2013-08-17 - MAN O' FEELY FEELS

Istancow · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:24 am Post subject: 2013-08-17 - MAN O' FEELY FEELS

HOW DARE SHE
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Night Spade · Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Posts: 1169 Location: Australia

MEN HAS FEELINGZ? Surely you jest!
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ktern · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 947

finally boys and girls alike can gossip about rejection by the opposite sex without feeling awkward about their gender identity

this is social progress

locuas · Joined: 18 Jul 2013 Posts: 47

i just wonder, do slick and squigley know that Crim has a girlfriend? also, it will not be much longer until the sausages make slick thing of something else...

ktern · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 947

see panel 2

also, literal sausagefest

(not a response to your first question, though)

Ennis · Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 682 Location: Australia

Crim looks like he's regretting his choice in friends in panel 4.

Seriously he just seems to get dragged into all these things but it too shy to object.

ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 6020 Location: California

one time a man was fired somewhere and there was a woman somewhere else MISANDRY

redrose · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 97

I couldn't resist.

Istancow · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:30 am Post subject:

Considering he has that expression on his face in a lot of strips, including, I believe, quite a few of the strips with Fuchsia, I wouldn't say it really shows anything more than Crim's normal placidity.

And he's been a member of the resistance ever since the first Matriarchy-world strip.

Mind, this is an alternate universe in which a Matriarchy exists in place of the Patriarchy.

And the universe has robots in it.

I don't know what bearing the robots have on the question.

But still.

Robots.
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Istancow · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:33 am Post subject:

Actually, judging by Slick's story, this might not take place in the Matriarchy altworld.

Tat may have transplanted the resistance into the default world.

And Crim had been reading feminist literature.

So he may, in fact resent his involvement in the now-unnecessary resistance.

I don't think the expression on his face betrays that, but the situation would.

So you may very well be right.
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The fact that Crim stays silent in BOTH panels where he appears (including the one where he and Squig are asked a direct question and only Squig answers, loudly enough for both of them) does suggest that he's a little bit on the uncomfortable/unwilling side, to me.

Of course, this raises an interesting subject, because silence, while better than outright compliance, is still functionally the same. We, the readers, have known Crim for hundreds of strips, and even with this often omniscient insight into his personality we still can't tell for sure what he's feeling here. Were I a woman overhearing this conversation, I would definitely not distinguish much between the people telling outright misogynistic stories or jokes and the people laughing or sitting silently.

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