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I had a friend in college who was pie-sexual. He was a bit of a snob about pizza but I try to keep myself from believing that one necessarily implies the other.
It’s probably been a while since you were a student. Students are irresistibly drawn to the words ‘FREE PIZZA’. Doesn’t matter the kind or quality – you put up those words, they will come.
That’s true. Why is it that even really crummy free pizza still has merit over its equivalent, non free counterpart. Even if you think you wouldn’t want to eat either because it’s so crummy. But then it is happening and it is still good.
It’s funny, I’m actually “allergic” to some pizza chains, like I get a migraine headache when I eat their pizza because of something in their sauce or dough, so there are definitely times that I would turn down free pizza depending on where it comes from. I’m not a snob about it, I just don’t want a debilitating headache.
Otoh I’m also ace so I turn down free sex every time but that is neither here nor there, haha.
I think I know what you mean, while I don’t recall ever having a headache as a result of a pizza, there are two nearby pizza joints I don’t go to anymore because the pizza base has this weird flavour that builds up the more you eat until your tongue revolts against you.
still gets awkward when i “make a request” to my bosses when they announce pizza parties at work, like…”i’m not just being picky, i promise, it literally makes me sick and i’d like to avoid that so if you could order from basically anywhere but dominos or hungry howie’s, that’d be great.”
i mean, i LIKE dominos. dominos doesn’t like ME. (hh isn’t that great, though. cheap, but not great. plus the migraine thing which is weird but nothing to do with the flavor.)
Not really. My impression of them afterward was pretty much: “Wow, these people are terrible,” mainly from how they listed as one of their accomplishments keeping a gay student group from being officially recognized by the university (this was the late 80’s).
Bet Walky would be into your avatar too. Sure, he’s mostly about pizza, but Taco Bell has its charms and hey, this IS a meeting about questioning your preferences.
Look, we all have exceptions. Our culinary orientation is far from straightforward. Like, I am normally a meat-eater, but sometimes you just have to have some delicious sushi.
I almost never eat pizza at restaurants. Where I leave they’re always at least 15 bucks and there’s no guarantee of deliciousness. I always just buy margherittas and my favourite toppings if I don’t have any left at home. Cheaper and delicious-er.
That song was really popular, I think, because a lot of gay people related to dreaming of a wonderful, magical place, over the rainbow, where troubles melted away and everything was better.
It’s not really because of that particular scene that “friend of Dorotby” was used as slang – actually, pretty much the reverse is the case. The usage of rainbows as gay symbols is mostyl as a result of the importance of the Wizard of Oz in gay culture.
“A friend of Dorothy” is a slang term for gay/lesbian, apparently Judy Garland who played Dorothy in the 1939 Wizard of Oz was an early advocate for the gay community.
The Wizard of Oz is a really important film in gay culture, and Judy Garland is a gay icon. Oz is the origin of the usage of rainbows as gay symbols. “Friend of Dorothy” is old-time slang for “gay” from a time when it was far more dangerous to openly tell someone you were into people with genitals like your own, so there had to be code words.
This quote from that wiki page is officially the best thing ever.
In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as “friends of Dorothy.” Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”, hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay servicemembers.
That’s so awesome. I love that the greek translation twist. At the same time the poor archaeologists who dug out antique cities discovered art and artifacts that were considered a bit… ah risque for the morals at the time.
I have an amazing 1930’s reprint of a late 1800s translation (mostly) of a book from the late Seventeenth Century called “Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies” (which is mostly this old guy (who once met Elizabeth I when she was very old)’s reminisces about all these women he has known. Seriously, it’s awesome; one of my favourite bits is the part where he says of course your wife is going to sleep with other men: Naturally, she’s going to want to show off all the cool moves you taught her; and you can’t expect the guys to just take you at your word about how great she is in bed, any more than you’d take your buddy’s word about what a great, smooth gait his horse had, without trying it out for yourself. Lol.
Anyways, the relevant part is that it’s “mostly” translated, because there is one section about lesbians that is apparently too shocking to translate from the original French. And sadly, my sub-par high-school Quebecois is not up to the task of translating a fiddly bit of Seventeenth Century prose that is rife with innuendo.
Aw man I would so love to read this! But I’m afraid despite my being able to perfectly understand French, I would have a lot of trouble reading 17th century literature. I already had trouble reading Dangerous Liaisons, and that was from late 18th century.
Seriously? It sure as hell looks like sex to me. But okay. Can you give me an explanation why you think / know it’s a rectal exam, or maybe a source? ^^ I’m not doubting you, I’m genuinely curious.
As someone who once ran out of money in college, I can confirm that wandering around campus buildings looking for “x meeting tonight something something free pizza” is a legitimate strategy for food acquisition.
Nobody ever really questions it. Walk in, grab a slice or two, depart.
Ok, I’m genuinely starting to suspect that Walky may not be entirely a Kinsey 0. First there was his conversation with Danny at the party where he was commenting about how the universality of finding Jacob hot (http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/conceding/) and now here he’s casually joking about oral sex.
Sure, I get the whole bro culture of reducing homosexual male desire to a joke, but I dunno, I’m starting to get the same vibe off of him that I get off friends’ parents right before they start talking about how “everyone” had an experimental phase in college and that everyone has that one same-gender actor/actress they find hot.
And there is a lot of cultural pressure for those who are Kinsey 1 or 2 to round down to straight and never acknowledge it because it’s not an even 50/50… so who knows?
I think it’s also interesting to note that, until he met Dorothy, Walky was pretty firmly entrenched in a “girls are gross” mindset. It’s possible he could encounter a similar situation on the other end of the gender spectrum.
I don’t know. To me he just comes across as very secure in his straight-ness, so he doesn’t have any qualms about sexuality, his own or other people’s. I know a ton of straight people like this.
Also, to your second point, a lot of people really do have that one non-straight experience when they’re young but they’re genuinely straight. That’s a thing that actually happens in the real world a lot. I’m not trying to bi-erase people’s experiences, I am bi and I hate when people do that. But some people are just straight and trying to put love labels on them that they don’t identify with is equally wrong.
I think Walky’s just a super chill straight guy. And I <3 him.
They were talking about rounding down a 1 or a 2 to ‘straight’. 0 is completely straight. I’m a 3 and I’d never call myself straight, ever. Maybe you’re right in so far as to the possibility that some people may not know about this scale (or any other scale, since Kinsey is not the be all end all on this matter) and therefore are unaware that 1s or 2s even exist, so they just call themselves straight. To me, personally, 1s and 2s are not straight. But then again, everyone can identify however the heck they please. This is just the way it is to me
We (as in, the culture) has made it WAY more comfortable for 1s and 2s to call themselves “straight with an exception”, “gay for [name here]” than to actually use the word “bi”.
My sexuality is a little complicated. I’m homoromantic, and mostly into only women, but I’m also demisexual (I’ve developed physical attraction to three friends so far, ONLY after knowing them for years, when before I was ACTIVELY so very NOT attracted to them; I tend to find male actors attractive ONLY as the characters they play, and ONLY after I’ve gotten attached to those characters through years of watching), and effectively that makes me at least a little bi.
So instead of lesbian I tend to call myself queer these days when I don’t have time for a long speech.
But that doesn’t change how deeply biphobia is embedded in our fabric, how long it took me to come to terms with my own bisexuality, how much I felt like I was… betraying…? someone? something???, how terrifying it was to feel like I was back at square one with my sexuality.
So as a 5(?) who previously said “gay” when asked, I just wanna observe this: while labels ARE personal, and no one should be forced to call themselves bi or pan, we don’t as a society make it comfortable to self-identify as “bi” or “pan”, and that’s going to affect how people label themselves.
I suppose. I guess I’ve just encountered more of the rounding down types (the people I’m thinking of weren’t just, yeah, I experimented but it turned out I wasn’t really attracted to that, but more, oh yeah, I felt that way, but it was a phase or it doesn’t really count, so fie on you bi person and just outgrow it or were the types to discount their attractions to same gender individuals or otherwise downplay aspects of their sexuality that aren’t 100% straight.
That all being said, if Word of God says straight but open-minded, I’ll defer to that.
I concur, but I’m a little surprised that it’s taken you this long to suspect.
He’s obviously pretty secure in his sexuality, whatever it is. Kinsey 3 seems approximately right by my guess.
I’ve always rated Walky at least a 1. He’s comfortable with gay people, and doesn’t seem turned off by the idea of sex with a guy. Since he’s only had one lover, and he’s still coming to terms with that, his sexuality is pretty up in the air.
I mean, I was pretty secure in my straightness until I realized I wasn’t straight, and then I was pretty secure in my not-quite-straightness until I realized I was bi, and now I’m pretty secure in my bi-ness. So being secure in his sexuality doesn’t preclude later realization that maybe there was more to the story.
Sometimes listening to people talk about the supposed universality of things like having an “exception” attraction to a particularly attractive celebrity or easily falling for ideas of homosexuality as a choice makes me wonder sometimes if the real amount of bi spectrum people on the planet (much less this comic) are northwards of 50%.
Yeah me too. It could just be Walky making Bro jokes but Willis did draw art of Walky and…Ethan? Danny? I forget who, making out once so maybe he’s been hiding a reveal for awhile.
I just love Walky so much. I feel you on the love for free pizza, man, I really do.
And I just love how completly non-judgemental and chill Walky is. He’s like, I’ll just go to this meeting for questioning students to get some free pizza, who cares if anyone sees me?
I definitely still think he should be higher on the hottest dude poll as well, because he has the best personality out of all the dudes and that’s hotter to me than anything else
This comment was a Walky lovefest, I apologize. But not really, cause I’m not sorry
Maybe it’s because I’ve watched Teen Titans many many many times throughout my childhood, but I barely even notice it anymore. Now of course if he were to somehow become real, it’d probably bother me. But as long as he stays in his cartoon… <3
You say irritating. I say charming~. But yeah they have a lot in common. I was rewatching some episodes the other day and I was constantly thinking “That’s something Walky would say” and “Walky has this exact behaviour when it comes to food”. XD
You think it’s charming how BB has no respect for anyone’s boundries? How he’s constantly harassing Raven, a girl he knows has emotional problems to the point of manifesting a demonic personality? How he requires constant validation from everyone around him?
Well- Uh- I- … uuuh I haven’t changed my look on Teen Titans since I was a kid and of course as I kid I never picked up on all of that.
So I don’t know if this is just me trying to excuse his behaviour because I really like him or genuine thoughts, but…
Well, first of all, he’s a teenager. Most teenagers don’t get personal boundaries. Secondly, all his inavion-y stuff towards Raven, he’s not -constantly- harassing her. He teases her when she’s in her usual mood, and goes over the line only when she seems not to be doing very well. He does it because he cares about her, and he wants to help her get out of her bubble, get her to talk to him, the way I see it. It’s clumsy, but he’s a teen and a bit simple-minded. He doesn’t know any better. I have emotional issues, and social phobia, and have locked myself into a bubble. I would love for someone to pull me out of it. So I do find that side of Beast Boy charming. Lovely even.
As for him needing validation from their surroundings, it’s not a flaw, or irritating, it’s an obvious psychological issue he has.
And lastly, you got something reversed. Raven doesn’t manifest demonic because of her emotional problems, she has emotional problems because of her demonic DNA that she got from her super-evil, super-horrible demon-father, and her daddy issues, and the fact that she’s known all her life that she would cause the end of the world.
She has the scary demon eyes and stuff when she gets angry because in that moment she has trouble controlling her demonic side. The demon is the cause, not the symptom.
But like I said. Maybe I’m just telling myself all these things because I don’t want to hate Beast Boy. I do dislike him in Teen Titans Go. But then, I hate all the characters in TTG except Raven, so that doesn’t say much. XD
Idk, I don’t care for Jacob too much. He’s nice to look at, but there isn’t really much else, at least not that we’ve seen yet. But tbh even if I voted purely on physical hotness, I’d probably still go for Walky over Jacob. More my type. *shrugs*
lol thanks. I know I said I’m like a 5 (maybe 4.5 whatever it’s all relative anyhow >.<) but Jacob has the power to drop me to 0. Though without context that'd probably sound like a bad thing.
Hah I guess. Though to be perfectly honest I’m really not sure what number fits. I try not to obsess over it too much but the more I try not to obsess the more I do.
Don’t obsess over it! The Kinsey scale is super flawed anyway. We don’t have to put numbers and percentages on our attractions. I’m bi and if I have to, I always say I’m a solid 3, but I’ve met people who identify as bi (pan, queer, etc) and as 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s or 5s. It literally doesn’t matter. ‘Non-straight’ is also super popular among my friends. Or ‘no labels’. Everyone should identify the way they want to and everyone should just accept other people for their chosen labels or non-labels. Peace and love, ya know :3
I think he’s made some great steps. He showed some understanding with the race issues with Sal as well, even though it took him a while. But I really believe he gets it now. And there’s nothing hotter to me than character growth
I’m still gob smacked about his thing about shoes…in fact I’d love to see a flashback about how Walky got his whole attitude towards what it means to be a man
Hey, I’m the detective here, I’ll be the one asking the questions…. but if you must know, I became a detective about two nights ago. NOW, for the interrogation. Where were you on the night World 3725, otherwise known as Soft Servopia, disappeared? Take note, nothing you say can or will be used against you in the court of law.
I dunno what you’re gettin at detective. Sure the old Meg may of had some mishaps with soft serve but I tells ya I’m a changed woman I don’t mess with that shit no more.
DON’T YOU LIE TO ME WORLDEATER!!!! You and I both know your past is spotted with empty tubs of soft serves and people, good people, suffering! How many people were hurt by your malpractice? HOW MANY?!
Malpractice? Me? For shame detective. You were there, you know full well that was a mistake, wasn’t my fault the hospital was low on reserves. Not as if I ate it all when no one was looking because I knew for sure nothing terrible was gonna happen in DOA anytime soon.
That’d be crazy.
Don’t you get smart with me “Dr. Worldeater”. Its true, I know the hospital was running low on soft serve reserves, for whatever strange reason. But I also know you’re past is checkered. How many towns have you had to hop from? How many patients did you treat? How many did you lose? And just how many were mistakes? You can’t tell me all of those were simple accidents Worldeater. No hospital worth its spoons can be that low on soft serve.
hi guys, guess who didn’t get the first post in my universe again? Ohhhh, free pizza? Like! I just wish I could get the gravatar that goes with my identity in my universe, but the two pictures have the same filename, and when we change the filename it still comes up as the picture for that universe.
In my universe the meeting was a trap set by Galasso, and the last three panels are him saying “Foooollllls” and laughing evilly. I have no idea why he did this because he is just as big a ditz about sexuality in my universe as yours.
He means it comes up as the picture for that universe no matter what we do to the filename in the other universe. When I’m on his side I have his gravatar no matter what I do, and vice versa.
we just met jim and i already love him. he looks adorable and sounds like he’s warm and chill. please tell me his its walky counterpart didn’t kill a billion people or anything
Trying to decipher the look no Joyce’s face in the last panel. So many possibilities. Resigned, maybe? It strikes me as very much the look a Mom-Joyce would have faced with her rambunctious child.
For me it’s such a sister!Joyce face. She and Walky has this adorable squibling sibling dynamics. This is the look you give a younger brother when he tags along when you hang out with your COOL friends.
Walky! Offering sexual services for food is BAD!
Though… its college, we’ve all done things for food in college we are not proud of.
I’ve worked in McDonalds. So Walky’s considerations of prostitution are probably lesser evil…
In highschool I showed up to a GSA meeting but was too afraid to come out so i made a big show about only being there for the free wings and annoyed everybody.
He is. He’s hiding that he’s afraid of growing up and having an adult’s responsibilities. He enjoys being the favoured son who is indulged and carried by his parents no matter what. The learning curve of finding out that those days are over will be sharp and painful.
I would probably suck a dick for pizza if it was good enough. Of course I’d have to be getting an entire pizza for this dick sucking. No one slice! I ain’t THAT cheap!
I appreciate that Jim sounds like he’s gone through this speech a few times. I also appreciate him including people outside the sexual spectrum. It’s surprising how many people don’t think asexuality or demisexuality are actual things.
Well, those are part of the multiple spectra form some of us use, but don’t exactly fit the common single spectrum format as it ignores strength and commonality of sexual attraction and/or urges in favor of a metric measuring whom such attraction is for.
Right? My first thoughts are “Jim is cute. Jim/Ethan would be SO CUTE.” And then his second line is “I’m straight” and my cannon dreams are blown apart.
Yup we all do things in college which is not what we would normally do, so we can eat.
A loaf of French bread, jar of peanut butter and a chunk of cheese only go so far.
On the other hand, sex for food, no. That ain’t free.
There is ‘really’ free food out there if you wander around looking for those meetings.
Love contemplating the thoughts on the guys in the last panel. Wonder if Ethan is noting Walky’s comment for future reference, Dina is doing the same, and Joyce – knowing Walky is just rolling her eyes at him.
You’re technically right in that sex for food is not free. However, if Walky wanted both the sex and the food, then it wouldn’t be a price so much as a steal disguised as a bargain. Perhaps he was afflicted with both hunger AND thirst?
Wow. I’ve never seen Joyce closer to serious violence! Quite an accomplishment on Walky’s part!
He does this deliberately, doesn’t he? He actively looks for opportunities to appear shallow and useless so people won’t trust him and ask him to do stuff!
I wouldn’t say that Joyce looks close to violence here. I think she seems to be more exasperated than anything else. I mean a couple of chapters ago, she said “I’m going to get some soft serve” in a manner that could be interpreted as “Fuck you Walky”. This seems mild compared to that.
Actually, a lot of people go for LGBTQIA. Doesn’t really cut up the consonants though. That’s why I’m partial to QILTBAG. It’s inclusive, cute, and people are less likely to complain about having to remember 7 letters in a row when they can pronounce it phonetically (despite having already learned 26 by age 5 but that’s neither here nor there)
I’ve seen LGBT+ and LGBTQ+ used. It acknowledges the existence of other genders and sexualities besides LGBT while still being reasonably pronounceable.
There are potentially a lot more letters in that “alphabet soup”. Opinions differ, but there is still no all-inclusive term (or finite series of letters) for the panoply of sexualities, intersexes, transes, ….
Nope. That one was coined SPECIFICALLY to include pedophiles. (They’re a “minority”.)
I prefer MOGII. Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities, and Intersex. But I still usually just say LGBTQIA (leaving off those last three out of laziness is something I’m not willing to do), for clarity.
I wasn’t aware that pedophiles had such a clout… I hope that with the advancing understanding of sexual behavior, society will be able to treat the problem better.
Anyway.
I’m not in favor in including sexual (or romantic) preferences other than gender in the mix, because it’s not like feet-fetichists suffer from the same trouble than, say, gays, in the world.
MOGII sounds nice. Like Mowgli. But LGBTQIA? Nah, unwieldable.
They don’t have clout, it’s just that GSRM was created BY a pedophile in order to include himself and others like him.
It’s definitely an issue that for example “kinksters” sometimes try to include themselves in these acronyms, but as annoying as it is to have straight people who, say, like BDSM trying to claim membership in the community, I’m less concerned there. I prefer being too inclusive to leaving out important MOGII people like aces who get left out too often already.
But a word actually created BY a child rapist to try to make their “attraction” more legitimized? No, no, no. THAT is something I will avoid.
See, I was told that MOGII was the one created by a pedophile.
I also feel weird about using an acronym with the word “marginalized” in it, as that is a thing that happens to queer folks, not a part of what we are.
Speaking of, “queer” started as a slur, so, y’know, I do think it’s possible to use GRSM without lending credibility to the people who coined it.
Aaaand now we’re to the heart of the problem, that is that being attracted to children is a sad thing that exists… Now is it something that society should repress, liberalize, or treat as illness, is a good question. I’m not in favor in letting kid abusers roam free, but the question still exists.
Anyway, that’s why I’m not in favor in including kinks. BDSM people and Feet people and Vore and others maybe deserve their own movement, maybe included in the Sex Workers Rights.
But gays or transgender want and are something else: as long as I know, they’re looking for indifference. Marriage rights, work rights, no discriminations, that sort of thing.
Of course, I’m a relatively vanilla male hetero (and I’m even white!), so hey
I’ve always been in full support of using “Queer” to refer to the community as a whole. Among several advantages would be the removal of the ambiguity between “Gay” as in specifically homosexual men and “Gay” as in the entire alphabet soup. Unfortunately there is severe pushback from older homosexuals that still cringe when they hear Queer due to its use as a hate term back in the day. Of course younger homosexuals that had Gay thrown at them with the exact same inflections and hate are supposed to just suck it up and deal with it.
yeah, I like “queer” too! It has the nice advantage of including every side that would like to take a part in it in the future, it sounds jolly to me, and it’s easy to insert in a conversation.
I’m unaware of the old hate term usage, but I’m not a native english speaker…
Huh, yeah, if I move past my suspicions that he’s bi spectrum and hasn’t realized it about himself yet and assume he’s just straight, that is actually quite a bit of a dick move.
It’s an organization about being a welcoming safe space for queer individuals and specifically focusing on those in the more vulnerable stages of self-identity and if Walky is just a straight guy, then he just invaded that space, is being disrespectful to the people there by turning their sexuality and sexuality-related struggles into a joke, and is doing it all to consume their food.
And that’s really disrespectful (I’ve had my share of experiences, usually running or attending ace events where someone tags along either as moral support or for the free food or something to do and ends up taking a big shit on everything halfway through by derailing shit into their own ignorant assumptions).
Which I guess is why I’d prefer the explanation that he’s not 100% straight, as it’d make him less of a jackass.
He’s only a jackass if he starts making people uncomfortable. He’s not invalidating a safe space by being straight any more than Joyce or the co-founder is. Friendly straight people are always welcome at these events.
I’m not sure, when a character just finished telling them that everyone is welcome, you’ve decided he’s invaded their safe space. It sounds like it’s basically a LGBTQA meeting; if Walky is willing to be open and listen, and doesn’t make people uncomfortable, all the more power to him.
It’s not so much that he’s being straight in a queer space as that he’s loudly making jokes about queerness. So if he’s straight, coming in and going ha ha ha free pizza, I’d suck a dick for pizza, amirite is turning himself into a performance instead of being supportive.
I don’t know how to explain it right but there is a difference between being supportive and in tune with the purpose of the space and making the space about your experiences as a dominant group member and in many ways its the difference between being a positively regarded ally and being that jackass that gets queer people to stay home for the next meeting.
And again, I’m speaking from a perspective of running some of these meetings and spaces that are welcoming to allies only to have some privileged idiot run their mouth and make the space all about them.
But then again, I’m totally on team bi and hasn’t realized it yet, so whatever.
As Cerberus said. To me, at least in this comic, it seems like he’s not there to learn or be an ally, but just there for the pizza. I’m a lesbian but attend a group for bisexual students because I know plenty of lesbians who give bi-women a ton of crap and they could use allies. If he’ there as an ally, great! In this comic, however, it doesn’t feel that way. Still, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Well, he’s a lot of talk but I think there might also be a genuine interest to learn. He likes Becky, he knows about her shitty situation and he knows that both Joyce and Dorothy wants to help her. I don’t think he’s beyond trying to better himself as an ally.
I realize that this is a joke that is getting played for laughs, but in all seriousness, never do this in real life. Attending an introductory group function just to get free food is a major college faux-pas, and doing so for a group that is designed to be a safe space for a minority group takes that faux-pas up to Dick Move status. Don’t Do It.
Except it’s made clear straight people are perfectly welcome there and Walky’s already shown himself as someone whose cool with other lifestyles. I see no problem here. Out of the three straight people here so far Joyce is the most likely to make someone uncomfortable.
About the second point, he might just be bad at explaining a more detailed and nuanced observation. He was right, after all. He also didn’t throw that idea in Ethan’s face, it was just his private conversation with Dorothy.
Sure he was right on all counts, but its his views on “proper” masculinity that influenced it. “Ethan must be gay, because otherwise he would all about Joyce in the same way that I am over Dorothy. To deviate from what I define as proper masculinity means there must be a deviation.”
Except he was. Like all the time. There’s plenty of reservation in the moments where Joyce makes him act overtly couply due to her jealousy of Dorothy and Walky, which is how Walky decided that Ethan was gay.
Sure, he was right, but that doesn’t change that Walky based his decision on his own definition of masculinity.
There was a strip where Joyce had to make Ethan put his arm around her. I remember Walky being there with Dorothy. I would suspect something was going on if I saw that. Maybe not that he was gay at first, but certainly that something was screwy about their relationship
I remember the scrollover text for some comic in the past mentioning that the only thing Joyce and Walky had in common was their adherence to outmoded gender roles.
As adorable as Walky is sometimes, his views on masculinity are pretty cavemanish.
Of course, these events do need to be open to people like that, if nothing else, because invalidating a cover story from a questioning person who is there to get information but too shy to admit it shuts out people the meeting was made for.
of course, but why would you take one places pizza, when you could take everyones pizza! Im sure his also skimming from the bible study group and any one else who may have free pizza.
“Ethan, it’ll be fine. No one you know is likely to be there.”
Ha!
Let’s see what other familiar faces show up here. Willis did say that Ruth and Billie don’t show up in this story-line, and we’ve seen all we’re going to see of Dorothy, so we won’t see them.
Maybe Joe will come in hopes of seeing some hot lesbian make-out sessions. Maybe Danny will be there, saying he showed up, “for the pizza — yeah, I came for the free pizza! What about you, Ethan, are you also here for the pizza?”
I’ll reserve judgement on Walky for now. Let’s see how he behaves during the meeting.
Yeah; I expect Dina to hang around for a bit, just to observe the behaviour of Joyce and maybe Danny (if he appears). Then she’ll see Raidah and Jacob leaving the building and will go to follow them.
I’m hoping she sticks around here for a while, but I’m also really hoping she meets up with Becky later in the day. Especially if they happen to make that pose that they are doing in the SDCC poster thing on the front page of the site.
The thing is the implication is that Walky has no interest in the meeting or its subject matter, only the free pizza. He then shoots Joyce (of all people to say it to) what may or may not be a crude ‘funny’ about what he’s willing to do for free food. So, yeah, its possible that he’s going to be a jerk (whilst not realising that he’s a jerk).
I doubt that he’ll make people uncomfortable; if he sticks around beyond the pizza (which is not a given) he’ll just be loudly oafish in a way that demonstrates that he neither understands nor particularly cares about the issues. After all, they do not affect him personally and he typically regards anything that doesn’t affect him personally as a joke or just irrelevant.
I would love Bryan to see Danny randomly on campus and say to him, “Hey, I didn’t see you at my ‘Group Meeting for Questioning Individuals,’ ” only for Danny to become increasingly flustered: “What?! I’m not! . . . why would you think? . . . but . . .”
Bruan replies, “You were shouting in the middle of campus that you like dudes and dicks and stuff.”
I would love Bryan to see Danny randomly on campus and say to him, “Hey, I didn’t see you at my ‘Group Meeting for Questioning Individuals,’ ” only for Danny to become increasingly flustered: “What?! I’m not! . . . why would you think? . . . but . . .”
Bryan replies, “You were shouting in the middle of campus that you like dudes and dicks and stuff.” As shown in This strip followed later that day by this strip
And some people will say they’re straight and only there for the free pizza as a cover. Like, that’s part of the point of the “Gay-Straight” Alliance… queer kids can go to the meeting, or join the group, WITHOUT being outed before they’re ready.
I guess Walky is flexisexual, or “Whatever I need to be, baby!”
I’ll withhold judgment on his being there for the pizza until we know how he acts during the rest of the meeting and what he takes away from it (apart from the pizza).
It’s strange than somebody who strictly follows stereotypical man rules would be so ready to blow a dude. And on a semi-related topic, Danny is hotter than Joe and Jason? Really?
Hey if we’re gonna use the Japanese terms, they don’t pluralize with an s; all nouns are implicitly singular plural inclusive, depending on context. (The pluralizing suffixes -tachi and -ra are used only very sparingly, and don’t convey quite the same thing as -s anyway.) I figure you know this since you only did it with fujoshi but in case you or anyone reading didn’t!
Also, and more importantly, fujoshi is pejorative, though semi-reclaimed. (Commonly it is translated as rotten girl, the fu- prefix conveying badness, brokenness, grossness.) Fudanshi would have the same meaning but for men.
I mean, “yaoi fan girl” isn’t exactly a compliment, but at least it’s not LITERALLY “sicko” or “weirdo”.
I know what you mean! I would totally bang Joe–if he were into dudes (heh)–but Danny describes part of his beauty regimen as forgetting to each his hair. Ick.
Insincere trolls, you mean? Cuz come on, this is 4chan paint by numbers trolling. They’re especially fond of pretending “SJWs” use “shitlord” all the time, and this isn’t patriarchal anything. Kyriarchal, MAYBE.
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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
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Hailey Piper 
Free Pizza is above sexuality.
Pizza IS a sexuality.
I had a friend in college who was pie-sexual. He was a bit of a snob about pizza but I try to keep myself from believing that one necessarily implies the other.
What about pizza pies?
I see it, now – Walky’s Kinsey rating is actually 3.141592… he’s pi-zza-sexual.
Maybe they were just pi-curious.
Hey, I won’t tolerate any pi-erasure, here!
Does consuming count as erasure?
Depends on the pizza.
Yeah, are we talking deep dish here?
heard you need lots of garlic sauce for that
There’s actually an interesting TED talk on the topic of pizza and sex… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF-CX9mAHPo
It better be some AMAZING pizza.
I don’t think you understand free pizza.
Oh I do, but I’m finicky when it comes to foods like pizza.
It’s probably been a while since you were a student. Students are irresistibly drawn to the words ‘FREE PIZZA’. Doesn’t matter the kind or quality – you put up those words, they will come.
They’ll come, and also arrive.
Am college student, can confirm. Would totally go down on a dude for free pizza.
That’s true. Why is it that even really crummy free pizza still has merit over its equivalent, non free counterpart. Even if you think you wouldn’t want to eat either because it’s so crummy. But then it is happening and it is still good.
It’s funny, I’m actually “allergic” to some pizza chains, like I get a migraine headache when I eat their pizza because of something in their sauce or dough, so there are definitely times that I would turn down free pizza depending on where it comes from. I’m not a snob about it, I just don’t want a debilitating headache.
Otoh I’m also ace so I turn down free sex every time but that is neither here nor there, haha.
I think I know what you mean, while I don’t recall ever having a headache as a result of a pizza, there are two nearby pizza joints I don’t go to anymore because the pizza base has this weird flavour that builds up the more you eat until your tongue revolts against you.
yeah i mean everyone says they’d never turn down free pizza, but there are times, man. there are times.
still gets awkward when i “make a request” to my bosses when they announce pizza parties at work, like…”i’m not just being picky, i promise, it literally makes me sick and i’d like to avoid that so if you could order from basically anywhere but dominos or hungry howie’s, that’d be great.”
i mean, i LIKE dominos. dominos doesn’t like ME. (hh isn’t that great, though. cheap, but not great. plus the migraine thing which is weird but nothing to do with the flavor.)
Pizza is like sex. When it’s good, it’s good. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
Perfect gravatar
Have you ever had bad sex?
At college, free food is above everything, up to and including academic honesty.
((Oh my gods, Jen Aside, why did you change your screen name?))
It doesn’t count. One day I’ll be the top comment, and Jen Aside will be the second. And on that day. I will say. “Finally, 2356 to 1. I win.”
How…. how do you have two different avatars? Are you a WIZARD?
He is random.
He’s either got two email accounts – or he is a SHAPE-SHIFTER!! Choose the reality you accept.
Two different devices too. I think that affects it also.
Nah, I post from various devices & get the same avi unless I mistype my email. I’m certain it’s just a hash function on the email address.
In college I once sat through a Campus Crusade for Christ meeting in order to get free ice cream.
How open-minded of you.
Not really. My impression of them afterward was pretty much: “Wow, these people are terrible,” mainly from how they listed as one of their accomplishments keeping a gay student group from being officially recognized by the university (this was the late 80’s).
Youre the hero we deserve.
I was tired
Walky: second least expensive prostitute after your mom.
Wlky might be pizzasexual.
It’s OK, Walky. We won’t judge.
You meant deep-pansexual right?
I’m stuffed crust-sexual.
So instead of toys, toppings?
Bet Walky would be into your avatar too. Sure, he’s mostly about pizza, but Taco Bell has its charms and hey, this IS a meeting about questioning your preferences.
Look, we all have exceptions. Our culinary orientation is far from straightforward. Like, I am normally a meat-eater, but sometimes you just have to have some delicious sushi.
“Fish meat is practically a vegetable.”
Ew, sushi with fish. No. Ew. No, I prefer sushi with veggies.
I can’t tell if you’re sarcastic or not, but if you’re not; me too! I’m okay with salmon but other than that I’m all about the non-fish stuff~
Totally no sarcasm. I can’t stomach any seafood other than breaded fish sticks.
“Pizza is like sex. Even when it’s average, it’s still fun. But when it’s GREAT, it’s REALLY GREAT!” -Seen on a pizza window.
But when it’s bad, it’s terrible, and you just paid 10 bucks for awful pizza, and now you are questioning the life choices that led you to this place.
I almost never eat pizza at restaurants. Where I leave they’re always at least 15 bucks and there’s no guarantee of deliciousness. I always just buy margherittas and my favourite toppings if I don’t have any left at home. Cheaper and delicious-er.
Walky has his priorities straight.
Straight isn’t quite the right word here.
LGBTP
Dina has that “designing experiment” look on her face
“So the caramel boy will exchange pizza for oral sex? I will remember this in case I require oral sex for myself or others.”
Fellatio, specifically, not cunnilingus. I have a feeling that won’t be of much help to Dina (though it’s not impossible).
Going down on a dude can still involve cunnilingus! What genitals a man has is no one’s business.
HEAR HEAR
Ah yes, I had thought he specifically mentioned peeners, but he hadn’t. My bad.
Somehow I figured Walky would show up when “free pizza” was mentioned. haha
The only ship that remains constant across all universes…WalkyxPizza
But..but Nachitos!
McNuggets for lyfe?!
Chill yall, its not like he doesn’t just have a food harem
In this universe, Nachitos teamed up with Pizza Hut instead of Taco Bell.
Hmmm….. A taco pizza with Nachito chips and McNuggets.
Too bad he’s in Indiana and not Wisconsin. I’ll bet these guys could make it for him.
Any way you slice it…
It’s a meat-lover’s pizza.
That’s the way you meat it! Anyway you slice it!
Guitar Riff.
Walky is junk-food-sexual – he will have sex for junk food.
as opposed to a junk food-sexual: a person who will include food into their sexual acts, and hard substances into their personal life
wow that joke got real dark real fast i’m sorry
Walky is my spirit animal.
Wow, first time in a long time I was actually refreshing the page waiting for it. Haven’t been up and home at this time for a while.
Who are you and what are you doing with my name? :O
Walky has every right to be there. He is, after all, (puts on sunglasses) a friend of Dorothy.
Yes! So much yes! *admires sunglasses*
yaaaah!
More than just a friend if you catch my drift.
I’ve seen this joke a couple times and I don’t get it. Could someone please explain it to me? ^^”
i think its from csi
Friend of Dorothy at some point was a code for gay because of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy goes “Somewhere, over the rainbow …”
Also the actress who played Dorothy had many gay friends
Wait I probably have that the wrong way around. Rainbow symbol might have been inspired by the Wizard of Oz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_%28LGBT_movement%29#History
Oh, and the sunglasses are from CSI: Miami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I
That song was really popular, I think, because a lot of gay people related to dreaming of a wonderful, magical place, over the rainbow, where troubles melted away and everything was better.
Also iirc Judy Garland was an ally.
Thanks! Got the CSI part (the meme is well known), but I didn’t know about the “friend of Dorothy” thing.
It’s not really because of that particular scene that “friend of Dorotby” was used as slang – actually, pretty much the reverse is the case. The usage of rainbows as gay symbols is mostyl as a result of the importance of the Wizard of Oz in gay culture.
“friend of dorothy” is old timey slalng for gay i believe :B
Chiscii, your gravatar kind of looks like Ethan peering out of a closet! </3
oh, it’s basically just an edit of this joe. It’s supposed to be myself, but I guess I do have skunk stripe!Ethan hair these days
Then a yay for editing DoA characters to look more like oneself.
“A friend of Dorothy” is a slang term for gay/lesbian, apparently Judy Garland who played Dorothy in the 1939 Wizard of Oz was an early advocate for the gay community.
The Wizard of Oz is a really important film in gay culture, and Judy Garland is a gay icon. Oz is the origin of the usage of rainbows as gay symbols. “Friend of Dorothy” is old-time slang for “gay” from a time when it was far more dangerous to openly tell someone you were into people with genitals like your own, so there had to be code words.
I see! Thanks everyone! ^^
Have a link. (I hope… Last time I tried to post this is poofed…)
Thanks ^^ I was certain it was an in-joke about DoA’s Dorothy, so I didn’t think google could help, haha.
This quote from that wiki page is officially the best thing ever.
In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as “friends of Dorothy.” Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”, hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay servicemembers.
and yet all they had to do was click their heels. The power was within them all along.
People do crazy things when homosexuality is concerned. See the Secret Gay Penguin Conspiracy of 1911.
That’s so awesome. I love that the greek translation twist. At the same time the poor archaeologists who dug out antique cities discovered art and artifacts that were considered a bit… ah risque for the morals at the time.
The Greek thing was my favourite twist! XD
You mean like this ancient vase showing two guys totally doing it?
I have an amazing 1930’s reprint of a late 1800s translation (mostly) of a book from the late Seventeenth Century called “Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies” (which is mostly this old guy (who once met Elizabeth I when she was very old)’s reminisces about all these women he has known. Seriously, it’s awesome; one of my favourite bits is the part where he says of course your wife is going to sleep with other men: Naturally, she’s going to want to show off all the cool moves you taught her; and you can’t expect the guys to just take you at your word about how great she is in bed, any more than you’d take your buddy’s word about what a great, smooth gait his horse had, without trying it out for yourself. Lol.
Anyways, the relevant part is that it’s “mostly” translated, because there is one section about lesbians that is apparently too shocking to translate from the original French. And sadly, my sub-par high-school Quebecois is not up to the task of translating a fiddly bit of Seventeenth Century prose that is rife with innuendo.
So sad, you guys.
Aw man I would so love to read this! But I’m afraid despite my being able to perfectly understand French, I would have a lot of trouble reading 17th century literature. I already had trouble reading Dangerous Liaisons, and that was from late 18th century.
Saki, that isn’t gay sex, it is a greek medical aid, showing how proctologists did rectal exams back then.
Seriously? It sure as hell looks like sex to me. But okay. Can you give me an explanation why you think / know it’s a rectal exam, or maybe a source? ^^ I’m not doubting you, I’m genuinely curious.
Pretty sure Roborat’s pulling your leg.
Pan pizzasexual.
So Walky would swallow your pizza with extra “sausage”?
He likes it deep dish.
I prefer thin and slightly crispy.
Dripping with sticky melted cheese…
The less oil, the better for me. Prevents unwanted spots afterwards.
But if we’re being honest, the best part is always the sauce.
He might go for tuna if offered.
I feel like if you have to actually do something then its no longer free. You are just accepting pizza as payment.
I now have visions of Walky in the alley behind Pizza Hut blowing tricks for a slice.
The sad thing is that someone probably has gone down on strangers for a slice of pizza.
So that’s why they call it “meat-lovers”
It’s twice the fun!
Pizza pwostitwution D:
(Just avoiding IBF flags )
Um…if you have to go down on someone to get it, it’s not free, Walky.
Just sayin’.
Anyone else think Jim looks like he could be related to Malaya?
I was just gonna comment that. Just thought to do a word search first. They do look a lot alike.
Gotta love Ethan’s checking-everyone-out face in the first panel.
Aw yiss
You do what ya gotta do for that free pizza ya know, now, i gotta buy me a PS4 so i can play that awesome free game only for PS4 on it:-P
You know Ethan is checking out the talent in panel 2.
I mean, look at his eyes in the first panel.
Nevermind these eyes, look at that mouth.
…. Oh course Walky would go for pizza.
Would you by chance for tacos?
I can make my own tacos.
But can you make them as well as Bryan can?
Iunno. We’d have to have a cook off.
I’m poor now thanks to the latest steam sale but I will give what little money I have left to fund this.
I’ve got your back, Meghan.
As long as I get a taco
As someone who once ran out of money in college, I can confirm that wandering around campus buildings looking for “x meeting tonight something something free pizza” is a legitimate strategy for food acquisition.
Nobody ever really questions it. Walk in, grab a slice or two, depart.
Jim’s a good pal.
He sSounds like a helluva guy because it must be really strange (at first) living with someone and then they come out to you
Ok, I’m genuinely starting to suspect that Walky may not be entirely a Kinsey 0. First there was his conversation with Danny at the party where he was commenting about how the universality of finding Jacob hot (http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/conceding/) and now here he’s casually joking about oral sex.
Sure, I get the whole bro culture of reducing homosexual male desire to a joke, but I dunno, I’m starting to get the same vibe off of him that I get off friends’ parents right before they start talking about how “everyone” had an experimental phase in college and that everyone has that one same-gender actor/actress they find hot.
Could be possible, I sorta did that type a thing before I realized I was actually bi.
Yeah.
And there is a lot of cultural pressure for those who are Kinsey 1 or 2 to round down to straight and never acknowledge it because it’s not an even 50/50… so who knows?
Yeah I’m like 5 and most the time it’s just easier to say I’m a lesbian cause that takes less explaining lol.
Me, too. Saying I’m gay is easier than Kinsey 5, or “homoflexible.”
Well, all i know is that i would not dislike if he happened to offer some action….i mean, come’on who can resist caramel;-)
The seriously overcompensating masculinity(1 pair of shoes) doesn’t hurt your case, either.
This theory’s increasingly growing on me.
I think it’s also interesting to note that, until he met Dorothy, Walky was pretty firmly entrenched in a “girls are gross” mindset. It’s possible he could encounter a similar situation on the other end of the gender spectrum.
This is a really good point, I gotta say.
I don’t know. To me he just comes across as very secure in his straight-ness, so he doesn’t have any qualms about sexuality, his own or other people’s. I know a ton of straight people like this.
Also, to your second point, a lot of people really do have that one non-straight experience when they’re young but they’re genuinely straight. That’s a thing that actually happens in the real world a lot. I’m not trying to bi-erase people’s experiences, I am bi and I hate when people do that. But some people are just straight and trying to put love labels on them that they don’t identify with is equally wrong.
I think Walky’s just a super chill straight guy. And I <3 him.
we’re not saying he’s not straight we’re saying he’s not a kinsey 0 :B
i love how i said we as if i’d been part of the previous conversation lmao
They were talking about rounding down a 1 or a 2 to ‘straight’. 0 is completely straight. I’m a 3 and I’d never call myself straight, ever. Maybe you’re right in so far as to the possibility that some people may not know about this scale (or any other scale, since Kinsey is not the be all end all on this matter) and therefore are unaware that 1s or 2s even exist, so they just call themselves straight. To me, personally, 1s and 2s are not straight. But then again, everyone can identify however the heck they please. This is just the way it is to me
We (as in, the culture) has made it WAY more comfortable for 1s and 2s to call themselves “straight with an exception”, “gay for [name here]” than to actually use the word “bi”.
My sexuality is a little complicated. I’m homoromantic, and mostly into only women, but I’m also demisexual (I’ve developed physical attraction to three friends so far, ONLY after knowing them for years, when before I was ACTIVELY so very NOT attracted to them; I tend to find male actors attractive ONLY as the characters they play, and ONLY after I’ve gotten attached to those characters through years of watching), and effectively that makes me at least a little bi.
So instead of lesbian I tend to call myself queer these days when I don’t have time for a long speech.
But that doesn’t change how deeply biphobia is embedded in our fabric, how long it took me to come to terms with my own bisexuality, how much I felt like I was… betraying…? someone? something???, how terrifying it was to feel like I was back at square one with my sexuality.
So as a 5(?) who previously said “gay” when asked, I just wanna observe this: while labels ARE personal, and no one should be forced to call themselves bi or pan, we don’t as a society make it comfortable to self-identify as “bi” or “pan”, and that’s going to affect how people label themselves.
I suppose. I guess I’ve just encountered more of the rounding down types (the people I’m thinking of weren’t just, yeah, I experimented but it turned out I wasn’t really attracted to that, but more, oh yeah, I felt that way, but it was a phase or it doesn’t really count, so fie on you bi person and just outgrow it or were the types to discount their attractions to same gender individuals or otherwise downplay aspects of their sexuality that aren’t 100% straight.
That all being said, if Word of God says straight but open-minded, I’ll defer to that.
I concur, but I’m a little surprised that it’s taken you this long to suspect.
He’s obviously pretty secure in his sexuality, whatever it is. Kinsey 3 seems approximately right by my guess.
Heh, I guess I don’t queer headcanon nearly enough.
I’ve always rated Walky at least a 1. He’s comfortable with gay people, and doesn’t seem turned off by the idea of sex with a guy. Since he’s only had one lover, and he’s still coming to terms with that, his sexuality is pretty up in the air.
I mean, I was pretty secure in my straightness until I realized I wasn’t straight, and then I was pretty secure in my not-quite-straightness until I realized I was bi, and now I’m pretty secure in my bi-ness. So being secure in his sexuality doesn’t preclude later realization that maybe there was more to the story.
90% of the people in this comic are bi, so I just assumed walky was too.
Sometimes listening to people talk about the supposed universality of things like having an “exception” attraction to a particularly attractive celebrity or easily falling for ideas of homosexuality as a choice makes me wonder sometimes if the real amount of bi spectrum people on the planet (much less this comic) are northwards of 50%.
Yeah me too. It could just be Walky making Bro jokes but Willis did draw art of Walky and…Ethan? Danny? I forget who, making out once so maybe he’s been hiding a reveal for awhile.
Was that a spontaneous draw or a Kickstarter request?
IIRC that was a request from someone for a Danny/Walky/Dorothy threesome that was just Dorothy looking disappointed while the guys made out.
I need that art… for a friend!
Enter Walky: Stage Right
I just love Walky so much. I feel you on the love for free pizza, man, I really do.
And I just love how completly non-judgemental and chill Walky is. He’s like, I’ll just go to this meeting for questioning students to get some free pizza, who cares if anyone sees me?
I definitely still think he should be higher on the hottest dude poll as well, because he has the best personality out of all the dudes and that’s hotter to me than anything else
This comment was a Walky lovefest, I apologize. But not really, cause I’m not sorry
Well sure Walky’s hot but he’s not Jacob hot I mean c’mon! smh…although he is hotter than mike so maaaaybe the poll can fuck off just a smidge.
Walky is Beast Boy hot.
but beast boy is like… ya know green… I mean I’m not racist or anything but…seriously though green -_-
Maybe it’s because I’ve watched Teen Titans many many many times throughout my childhood, but I barely even notice it anymore. Now of course if he were to somehow become real, it’d probably bother me. But as long as he stays in his cartoon… <3
-nods head-
of course I understand.
-doesn’t actually understand.-
Whatevs though you do you.
To each their own. BB’s awfully scrawny for me, but green is a perk if anything thanks to Warcraft’s orc wimmins.
I’ll take scrawny over hulky any day. :3
You say Warcraft’s orc wimmins. I say Wicked’s Elpheba. XD
Compairing them is a great idea. They share so many irritating qualities! Though at least Walky isn’t covered in fur.
You say irritating. I say charming~. But yeah they have a lot in common. I was rewatching some episodes the other day and I was constantly thinking “That’s something Walky would say” and “Walky has this exact behaviour when it comes to food”. XD
You think it’s charming how BB has no respect for anyone’s boundries? How he’s constantly harassing Raven, a girl he knows has emotional problems to the point of manifesting a demonic personality? How he requires constant validation from everyone around him?
Well- Uh- I- … uuuh I haven’t changed my look on Teen Titans since I was a kid and of course as I kid I never picked up on all of that.
So I don’t know if this is just me trying to excuse his behaviour because I really like him or genuine thoughts, but…
Well, first of all, he’s a teenager. Most teenagers don’t get personal boundaries. Secondly, all his inavion-y stuff towards Raven, he’s not -constantly- harassing her. He teases her when she’s in her usual mood, and goes over the line only when she seems not to be doing very well. He does it because he cares about her, and he wants to help her get out of her bubble, get her to talk to him, the way I see it. It’s clumsy, but he’s a teen and a bit simple-minded. He doesn’t know any better. I have emotional issues, and social phobia, and have locked myself into a bubble. I would love for someone to pull me out of it. So I do find that side of Beast Boy charming. Lovely even.
As for him needing validation from their surroundings, it’s not a flaw, or irritating, it’s an obvious psychological issue he has.
And lastly, you got something reversed. Raven doesn’t manifest demonic because of her emotional problems, she has emotional problems because of her demonic DNA that she got from her super-evil, super-horrible demon-father, and her daddy issues, and the fact that she’s known all her life that she would cause the end of the world.
She has the scary demon eyes and stuff when she gets angry because in that moment she has trouble controlling her demonic side. The demon is the cause, not the symptom.
But like I said. Maybe I’m just telling myself all these things because I don’t want to hate Beast Boy. I do dislike him in Teen Titans Go. But then, I hate all the characters in TTG except Raven, so that doesn’t say much. XD
… Holy hell that looks long. Sorry.
Idk, I don’t care for Jacob too much. He’s nice to look at, but there isn’t really much else, at least not that we’ve seen yet. But tbh even if I voted purely on physical hotness, I’d probably still go for Walky over Jacob. More my type. *shrugs*
I get what your saying but then I see Jacob and I just…
was I saying something?
lol it’s ok, never apologize for your thirst
lol thanks. I know I said I’m like a 5 (maybe 4.5 whatever it’s all relative anyhow >.<) but Jacob has the power to drop me to 0. Though without context that'd probably sound like a bad thing.
Being a 5 implies that dudes can occasionally do that to you anyway tho, you don’t need to drop to a 0 for that
Hah I guess. Though to be perfectly honest I’m really not sure what number fits. I try not to obsess over it too much but the more I try not to obsess the more I do.
Don’t obsess over it! The Kinsey scale is super flawed anyway. We don’t have to put numbers and percentages on our attractions. I’m bi and if I have to, I always say I’m a solid 3, but I’ve met people who identify as bi (pan, queer, etc) and as 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s or 5s. It literally doesn’t matter. ‘Non-straight’ is also super popular among my friends. Or ‘no labels’. Everyone should identify the way they want to and everyone should just accept other people for their chosen labels or non-labels. Peace and love, ya know :3
But the Great Faz trusts it so surely it must be infallible!
As soon as he sorts out his attitude to what it means to be a man he’ll be all good and i’m sure dorothys having a big part to play in that regard
I think he’s made some great steps. He showed some understanding with the race issues with Sal as well, even though it took him a while. But I really believe he gets it now. And there’s nothing hotter to me than character growth
I’m still gob smacked about his thing about shoes…in fact I’d love to see a flashback about how Walky got his whole attitude towards what it means to be a man
His mom probably didn’t want to go shopping more than once so she told him real men only have one pair.
TV shows? Or media in general?
Suddenly, Dorothy gets the feeling that she just missed out on some very important to know information.
(Unfortunately, it sends her into a study panic spiral, as she thinks she’s forgetting something that’s on her next test).
What would you do for a Klondike bar.
Wonder what Walky would have to do if tbey served hot dogs (I’m sorry, I know it was rather poor in taste, but I had to do it.)
…when did you become a detective? o.o
Hey, I’m the detective here, I’ll be the one asking the questions…. but if you must know, I became a detective about two nights ago. NOW, for the interrogation. Where were you on the night World 3725, otherwise known as Soft Servopia, disappeared? Take note, nothing you say can or will be used against you in the court of law.
I dunno what you’re gettin at detective. Sure the old Meg may of had some mishaps with soft serve but I tells ya I’m a changed woman I don’t mess with that shit no more.
DON’T YOU LIE TO ME WORLDEATER!!!! You and I both know your past is spotted with empty tubs of soft serves and people, good people, suffering! How many people were hurt by your malpractice? HOW MANY?!
Malpractice? Me? For shame detective. You were there, you know full well that was a mistake, wasn’t my fault the hospital was low on reserves. Not as if I ate it all when no one was looking because I knew for sure nothing terrible was gonna happen in DOA anytime soon.
That’d be crazy.
Don’t you get smart with me “Dr. Worldeater”. Its true, I know the hospital was running low on soft serve reserves, for whatever strange reason. But I also know you’re past is checkered. How many towns have you had to hop from? How many patients did you treat? How many did you lose? And just how many were mistakes? You can’t tell me all of those were simple accidents Worldeater. No hospital worth its spoons can be that low on soft serve.
Trisexual: boys, girls and pizza.
oh…and here I thought I was bi this whole time. This explains so much
I know right? It was quite the revelation for me as well.
I’m a dude that likes girls and pizza, does that make me pisexual?
Depends. Do you like pie? if not, I think you’d qualify as pizsexual. But hey, you chose whichever label you’re most comfortable with!
I enjoy pie, but I like cake the best…I think I’m Pizcaksexual
hi guys, guess who didn’t get the first post in my universe again? Ohhhh, free pizza? Like! I just wish I could get the gravatar that goes with my identity in my universe, but the two pictures have the same filename, and when we change the filename it still comes up as the picture for that universe.
In my universe the meeting was a trap set by Galasso, and the last three panels are him saying “Foooollllls” and laughing evilly. I have no idea why he did this because he is just as big a ditz about sexuality in my universe as yours.
He means it comes up as the picture for that universe no matter what we do to the filename in the other universe. When I’m on his side I have his gravatar no matter what I do, and vice versa.
we just met jim and i already love him. he looks adorable and sounds like he’s warm and chill. please tell me his its walky counterpart didn’t kill a billion people or anything
oohoo, what’s Ethan lookin at with those big doe eyes. Occam’s razor says Bryan.
Technically, it’s not free if you have to perform a service.
Well, it sounds like it’d be less performing a service than providing proof of eligibility for the resource.
Trying to decipher the look no Joyce’s face in the last panel. So many possibilities. Resigned, maybe? It strikes me as very much the look a Mom-Joyce would have faced with her rambunctious child.
For me it’s such a sister!Joyce face. She and Walky has this adorable squibling sibling dynamics. This is the look you give a younger brother when he tags along when you hang out with your COOL friends.
Walky! Offering sexual services for food is BAD!
Though… its college, we’ve all done things for food in college we are not proud of.
I’ve worked in McDonalds. So Walky’s considerations of prostitution are probably lesser evil…
Ouch. It was that bad?
Having worked in fast food the only difference is one is less fun but (probably) won’t give you a disease. I did have to grow a finger back though.
In highschool I showed up to a GSA meeting but was too afraid to come out so i made a big show about only being there for the free wings and annoyed everybody.
… point is, i think walky’s hiding something
But even if you were straight, you’d also go down for free wings, right?
fair point
He is. He’s hiding that he’s afraid of growing up and having an adult’s responsibilities. He enjoys being the favoured son who is indulged and carried by his parents no matter what. The learning curve of finding out that those days are over will be sharp and painful.
I think I can respect Walky’s statement here.
So, is this the day Ethan realises everyone, except Danny of course, already knows he’s gay and treats him normally already?
That would be great
WOW I WAS SO HAPPY EARLIER AND NOW MY DREAMS ARE CRUSHED………………………
Fitting avatar, then. What dreams were these?
bryan/jim
i even drew a pic for it like almost a year ago (and it’s the only bryan/jim art in existence at this point afaik)
You were able ti ship after nothing more than a preview image? Clearly your powers are superior.
well like at that point, bryan and jim were always shown together and i really liked how bryan looked so
Anyone want to bet that the club, like Becky, will be convinced for some time that Ethan is the straight one between him and Joyce?
That’s Walky!! I can see him on a street corner with a cardboard sign reading “I can be gay for pizza”.
panel 1: Ethan can haz? Or did he just spot Walky before everyone else?
It’s Legit. Walky will absolutely suck dick for pizza.
The next Slipshine comic needs to be Walky Goes Down On A Dude In Exchange For Pizza
I would probably suck a dick for pizza if it was good enough. Of course I’d have to be getting an entire pizza for this dick sucking. No one slice! I ain’t THAT cheap!
Huh, I’d figured Bryan and Jim were a couple, not just friends.
Walky’s got being a college student down. You never pass up free food at school events.
You stay classy, Walky.
Walky is literally me without the girlfriend part and the hot sister part. Well basically every bad part of walky is me. :/
do you really want a hot sister
I’m…not entirely sure how to respond to this
Having someone ELSE’s hot sister is great! Having your own sister be hotter than you… well, i know how that is.
Walky, you have exactly the right attitude to survive college.
More like the right attitude to be a cheap whore. I mean, its not a nickle, but sexual favors for pizza is a bargain.
When you’re in college, free food becomes far more valuable than otherwise.
I need friends like Walky. I make good pizza.
So next we should get a yaoi Walky’s Pizza moment.
I’ve had some really good pizza, but no pizza is worth going down on a dude (unless that’s your thing).
I appreciate that Jim sounds like he’s gone through this speech a few times. I also appreciate him including people outside the sexual spectrum. It’s surprising how many people don’t think asexuality or demisexuality are actual things.
Yeah, I thought that was really cool of him to include that in there.
Heh. And here I was thinking that those are part of the spectrum. Deifferent definitions, I guess…
Well, those are part of the multiple spectra form some of us use, but don’t exactly fit the common single spectrum format as it ignores strength and commonality of sexual attraction and/or urges in favor of a metric measuring whom such attraction is for.
I’m sad Jim is straight because I was so ready to start the Ethan/Jim ship.
Like that has stopped anyone anywhere on the Internet, ever.
Right? My first thoughts are “Jim is cute. Jim/Ethan would be SO CUTE.” And then his second line is “I’m straight” and my cannon dreams are blown apart.
…and subs
I wonder if Jim ordered from Galazzo’s…
If not he’s a FOOOOOOL
Everyone has a price… and Walky’s is free pizza, apparently.
There sure are lots of straights at this questioning meetup. Ethan and Bryan are the only definitely-gay folks. Can we ship it?
Dorothy: You wanna come to the LGBTQ meeting? They have free pizza.
Walky (loudly): I’M A SLUT FOR PIZZA
Yup we all do things in college which is not what we would normally do, so we can eat.
A loaf of French bread, jar of peanut butter and a chunk of cheese only go so far.
On the other hand, sex for food, no. That ain’t free.
There is ‘really’ free food out there if you wander around looking for those meetings.
Love contemplating the thoughts on the guys in the last panel. Wonder if Ethan is noting Walky’s comment for future reference, Dina is doing the same, and Joyce – knowing Walky is just rolling her eyes at him.
You’re technically right in that sex for food is not free. However, if Walky wanted both the sex and the food, then it wouldn’t be a price so much as a steal disguised as a bargain. Perhaps he was afflicted with both hunger AND thirst?
Wow. I’ve never seen Joyce closer to serious violence! Quite an accomplishment on Walky’s part!
He does this deliberately, doesn’t he? He actively looks for opportunities to appear shallow and useless so people won’t trust him and ask him to do stuff!
Well, people will ask you to do stuff unless you make it very clear from the start that you’re useless and shallow.
I wouldn’t say that Joyce looks close to violence here. I think she seems to be more exasperated than anything else. I mean a couple of chapters ago, she said “I’m going to get some soft serve” in a manner that could be interpreted as “Fuck you Walky”. This seems mild compared to that.
I notice that Walky’s chowing down before he asks what he may have to do for that pizza. I mean, spicy pepperoni is way better than a fresh kielbasa.
Yesterday someone assumed a blond-haired guy would have stolen all the pizza… but in the end, it wasn’t Mike~
Oh I’m sure he’s around somewhere. Eating pizza. Watching. Taking notes. Planning the best ways to use acquired information to torture people.
Dang! LGBTQ? When did it gain another letter?
I mean, the movement is serious need of vowels, there should be at least an Asexual between those!
Maybe the people in it could just rename themselves “Queer”, that would be easier to pronounce.
Actually, a lot of people go for LGBTQIA. Doesn’t really cut up the consonants though. That’s why I’m partial to QILTBAG. It’s inclusive, cute, and people are less likely to complain about having to remember 7 letters in a row when they can pronounce it phonetically (despite having already learned 26 by age 5 but that’s neither here nor there)
(The “I” being “Intersex” btw)
QUILTBAG works, but it doesn’t sound entirely complimentary. Especially if it’s abbreviated – “I’m a Q-Bag”? Eeg.
I’ve seen LGBT+ and LGBTQ+ used. It acknowledges the existence of other genders and sexualities besides LGBT while still being reasonably pronounceable.
There are potentially a lot more letters in that “alphabet soup”. Opinions differ, but there is still no all-inclusive term (or finite series of letters) for the panoply of sexualities, intersexes, transes, ….
GSRM. Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minorities.
Nope. That one was coined SPECIFICALLY to include pedophiles. (They’re a “minority”.)
I prefer MOGII. Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities, and Intersex. But I still usually just say LGBTQIA (leaving off those last three out of laziness is something I’m not willing to do), for clarity.
I wasn’t aware that pedophiles had such a clout… I hope that with the advancing understanding of sexual behavior, society will be able to treat the problem better.
Anyway.
I’m not in favor in including sexual (or romantic) preferences other than gender in the mix, because it’s not like feet-fetichists suffer from the same trouble than, say, gays, in the world.
MOGII sounds nice. Like Mowgli. But LGBTQIA? Nah, unwieldable.
They don’t have clout, it’s just that GSRM was created BY a pedophile in order to include himself and others like him.
It’s definitely an issue that for example “kinksters” sometimes try to include themselves in these acronyms, but as annoying as it is to have straight people who, say, like BDSM trying to claim membership in the community, I’m less concerned there. I prefer being too inclusive to leaving out important MOGII people like aces who get left out too often already.
But a word actually created BY a child rapist to try to make their “attraction” more legitimized? No, no, no. THAT is something I will avoid.
See, I was told that MOGII was the one created by a pedophile.
I also feel weird about using an acronym with the word “marginalized” in it, as that is a thing that happens to queer folks, not a part of what we are.
Speaking of, “queer” started as a slur, so, y’know, I do think it’s possible to use GRSM without lending credibility to the people who coined it.
@Li.
Aaaand now we’re to the heart of the problem, that is that being attracted to children is a sad thing that exists… Now is it something that society should repress, liberalize, or treat as illness, is a good question. I’m not in favor in letting kid abusers roam free, but the question still exists.
Anyway, that’s why I’m not in favor in including kinks. BDSM people and Feet people and Vore and others maybe deserve their own movement, maybe included in the Sex Workers Rights.
But gays or transgender want and are something else: as long as I know, they’re looking for indifference. Marriage rights, work rights, no discriminations, that sort of thing.
Of course, I’m a relatively vanilla male hetero (and I’m even white!), so hey
I’ve always been in full support of using “Queer” to refer to the community as a whole. Among several advantages would be the removal of the ambiguity between “Gay” as in specifically homosexual men and “Gay” as in the entire alphabet soup. Unfortunately there is severe pushback from older homosexuals that still cringe when they hear Queer due to its use as a hate term back in the day. Of course younger homosexuals that had Gay thrown at them with the exact same inflections and hate are supposed to just suck it up and deal with it.
@Shival
yeah, I like “queer” too! It has the nice advantage of including every side that would like to take a part in it in the future, it sounds jolly to me, and it’s easy to insert in a conversation.
I’m unaware of the old hate term usage, but I’m not a native english speaker…
It wouldn’t have been free if he had to blow a guy.
Unless he enjoyed it. Then it would be double-win.
Maybe Walky literally takes sex that lightly? It isn’t an issue; it’s just something he uses to get his own way if he needs to?
I think we need subjunctive mood. He seems too inexperienced to rate present indicative.
Yeah, given that his first and so far only sexual partner had to provide explicit directions just to get started, I do not think he has reached the point of casual sex with whoever.
Yeah but at least that payment would be fun. XD
He’s right it’s worth it.
Joyce in the last panel: “Where’s the Lord’s wrath when you need it?” <_<
Waiting for Dina to deliver the intel she’s gathered?
If only she still had her Walkyverse powers, she could be the Lord’s Wrath?
Thankfully the QUILTBAG+ groups at my university that offer free pizza don’t get invaded by people just looking for the pizza. Walky… just… *sigh*
Huh, yeah, if I move past my suspicions that he’s bi spectrum and hasn’t realized it about himself yet and assume he’s just straight, that is actually quite a bit of a dick move.
It’s an organization about being a welcoming safe space for queer individuals and specifically focusing on those in the more vulnerable stages of self-identity and if Walky is just a straight guy, then he just invaded that space, is being disrespectful to the people there by turning their sexuality and sexuality-related struggles into a joke, and is doing it all to consume their food.
And that’s really disrespectful (I’ve had my share of experiences, usually running or attending ace events where someone tags along either as moral support or for the free food or something to do and ends up taking a big shit on everything halfway through by derailing shit into their own ignorant assumptions).
Which I guess is why I’d prefer the explanation that he’s not 100% straight, as it’d make him less of a jackass.
It’s generous of you but I’m afraid that, right now, Walky is a jackass.
He’s only a jackass if he starts making people uncomfortable. He’s not invalidating a safe space by being straight any more than Joyce or the co-founder is. Friendly straight people are always welcome at these events.
I’m not sure, when a character just finished telling them that everyone is welcome, you’ve decided he’s invaded their safe space. It sounds like it’s basically a LGBTQA meeting; if Walky is willing to be open and listen, and doesn’t make people uncomfortable, all the more power to him.
Except it’s Walky we’re talking about. When does he ever try to understand anything that doesn’t personally effect him?
*affect, gosh darn it.
It’s not so much that he’s being straight in a queer space as that he’s loudly making jokes about queerness. So if he’s straight, coming in and going ha ha ha free pizza, I’d suck a dick for pizza, amirite is turning himself into a performance instead of being supportive.
I don’t know how to explain it right but there is a difference between being supportive and in tune with the purpose of the space and making the space about your experiences as a dominant group member and in many ways its the difference between being a positively regarded ally and being that jackass that gets queer people to stay home for the next meeting.
And again, I’m speaking from a perspective of running some of these meetings and spaces that are welcoming to allies only to have some privileged idiot run their mouth and make the space all about them.
But then again, I’m totally on team bi and hasn’t realized it yet, so whatever.
As Cerberus said. To me, at least in this comic, it seems like he’s not there to learn or be an ally, but just there for the pizza. I’m a lesbian but attend a group for bisexual students because I know plenty of lesbians who give bi-women a ton of crap and they could use allies. If he’ there as an ally, great! In this comic, however, it doesn’t feel that way. Still, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Well, he’s a lot of talk but I think there might also be a genuine interest to learn. He likes Becky, he knows about her shitty situation and he knows that both Joyce and Dorothy wants to help her. I don’t think he’s beyond trying to better himself as an ally.
I realize that this is a joke that is getting played for laughs, but in all seriousness, never do this in real life. Attending an introductory group function just to get free food is a major college faux-pas, and doing so for a group that is designed to be a safe space for a minority group takes that faux-pas up to Dick Move status. Don’t Do It.
Except it’s made clear straight people are perfectly welcome there and Walky’s already shown himself as someone whose cool with other lifestyles. I see no problem here. Out of the three straight people here so far Joyce is the most likely to make someone uncomfortable.
“other lifestyles”
also, even though straight people are explicitly welcome, just coming there for the free food is still kinda a dick move
What if you’re a confident gay person but only showed up for the free pizza?
“Guys who own more than one pair of shoes are obviously girlymen.”
“Ethan is gay because I haven’t seen him touch Joyce.”
Walky is an admirably dedicated and loyal friend. He is also a total butthole.
About the second point, he might just be bad at explaining a more detailed and nuanced observation. He was right, after all. He also didn’t throw that idea in Ethan’s face, it was just his private conversation with Dorothy.
Sure he was right on all counts, but its his views on “proper” masculinity that influenced it. “Ethan must be gay, because otherwise he would all about Joyce in the same way that I am over Dorothy. To deviate from what I define as proper masculinity means there must be a deviation.”
There’s a lot of room between “all over” and “never even in the vicinity of”. The latter is what Walkie drew his conclusion from.
Except he was. Like all the time. There’s plenty of reservation in the moments where Joyce makes him act overtly couply due to her jealousy of Dorothy and Walky, which is how Walky decided that Ethan was gay.
Sure, he was right, but that doesn’t change that Walky based his decision on his own definition of masculinity.
There was a strip where Joyce had to make Ethan put his arm around her. I remember Walky being there with Dorothy. I would suspect something was going on if I saw that. Maybe not that he was gay at first, but certainly that something was screwy about their relationship
YES AND THE POINT I AM TRYING TO MAKE IS THAT ASSUMING SOMEONE IS GAY BECAUSE THEY DO NOT FALL INTO YOUR NARROW VIEW OF PROPER MASCULINITY IS SHITTY.
I remember the scrollover text for some comic in the past mentioning that the only thing Joyce and Walky had in common was their adherence to outmoded gender roles.
As adorable as Walky is sometimes, his views on masculinity are pretty cavemanish.
He’s totes cool with Dorothy becoming POTUS one day, though, so no problems with women having a career outside of the kitchen at least.
Of course, these events do need to be open to people like that, if nothing else, because invalidating a cover story from a questioning person who is there to get information but too shy to admit it shuts out people the meeting was made for.
Aaaand now I hate Walky.
Why was my first thought about how cute I find Jim? I just want to rub his chubby body. I know I’m objectifying him but I love chubby guys like him.
I’m sure there’s plenty of free pizza on campus.
of course, but why would you take one places pizza, when you could take everyones pizza! Im sure his also skimming from the bible study group and any one else who may have free pizza.
“Ethan, it’ll be fine. No one you know is likely to be there.”
Ha!
Let’s see what other familiar faces show up here. Willis did say that Ruth and Billie don’t show up in this story-line, and we’ve seen all we’re going to see of Dorothy, so we won’t see them.
Maybe Joe will come in hopes of seeing some hot lesbian make-out sessions. Maybe Danny will be there, saying he showed up, “for the pizza — yeah, I came for the free pizza! What about you, Ethan, are you also here for the pizza?”
I’ll reserve judgement on Walky for now. Let’s see how he behaves during the meeting.
You never know, this might be the most dude-centric storyline yet since Ethan and Danny Go To The Comic Book Store.
Considering that Dina is the POV character, I somewhat doubt this.
Yeah; I expect Dina to hang around for a bit, just to observe the behaviour of Joyce and maybe Danny (if he appears). Then she’ll see Raidah and Jacob leaving the building and will go to follow them.
I’m hoping she sticks around here for a while, but I’m also really hoping she meets up with Becky later in the day. Especially if they happen to make that pose that they are doing in the SDCC poster thing on the front page of the site.
Becky has a clothing model for this storyline, so your wish will be heard.
“Walky, you are going to have people showing up at your place with pizzas…”
Sausage pizzas, specifically
Holding the boxes suspiciously low and close to their body
That avatar…
The thing is the implication is that Walky has no interest in the meeting or its subject matter, only the free pizza. He then shoots Joyce (of all people to say it to) what may or may not be a crude ‘funny’ about what he’s willing to do for free food. So, yeah, its possible that he’s going to be a jerk (whilst not realising that he’s a jerk).
I doubt that he’ll make people uncomfortable; if he sticks around beyond the pizza (which is not a given) he’ll just be loudly oafish in a way that demonstrates that he neither understands nor particularly cares about the issues. After all, they do not affect him personally and he typically regards anything that doesn’t affect him personally as a joke or just irrelevant.
…..Jontron?
You guys griping about Walky do realize that he’s an immature freshman, right?
We’ve all done dick moves in our teens, don’t deny it. I don’t think he does either.
I don’t think it’s surprising that people are taking umbrage at Walky casually being an ass at an extremely important gathering.
With the exception of Sarah and Ruthless and a few others (Faz or Riley come to mind), all the characters in this comic are immature freshmen.
Ruthless has threatened her freshman and attacked them, she cannot really claim to be better then anyone else.
No, but she’s not a freshman.
I would love Bryan to see Danny randomly on campus and say to him, “Hey, I didn’t see you at my ‘Group Meeting for Questioning Individuals,’ ” only for Danny to become increasingly flustered: “What?! I’m not! . . . why would you think? . . . but . . .”
Bruan replies, “You were shouting in the middle of campus that you like dudes and dicks and stuff.”
followed later that day by
Aw, nuts, that didn’t work. Let’s try again . . .
I would love Bryan to see Danny randomly on campus and say to him, “Hey, I didn’t see you at my ‘Group Meeting for Questioning Individuals,’ ” only for Danny to become increasingly flustered: “What?! I’m not! . . . why would you think? . . . but . . .”
Bryan replies, “You were shouting in the middle of campus that you like dudes and dicks and stuff.” As shown in This strip followed later that day by this strip
It wouldn’t surprise me if half the people there are straight and are only there for the free pizza.
And some people will say they’re straight and only there for the free pizza as a cover. Like, that’s part of the point of the “Gay-Straight” Alliance… queer kids can go to the meeting, or join the group, WITHOUT being outed before they’re ready.
Walky is just helping to hide them!
This made me laugh. X3 I like the idea.
I guess Walky is flexisexual, or “Whatever I need to be, baby!”
I’ll withhold judgment on his being there for the pizza until we know how he acts during the rest of the meeting and what he takes away from it (apart from the pizza).
He may take a softdrink or two as well.
Ethan seems to think that anyone who is not straight, is then without question, homosexual.
That’s pretty harsh to say about a confused teenager.
Besides, he’s knowledgeable enough about gender identity that he understood the truth about Jocelyne.
Well Wacky, the ad for slipshine suggests you already went down on Jason, so I think you earned that pizza.
It’s strange than somebody who strictly follows stereotypical man rules would be so ready to blow a dude. And on a semi-related topic, Danny is hotter than Joe and Jason? Really?
It’s called gay bravado. The joke is that straight dudes act super flamboyant and upfront and make raunchy comments in the name of “acting gay.”
Maybe Walky just doesn’t consider gay dudes to be less real men, therefore gay acts don’t threaten his masculinity.
I think Dannys bi-ness knocked him up a couple places. Score one for yaoi fangirls (and dudes)
For future reference: yaoi fangirls = fujoshis. Yaoi fanboys = fudanshi. :3
Hey if we’re gonna use the Japanese terms, they don’t pluralize with an s; all nouns are implicitly singular plural inclusive, depending on context. (The pluralizing suffixes -tachi and -ra are used only very sparingly, and don’t convey quite the same thing as -s anyway.) I figure you know this since you only did it with fujoshi but in case you or anyone reading didn’t!
Also, and more importantly, fujoshi is pejorative, though semi-reclaimed. (Commonly it is translated as rotten girl, the fu- prefix conveying badness, brokenness, grossness.) Fudanshi would have the same meaning but for men.
I mean, “yaoi fan girl” isn’t exactly a compliment, but at least it’s not LITERALLY “sicko” or “weirdo”.
I know what you mean! I would totally bang Joe–if he were into dudes (heh)–but Danny describes part of his beauty regimen as forgetting to each his hair. Ick.
The sacrifices you have to make for free food in college….
Pizzasexual
Where’s the IA+ you Patriarchal shitlord?!
Huh? He said anyone, anywhere on the sexual spectrum, or outside of it, is welcome. I’m pretty sure that covers everyone?
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Insincere trolls, you mean? Cuz come on, this is 4chan paint by numbers trolling. They’re especially fond of pretending “SJWs” use “shitlord” all the time, and this isn’t patriarchal anything. Kyriarchal, MAYBE.
May I ask what “SJW” means? Those are my former bosses’ initials, and I’d be thrilled if it also meant something unambiguously bad.
Ugh, I mean “boss’s.”
If you have to perform oral sex to get it, I don’t think the pizza still qualifies as free.
It was so nice of Jontron to start all this