Bryy… if you truly believe that you cannot find a person other than your partner attractive, then something incredibly toxic is going on in your life.
Either you or a partner of yours (now or in the past) has some insanely unrealistic ideas about the human psyche. People cannot control their thoughts – only their actions.
Edit: Or, I suppose it could be a learned toxicity from a parent or other mentor figure.
StClair
Yes, this is (IMO) some lingering (and very toxic) programming that if you have (or admit to) attraction to more than one person, you are an unfaithful hussy.
And we’ve already seen, on multiple occasions, that Joyce is very good and practiced at editing the past to conform to this Perfect Romance narrative, where she has only ever been in love with her current partner.
Lazarus
There is also the possibility that having grown up with Becky as her best friend, admitting to Becky’s “hotness” would feel incestuous. Though Joyce has rejected her old religious belief(for now) the values in which she was indoctrinated are still there though are evolving, and she has yet to fully incorporate her new ideas into her values. i expect Joyce to go though a period of extreme guilt in the near future as she fully comes to terms with her new reality and her personality and values find their new equilibrium.
Terry Hunt
I agree with Lazarus. Becky is an only child, so never really primed for feelings of siblinghood. Joyce has older siblings (so was) and because of Becky’s closeness to Joyce’s family growing up, and the ‘Kibbutz Effect’, likely reacts to Becky like another sibling and is therefore unable to respond to her sexually.
This. Her present denial may be due to continued allegiance to an ideal of very strict monogamy. She can’t be attracted to women other than her partner!
Heavensrun
Also, just because you’ve realized you love somebody of the same sex doesn’t mean you’ve consciously recontextualized whatever complicated feelings you had buried before that.
I like your new Avatar photo, it is pretty hillarious (and a bit Janus?).
Dara
Thank you! It’s a little Janus, correct, but it’s more specifically Melpomene and Thalia (a.k.a. the Tragedy and Comedy masks of theatre), who are tied to both Janus and Dionysus.
I’ve always loved Jennifer’s Lucy-van-Pelt frowns but then we got Joyce making kinda the same shape but inverted and I was just “THERE’S the other half! THERE we go!” :D
TrueSurvivor
Oh that is cool. Thank you for teaching me something today.
It occurs to me that it would be amusing (and particularly painful for Becky) if the averting-eyes truth included “Actually, you’re near the top of the list, but when I found our about your orientation I was still in deep denial about my feelings, and then channeled all my ambiguous attention and behaviour to Dorothy while I was being careful not to accidentally lead you on.”.
nice joke, happy April fools!
also do enjoy the full moon tonight (tommorrow)? I know I will >:D
TrueSurvivor
Thanks for the pointer on the Moon and happy April Fools! Did your MRI provide good news?
NGPZ
I do not know of the results of that
but the circulatory system CT scan of my leg (rather invasive, not gonna talk too much about it) thankfully revealed that there was no “pipe problem”
glass half full ;-;
also off topic but for some reason when you wrote that I just imagined Jax from amazing digital circus riding a bike and just shooting ya ass XD
(yes i am very out of it on a gummy, was my first day of PT and I need to CONK OUT X-X)
I wish we got to see more codependency or whatever you’d call their dynamic. Frankly, I think we missed out on Joe+Joyce problems too. Feels like there were some story hooks that got dropped in order to get the whole “bisexual lighting” tear gas scene.
Dot
Yeah idk if this person thought the shortpacked strip was somehow a dig against me personally (?), a little codependency is not a dealbreaker in a ship for me, my OTP is literally Billie/Ruth
Li
Would be SO weird if they did, like. Not all of the complaints about Joyce/Dorothy have been either “it’s too codependent” or “it’s incest”.
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Those people do definitely exist and they’ve been real loud in the comments on occasion, but there are plenty of other angles of criticism here, and that comic isn’t about anything you’ve ever said that I’ve seen, Dot.
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Maybe if Robin was complaining that the ‘ship is boring?? But I find it hard to imagine a version of that that’s, well, got enough material to make a comic about.
https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/tags/bowling interestingly enough there is a manga about bowling, i’ve only seen it feature in like friend hangouts/group dates but not a focus i’d totally watch an epic ygo dramatic anime style of a bowling animatino too
I remember when a few people in the comments were getting mad at Ruth because Ruth told Joyce that Joyce definitely wasn’t asexual because that was “defining her sexuality”
169 thoughts on “Lesbians”
Astariel
Joyce, you can admit that girls other than Dorothy are hot. It’s not a betrayal.
Bryy
It is, though.
Taffy
No.
Adept
Bryy… what?
eh, whatever
Is it, though?
Rose By Any Other Name
Bryy… if you truly believe that you cannot find a person other than your partner attractive, then something incredibly toxic is going on in your life.
Either you or a partner of yours (now or in the past) has some insanely unrealistic ideas about the human psyche. People cannot control their thoughts – only their actions.
Edit: Or, I suppose it could be a learned toxicity from a parent or other mentor figure.
StClair
Yes, this is (IMO) some lingering (and very toxic) programming that if you have (or admit to) attraction to more than one person, you are an unfaithful hussy.
And we’ve already seen, on multiple occasions, that Joyce is very good and practiced at editing the past to conform to this Perfect Romance narrative, where she has only ever been in love with her current partner.
Lazarus
There is also the possibility that having grown up with Becky as her best friend, admitting to Becky’s “hotness” would feel incestuous. Though Joyce has rejected her old religious belief(for now) the values in which she was indoctrinated are still there though are evolving, and she has yet to fully incorporate her new ideas into her values. i expect Joyce to go though a period of extreme guilt in the near future as she fully comes to terms with her new reality and her personality and values find their new equilibrium.
Terry Hunt
I agree with Lazarus. Becky is an only child, so never really primed for feelings of siblinghood. Joyce has older siblings (so was) and because of Becky’s closeness to Joyce’s family growing up, and the ‘Kibbutz Effect’, likely reacts to Becky like another sibling and is therefore unable to respond to her sexually.
Astariel
I was going to ask how, but yeah, what Rose said.
Bryy
Welp. Shame on me for thinking an obvious joke post would be obvious.
Astariel
Apologies, I’m pretty bad at catching those.
GreyICE
I’d say there’s a chance she’s being honest.
But I remember her interactions with Sal way too well to say that.
drs
And Billie. Or Billie’s cleavage, anyway.
Needfuldoer
Safe and warm forever…
Isactuallyabear
And possibly Roz, considering the things she was denying thinking about when referring to her porn video.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/behave-3/
Queezle
She might think that she is telling the truth here
Qlx
Dorothy has been pressing her dopamine button a lot lately, so she probably forgot Sal and Billie exist
anon
well, jamie from gws called herself an ‘above the waist lesbian’ altho that circumstance was slightly diff
clif
She may not, in fact, find other girls than Dorothy hot. Though the evidence with both Jennifer and Sal suggests otherwise.
Thomas
This. Her present denial may be due to continued allegiance to an ideal of very strict monogamy. She can’t be attracted to women other than her partner!
Heavensrun
Also, just because you’ve realized you love somebody of the same sex doesn’t mean you’ve consciously recontextualized whatever complicated feelings you had buried before that.
Thisguy
Admit to non-Dorothy possibilities?
On what grounds?
Doopyboop
LIAR
Dara
HILARIOUSLY lying. :D
TrueSurvivor
I like your new Avatar photo, it is pretty hillarious (and a bit Janus?).
Dara
Thank you! It’s a little Janus, correct, but it’s more specifically Melpomene and Thalia (a.k.a. the Tragedy and Comedy masks of theatre), who are tied to both Janus and Dionysus.
I’ve always loved Jennifer’s Lucy-van-Pelt frowns but then we got Joyce making kinda the same shape but inverted and I was just “THERE’S the other half! THERE we go!” :D
TrueSurvivor
Oh that is cool. Thank you for teaching me something today.
Anonymous
It occurs to me that it would be amusing (and particularly painful for Becky) if the averting-eyes truth included “Actually, you’re near the top of the list, but when I found our about your orientation I was still in deep denial about my feelings, and then channeled all my ambiguous attention and behaviour to Dorothy while I was being careful not to accidentally lead you on.”.
jeffepp
The lying eyes…
anon
well at least she didn’t accidentally blurt out anything like “every girl except you”
Doctor_Who
“Apart from Sal. And Jennifer. And Alice. And…”
(Proceeds to list every girl in the cast except for Becky)
Thag Simmons
Look so long as she doesn’t name any redheads she might be in the clear
Rabid Rabbit
“And Ruth! Damn, those freckles!”
Steamweed
“IKR?!”
OngoingConversation
Come on now guys, we already have it on good authority that the freckles are stupid
Nono
“Really? You named MARY before me?!”
jeffepp
“Have you seen her wet? Sha had a towel and all, but…”
Freemage
“Haven’t you heard about hate-fucking?”
mindbleach
And Walky.
Bryy
I love that Becky of all people is making Joyce question her greater sexuality.
Dave Van Domelen
I mean, she’s only been out to herself for a few days or something, she’ll figure out who else is hot eventually.
Dot
🙄
Dot
Hater containment thr- *I am shot by a cannon*
NGPZ
nice joke, happy April fools!
also do enjoy the full moon tonight (tommorrow)? I know I will >:D
TrueSurvivor
Thanks for the pointer on the Moon and happy April Fools! Did your MRI provide good news?
NGPZ
I do not know of the results of that
but the circulatory system CT scan of my leg (rather invasive, not gonna talk too much about it) thankfully revealed that there was no “pipe problem”
glass half full ;-;
embe13
Here’s to your glass running over!
Li
Very crossed fingers for you!
SunflowerBanjo
More like shot by the canon, amirite??
Steamweed
You are right.
Big Z
Meanwhile I’m liking this one largely because Becky is actually reacting to Joyce the way Joyce deserves, which is a breath of fresh air.
apocryphascribe
Agreed, I’m liking where this is going.
NGPZ
also off topic but for some reason when you wrote that I just imagined Jax from amazing digital circus riding a bike and just shooting ya ass XD
(yes i am very out of it on a gummy, was my first day of PT and I need to CONK OUT X-X)
Gotthammer
Don’t look at the shortpacked update
Dot
I thought it was funny
Mitzi B.
at this point I really want to see Mx. Willis’ vision of this bowling manga
HueSatLight
I wish we got to see more codependency or whatever you’d call their dynamic. Frankly, I think we missed out on Joe+Joyce problems too. Feels like there were some story hooks that got dropped in order to get the whole “bisexual lighting” tear gas scene.
Dot
Yeah idk if this person thought the shortpacked strip was somehow a dig against me personally (?), a little codependency is not a dealbreaker in a ship for me, my OTP is literally Billie/Ruth
Li
Would be SO weird if they did, like. Not all of the complaints about Joyce/Dorothy have been either “it’s too codependent” or “it’s incest”.
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Those people do definitely exist and they’ve been real loud in the comments on occasion, but there are plenty of other angles of criticism here, and that comic isn’t about anything you’ve ever said that I’ve seen, Dot.
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Maybe if Robin was complaining that the ‘ship is boring?? But I find it hard to imagine a version of that that’s, well, got enough material to make a comic about.
clif
I’ve been trying to look at the Shortpack site for the traditional update, but I haven’t been able to get it to load.
anon
https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/tags/bowling interestingly enough there is a manga about bowling, i’ve only seen it feature in like friend hangouts/group dates but not a focus i’d totally watch an epic ygo dramatic anime style of a bowling animatino too
Cassie
Joyce, you know Sal and Jennifer and Ruth. There is literally no way Dorothy is the only one you find hot.
Stormtide Leviathan
Not exactly sure what you expected here joyce… you little liar lol
IntangibleMatter
Joyce, you’ve gotta get the last bits of fundie out of your mind.
Chances are your girlfriend will agree with you on most girls you think are hot, so don’t sweat it.
Rose By Any Other Name
One of the greatest joys of being part of a “two bi girls” relationship is the fact that you can gush about people you find hot with your partner.
Shiro
Next strip: Sal walks by
Bill Erak
*Looks at all of Dumbing of Age*
Are you. Are you sure about that.
Thag Simmons
Hey, Joyce’s statements about her thoughts and feelings have always been 100% reliable and accurate.
GreyICE
I remember when a few people in the comments were getting mad at Ruth because Ruth told Joyce that Joyce definitely wasn’t asexual because that was “defining her sexuality”
And it was like… what comic are you reading.
Glad we’re not doing it this time around
RassilonTDavros
“None.”
“Just kidding, April Fools!”
HueSatLight