Grrl Power #1374 – The Match(ing feet) Game!
Frix does take his profession seriously. He might have pulled a little prank on Peggy, but he’s not going to double dip in that same comedy salsa. Probably.
I was trying to think of things that (het) women like for Frix’s last dialog bubble, and while that list is potentially fairly long, it could probably be easily sorted by rapidly diminishing consensus I think. I’m saying what men like is probably a little more predictable than what women like. For example, I saw a thread on r/AskWomen I think, about what women would change about their sexual partners, and quite a lot of the responses said they’d prefer it if men made a little more noise during sex. It makes sense, feedback is good. Although presumably they don’t want their partners braying like Teri Weigel. To save the uncultured amongst you a google, she was a porn actress who was famous for, if nothing else, honking like a giant goose during her scenes. She was distractingly loud, is my point, and not in the traditional gasping/moaning/cooing way. More like someone trying to work a hand-cranked tornado warning siren.
Most women like muscular arms, but also, most women would be quick to tell you, “but not too muscular.” Sure, some women totally go for Arnold in his prime, or The Rock or whoever, but I think the bell curve tops out on about a 17-19″ arm. More the “just finished the Marvel boot camp” arm, than the “engorged tick ready to burst” look.
So I went with broad shoulders and domestic proactiveness. I could have used “tall,” as that seems to be a thing most women agree on. Not necessarily towering, just tall enough so she can wear heels and still be slightly shorter. Honestly, the height difference between Frix and Sydney could eventually be problematic. A foot difference is fine. My wife is a foot shorter than me and I usually bend slightly at the waist to give her a smooch, but there’s a 28″ difference between Frix and Sydney, and that would eventually wear on his back if not for super space medicine. Also his upper arm is roughly the size of her torso, so it’s not like he can’t just very easily pick her up for a smooch. Also Sydney can fly, so there’s that.
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I swear Frix is just getting bigger with each page that they’re in, I love it.
Nah, the girls are just so small. They are petit around 4’10 girls, almost anyone would look bigger next to that.
According to the character sheets Sydney is 5′ and Peggy 5’4″. They are short, but not that short. The problem is more that the references are Maxima at 6’1″ or Anvil at 6’7″, or I guess Frix at 7’4″.
Just said 28″ inch height difference. So 5′ versus 7’4″ is accurate.
My wife is almost exactly Sydney’s size and build. (A filipina.) She’s really packing on weight lately, I think she’s up to 85lbs now. You can say, “but not that short”, but it’s small enough to have real trouble finding clothes that fit outside the Juniors department. Not a lot of fashionable clothes for sale in XXS.
She can buy clothes in Asian sizes online. They run I think three sizes smaller than American sizes, so she’d only need Small or even Medium sized clothes, which are very common. Most sites let you return clothes that don’t fit, so the tiny woman I know orders two or three different sizes of things and just keeps the one that fits.
it’s the fur obviously /jk
The last panel would read less BDSM if it were “… squeal and wiggle while laughing.” Or maybe it reads exactly how you wanted it to read…
Different thought, but Sydney still has a few passive upgrades to unlock on the orbs. If one is an auto-defense mechanism that reacts to the body’s autonomic nervous system it could make tickling Sydney a very dangerous activity.
My guess is the Orbs have a safety feature for exactly that sort of thing. They seem pretty well thought out.
I have had a few female acquaintances who have warned me NEVER to tickle them as they react violently and without any control of their limbs if tickled, so likely black eyes & flatened noses if I was lucky.
Hmm. My wife used to be extremely ticklish everywhere, but she also has hypermobility and thus overly tight muscled to keep her joints from dislocating.
It turns out that if I massage her muscled into relaxing, the related body parts stop being ticklish, or are a lot less ticklish in the case of her foot. of course, that required massaging through the initial ticklish reaction from being massaged, especially for some muscle groups.
Might not apply to the situation with your acquaintances, but I thought I’d pass it on.
I’m hypermobile and very similar. Any soft touching triggers ticklish reactions / even discomfort (though that’s more of a sensory problem) but gets better after firm massage. I see a remedial masssagist on the regular to help with the complications of hypermobility, especially the frequent joint strains, and he knows not to go lightly!
Have the extraterrestrials been exposed to the writings of either the Marquis de Sade or Leopold von Sacher-Masoch?
I’ve read La Nouvelle Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu and L’Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du vice in the orignal version Frix is innocent as an angel compared to the books …
Sorry even me as a black heart cynical atheist considers it a Grand Guignol because it seems that the catalog of perversions is outrageous…
Two much perversion kills perversion …
Perhaps Sade in original version will be a good present to Dabbler if a French superhero will appear as Metal hurlant subscription for Sydney and an Hecate II for Peggy ( precision or Anti-materiel rifle why not both )…
Frix is like the Hulk. Size varies all the time. The way he is drawn here, he must be 8′ tall and 500lb
In my opinion, all four of Cora’s crew has slowly gotten bigger. I remember one panel where her scaly friend (can’t remember his name, starts with “S”) was giving her a massage, and he didn’t look more than maybe a foot taller. Then, in the followup to the crews’ scuffle with Math, they all tower over Cora enough to make her look as short as Sydney.
Fine, fine, I’ll do it. Stop nagging me about every 6 months.
thank god for that medicine that Sydney got, otherwise she would have broken in half
Teri Weigel fan here, the over the top sex-yodeling was just hilarious I thought! *Shrug*
Over the top sex yodeling is a phrase I would never expect to hear, and now it’s giving me complete gigglefits…inside a courtroom while I am working. Gods darn it …
now just try not to imagine it as a CD collection with special bonus tracks
There is a game where that happens :P
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‘Knows anatomy’ is one that works for both sides.
As to the height thing. Aliens says why Stop growing? X species not having a cutoff height Would be interesting.
All of Cora’s crew is over 7′ this is just showing Frix is 2′ taller than them and the perspective of the ladies to him is like. Life changes things, when my wife and I first got together she was 5’4″ and I was 5’8″ but age and my spinal injuries I’m down to 5’5″ and my wife is now 5’3″ (We’re both in our 60’s) so I no longer have to crouch down a bit to give her a good hug lol. Frix could easily pick up both of the gals and mercilessly tickle them both if he so desired, but I think Sydney would LOUDLY complain about that ;) That big Woof does care about her feelings, but like any man, he has to learn the limits and how far to break them. Or when she secretly wants him to break them, my wife used to do things that required “punishment” AKA tickle attacks lol. Ah, memories…
I had hoped for more scenes in the shower, but the second-to-last panel makes a good substitute.
Some years ago I read about a study that claimed that the average man prefers a woman 4″ shorter, but the average woman prefers a man 10″ taller. That’s a formula for dissatisfaction!
I find it a little baffling, because for me, women about 4-6″ taller than I am are a supernormal stimulus. It doesn’t seem as if many women are attracted to shorter men, though. I count myself fortunate in being married to a woman within an inch of my own height. . . .
“women about 4-6″ taller than I am are a supernormal stimulus” – me too!
I suspect it’s because I was invariably the shortest kid in my class up until the age of 15 or so, when I started to grow past some of the girls. So when I first started noticing girls, they were ALL taller than me.
I like Max for more than her golden skin. Also She-Hulk, Big Barda, Starfire…
I’m 6’2″ (1,88 m) I have been with a 6′ (1,82 m) woman but I haven’t meet a woman who was more than 2″ ( 5 cm ) taller than me … and when I’ve encountered her my first reflex is to check if she don’t wear higth heels …
I haven’t encontered 6’6″ (1,98 m) or a 6’8″ (2,02 m) woman …
Is it my imagination, or is Frix getting larger?
he just went to K-10
I think while women may like muscular men, I think muscle bulk isn’t what they’re looking for so much as a dancer’s body. Bishounen. I’m not saying that no women swooned at the helicopter scene in Captain America: Winter Soldier, but women going gaga over a Charles Atlas type flexing on the beach is as much a male fantasy as a female one. Also, a sense of humor is near the top of the list. Consider Zendaya, a woman who could get pretty much any man she wants, and she’s engaged to Tom Holland, who is three to four inches shorter than her and weighs less than 150 lbs. Also, for those who think women like macho behavior, what really set the hook in that relationship was when they were on Lip Sync Battles. If you haven’t seen it, watch Holland’s lip sync of “Umbrella” for an example of peak masculinity.
Women like different things. More of them tend to like large, slightly softer men than huge gym builds. Plenty like the gym bros, but the preference is more for gentle giants in that direction.
I think the underlying factor being selected for is general competence and non-weakness, regardless of the specific yardstick or social shorthand being used to measure it.
anecdotally, big gym builds are actually not portrayed in media for the female gaze but rather for the male gaze, its about power fantasy, not sexuality. I say anecdotally but it is a studied phenomenon in humanities/etc. sexy women in media= for the Men. sexy men in the media = also for the Men.
personally, I’m just attracted to “healthy”, but I do go a bit gooey eyed for the occasional lumberjack.
I’ve never seen that episode of LSB, so I looked it up on YouTube. WOW! I’m 100% cis-het male, but I really admire the ability to just let it go and shoot for the moon. Especially if that requires a lot of earned self-confidence and real talent. Tom’s performance and dance moves were next level! No offence to Zendaya’s talent, but he outperformed her so bad it wasn’t even close.
I don’t know if I’d say that was “peak masculinity”, but that was definitely someone who was secure in their own masculinity.
My wife has commented that she always liked taller guys, but overdid it with me. (She’s 5’1″, I’m 6’8″)
And I agree with BFC on Tom Holland & Zendaya. They’re a cute couple (at least what little I’ve seen)
Tickling is definitely in the brain. I could tickle my children and my grandchildren from across the room just by waving my fingers. I used to brag that I could tickle them just by THINKING about it. And it worked.
I had a ticklish flatmate I could do that to.
She ran away from my tickling to the other side of the room once. I pointed my finger at her and wiggled it. She went “Eep!” and darted out the door.
I looked at the other flatmates present, raised my eyebrows, lifted my finger, pointed it at the wall, and wiggled it. “Stop thaaat!” she wailed.
I have done the same thing. Tickles by telepathy.
Also, bending down to smooch Sydney would likely result in several orbs hitting you in the face in the process, at least if you tried it on the spur of the moment. If you give her a second to direct them elsewhere, you’d be fine, but then you lose that spontaneity…
When Peggy says she’s aware of Frix’s penchant for tickling, is the implication that they fooled around during her space adventure? Does Sydney have another Eskimo sister?
I think is this just mentioning the fact that he pranked her foot
He also tickled Peggy’s foot after the surgery was completed.
Last Panel, Peggy seems to realize just how “big” Frix is.
And giving Sydney that “look.”
Sydney just smarms back. Almost gloating.
A lot of unsaid dialogue in that last panel.
Ok, yeah he’s a rare one, not just fluffy fur!
Or question, how are clothes over for handled? Doesn’t it get all tangled up during the day and make dreadlocks as the oil and dander doesn’t get groomed out? Or is there a special cloth for full fur coverage?
“To save you a Google search.”
… now I’m REALLY curious…
A salute to medical professionals!
I had hoped to see Peggy in rehab doing high kicks — but OK.
I really think that this wasn’t a prank. More like a method to ensure a return to confirm everything is working as intended. Everything EXCEPT the tickle response is normal. And his ONLY patient who has these needs doesn’t normally use her foot mode… outside of specifically when feet are useful. You do have to kinda remember who he treats otherwise.
He’s right about the chores. Absolutely spot on.
Proactive is a thing. So I’m in my GF’s house, in the kitchen, emptying the trash can because it’s full and I’m putting a new bag in. My GF, in the living room on the couch, glances in and says “Hot damn that’s sexy!” Her adult daughter who did not have line of sight was confused. “He’s taking out the trash.” was her mom’s explanation.
Having likes is fine, making others like your likes (whether they like to or not) is where it turns spherical
NOW i just wanna see a sexy scene where they make out.
Her face when being naked tickled is just glorious… heh…
Probably someone said it already, but I’m guessing it’s cause her brain doesn’t have the neural pathways to resist being tickled/itching like the original. It’s all new like a baby’s foot to the brain.
I’m 110% with Frix on that one. Part of liking women is liking positive reactions from them, and most of the time (within reason), tickling does that. It can be a part of playful intimacy, without being specifically sexual (even if it is a bit sexual by context).
Tickling is intimate, and sensual, but I wouldn’t say it’s sexual (unless you’re just lumping the three concepts together, like a lot of people do). Which isn’t to say it can’t turn some people on – the way the human brain works, ANYTHING can – but that’s not universal, and shouldn’t be assumed. I enjoy tickling, but not from total strangers, and it doesn’t sexually excite me.
Yes, that’s great, if the woman agrees (or even knows about it) before hand, what Frix did was take away that consent, without Jake even knowing it was a thing she needed to give consent to
That’s like that nurse who amputated a guys foot because she wanted it for personal taxidermy reasons (the patient sure as yak vomit smells bad didn’t know it was going to happen when he went in for surgery, heck, the doctor didn’t even know!)
I had a thought about Halo’s future disguise. Will not letting the orbs out regularly de-power them? Remember when she had trouble waking them up when she first revealed them near the beginning of the story? What was the cause of that?
Also, Super Listener Man could foil that bank heist WHILE hearing about your day.
Assuming he’s a super. But, he DOES call himself SUPER Listener Man.