• OpenStars@startrek.website
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      11 months ago

      I believe it is the lying that little dude is concerned about…

      Case in point: she might also be lying about those STDs that she “totally” checked for (like AIDS) and “definitely” does not have, wink.:-P

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, but why did she feel like she can’t tell him the true number?

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          11 months ago

          Because they aren’t real people and it is a comic.

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          11 months ago

          As someone else said, the real answer is that this is a comic.

          We don’t really know from the OP whether they have been together for an hour, day, week, month, or even year (and he just never found the hoodies box yet?). Irl women are stigmatized with “slut shaming” for having multiple partners, and while men get stigmatized too this is not one of those ways. So irl she might have kept it from him until she was sure that he was mature enough to handle the truth. Although she could have also used it as a test - if he were a toxic masculinity believer, better for her to know the truth right away and get far away from him?

          So there’s deep stuff contextually related to this… but this is a newspaper comic community, so it is unclear how deep most people really wanted to get into the deep analysis of its backstory, unlike e.g. political memes where that is more the point.

          Oh ah… I mean, b/c hers is bigger than his. :-P

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        11 months ago

        I think this is the line yeah. Number of sexual partners, whatever; but regressive attitude toward sex, ehhh, we probably aren’t going to have a good time

        Although I’m way beyond dating other people, so it’s all academic to me now

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        Not certain it’s slut shaming so much as addressing lying. She told him 3 guys, when the mountain of stolen sweaters, and her profuse sweating implies it was more than three. I don’t care about body count and I’m uncertain if the author does, but this joke is still funny if you don’t care about body count.

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          Except for the little thing that the slut shaming was done earlier. When he asked her what her body count was. That’s when the slut shaming happened and she avoided the repression by lying.

          Or maybe I just don’t get the joke. PS: Maybe she’s a shoplifter?

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            11 months ago

            That’s not slut shaming. If he reacted negatively to her number(being too high) or stated something of similar effect. None of which is shown. Asking for information is slut shaming.

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              11 months ago

              The character in the comic does not look neutral about the discrepancy in numbers. Would the comic work if the evidence was that they had slept with 0 other people?

              Seems pretty cut and dry to me that the comic is piggy backing on the culture of slut shaming. It’s not the entire punchline, but it’s in there

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                11 months ago

                The character is not neutral about the discrepancy in numbers because there’s a discrepancy in numbers. I’d be a bit bothered if my SO lied to me about things too, especially such a large discrepancy that its obvious they’re lying vs were accidentally wrong/forgot. “honey you said you bought 1 car, why are there 5 new cars in the driveway?” Of course they’ll be made about the discrepancy in number of cars because its not the agreed upon number. Tell me how you would make the joke with 0 other people slept with? It obviously isn’t cut and dry, most people are fine with the joke.

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                  Right because it’s irresponsible to buy 5 cars. It’s not that 5 != 1 that’s the value judgement. Yes most people are fine with the joke. I wasn’t claiming they weren’t.

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      I don’t know if you’re in some serious bubble but a plenty of people do. Like, a hefty chunk of people.

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      Idk, in some circles, especially if you claim to be a prestigious killer, you have to be accurate about your body count. In some cases they might ask for proof.

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      11 months ago

      What you’ve committed is a class A felony, hoodie theft sans boning. Straight to jail.

      If there was boning, the hoodie becomes a party favor that’s handed out to guests to commemorate the event.

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      People give me their garbage hoodies. I take hoodies that are destined for the thrift store. They ask go on the back of my desk chair. I can’t lean back too far out the weight of them will topple me backwards. Yes I’m happy living this kind of hoodie goblin existence.

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          To be honest, I’m somewhat even a fan of it. There’s that whole crowd of folks who say inhumane shit and also that they need “free speech” (which has nothing to do with actual free speech). If those stay away from here, because they can’t write removed, then I’ll gladly read a few removeds.

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            I just think it’s silly. Not the biggest issue with that instance ofc but that sort of stuff just feels unnecessary to me