When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Kiwi Blitz
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
Cut Time
Juby
Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Go Get a Roomie
Clover
Experience the queer journey of an upbeat hippie and the friendships she makes along the way! A tale of self-discovery and love of many forms.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Fireweeds Moors
Gato Iberico
A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
The Sanity Circus
Windy
Magic, monsters and mysteries await in the odd city of Sanity. It's up to Attley and a colorful group of characters to find out just what is going on.
Demon's Mirror
Harry Bogosian
Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
The Automan's Daughter
Mike Stamm
Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.
Devil's Candy
Rem, Bikkuri
A lush fantasy about boy genius Kazu Decker, the girl he constructed for his 9th grade science project, and the world of devils and monsters they live in.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Caramel Corn
Potchimew
Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.
Monster Pulse
Magnolia Porter Siddell
Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Paranatural
Zack Morrison
Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Between Failures
Jackie Wohlenhaus
The low stakes adventures of an assorted group of 20 somethings trapped in the declining years of American retail. They are naughty and say lots of swears.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Jailbird
Charlie Davis
An all-ages comic about a recently escaped prisoner's struggle to understand the outside world, and vice-versa. Also, a magic cape!
Sam & Fuzzy
Sam Logan
Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)
The Witch Door
Anni K.
Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
Ghost Junk Sickness
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Two hunters try to survive and end up being pushed to pursue a deadly bounty dubbed "The Ghost".
BOOKMARK Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
BUFFER WATCH
Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:
I think Leslie must be an advanced Ph.D. student? I had wondered what her actual role is. She’s young for a professor, especially given that she had a rough start to adulthood. It takes years to get a humanities doctorate, and it’s not unusual to have an experienced grad student teach small classes like gender studies.
In that case, I’m actually kind of annoyed she’s referred to as “Ms. Bean” in this strip, even as part of a joke. Leslie can be pretty self-deprecating, but one thing she would know for sure that she can be proud of is that degree. It should indeed be Dr. Bean, as AntJ said.
I really, really felt Dorothy’s acknowledgement of the weirdness of going to the same building for a different class second semester of freshman year. It truly is jarring (especially if your high school was, like most, only one building, and your college is a public school, so medium to large).
When I was in undergrad, most of my classes were in the same 4 or 5 buildings (I took almost exclusively social science/humanities) so I didn’t have that problem but I can see how it’d be weird.
In both universities I’ve studied, one was a total of 3 (three) buildings, the other of 2 (two). And in the second one (admittedly I was only there for a year and a half for my master’s degree) the only reason I’d ever gone to the other building was because of the classes where I taught people from other programs English as practice.
Poor Leslie wants to mother Becky but Becky was almost an adult when she was “adopted” and still thought of her mother-mother as her mother. Becky wanted more of a big sister to show her how a joyous crazy lesbian life could be!
Leslie, if any of them need an alternative mother figure to help them figure out some aspects of being an adult, I suspect that it would be Joyce. Meanwhile, we see that Joyce still has that programmed reflexive deference to authority figures!
I’d be very surprised if Leslie and Becky’s pre-existing relationship rises to the level of something that’s an official conflict of interest between teacher and student. I’d also be very surprised if it doesn’t interfere with the teacher/student relationship from time to time.
Officially? I don’t really see how. If Becky was still sleeping on Leslie’s couch that might be a problem, but it was months ago and less than 2 weeks.
It might still interfere with the teacher/student relationship, but there’s no official reason for any concern.
This kind of thing happens the whole time and unless the university’s terrible there are systems already in place for it.
I’ve wound up teaching the siblings of people I went to highschool with, f’rex, and you just get everything double-marked and recorded as such. If you can indicate that nobody’s benefiting or being penalised for the relationship, the university’s not going to care?
Leslie acknowledging that she didn’t have time to cover non-binary genders, I see. Even if they were originally on the syllabus, kidnapping plays havoc with the schedule, I’m sure
How to describe it… basically taking people’s personality traits or interests and turning it into a Box with Gender written on it. Like a man who is perfectly fine with being a man but has girly interests or a woman who is perfectly fine being a woman but for example likes wearing male clothes or has boyish interests. It just seems to be like people are over-complicating these things with all of these genders. That’s just who you are as a person, you don’t need a super specific box for it.
Ehhh I think it’s not great you’re so dismissive of it. And like just because we don’t understand something personally doesn’t mean it’s not real. The scope of human existence is kind of beyond what one singular person can understand. I don’t perhaps always understand being non binary (because I’m not) but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be respected or that it’s not real. Also people don’t really owe anyone a paint by numbers justification on why they’re different especially as they’re exploring themselves perhaps trying to find the terms that describe themselves.
People also may just have different names for that experience of being away from the gender binary. I kind of sometimes view it in the same way as bi/pan: both words I’ve used in the past to describe myself but ultimately their differences aren’t really anything huge. (Also other words exist for it which aren’t as popular). But some people prefer to be called one or the other and that’s fine. Just like respect what people want to be called/not called.
Granted that’s my take on it: I’m a rather clueless cis in some respects so I’m sorry if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes/way off the mark in my conclusions for anyone.
It seems a bit risky to ask the question in this thread, given that the thread opener sounded rather aggressive.
I know it’s important to have words that feel right to describe oneself and to find peers who are like you and other peers who might be something else but stell get who you are.
But what makes some of them a gender?
It’s probably kind of hard to say? Like Gender is a social construct but social constructs are well real even though humans made them up. Like societies are social constructs. Hell isn’t the languages and definitions in general we decide to even speak also social constructs? Also: Insert cool Hogswatch Death quote re believing in things to make them become here.
Idk I studied Biology at uni, not the social sciences: and even the term species can be more complicated than it first appears. Gender likely can have possible issues too. Hell even biological sex can be complicated, something that the transphobic like to pretend don’t exist. Any social science experts want to weigh in?
Like I said I’m cis: but I would say the fact that I could be a man or something else all together helped me realise I am a woman in a sense. I’m not ‘trapped’ or anything. Like I remember before knowing being trans was even a thing feeling kind of angry at all the bullshit women were put through and how it would have been easier to have been born a man. But like on finding out that that you can be something other than your biological sex and after some consideration: I’m not a man. If I’d been born in an announced as male body I’d have probably been trans. I’d have still been a woman just not everyone might see it that way. Even with all hinted at bullshit/baggage attached and how people view women.
Overall I’m not sure hard answers are perhaps a thing. Just some people are certain they’re men, some women and some don’t fit either category and have different ways of defining that for themselves. But like what even is a man? (Other than a miserable pile of secrets).
That seems to me to be a very distorted take on what non-binary people are like. In my limited experience with them, they go far beyond just cross dressing or a few interests socially linked to a gender role.
Some might flirt with the idea, but in the cases where it lasts, there’s something deeper going on.
I also suspect that it’s not really that there are “all these genders” so much as this is a relatively new concept and we’re still sorting out terminology. Figuring out where it’s useful to draw lines on a spectrum.
I mean, she did live with Robin for a while; that seems like the kind of thing that would mess with anyone trying to maintain a semi-nutritious diet. Even if it’s been a few months.
Damn, I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned the fact that Leslie just fucking murdered six students in front of Joyce. She’s a steely-eyed killer and y’all aren’t even gonna acknowledge it.
I wonder if young LGBT+ ppl realize this is an entirely accurate depiction of older LGBT+ people. We want to mama bear you and swaddle you and feed you and give you all the gender affirming gear.
As they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations.
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through…
Except they know all that they can see.
And WE wish to warn them of the traps and pitfalls that they can’t see, for lack of experience… arrrgh!
Her name developed as a gag in the old Shortpacked! comic. Robin was trying to convince everyone she was a lesbian, so she went out and found a lesbian to be her girlfriend. For a while, we didn’t know Leslie’s name (Robin just referred to her as “my lesbian”). Leslie, of course, got upset that Robin didn’t know her name… and then had to admit what her actual name was.
I forgot that Joyce, Dorothy, Walky and others won’t be in Leslie’s class anymore. Nice to see Willis had a contingency plan using Becky in their stead because we could always use more Leslie.
Optimus Prime broke down and cried on the set of "Transformers" (2007) due to the extensive use of green screen filming. He reportedly said, "This is not why I became an actor."
“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com ⋅ 1d
Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com ⋅ 1d
preternia @preternia.com ⋅ 1d
Loading ...
Hailey Piper 
“Missy! …I mean, Mom. I mean… Mrs. Logan.”
“…Sis”
Take the frickin’ win and call it a day!
she’s a good bean
The best bean
An excellent human bean.
Making out like a bean bandit.
You… you made a Bean Bandit reference.
Gunsmith Cats (and related properties) was fuckin’ foundational for me. Respect.
Did you happen to get in on this?
(I didn’t, husband surprised me with it for my bday!)
I did not actually.
I’m a little bit jealous right now.
Only a little, though, because I always preferred the manga (which I own the entire run of).
The manga was awesome! One of my first manga too. I was deeply disappointed in the anime though,
I ♡ Leslie Bean forever
Return of Best Woman?
We all wanna Bean but she will never be a has-Bean.
And a real hero.
Real human bean…
(Seriously, I love that song)
a cool bean
The great Les Bean
I can’t believe after ten years of reading this strip that I only now noticed that.
Dense… dense… dense…
She is a dynamite bean.
“It was a joke… obviously it’s Dr. Bean to you, I worked my tail off for that PhD”
“I didn’t spend six years at Bean Medical School to be called Ms.”
I think Leslie must be an advanced Ph.D. student? I had wondered what her actual role is. She’s young for a professor, especially given that she had a rough start to adulthood. It takes years to get a humanities doctorate, and it’s not unusual to have an experienced grad student teach small classes like gender studies.
She has her Ph.D.
At age 26? That’s impressive!
In that case, I’m actually kind of annoyed she’s referred to as “Ms. Bean” in this strip, even as part of a joke. Leslie can be pretty self-deprecating, but one thing she would know for sure that she can be proud of is that degree. It should indeed be Dr. Bean, as AntJ said.
Leslie’s Mom Senses are tingling …
In these times a dub is a dub.
sub > dub, tho.
Gender studies with Leslie and Becky is gonna have some real weird vibes for everyone else in the class
It’s okay, Leslie, you’ll probably have Booster in your class as well.
Maybe they’ll take on Roz’s “I could teach this” role.
Leslie is so wholesome about Becky and I love it.
“You’re grounded for getting a B-”
“But you’re the one who gave me the B-!”
And with anyone else it wouldve bean a C+!
*cues up the Van Halen for the hacked Muzak*
but Hot for Teacher is the other direction…?
Yeah, but it fits the comments section.
I really, really felt Dorothy’s acknowledgement of the weirdness of going to the same building for a different class second semester of freshman year. It truly is jarring (especially if your high school was, like most, only one building, and your college is a public school, so medium to large).
When I was in undergrad, most of my classes were in the same 4 or 5 buildings (I took almost exclusively social science/humanities) so I didn’t have that problem but I can see how it’d be weird.
In both universities I’ve studied, one was a total of 3 (three) buildings, the other of 2 (two). And in the second one (admittedly I was only there for a year and a half for my master’s degree) the only reason I’d ever gone to the other building was because of the classes where I taught people from other programs English as practice.
Ukraine is different
Well. Someone in yesterdays comments was wondering when we’d see Leslie next, and it turned out the answer was the very next comic
Work moms/teacher moms always make me feel so safe.
Good job not mom-ing, Leslie!
Joyce is doing a great job calling people what they want to be called.
Okay, who else thought the fringe-collar-thing on Leslie’s coat was her now-longer-and-graying-at-the-ends hair at first?
I love Leslie’s winter outfit, the color is so pretty and fluffy necks are super cute…
Agreed! She’s *so* cute here!
I MISSED LESLIE!
It’s Leslie! #Winning!
It’s like the opposite of calling your teacher “Mom”
LESLIE IS MOMTHER
Poor Leslie wants to mother Becky but Becky was almost an adult when she was “adopted” and still thought of her mother-mother as her mother. Becky wanted more of a big sister to show her how a joyous crazy lesbian life could be!
Which…she’s terrible at.
I love this reading.
Leslie sees a homeless gay kid and wants to give her everything she didn’t have, whereas Becky isn’t in the mood to replace her mom anytime soon.
Maybe, but there were some definite hints that Becky did want to be “mommed”. The scene where she followed her to the grocery to get her tie tied. Most especially this bit where she played the bratty teen daughter role.
While true, I think that Becky was taking it far less seriously than Leslie.
TBF, it’s pretty normal and arguably even somewhat required for parents to take parenthood more seriously than teenagers take ANYTHING.
It took everything Leslie had not to spit on a hanky and clean Becky’s face with it.
Leslie, if any of them need an alternative mother figure to help them figure out some aspects of being an adult, I suspect that it would be Joyce. Meanwhile, we see that Joyce still has that programmed reflexive deference to authority figures!
That, or it’s just a cheerful acceptance for what people ask of her.
Well, has Becky washed behind the ears? The suspense is killing me!
No, absolutely not.
I’m surprised you had to ask.
In hindsight I’m surprised myself
I’m wondering if this is going to be a problem.
I’d be very surprised if Leslie and Becky’s pre-existing relationship rises to the level of something that’s an official conflict of interest between teacher and student. I’d also be very surprised if it doesn’t interfere with the teacher/student relationship from time to time.
Well given Leslie isn’t even teaching Becky, I guess no.
…. huh? Am I reading Panel 4 wrong?
If you’re reading it wrong then I’m reading it wrong too. It definitely sounds like Leslie will be teaching Becky to me.
No, you’ve read correctly.
Officially? I don’t really see how. If Becky was still sleeping on Leslie’s couch that might be a problem, but it was months ago and less than 2 weeks.
It might still interfere with the teacher/student relationship, but there’s no official reason for any concern.
This kind of thing happens the whole time and unless the university’s terrible there are systems already in place for it.
I’ve wound up teaching the siblings of people I went to highschool with, f’rex, and you just get everything double-marked and recorded as such. If you can indicate that nobody’s benefiting or being penalised for the relationship, the university’s not going to care?
“Leslie was what I asked you to call me last semester.”
And before I could read the next line, my brain filled in “Oh, they’re transitioning?”
I’d very much like Alex to become an official part of the cast.
This is very unfortunately close to MrBean, and yet with the last panel it’s pretty fitting.
Leslie’s father will be voiced by Rowan Atkinson in the animated series.
I’d honestly prefer Leslie’s dad be “that” variety of Mr. Bean, as opposed to the raging douche-clown he was in Shortpacked.
yeaah.
I’m assuming Becky’s officially taking gender studies then? Or does Leslie teach another class as well?
Leslie acknowledging that she didn’t have time to cover non-binary genders, I see. Even if they were originally on the syllabus, kidnapping plays havoc with the schedule, I’m sure
The Motherhood is strong in this one!
I feel like people really confused gender with having a friggin personality.
I’m not sure how to interpret that.
How to describe it… basically taking people’s personality traits or interests and turning it into a Box with Gender written on it. Like a man who is perfectly fine with being a man but has girly interests or a woman who is perfectly fine being a woman but for example likes wearing male clothes or has boyish interests. It just seems to be like people are over-complicating these things with all of these genders. That’s just who you are as a person, you don’t need a super specific box for it.
bleh
What the hell are you even talking about?
Ehhh I think it’s not great you’re so dismissive of it. And like just because we don’t understand something personally doesn’t mean it’s not real. The scope of human existence is kind of beyond what one singular person can understand. I don’t perhaps always understand being non binary (because I’m not) but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be respected or that it’s not real. Also people don’t really owe anyone a paint by numbers justification on why they’re different especially as they’re exploring themselves perhaps trying to find the terms that describe themselves.
People also may just have different names for that experience of being away from the gender binary. I kind of sometimes view it in the same way as bi/pan: both words I’ve used in the past to describe myself but ultimately their differences aren’t really anything huge. (Also other words exist for it which aren’t as popular). But some people prefer to be called one or the other and that’s fine. Just like respect what people want to be called/not called.
Granted that’s my take on it: I’m a rather clueless cis in some respects so I’m sorry if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes/way off the mark in my conclusions for anyone.
It seems a bit risky to ask the question in this thread, given that the thread opener sounded rather aggressive.
I know it’s important to have words that feel right to describe oneself and to find peers who are like you and other peers who might be something else but stell get who you are.
But what makes some of them a gender?
It’s probably kind of hard to say? Like Gender is a social construct but social constructs are well real even though humans made them up. Like societies are social constructs. Hell isn’t the languages and definitions in general we decide to even speak also social constructs? Also: Insert cool Hogswatch Death quote re believing in things to make them become here.
Idk I studied Biology at uni, not the social sciences: and even the term species can be more complicated than it first appears. Gender likely can have possible issues too. Hell even biological sex can be complicated, something that the transphobic like to pretend don’t exist. Any social science experts want to weigh in?
Like I said I’m cis: but I would say the fact that I could be a man or something else all together helped me realise I am a woman in a sense. I’m not ‘trapped’ or anything. Like I remember before knowing being trans was even a thing feeling kind of angry at all the bullshit women were put through and how it would have been easier to have been born a man. But like on finding out that that you can be something other than your biological sex and after some consideration: I’m not a man. If I’d been born in an announced as male body I’d have probably been trans. I’d have still been a woman just not everyone might see it that way. Even with all hinted at bullshit/baggage attached and how people view women.
Overall I’m not sure hard answers are perhaps a thing. Just some people are certain they’re men, some women and some don’t fit either category and have different ways of defining that for themselves. But like what even is a man? (Other than a miserable pile of secrets).
This is a rambling mess, sorry.
That seems to me to be a very distorted take on what non-binary people are like. In my limited experience with them, they go far beyond just cross dressing or a few interests socially linked to a gender role.
Some might flirt with the idea, but in the cases where it lasts, there’s something deeper going on.
I also suspect that it’s not really that there are “all these genders” so much as this is a relatively new concept and we’re still sorting out terminology. Figuring out where it’s useful to draw lines on a spectrum.
I don’t know, Becky might benefit from being fed.
I mean, she did live with Robin for a while; that seems like the kind of thing that would mess with anyone trying to maintain a semi-nutritious diet. Even if it’s been a few months.
Becky has transcended the need for food, now she feasts on spiting Dotty.
I’d say, no! I’d say you’re wrong! I’d contradict you, eh! But you are correct, you’re right, and Yes!
Damn, I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned the fact that Leslie just fucking murdered six students in front of Joyce. She’s a steely-eyed killer and y’all aren’t even gonna acknowledge it.
Well, I can certainly affirm that I’m not planning on acknowledging it.
I wonder if young LGBT+ ppl realize this is an entirely accurate depiction of older LGBT+ people. We want to mama bear you and swaddle you and feed you and give you all the gender affirming gear.
As they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations.
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through…
Except they know all that they can see.
And WE wish to warn them of the traps and pitfalls that they can’t see, for lack of experience… arrrgh!
Did you mean to post this in your boomer facebook group instead
I love Leslie’s eyes in that last panel.
as an older queer person whos gone through some pretty bad trauma, 120% relatable
Leslie Bean? Little on the nose, aren’t we?
Her name developed as a gag in the old Shortpacked! comic. Robin was trying to convince everyone she was a lesbian, so she went out and found a lesbian to be her girlfriend. For a while, we didn’t know Leslie’s name (Robin just referred to her as “my lesbian”). Leslie, of course, got upset that Robin didn’t know her name… and then had to admit what her actual name was.
Lucky, right?
To quote her dad from shortpacked, “It was a family name!”
Sigh. Leslie miss her daughter so much ♡.
I forgot that Joyce, Dorothy, Walky and others won’t be in Leslie’s class anymore. Nice to see Willis had a contingency plan using Becky in their stead because we could always use more Leslie.
Looks like Leslie’s more likely to accidentally call her student “daughter” than Becky is to call the teacher “Mom”.
One quickly learns the downside of friendships with those in authority over you.
She’s a mom, and i wouldn’t have it any other way
Ms. Bean failed to know Joyce well enough to select an appropriate lie.
Lately I’ve been imagining Leslie voiced by Deedee Magno Hall. This strip does nothing to help dissuade me of that view.