Pretentiousness comic trying too hard lmao
I once got set up on a blind date with someone who was deaf. I was not informed of this fact. We still had a pretty good time, but it caught me very off guard.
Blind date with someone who was deaf
If you didn’t somehow tell them “sorry, the deaf dates are in the other room,” you missed an opportunity for a great joke.
I was definitely not confident enough to do that.
Deafinitely! Ha. Even more jokes to share.
This seems so weird. This reads like she asked what his worst date was in an unshown panel, just to make him feel bad for asking her about her worst date.
the lines on the first panel all come from his mouth, so he prompted it
Re-read the comment and say that again
Think for just a second about what may have come moments before the comic. The guy reads as if he’s responding to a question.
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Ooh this should be a good post to sort by controversial on lemmy
Yes, it really is this bad. One third of women in my country are sexually assaulted in adulthood. This is a bad conversation starter.
A guys worst date would be a chick laughing at him
A girls worst date would be getting fucking murdered
Guy here. My worst was getting stabbed.
Isn’t anyone’s worst date getting murdered? I get what you’re saying though lol
Not anyone alive enough to answer a question like this.
I mean … you’re not wrong
Praying mantis dispute this.
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Men are scared that women will laugh at them
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Women are scared that men will kill them
-Courtney Barnett. Nameless, Faceless
Both the song and the comment you’re replying to are referring to an old quote.
It’s attributed to Margeret Atwood, but she got it from somewhere earlier because she said, “I don’t remember where I first heard this simple description of one dramatic contrast between the genders, but it is strikingly accurate: At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”
It’s one of those things that gets recycled a lot. It’s in the tv program about the strangler in Belfast.
Getting stabbed in a dark park seems like a pretty universal fear that isn’t determined by your gender. Most people getting stabbed are men, if we just go by homicide statistics.
So, really, I guess it depends on whether “stabbed” here is a euphemism or not.
Most victims of violence are men – most victims of DOMESTIC violence (or intimate partner violence) are women.
I’m not trying to draw parallels, I’m literally talking about the likelyhood of getting stabbed in a dark park. How does domestic violence factor into that scenario? On the other hand, I wonder how underreported domestic violence cases are compared between genders.
Once had one end with we got to her room, and she straight up had swastikas on the wall.
That ended that, right there and then.
I’m embarrassed to say I would have DMHSed that one.
DMHS?
Doesn’t matter, had sex
Ah, thanks
Of course you would, you’re a lemmy world user. Nazism is hardly a moral hang-up for you.
… I can fix her
Smash the fash
Turns out she was Buddhist
You see them everywhere in Buddhist Temples in South Korea. Shocked me at first, but we learned about the history of the swastika and how the Third Reich stole it.
Taiwan is like this too, I was baffled when I was handed a tourist map and it had a bunch of swastikas on it to denote the temples and churches. Like a general purpose symbol for religion.
It wasn’t actually stolen from India/Buddhism/whatever. It has always been used in Europe to some degree, but before the rise of fascism, a funny thing happened:
An obsessive nerd found Troy. And the city had apparently gone through a period where they slapped swastikas on literally everything, there were thousands of examples excavated.
The public excitement over the find popularized the symbol throughout Europe again, and then Nazis stole it as a symbol for pretty much their whole schtick, including their (wildly incorrect) beliefs on Aryan race theory.
the earliest known swastika is from 10,000 BCE – part of “an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas” found on a late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine
It’s interesting how archaeological finds can produce weird modern behavior. When Lenin died in 1924 he was mummified because of the contemporaneous worldwide fascination with Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s tomb, not because of any Russian tradition of preserving their dead leaders’ corpses.
Technically, she could be both…
Depends on the direction and angle of the swastika…
If it’s straight and left, the day is blessed. If it’s angled and right, it’s time to fight.
Fantastic. He was helping her find enlightenment by letting go of worldly connections. Mostly any connection to him.
Did you tell her that that was the reason?
Oh yeah. I made sure it was once I was near the door(at this point, I was more than a little worried about my safety).
I got told “I hope I find you hangin’!” I will never forget that night.
“I hope I find you hangin’!”
“I’m hanging this dick and you’re not gonna get it.”
That’s a whole new meaning to “don’t stick your dick in crazy”.
Literally the meme about going home with them only to find NFTs on the wall and then leaving in the rain.
“Dating a man is like dating a bear”.
Do women even like men? At All?
Yes when they’re not being pigs about it.
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What a douche, why would he think it’s endearing to show how shallow and fatphobic he is?
Is it not absolutely incredibly shallow to misrepresent yourself?
What? There is a huge gap between saying “She turned out to be a fatty, YUCK!” and saying “My date lied about who they were”.
It’s about being polite… but I guess that sentiment is all but dead these days.
The first answers the inevitable follow up question the second would lead to. “What did they lie about?”
Is it not more polite to be concise while conversing than being vague and dragging stuff out needlessly?
Obvs there is a massive difference between someone putting 5 pounds on and using a 3 year old photo when they were 100 pounds lighter…… you’re probably assuming the former while the latter is usually the case when they are blunt like this. And here’s a good hint, it’s usually the latter ones that people post, let’s be honest here.
You were also talking about being shallow, now it’s impolite? Make up your mind.
Ah, the classic “States rights to do WHAT?”
You can be concise and still be respectful. Wouldn’t you agree?
Would this exact scenario not play out in the reverse if it was man posting misrepresentating photos…? It sounds like you’re expecting men to be more polite than women in the same situations.
You’re making a mountain out of mole hill since you jumped to fat phobic when there is plenty of reason why someone would talk this way, it sounds like you’re someone who posts the latter photos and gets grouchy when called out.
And again, you started with shallow, make up your mind.
You pulled this point out of your ass, they never once implied that they expected men to be more polite.
And so was their point about them being shallow and fatphobic… so sure yeah. And they decided to move their goal posts when questioned, but i am the bad person… sure…
Sure they did, it’s either that or they were personally offended by the comic.
You realize the edit times are visible and my comment was edited well before you posted… yeah…?
What’s with the blatant lie? Don’t like having it pointed out that it goes both ways and need to lie? You’ve gone from shallow, to impolite and are now lying about editing a comment… you seriously need to make up your mind about what point you had here.
Idk, most people have things they find attractive/unattractive about people. If they specifically match with someone they find attractive, only to find out that the person has deceived them and they are actually unattractive (to them), I think it’s quite reasonable to express distaste about that.
Imagine the same scenario, but with smoking:
“In their profile they said they don’t smoke, but when I turned up to the restaurant they were smoking and their breath smelled like cigarettes! Yuck!”
Would you consider that shallow and phobic?
I guess if by “fake” she means using basic social intelligence, then sure.
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So 100% of women have been sexually assaulted? I don’t believe that.
Every woman I know including myself has?
You don’t have to believe anything. It’s not a faith based system.
Just speak to women and you’ll hear how common it is.
Every woman I know including myself has?
Your anecdotal experience doesn’t equate to 100% of women.
You don’t have to believe anything. It’s not a faith based system.
It’s also not an anecdote-based system.
Just speak to women and you’ll hear how common it is.
Common is not equal to all. OP is doubting the implication that all women have been assaulted.
Not all women get assaulted. Almost all of us who date men have had an experience where we were legitimately afraid we were about to be assaulted, though. The comic is saying most women have fucked up stories about dating men. Don’t ask if you don’t want to hear them.
Did you read what I wrote? I’m responding to @Gigan@lemmy.world’s original statement of “So 100% of women have been sexually assaulted?”. @boogetyboo@aussie.zone then responded with “Every woman I know including myself has?”. I simply replied saying that “Everyone I know” is not the same as “100% of women”.
If you read all of that, and you’re standing by your reply, then it sounds like you’re agreeing with me and @Gigan@lemmy.world by stating “Assaulted? No.”
But too many have been sexually harassed at least once. I think it was 1 in 3 girls experiences sexual harassment before age 18.
I completely agree with you. But that’s not what my comment was about.
Wait, are we talking assaulted or harassed? I mean it’s bad either way but isn’t sexual assault like a really big deal?
Where’s your line of assault vs harassed? Is it a man exposing his penis when you didn’t ask for that or agree to it? Is it a guy coming up to you and asking if you have a boyfriend and when you say yes, he grabs your face and kisses you anyway? Is it your friend’s dad grabbing your butt at a party? Or is it only penetration. What about a one night stand who keeps going after the condom breaks? Every single woman I know has several stories like the above (those are mine off the top of my head).
Those are all awful, of course. I think the defining difference between assault and harassment are contact. So all of those would be assault, except probably the guy exposing himself. Things like wolf whistling, sexual comments etc. would be considered harassment.
For what it’s worth, both are shit, don’t do either, but I think if we want a defined difference, that’d be the one I arrive at.
Holy fuck. Holy fuck^2 at the friend’s dad one what the shit.
well considering the comment said “sexually assaulted” I think it’s safe to say we’re talking about sexual assault and not harassment.
I mean yes but as a random clueless guy I was like what? Like my image of sexual assault is forced sexual actions up to and including straight up rape and if that’s happening to so many women in the US then holy fuck. I’m doing the internet equivalent of rubbing your eyes because you can’t believe what you’re seeing.
I’m Australian, but sure
Assaulted? No. But too many have been sexually harassed at least once. I think it was 1 in 3 girls experiences sexual harassment before age 18.
I love the funny pages!
I’d like to hear Miss Rhode Island’s answer.
That’s today… Everyone to out and enjoy a perfect date!
That’s honestly a magnificent answer. I know it was supposed to portray her as dumb (and the way she talked was supposed to emphasize that), but it’s a solid out-of-the-box answer that gives insight into their thought process (like that they don’t immediately jump to assuming their talking about sex/relationships).
That’s just a bad conversation topic to begin with.
I feel like the comic is trying to defend women lying about their body. The assault thing is fucked obviously but it sounds like she’s saying you’re not allowed to talk about being deceived because this thing is worse
I think you’re reading into it a bit too deep
If a guy was talking about a date like the guy in this comic I’d assume he was a douche. This also goes for both genders btw, used to work with a lady who talked about how a guy she hooked up with had stretch marks on his stomach and how gross it was. I have stretch marks from puberty, didn’t feel great to hear someone talk about it. Seems more like the comic is partially about people being shallow assholes in that regard.
Yikes mate
He literally asked her.
I had sushi and shit my pants.
So about 50% was a good time
Just so we’re clear, which half was the good half?
Checks out, sushi can ruin an otherwise good night
Is there a casual relationship or are you saying you didn’t like either?
Then I went on the date and we didn’t connect
