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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.

Mono, maybe, but the last 24hrs is basically irrelavent for that one. Hell, the most recent 24hrs is almost irrelavent for any of them; Contagion takes time to set-up shop.

Serving 20 years ago is nothing like “defending a pedophile”, but you’re otherwise correct that I got mine and have a very mercenary outlook on military service. Way to miss my real point though: I’m trained, not just cos-playing. More than that, I was trained as Military Police, and have worked for years in the security field.

That said, Kyle Rittenhouse himself showed better de-escalation skills than you Blue-MAGAs here. He ran from a crowd that was chasing him down for putting-out their (literal)gas-station-parking-lot-dumpster-fire, until he could run no more and found a pistol in his face.

Right, *I’m the one going places looking to start shit that gets innocent people or the just-ignorant killed.

Next to ANY of you geniuses that keep coming after me here, that’s a garbage outlook. The crowd doesn’t make you safe; The crowd isn’t even on your side the moment your survival becomes even mildly inconvenient to their desire act without personal accoutability. Any of you are safer next to me, or Kyle, than with eachother, and that’s a fact. Hell, most of you centrists are so bad at this as to be safer with cops than eachother, and I am very much in the ACAB-stance when I say that.

Oh shit, I missed your PS on first read. You genuinely think I won’t leave my gun locked-up to go have lunch with my kids, or would let a cordon of cops that haven’t made-entry in half-an-hour stop me in an active shooter situation? I would make it safer for them to go in than stay in front of me by that point, assuming they were competent enough to keep me from just sneaking past them.

Must be how I made it back from Iraq without killing anyone. I guess I could always see the Lemmy light, and learn to gather 5 upvotes for making up shit about people I’ve never met.

Unlike many here, I stay off-campus because I stay armed, not because I’m otherwise legally prohibited. Talk to me when you’ve actually punched a Nazi, not just gathered in a large group far-away from the seats of power to hope-and-pray mean words at them.

Where’s the mirror, or a fourth person with real integrity? Seriously, why not all three? I see not-one Left-of-Center, non-child-rapist-enabler portrayed here…

Oh wait, a shit-lib made this, didn’t they.

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Amazing how this topic/narrative surges whenever the chances of leftists and minorities arming themselves and/or actually doing something peak.

So what happened this time? Recent Performative Resistance/“No-Kings Protest” turn-out lower than expected? Higher? Someone show up armed and people talked to them instead of assuming they were a counter-protestor? Police and other local morons particularly brutal in a way the press couldn’t gloss?

Not sure I recall a story about a kingdom wanting more educated adventurers…

That would be why this isn’t portraying adventurers …

“Adventurer” is a modern invention, sure, but there are also reasons adventurers would be an exception to the norms of their own worlds. Literacy would be one of many such reasons for many of them, but there are plenty of portrayals of what happens when only one member of a party can read or write as well.

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You’re welcome. I’m amazed how-much backlash my list got with that last paragraph, what with being called a troll right out of the gate, but how dare I suggest you ultimately make your own judgement calls as a parent, right?

Vetting and limited, almost-entirely supervised, screen-time in general are the way to go. Most of the rest of what I’ve seen from others here would look like gibberish versus books, ie “that one has too many big, made-up words!” Not that anime doesn’t have so-much else in-common with manga or comics, but if you’re present for anime, there’s always the fast-forward button or just " … let’s take a break, then watch another show".

If you want a laugh at my expense, sample Kamferer in-private. Yes, I have a line, and episode one(or two?) of that show was my single-biggest failure at pre-screening. Accidentally stumbled-upon something I wasn’t even comfortable re-visitting on my own time with that one, nevermind how shocked my daughter was to hear me say “hey, listen, I know you were laughing you’re ass-off for the last 30 minutes straight, but none of that stuff on-screen was cool for you to see/hear at your age. Now I’ve got to explain this to your mother. Don’t try to watch this show again, with or without us, and don’t suggest it to your friends or teachers.”

(I learned the hard way that day, at 10 years old, she no longer has a line where she openly-expresses discomfort with animation. Also, school has apparently exposed her to casual cruelty on a great many topics in ways I was not prepared to learn of. I pity her classmates that were blind-sided by topics which they still only know-of from schoolyard bullying, or thinking they are missing-out instead of just being normal 4th-graders)

Versus accusing me of trolling? I didn’t even look to see if they gave any actual advice to OP; I was honestly somewhere between not caring and hoping to be wrong.

Oh wait, do you think I called them a SAHM, a Trump voter, white, a woman(OP’s daugher/“her” is the only gender I’ve noted in this whole Post/Thread), or even a USian? Like, between you and me, who here is confused here, and about what? Are you thinking I was questioning OP’s motives, this far down a thread they aren’t participating in?

Other than the “voluminous advice” thing and shows they flat-out stated they hadn’t watched, I’m not seeing anything a reasonable person would remotely expect has a real chance of applying to OP, @NineSwords@ani.social, or even be insulting to those they applied to, in my last few paragraphs.

Wasn’t even going the “if the shoe fits” route: I just laid out what I think is one of the many, many problematic outcomes of the popular outlook re: raising children and death and mature topics in general. It takes way too many adults a lifetime to learn how to handle such things responsibly and respectfully, if they ever do, when parents see their entire role as stearing them away from those topics until time robs them of the means to do so.

More like there’s layers to your sarcasm on that comment that I don’t see the necessity-of, particularly in the context of damn-near-the-safest-and-most-controllable-environment-possible, i.e. watching anime with one-or-both parents.