Grrl Power #342 – Predenuded
And now we know Dabbler’s true mission, to slowly pervert Earth’s mightiest heroes! Ok, that’s not what she’s doing here. I mean… she is doing it, but it’s not why she’s here. It is one of her many hobbies though. She has an easy crowd there, Harem’s open to new experiences and Sydney, well, she didn’t have to be sold on anything.
If I was a girl, I assume I would do very little in the way of body hair maintenance unless I thought it might come up, like going on a date or whatever. Sure, if it’s summer and shorts and tank tops and bathing suits are in order then I would put forth the requisite effort, but I highly suspect during the fall and winter I would be in Wookie Mode. (This is assuming no boyfriend or job at Hooters.) I asked my wife about this and she said all women do this and the ones who say they don’t are lying liars who lie.
I haven’t decided if guys supers can grow beards. I don’t think I’ve put any supers with facial hair in the comic yet so it’s still up in the air. I’m leaning toward no, but that sort of creates a problem if there’s ever a live action version of Grrl Power. There are just some guys who look like they have a 5 o’clock shadow as soon as they’re finished shaving which could create some casting issues, and there probably aren’t a lot of actors who would be willing to have their face waxed.
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I’ve been quite bad about keeping up with messages and things on DeviantArt, so when I finally checked in, I found some fan art pieces waiting, so in no particular order, here they are for those interested:
- Sydney Fighting Sprite
- Sydney pencils
- Maxima done in some sort of dress up doll program (I’m sure she’d be thrilled)
- Sydney as a Pony. Her cutie mark is apropros.
- Sydney via Poser (or similar 3D program Probably Daz3D now that I think about it.) It’s super weird seeing Sydney as a non-anime human.
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As a woman in training, body hair sucks all kinds of balls. It’s like having a lawn full of kudzu! It just keeps growing and growing . . .!
isn’t there that laser thing where you can make it permanent?
Not without risking tons of pain and scarring, same as with any other laser skin treatment. Besides, price. Laser is used for single hairs in very visible places, like the face.
I personally never saw the point of making my legs hairless, as it’s going to grow back. Now that I’m out as transgender, I have a good enough excuse to give, too, beyond “skin gets aggravated easily, would prefer to be able to walk instead”. (And don’t even get me started on armpit hair, my armpits hate even most deodorants with a passion, their reaction to getting shaved was not kind, and the experiment was not repeated.)
Pain? Oh yes. Down right torture though not as bad as electrolysis (or so I’ve heard) It nearly brought me to tears on the upper lip. Scarring risk isn’t super acute. I think I picked up one or two and they’re hardly visible and I had a pretty heavy 5′ O clock.
IDK my body hair stopped growing significantly after hormones. I *almost* have that super power :p
I have that problem with my bikini line. It’s wax or spend the next 2(minimum) days doing as little walking as possible. Even then it’s touch and go
The body hair thing is one of those things that’s probably only in its current state because of some ye olden days product advertising campaign or something, but now everyone’s so used to the results we think the natural look is disgusting.
You can see a smaller scale example every time someone who was always clean shaven or had a Santa Claus beard suddenly switches to the other. You’re so used to it from before that now you have almost a physical discomfort from seeing the difference.
laser isn’t permanent, and it doesn’t get everything, and it only works for people of light skin tones
How about… hair control is like some kinda basic super power that comes in every super power package?
Man, I wish I was a super now.
This is the only acceptable reason I can think of why all the “male” superheroes are beardless.
Given the choice, I don’t know if I’d be willing to give up my beard in exchange for superpowers. I think i’d be willing to give up my dick before I’d be willing to go clean shaven again.
*Wish Granted* btw your new power is the ability to change the size and shape of your penis as well as pick things up with it as its prehensile.
Wait, is this the power I gain if I’m willing to shave my beard? Or is it an ironic power I gain if i give up my penis. Like, I forfeit my dong, and gain the power that it would have been Mr. Fantastic?
Either way, even if I was the one and only super powered person on earth I don’t know if it’d be worth it to shave my beard as the price. It’d be a very Faustian choice. Plus, I look very weird when I’m completely clean shaven.
what if you got movie level superman powers? As in turn back time and lift an entire island made out of something that kills you.
Depends on which movie you are talking about
my wife would file for divorce if I had that power… LOL
Viagra Man?
Panel 7: Dawwwwww….I just want to hug and cuddle Syd…even if she would claw my eyes out and breathe fire on me and somehow cause an explosion that would erase me from existence down to even the memory of me…but she’s so cute in that panel I’m willing to do that.
but that could KILL y-er…who am i talking to? why am i commenting?
lets face it, dabbler, youre into fur as well, your into everything if it can have some element of lust
and that was a reply to this comment. apparently i dont know how to comment
No body hair at all?
I’m sorry, but that royally sucks! I for one cheered when pubes started coming back in fashion.
You do know that they have had this thing called a “Merkin” for a few centuries now, don’t you?
Cute.
for the last Deviant art I’m pretty sure that’s the newest Base Female figure for DAZ 3D which unlike previous iterations was not made for Poser so it seems likely it’s made in DAZ 3D. though as the characters can easily be changed I’m basing this primarily on the eyebrows.
Given the whole “supers are ideal” concept, I’m thinking they all had body hair until it suddenly fell out one day in 1990.
Dave:
“…lying LAIRS who lie”?
shouldn’t that be
“…lying LIARS who lie”?
or am I missing some sort of hipster reference?
Not counting panel-in-panels as panels; In panel 7, Dabbler has both her ears showing right where they should be. In panel 8, she’s lost an ear. I searched for it, but evidently it’s being evasive. Where’d it go?
For my second question; How am I the first to mention this in the comments?
I think it’s sticking up at a higher angle for some reason; you can just about see the little blue edge at the border of her speech bubble.
You weren’t the first to mention it, and her left ear is hiding in her hair
First thought upon Dabbler’s comments was furries… ^^ >.> I’m pretty sure that’s what Syd’s talking about too.
Well she was in WereWorld before this comic, so she has experience with furred people.
Plus, Dabbles is furry herself
I disagree. As evidence, I cite the “Sex Drive” shower scene. That’s bare skin. Look closely at the … specularity.
I was going to ask if this was a nod to her time on Wereworld, and if this meant that that was cannon now
You do know that short enough fur, when wet, can look like bare skin, right?
I hate to quibble, but quibble I must…
If Dabs is furry, that whole conversation seems very odd. She surmised that they were imagining “animal love” when she mentioned fur, and had to explain that she had bipedal, humanoid lovers in mind. Why would that have happened if she is furry herself? Their minds would have gone to another place.
Also, that line about the lint roller would have got some kind of comeback (probably from Sydney) if Dabbler herself goes around shedding purple hairs, don’t you think? Instead, Harem goes “Okay, I can see that”, clearly meaning she can imagine it.
Regarding WereWorld: I had a look at the pages involving Dabbler (ie. the fight), and nowhere could I see even a hint of fuzziness (even on the pages where she is drawn close-up). The other girls often did show signs of fur.
If you know of a page I missed that shows a Downy Dabbler please share.
Do supers in imaginary flashbacks having beards count.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/942
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/984
They do if they are Sydney’s imaginary Supers, and the fact ‘facial hair’ is separate from ‘body hair’
as i already explained elsewhere, the “942” doesn’t count as evidence for anything.
lumberjack is explained elsewhere.
The hypothetical construction worker in:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1183
That’s the best one, since it’s Maxima’s imagining. She isn’t likely to be wrong.
Dave has seen that link on page one of the comments and his response is “Whoops, yeah, ok, I guess guy supers can grow beards.”
which doesn’t mean they aren’t rare.
They are as rare as SuperVillains… oops!
there are obviously more villains than heroes, otherwise they would run out of them really fast.
just “yesterday” they knocked down around 30 of them, while they were around 10 i think (didn’t count, may be wrong). and that’s just those who decided to wear a cape.
out of all the supers in archon, and in between the villains, none of them had body hair.
when i said “rare” i meant it as even when you look at just the supers, it is extremely rare to find one who has additional hair.
The point being, before yesterday’s sneak attack, Super Villains were considered very rare
The Artist in me says that supers should have body hair, because them not having it is a limitation on the variety of super “looks” that can exist. But…
The Writer in me says that this could be a great Chekhov’s Gun.
Some percentage of supers have innate powers due to some factor (genetics?) that also gives them bodies within a certain range of a ‘template’, including cup size, musculature, et cetera.
So if you see someone who does not fit that template wielding apparent super powers, it can mean that they got their powers via a ‘nonstandard’ means, like Sydney: magical enchantment/curse, cybernetics, retrovirus…
On the note of actors playing (template) supers from this world…
Can CGI be used (in a practical fashion) to remove body/facial hair?
Also, unless plot relevant, it could also mean that it would be one of those details that would be dropped in the course of an adaptation.
You forgot radiation. Remember kids, gamma and cosmic rays are GOOD for you! And then there is being bitten by a radioactive just about anything. Hmm, if I got bitten by a radioactive human would I gain amazing human powers?
Man-man, a man with all the amazing powers of a man!
You sort of described ranma if you meant woman
Man-Man, the manliest man that ever was a man…
He was born with his Man Card already in-hand.
White Privilege MAN he can prevent non-Asians from developing civilization/technology anywhere in the world.
Being a girl, I can say any boyfriend who calls attention to my body hair in a way other than “it’s cute” is going to stop being my boyfriend just about then.
Then again, I’m aromantic. I don’t really NEED a boyfriend anyway.
But I just have a feeling that Syd just might, especially after a couple of talks with Maxima, come to share my opinion. I mean, she’s the one who matches her last name with potential husbands’ first names…
I am pretty sure that Sydney feels that the entire world must meet her demands – not just potential husbands. Including inanimate objects that dont learn to get out of her way :)
Anyway…Leon Scoville
Just wait once you hit 30 you wont have to worry about guys hitting on you.
It is otherwise impossible to hide a guy’s shadow under makeup, also you can cast blondes and dye their hair and eyebrows. That would also solve the problem
Actually, come to think of it, Sydney being a natural blonde, her leg would be rather difficult to see, she’d have to be rather hirsute for it to be noticeable on a casual glance from a distance.
Well, we’re taking it for granted that Syd’s a natural blonde, but there’s no evidence to suggest otherwise. That said, most natural blondes will have darker body hair (including pubes) than what is on the head, making it more easily noticed. And Harem is not at much of a distance, she’s standing right next to Sydney and looking, so if it’s been a few days, it’ll be noticeable.
It’s a little-known but interesting fact that the best (though not perfect, as there are always anomalies) judge for determining if pubic color is natural is not to compare it with the scalp, but the eyebrows.
The genes that control pubic-hair color also affect eyebrow color.
…And the ladies seem to mistake it for looking them in the eyes.
Speaking of Lying Lairs, who knows why the Arduin Grimoire/RPGs have a % Liar stat for all of their monsters?
Because the first edition of original D&D had a typo in the monster descriptions that said % Liar instead of % Lair.
So wait… are their no carpets to match the drapes on all supers then? O.o The question of where the term body hair doth ends does kind of come into question a bit.
Body hair ends (and starts) at the neck line: anything above that is considered to be part of the head (and yes, that does include Facial Hair and Neck Beards)
I think ‘carpets’ are fall under the third category of hair :D (Fourth if you differentiate between facial and cranium.)
Treasure your little keratine friends.. for in a few dozen generations, it will be gone…
So we’re not going to have toenails either? What about fingernails?
Naa, they’ll probably still be around, both fingers & toes. But you meat sacks do seem to be shedding more & more body hair. Well, most of you, some of you lot are “Hairy like animal…”
“Not that I’m a big fan of back hair or anything, just, you know, a little . . .” Sydney says with an interesting wiggle of her finger.
Is it just me with my dirty imagination that thinks she’s talking about a guy’s pubic hairs? ;-)
*puts on cowboy hat, chews on straw* Well pardner, seems to me ol’ Syd’s thinking about saddlin’ up some young bronc and headin’ down that long happy trail.
It would make a change for her, no doubt, from going down so many a long and lonesome highway.
East of Omaha?
. . . the engine might not be the only thing you can hear moaning out . . .
It was a long, hard ride that left my horse frothing at the mouth from exhaustion.
Rode hard and put away wet, if you will.
HA! I think we have a winner!
Does this mean that Dabbler has a thing for James P. Sullivan?
…Wut?
Admittedly, I didn’t recognize the name and had to google him, but it’s the big, blue and hairy hero of the Monsters, Inc. movie franchise.
There are the Beards.
Not the facial hair, the English Group. Their voices are not that great, but their texts are all too true.
In this case:
“If your Dad doesn´t have a beard, you have two Moms”.
No Body hair can go as “Metro” these days.
But no facial hair? Ever?
A giant muscular viking-type without a beard? THAT is a joke. and not a good one at that.
Easy to decide if there are Beards or not, though.
Obviously the Supers head is not affected, otherwise they would all be bald. And not having hair in nose or ears is a serious weakness, for those are really, REALLY necessary.
Obviously supers can grow beards, because chuck norris has a beard.
Or maybe thats his head hair trying to escape and failing because its chuck norris
And Dabbler snags yet another dietician-unapproved “lust cookie,” increasing her caloric intake. That’s the real reason she’s trying to corrupt ARC-SWAT a few people at a time, she just can’t resist sneaking some munchies in all the time.
O.\\ *just realized her maxima fan fic thing was posted* Forgive me while I squeeeeeee and faint now for not realizing this sooner.
One of Dabbler’s favorite toys just HAS to be a Wookie.
There was that Paul Bunyan super early on, and he had a full beard… He might not have been completely canonical, however, so there’s still the possibility for convenient body-hairlessness.
The “no body hair” thing would be very easy to ignore in a live action production. Only the nitpickers would care.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! FURRY COMMUNITY RISE!! SHOWER YOUR ADULATION ON THIS GLORIOUS NOD TO US!!!!!!
Is it just me or is Sydney looking a lot blonder these last few comic strips?
Maybe the lighting in the showers is yellowish?
“…she said all women do this and the ones who say they don’t are lying liars who lie.”
She is mistaken. Removal of female body hair is very prevalent in the U.S. but a requirement for its total lack is not universal. Not even in the U.S. Not even in your fanbase.
My wife rarely removed any body or facial hair during our entire relationship. I can’t speak for the present but I doubt anything has changed.
What I was saying is that women who regularly shave tend to slack off if weather/jobs allow for fuller body coverage and they’re not in a relationship or on the prowl, and, according to her, the ones that insist they maintain the shaving routine under all circumstances aren’t being honest.
There’s another one with Maxima done in a doll maker. Though Sydneys there with her. Hang on, I’ll try to find it.
Found it! Looks like Sydney and Maxima got put in a lineup with some other webcomic characters and the Totally Spies.
https://cuddlestheoctopus.deviantart.com/art/Kisekae-Existing-Characters-2-465260881
Protests! Wolverine had body hair and loves wolverine!
I have to agree with Dabbler regarding the fur, and it being on sapients. Also, I was onboard with that one before I was online, so I’ve got Sydney severely trumped (in addition to being older than her).
“If I was a girl, I assume I would do very little in the way of body hair maintenance unless I thought it might come up, like going on a date or whatever. Sure, if it’s summer and shorts and tank tops and bathing suits are in order then I would put forth the requisite effort, but I highly suspect during the fall and winter I would be in Wookie Mode. (This is assuming no boyfriend or job at Hooters.) I asked my wife about this and she said all women do this and the ones who say they don’t are lying liars who lie.”
As a woman, I can confirm this. In fact, I rarely shave my legs even in summer. I hate shaving so much that I generally just wear regular pants instead, or I only shave my lower legs and wear capris.
Random observation: Dabbler on several occasions has had issues with not knowing how to translate a word or phrase into English, but she’ll bust out something relatively uncommon like “yutz” every so often.
(In seriousness, I think the words she has trouble translating are ones that have very specific and subtle shades of meaning and probably don’t have good direct translations. “Yutz” means kind of what you’d expect it to mean. “Schmutz”, too, as I think about it. There really is something about Yiddish that connects right to the linguistic deep structures.)
It can be surprising the kinds of words an ESL person might know or not know. I have a German friend that I can carry on a normal conversation with for hours, but then I’ll ask her what she had for dinner at Christmas and she won’t know the word “red cabbage” or “deer/venison”. Some things just never come up for a long time, but some obscure words will be learned early on due to being part of a topic of interest (for instance, she loves MLP:FiM, so she knows all the English words relating to that).
I think whether supers can grow beards depends on exactly why they don’t get any other body hair. If there is something about them all being “perfect” to a certain standard of beauty, then they would either all have beards or none have beards. If they gained slightly more variable and subjective beauty, then some might have facial hair and others not. If there’s some other reason besides the beauty thing that they don’t grow body hair then it would probably be consistent, but I’d need to know why head hair is exempt to guess whether beards would be.
Do supers from other cultures all look the same, or do they each follow their native culture’s standards of beauty. For example, in a culture where being fat is considered attractive, do you see fat supers or are they still rail-thin like in America?
In the segment with super history, with the Paul Bunion type witnessed by drunkards, I believe he had a beard.
Actually, I fall into the camp of women who do shave their legs during the winter. Because I live in MN, where it gets frickin’ cold, and dislike the feel of cold jeans (pants, skirts, etc.). So I wear legging under my jeans. Added warmth, and they keep the cold demin off of me! And then I learned that leg hairs can get caught in stretchy fabics… >_< So, yup. At least one women does without being a lying liar who lies. :P
That being said, and because I like the feel of shaved/smooth skin (I've been known to shave my arms, as well, though that also has to do with the annoying feel of trying to find a loose hair from my head on my arm), I think I'm jealous of the supers in your world. :/
So:
• Supers (at least according to Harem) don’t grow body hair.
• Sydney is implied to have body hair (assuming I’m reading that sequence right).
Is this confirmation that Sydney isn’t a super herself, and just has artifacts that work like superpowers? And by extension, that having super-empowering artifacts doesn’t make you a “super”?
Yup. That’s also why Sydney isn’t 5’10” and stacked like a, um… woman with large breasts.
“Stacked like a brick outhouse”! :)
We get to see how “on board” she is eventually ;3
Foreshadowing!
Going back and re-reading these because… I’m bored, and yeah. This is the start of the #NotAFurryISwear Sydney.