be brought up: "Why didn't you just fight back?"
This is especially true of male victims; there is an assumption that men inherently cannot be abused or raped because they'd just punch out anyone who tried.
Unless it's prison rape. Then it's wacky comedy.
edited 20th Nov '17 3:21:25 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Oh, and if you're a man, you also are expected to just sit and take any kind of abuse if the abuser is female, and especially if she's white and you're not. Even if, for example, it's some racist white woman who is captured on video physically attacking you.
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
Exactly. I thought this strip was great because it showed two fairly equally strong individuals, but that there had been a power dynamic at work beyond that. More powerful and I really appreciated it.
The assumption is usually one way, so the way this was framed was really refreshing in how it subverts expectations.
Enshrine @3311 - that's the perfect response. I sometimes have to deal with non-romantic abuse along those lines as part of my job (not towards me, but the people who come to deal with my workplace - I deal with an aspect of employment law). One instance I remember in particular was when a guy who was built kinda like Commander, but a bit more realistic (not quite as tall or muscular, but the guy was big and fit), was being hit by a woman on the small-ish side, and some tried to justify that he should deal with it because "it's not like she could threaten him." Bottom line is, it doesn't matter if the recipient can "take it" or not. It's wrong.
@3318 In the U.S., it's more and more rapidly becoming a Dead Horse Trope. Emotional abuse is still rip-roaring fun way more often than it should, but physical abuse of partners, regardless of who is doing the abusing, is thankfully much less common than it used to be.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.The only time I can remember the whole rolling pin thing was back when I watched Courage The Cowardly Dog and Muriel would hit Eustace with a rolling pin whenever he was being mean to Courage. Eustace was so malicious most of the time that it's kinda hard to sympathize, but if that was more prevalent in other things I could see that being a bit of a problematic trend.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13239183440B34964700 Alfric's Fire Emblem Liveblog Encyclopedia!Honestly, a better overview of how it plays out (and how it's becoming much less common) can be found on Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.True love is being able to do all three at once without hating each other afterwards.
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Huh... it seems like someone took a good, long look at how B was able to be happy and decided to emulate it in his own way. Good for him.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.