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actually in lesbian parlance i think it's 'thinking about softball'
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by David M Willis on March 24, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – See You in the Funny Page
└ Tags: becky, dorothy, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 24, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

    because Joyce is transparent as glass

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      March 24, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

      not “thinking about badminton”?

      wait no that’s a particularly bad example

      • UAW
        UAW
        March 24, 2021 at 4:05 am | #

        Could try thinking about shuttlecock…

      • milu
        milu
        March 24, 2021 at 5:54 am | #

        think about women’s tennis! ….ooooh shit oh NO

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        March 24, 2021 at 8:32 am | #

        Goodminton then?

    • Nono
      Nono
      March 24, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

      What kind of glass, though? Tempered glass can get kinda opaque at times.

      • Juanoku
        Juanoku
        March 24, 2021 at 2:31 pm | #

        It changes every week

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 24, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Where’s Becky’s self insert, repressed bisexual outlet, fantasy fulfillment character!?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 24, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

      Oh wait that’s right, she’ll only show up once and then disappear for like five years except for the occasional “I’m still a character!” phone call strip before coming back and transitioning to essentially another main character in a massive multi-arc storyline!

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        March 24, 2021 at 1:21 am | #

        Besides, she was on the phone like three strips ago! Hi Betty!

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 24, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    If political science doesn’t work out for her, Becky would be a natural as the wacky drop-in neighbor in a sitcom.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 24, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

      If this were a live action sitcom, Becky would be the character with the laugh track even though no other character has one.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      March 24, 2021 at 1:59 am | #

      It was Becky all along! 😉

      • Fist_of_Life
        Fist_of_Life
        March 24, 2021 at 8:03 am | #

        But Becky didn’t kill the dog.

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    March 24, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Becky your presence continues to be both a delight and a tragedy.
    How does she do it?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      March 24, 2021 at 6:10 am | #

      Because we know her back story too well. She is tragicomedy personified.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 24, 2021 at 6:58 am | #

        A delightfully comedic shell with a gooey tragic center. She learned the “smile and ignore it” coping mechanism well. 🙁

  5. Shitbird
    Shitbird
    March 24, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Close, but softball players are hot, honestly, athletes in general are hot

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      March 24, 2021 at 10:35 am | #

      Eh, overly muscled humans with <2% body fat aren't my idea of sexy.

      • The Other Mike
        The Other Mike
        March 24, 2021 at 1:51 pm | #

        I agree, but when someone’s described as “athletic,” I picture someone leaner than that. Someone who actually is sexy.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          March 24, 2021 at 5:29 pm | #

          Leaner than <2% fat?

          • StClair
            StClair
            March 24, 2021 at 8:22 pm | #

            Swimmer or runner physiques rather than bodybuilders.

  6. Regalli
    Regalli
    March 24, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Okay that last panel face of Dorothy’s may be my new favorite.

    Joyce, meanwhile… hoo boy. Hooooo boy.

  7. Octopus Ink
    Octopus Ink
    March 24, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    “Not everyone is obsessed with sex”.
    Dorothy leads such a sheltered life.
    Someday she will sadly be exposed to the internet.

    • Nono
      Nono
      March 24, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      Eh, even in their peer group, Dina, Jacob, Sal. I’d even argue Sarah.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        March 24, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

        Yeah, but Joe more than makes up for all of them, and most of the cast in other webcomics too.

        • The Other Mike
          The Other Mike
          March 24, 2021 at 1:53 pm | #

          As well as all the population who aren’t members of the cast and who aren’t as horny as he is.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        March 24, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

        Nono, I’ll counter your mention of Sarah with her wanting to use Jacob as “stress release”.

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          March 24, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

          I wasn’t aware stress release was a kind of obsession?

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        March 24, 2021 at 1:20 am | #

        Also Carla.

    • GreyICE
      GreyICE
      March 24, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

      She’s in college. As I remember, the answer to “is everyone obsessed with sex” was “yeah.”

      • James the Bruce
        James the Bruce
        March 24, 2021 at 6:20 am | #

        I wasn’t obsessed with sex in college. But I wasn’t screaming it from the rooftops.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          March 24, 2021 at 2:18 pm | #

          When I was the age of these characters, I probably would’ve identified as asexual, had I known the word. I did a lot of other college stuff.

          IIRC, Carla, Dina, Jacob, Danny, Lucy, and Sal aren’t obsessed with sex. (Some of them have crushes right now, but they aren’t obsessed.)

    • Sam
      Sam
      March 24, 2021 at 1:06 am | #

      A lot of people being horny on main doesn’t mean everyone is obsessed with sex. It just means the obsessed ones are loud.

  8. Nono
    Nono
    March 24, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    Wouldn’t thinking about softball be a lesbian turn-on? So baseball would work for Becky. Not hot ladies there, usually.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      March 24, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

      I’ll ask my sister, she should know.

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      March 24, 2021 at 1:00 am | #

      I definitely believe that thinking about softball would not make Becky less horny

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      March 24, 2021 at 1:28 am | #

      … why?
      The whole point is that baseball is a thoroughly unsexy game.
      If it’s because “opposite” then I feel the need to point out that lesbians are not the opposite of straight guys.
      If it’s because some lesbians like to play softball – well, some straight guys like to play baseball, so the reversal still doesn’t work.

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        March 24, 2021 at 1:30 am | #

        Oh, and if I just ruined your joke by overanalyzing it…
        Sorry, not sorry.

      • Nono
        Nono
        March 24, 2021 at 1:33 am | #

        The logic behind it is that baseball is a thoroughly ‘man’ activity. No girls. So for straight dudes, that’s the turn off. So for lesbians, a softball team full of girls… doesn’t work the same way.

        • ktbear
          ktbear
          March 24, 2021 at 3:19 am | #

          I don’t know what Americans think softball is but considering the New Zealand men’s team are multiple world champions in softball I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of scope for lesbians being turned off by it.

          • CJ
            CJ
            March 24, 2021 at 4:23 am | #

            I think in the USA, playing softball and being a lesbian are kindof treated as being the same thing? Speaking from the book I read that mention softball. (Used to be the same thing with women‘s soccer in Germany, but nowadays all suddenly sport loooong hair to avoid the idea).

            • Bogeywoman
              Bogeywoman
              March 24, 2021 at 5:20 am | #

              While i generally disapprove of steteotypes, my softball team is definitely over 50% lesbian…. and that’s not including any bisexuals

              • milu
                milu
                March 24, 2021 at 5:59 am | #

                well it’s not a stereotype if it’s a deliberate dating/socializing strategy =P

                • SillyGoose
                  SillyGoose
                  March 24, 2021 at 6:38 am | #

                  So we need a new solution, more inclusive and less specific.

                  How about thinking about Lego? Definitely non-sexual. Will hurt if you step on them. Kid’s toy. Not gendered. I hereby declare Lego to be the inclusive baseball.

                • Despite Rage
                  Despite Rage
                  March 24, 2021 at 10:48 am | #

                  I’ve seen flocks of lesbians recruiting baby lesbians for their softball team at least a couple of times. Yes, it is a deliberate dating/socializing strategy.

                  TBH, it’s one of the most cringy dude-bro things I’ve ever seen women do. I was not nearly brave enough to point that out.

          • not someone else
            not someone else
            March 24, 2021 at 3:50 pm | #

            A remarkable amount of the social expectation is that softball is baseball for girls because it has the word “soft” in it, in my experience.

  9. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 24, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    These two will never live this comic down and I love it.

  10. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    March 24, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    As a girl, I can say that thinking about other girls in baseball or softball uniforms gets me feeling some kind of way. I’m grey-ace, but I assure you it’s not a turn off at least. Not like Becky is suggesting.

    • StClair
      StClair
      March 24, 2021 at 8:24 pm | #

      Modern MLB style, or old-timey “League of Their Own” etc?

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 24, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    “What are you boys doing?”
    “Putting on the FOIL.” [/Slap Shot]

  12. Grimeyville
    Grimeyville
    March 24, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

    I will never let Dorothy’s exasperation face go.

  13. Nayann Martinelli
    Nayann Martinelli
    March 24, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

    I love the “Doris” in the first panel, Dorothy just humoring Joyce by not pointing out again that she knows she is “inspiration” for the character.

    And then Becky happens.

  14. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    March 24, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

    Well A. that read text is hilarious.

    And B. got ‘er.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      March 24, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

      Got em both!

  15. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 24, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

    BETTY!

  16. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    March 24, 2021 at 12:42 am | #

    Well if Joyce wants to learn about writing conflict, a golden example is about to present itself

  17. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    March 24, 2021 at 12:55 am | #

    oh y’know, it’s Joyce’s incredibly repressed attraction to Dotty, manifesting in art form.

  18. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    March 24, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

    this was probably a very needed moment for Becky to do her thing….

  19. cmasta1992
    cmasta1992
    March 24, 2021 at 1:05 am | #

    So who is going to burst into a sexually frustrated heap first: Lucy or Joyce?

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      March 24, 2021 at 2:00 am | #

      Becky. C’mon, she’s right there!

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        March 24, 2021 at 4:42 am | #

        Seconding this. Becky’s definitely more sexually frustrated than either Lucy or Joyce right now.

        • SillyGoose
          SillyGoose
          March 24, 2021 at 6:41 am | #

          And I don’t think we saw anything from Lucy that says she represses even half as much as the other two.
          She might not have sexpals right now, but I guess she’d be up for it if she did. And well, having sex is a great way to be less frustrated, so there’s hope for her yet ^^

  20. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    March 24, 2021 at 1:20 am | #

    Dorothy, you’re terrible with people. Have you considered this is a bigger issue than grades in becoming POTUS?

  21. Sporky
    Sporky
    March 24, 2021 at 2:03 am | #

    I’m not sure if I’m upset by Becky calling comic strips unsexy because I agree with her or disagree with her. But it’s botherin’ me.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 24, 2021 at 7:05 am | #

      She’s clearly never heard of webcomics.

      (She’s right about newspaper comics, though. The closest those get is 9CL, and that’s merely horny.)

  22. Yossarianduck
    Yossarianduck
    March 24, 2021 at 2:49 am | #

    Comic strips are unsexy because 9 Chickweed Lane absorbs all the horniness around it, like a vortex made of legs.

    Also, poor Becky needs to learn to JO or something, this is untenable.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 24, 2021 at 6:14 am | #

      I think maybe it is impure.

  23. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 24, 2021 at 2:59 am | #

    Just to clarify, Joyce, Becky is one of those people who are the exception that proves the rule.

    I am glad though that Becky was able to address the pink gorilla sitting in the middle of the room. Yes, Doris is Dorothy (and, I think, Joe) and possibly represents the issues Joyce still has in understanding the secular world.

  24. Varangian
    Varangian
    March 24, 2021 at 3:56 am | #

    I’m sorry to break this to you, Becky, whom I love, but that look of world-weariness Dotty has going on? Only Joyce can make her project that kind of “oh my God, no” energy. For all your attempts at rivalry, you will never elicit that expression from her.

  25. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 24, 2021 at 4:02 am | #

    or softballs, depending

  26. Raen
    Raen
    March 24, 2021 at 4:11 am | #

    Is this a comment on that early strip when Joyce berated everyone for their corruption and we were supposed to be on her side?

  27. Keulen
    Keulen
    March 24, 2021 at 4:57 am | #

    I don’t know why but I never realized “thinking about baseball” meant to think about something not sexy until now. Maybe because there’s a number of baseball metaphors for sex.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 24, 2021 at 6:54 am | #

      Kind of puts Deep Space Nine in a new context, doesn’t it.

    • SillyGoose
      SillyGoose
      March 24, 2021 at 7:09 am | #

      As a straight woman who thinks baseball is boring, somehow it doesn’t really work either.

      Sooooo I’m watching a dozen male athletes in skin tight outfits, and I’m bored. Ooooobviously sex has never been further from my mind!

  28. milu
    milu
    March 24, 2021 at 6:14 am | #

    …i’m not sure why Dorothy is glaring so hard when Becky instantly recognizes her as Doris, since that was already obvious to her. The only new piece of information is that she won’t be the only one to notice.

    [beat]

    …hhhhhence the snarly face. got it =D

    On the other hand, Joyce should be mad proud that her characters are so readily recognizable! That is serious talent.

  29. milu
    milu
    March 24, 2021 at 6:29 am | #

    You ever got dressed down by a friend for transparently basing a character of yours on them, Willis?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      March 24, 2021 at 10:45 am | #

      He’s stated before that Mike and Ninja Rick were based on people he knew, so I’d expect so.

  30. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    March 24, 2021 at 6:37 am | #

    “Why ya drawing Dotty at all? All the strips should be about how Julia Gray and her lesbian pal Betty are BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE, until everyone forgets President Doris even exists!”

  31. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    March 24, 2021 at 7:36 am | #

    “Joyce, you’re projecting. Not everyone is obsessed with sex.”
    “…says the young woman who has bedded three guys!”

    All I can think of is Ruth telling Joyce “You’re obviously overrun with hormones”. It’s gotta go somewhere.

  32. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 24, 2021 at 8:14 am | #

    Joyce has a point. Exhibit prove A.

  33. Spencer
    Spencer
    March 24, 2021 at 8:15 am | #

    Becky don’t be silly, that’s President Doris. She has dark hair, which is completely different from Dorothy’s blonde hair colour.

    • milu
      milu
      March 24, 2021 at 9:10 am | #

      It’s almost like no one cares about Doris’s hair colour?!
      So rude.

  34. Billifer Jenningsworth
    Billifer Jenningsworth
    March 24, 2021 at 9:36 am | #

    Has Becky discovered porn yet?

    • Orson Smelles
      Orson Smelles
      March 24, 2021 at 5:26 pm | #

      Somehow I’m not sure the internalized doctrine that led to the Great Hanky-Panky Panic of 2021 is going to smile on pornography/masturbation as a pressure release valve. I think she probably believes she’s just supposed to suppress it entirely until her brain melts.

      • milu
        milu
        March 24, 2021 at 6:06 pm | #

        Wait a second, so having been raised Reasonably Christian and Boy I find myself wondering, what is the fundie rationale for prohibiting masturbation in girls?! Like, I get how you could argue that, to quote the Monty Pythons, “every sperm is sacred”, but that’s not what happens when vulva havers jerk off sooooo…???

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          March 24, 2021 at 7:05 pm | #

          Having Sexual Desires is Sinful and Whorish, basically. (Or at least that’s one of them.)

          • Mariah Hardnett
            Mariah Hardnett
            March 25, 2021 at 5:14 am | #

            In my experience christian dont really think girls have those urges. I always thought masturbation was a thing men did until my late teens /20s. Sex is presented as something women do for their boyfriends so thet is the focus their is nothing in the bible about female masturbation becaise the concept is not even presented as a thing. Honestly growing up i felt like a freak for having “urges” at least guys know its normal for them.

  35. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    March 24, 2021 at 10:41 am | #

    Writing about your RL friends is a great idea, and can’t possibly turn out to be a problem.

    • milu
      milu
      March 24, 2021 at 6:12 pm | #

      …and publishing those stories in an outlet that your entire peer circle is likely to read? Still 100% guaranteed not to present an issue in any way shape or form

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        March 24, 2021 at 11:37 pm | #

        And it DEFINITELY won’t be a problem making the characters visually-identifiable as their real life inspirations to the rest of the campus population.

  36. Dalrint
    Dalrint
    March 24, 2021 at 12:46 pm | #

    I just have to say I absolutely adore the expressions in the last panel.

  37. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    March 24, 2021 at 1:01 pm | #

    …I can’t shake this horrible feeling that this is building up to Joyce having a falling-out with either Dorothy or Becky. I really hope I’m wrong.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 24, 2021 at 5:34 pm | #

      She will never learn boundaries otherwise than suffering consequences for transgressing them.

  38. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    March 24, 2021 at 1:34 pm | #

    So wait, here’s a thought: is Joyce’s artwork, in-universe, supposed to be super-realistic?

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 24, 2021 at 5:35 pm | #

      It is not much like Willis’s current style.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 24, 2021 at 11:09 pm | #

        Still closer to their current style than whenever we’ve seen Willis draw their characters “realistically” (and subsequently deride the drawing in-universe as “unrealistic”), such as here: http://www.itswalky.com/comic/whats-that/

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          March 24, 2021 at 11:26 pm | #

          Or for another example, here: http://www.itswalky.com/comic/what-are-those-things-on-its-nose/

  39. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    March 24, 2021 at 5:16 pm | #

    wait the characters in the third panel line up with that john mulaney meme
    Becky: MCDONALDS MCDONALDS MCDONALDS
    Joyce: we have food at home
    Doris: *orders one black coffee*

  40. Roborat
    Roborat
    March 25, 2021 at 4:21 pm | #

    I love Dorothy’s expression in the last panel.

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