Nah, let her be. She’s just channeling a character. Not Chun-Li, but … a character. Maybe a brat, or a prostitute with too many clients who hate and want to dominte “that sort” of women, but lack balls in the real-world. Because let’s be real, who actually talks like that sober?

Friend gets points for not channeling something right back, like “just say down, bitch!”

Thus why he doesn’t get help. Probably threatens to eat the neighbors if he doesn’t come-home by a set time every night… like an abusive parent on all counts, now I think about it.

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belatedly realizing you tried to use never having heard of watching youtube at triple-speed as a flex, and why not a peer-tube link? ^chef’s kiss^

Right. Refusing to read is the obviously-superior stance. Having experiences, in queer spaces no less, that don’t jive with your own, makes me aligned-with incels.

One of us wants women free to dress how they please, not feel bad about it, and not need to tell other women how to dress or put them down in order to feel good about it. Then there’s you, courting a bunch of NLOGs and female-dating-strategy burn-outs. Not wasting the time on that makes me the loser.

If you’re seeking a compaion for your former-incel-now-simp recovery group, ask someone else. I don’t associate with any of those crowds, least of all the celibate of any gender.

I think I’ve seen the things I’ve described happen with my own eyes. Yes, all of them, including gay men getting “shot down” only to reply to the other girl beside them “what? but she does! she has really nice tits!” …

… but as far as what the comic was ACTUALLY portraying, I made no claims besides the obvious fact that we don’t really know, beyond that details were specifically left-out or included for no other apparent reason than rage-baiting. Its a mad-lib/roll-your-own-humiliation of a scenario where even IRL participants usually have no idea what just happened, what the other parties’ thoughts were. They just tell themselves a story where they were the hero or at worst, victim.

Also, people are inherrently contradictory. Its really amusing watching people claim strangers they don’t know, and fictional characters no less, are more consistent than that.

If she shot him a nasty look, I won’t argue that’s unwarrented or inappropriate, but that’s not what’s portrayed. I also tried to impy that most straight dudes don’t distinguish all that much between positive and negative attention from attractive women; Like, holy crap, she turned towards him and gave him an excuse to look again, and he’s somehow expected to actually feel bad about it? The woman with him feels worse, promise, than if nothing were said, whether she’s the judgy-type or not, but society says she should keep any male companions on a leash(which society again?).

That’s a big part of why I said its more than he deserved, and that the protaganist is working against her own intentions, even when it comes to shooting him down. She can be working-against her own intentions at every step of the way - Life is often painful like that, and a lot of us call days that turn-out like so “well crap, I failed to die in my sleep yet again, didn’t I?”

I’ve also spent enough time around women who get upset with attractive and/or “under-dressed” women just for existing(IME, most of them), but only take it out on men and gossip behind closed doors, that I can promise you, no-one who pays-attention cares all-that-much about/for their verbal or visual disapproval. They are in the room with us right now, by the way, and this avoiding-their-ire-by-mansplaining to me look is winning you points with people you were better-off avoiding, but if that’s what you are into…

Wait, you think I’m ALSO not complaining about the author setting up pure rage-bait with the least context possible in order to leave interpretation open to the broadest available set of people who will get upset and pontificate at eachother?

… but at the same time, the audience has seen hundreds of these. How the fuck are y’all not bored of ignoring all but the most self-serving narrative by now?

Lastly, bitches do be that way - I don’t even have a problem with it. Y’all want to applaud both the girl (possibly)trying to make another girl jealous, and the girl getting jealous, but villainize any man who exists in their space with enough spatial-awareness to notice their efforts.

THAT DUDE COULD BE GAY OR SINGLE, notice the one lady’s style, upset her by not giving a specific performative response or keeping his ugly eyes elsewhere, and the girl he’s walking with would still give him shit both for using his eyes as she herself almost certainly has for what evolution put them there for, and for not backing her take that “that thirsty bitch needs to put on more clothes”.

People are allowed to be thirsty. Policing eachother’s gaze is no more laudable than trying to control the competition’s attire, and all fall short next to either the guy or the girl having the sincerity to shout “You go girl!!” The worst barely-concealed thirst offers versus all that is discretion and a lack of effort.

I read it as she’s working against her own intentions, but whatever. I’ve seen women flirt like this, so the pushback and consistent lack of variety in the comments I see on these scenarios in comics always blows my mind.

Honestly, the bothering to call him a pervert is more attention than he deserves from her, and only his companion’s anger likely to actually bother him, but I’ve seen this done both “hey lady, your guy sucks” and “hey lady, your guy says I look better than you”, nevermind the occassional bar unicorn, but bars are their own alternate dimension I’m no good at navigating.

On the other hand, TIL Gaze-in-passing is “negative attention”. Taking it verbal like-so is escalation, and just as likely, if not more-so, to be meant to make his companion insecure as have anything to do with actually chastizing him. Y’all are at least as gross as the incels for assuming this is about shaming her for how she’s dressed.

Last thought: needs another frame so we can see where the other lady’s eyes were when her-and-dude were walking by, and the expression on her face. Dollars-to-donuts, its the same face as is now directed at the man, directed at MC.