Grrl Power #536 – Dressed to compress
Maxima doesn’t like words like slut and whore because they’re less descriptive than they are judgmental. Also she hates there’s nothing equivalent for men.
“If you ever need proof of the non-egalitarian nature of society…” she starts as everyone eyes the exit.
She’s not a fan of slut shaming even if some women act in ways she thinks reflects poorly on her gender as whole. But man, sometimes you’ve just got to call a spade a spade. In those situations she prefers slightly more comical adjectives like floozie and trollop. Anyway, “Colossal Space Floozie” makes me laugh every time I read it.
As I was drawing it, it occurred to me that this is as close to a skintight superhero outfit that Max is likely to ever get in to, barring some sort of skintight clothing ray, or a situation where the only clothes available are from Dabbler’s suitcase. Who knows, maybe it’ll happen one day.
Almost forgot to post this page. I was heading to bed when I remembered it was Wednesday evening. After A-kon I actually caught a case of con crud, which has never happened before. It was pretty mild, but enough to zone me out for a day or two, and my wife is out of town, so totally lost track of what day of the week it was. But I’m over it more or less. Hopefully I can get to the gym today. Mysteriously, there’s little else in the world that motivates me to work out more than attending a comic convention.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. $1 and up, but feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Me-Yeow! Alt-Universe Catwoman made an appearance!
I love the way her headpiece doesn’t even need “cat” ears, just a coupla holes.
Catworman meets a Valkyrie, with the wings on her helmet. Not to mention a dash of dominatrix, with the mask effect that it creates!
I’m pretty sure those helmet wings are Dabbler’s ears.
Which got me wondering how she managed to get that headgear on. Her external ears (if that is what they are) don’t really look like they would fit through the aperture.
Like normal human ears (or even puppy ears), Dabbles can bend hers to fit, specially if the material stretches even a little
*pouts*
Probably.
*stalks off in a huff*
My first thought was Dovakin.
But the curvy ram horns are Xuriel’s natural horns! It’s the little pointy ones on top that are the embellishment, here.
Wrong! they are hers to.
Super sweet! And back on time!
Sydney asking the real questions here
I would expect that Dabbler’s suit is gas-permeable, so no balloon effect.
With super-advanced galactic technology, genetic manipulating baby factories and magic, I would actually question whether succubi even fart, in the first place! They do seem to be a highly-fixated race and eliminating anything which might detract from that central goal would seem to be a priority.
I expect succubi gradually exude aphrodisiac perfume, rather than fart.
But, yea, even that would require gas permeability, so good point.
Girls don’t fart, not even colossal space floozies.
The reason guys think that women do not pass gas is that women are generally more socially conscious than men and so tend to find a out of the way place to let it rip, as opposed to a man who lets it go wherever he happens to be.
You are making an assumption there. But not having seen what happens, you cannot know for sure.
Here is documentary proof of what actually happens!
1. girls do fart. that’s why there is music at gymnastic meets. its not uncommon for the performer to fart at each bounce. which means there are other times that that can happen. this gives excellent training for a woman to maintain a straight face.
GIRLS may fart, but this is a SUCCUBUS. Follow the logic – Succubi grow up in Hell. Hell has a LOT of flames. So, frankly, I would hazard a guess that Succubi fart a grand total of ONCE in their entire lives – and NEVER AGAIN.
Or, perhaps, whenever they feel the need for a full Brazilian. Otherwise – no, not ever. It’s a question of survival.
… and now I’m picturing it as a training class: okay, succubi and incubi, today we are attempting Helium, so please step over to the cafeteria cart for your ghost pepper enchiladas, and we can get started
Helium is chemically inert, so tends not to be a component of most, ah, chemically generated gases. Or are you trying for nuclear fusion of Hydrogen? Not even ghost peppers have that much heat.
I think hypnobubbles chose helium precisely because it is inert. You are just looking in the wrong direction, hence not realising why. Demons are magical, so what happens inside the body we can just put down to magic.
Whereas if you are farting in Hell, you really do want to expel a gas that will not burn your bum, by igniting. As helium is inert, it cannot combust, so would be safe.
Plus it is always funny for making rival big, fierce, demons speak in silly squeaky voices!
No wonder Helium Beer “tastes like shit.”
ROFL! That is hilarious!
I’m married. They fart. Not in front of you when you are dating or during the honeymoon period, but eventually they do.
And because they hold it in for a week, it is more pungent than the average guy fart.
Besides, her digestive system may be just different enough to not generate (mostly) methane gas emissions.
“It’s a perfectly natural bodily function!”
“Yeah, but… helium?”
+1 for the Farscape reference.
EDIT: For those who haven’t watched Farscape, one of the aliens on the ship is Rygel… oh, sorry, Dominar Rygel the 16th. Four stomachs, and when he gets nervous, he farts helium.
Regardless of whether or not Dabbler’s suit is gas permeable, it’s so skin-tight as to be nearly eye-permeable too. I’d say it goes so far in that direction that there’s a very good reason why DaveB located two of those word balloons where they are…
O.O
Agreed
Those arnt word baloons, they’re comics code violation stickers.
And many of us are disappointed at their existence.
And not just gas, either.
i think dabbler is nude the suit is just a glamour a very thin glamour ..
Lol.
“Bodypaint?”
“No, it is not that thick”
Got it in my head Ned Flanders repeating “Nothing at all” over and over again.
Stupid sexy Flanders…
Posted a clip of that on the last page
That last pannel is really too small, can’t quite read the three girls facial expressions…
their expressions are: “I am NOT amused…” ones
Or “Not a lesbian. Not a lesbian. Not a lesbian…”
My main take-home was all of them having the popping eyes.
Actually, it looks like Harem has the popping eyes, Maxima’s not amused, and Sydney has that deadpan inquisitive look where the top half of the eyes is a straight horizontal like and the bottom half is a saucer shape.
I did not want to zoom in, as I wanted to comment on the overall impression, with the figures that small.. In my case I have an additional handicap in that the image is a bit blurry, because hunting down my reading glasses is a hassle. So those features were not leaping out at me.
But I must admit that they are there, even in blurry vision. :-D
If you go to the panel at the top of the stack, you get a better shot of Harems face.
It is the jealous hate look in my opinion.
Max is running the disgusted look.
And Sydney is doing the look saying not this again.
Apparently not even Harem is lesbian enough for this one. I never thought I’d see her get stunned into shocked silence by one of Dabbler’s “clothing” choices.
Support the artist in Patreon – You get a 2X version…
I still hope that we can bribe him enough to do a XXX version!
July Vote Incentive: Dabbler trying on more outfits made of Zreleribum.
That’s right – let’s see that camel toe!
Those are her normal toes don’t discriminate. By the way why do you want to see the feet when most the jokes are facial in this page?
Pretty lips.
For that, all DaveB would have to do is keep a version of the same page with two word-balloons placed differently. That would be enough to show the artwork readily enough.
Assuming he drew what was behind them.
Artists study for years to draw anatomically correctly (unless they are weirdo perverts who do not care about such matters).
Look above and you will see seven works of art. And Dave does that twice a week. Think about how many things readers complain about. We never hear ‘that is anatomically incorrect’ amongst those grumbles.
Trying to draw the scene and stopping when getting to a word balloon would be very hard and likely to end up with something weird-looking for one reason or another. Whereas drawing an anemically correct body, is something Dave does as a work of art twice a day, every day, year in year out.
We need to call the police and have them free the succubus that Dave has chained up, in his basement, for life study purposes!
Also, when drawing on a computer, the artist tends to draw in layers. Probably background first, then a new layer with foreground & primary subject matters. Next layer is likely to be the word balloons. Each of these layers is effectively “on top” of the earlier layers & obscure what was drawn but doesn’t replace it. Then coloring is also done in layers too; principal flood-fills, highlights & shadowing usually are different layers.
So yeah, DaveB probably could move those words balloons around if he calls up his current file & starts working with just one layer.
Yea, I had to get to grips with GIMP over the past week or two (amongst a lot of other non-art stuff). Hellishly steep learning curve, mind! All I wanted to do was simple stuff like having some circles, boxes and arrows, to illustrate points, for more visually-minded individuals. Yet needing something more professional-looking than I could produce with the paint program in Windows.
Thanks to various comments made in this community, over the years (even though I could not remember the program names) I did recall that being able to build up a picture, in layers, gave great capabilities.
Of course GIMP (like Photoshop) is aimed primarily at manipulating photographs, and other complex art, like in webcomics. So you would expect the advanced features to be complex. But because it is aimed at that, rather than doing the really simple stuff I was after, you have to figure out the more complex features (like doing the layers) before you can even start learning the easy stuff!
I ended up with nice results though, which did their job well. And, of course, you can very simply swap out one element (like a map or a flag) and replace it with another one. So I can churn out other, similar, things much easier now.
Well worth the effort!
*wags tail, in the sublime layer*
My interpretation is Harem is still wide eyed stunned, Maxima is scowling hard enough to melt steel beams and Sydney is just exasperated, like when she went into the showers and saw all the other gorgeous supermodel superhumans.
Yeah, Blondini’s eyes haven’t recovered from panel five, the pupils have simply changed focus slash direction, same with Maxi, and Sydney’s are as Paradox described, but they look to be focused down to her left (even at normal resolution, you can just make out the little dots of the eyes on the outer edges of the whites of her eyes)
There are some stars missing on Harem’s bikini. Spotted it by pure chance, I swear!
Seven. But I wasn’t looking that closely.
I’m sure all that happened was Harem’s bikini saw Dabbler approaching before anyone else, and her suit scared/excited the stars right off of it….
Spotted that as well, and not by chance
Voting incentive…the uncensored close up front back under top side view of dabbler in that…”WET” suit.
Missed the joke… “Is THAT A WET SUIT?”
Dabbler cozies up to Max “It is now…”
Yeah, strips like this one make me wonder if Dave is ever going to do an uncensored version of this comic
He’s said before that he’d like to if he had the time. He just need to make enough off this to quit his day job.
If Dabbler ever did cut one the pool,Sydney and Maxima would crowd towards the back…!
So Maxima believes that slut and whore are not gender neutral?
They ARE not gender neutral.
There’s no belief here, they carry some very different emotional meanings for different genders.
They are gender neutral to those who don’t give a damn about being politically correct…I’ve got my own friends (who happen to be my gender) & we’ve been calling each other slut & whore years before Millenials were even born.
Language is REALLY fluid.
They weren’t gender neutral, and still are not commonly used as such.
But the words are being applied to both genders in some circles.
In a vacuum, they usually are not.
Hence the terms manwhore and manslut (also, gigolo).
Sure they can be used for men, but unless people know who is talked about, or gender is specified, most people will assume they refer to a woman in casual use.
Eh. I use them for either. Then again, I also only use one form of many words, such as waiter or actor. Just seems to work better for me.
Except, it’s not sexist to refer to a female as a ‘waitress’ or ‘actress’ or even ‘stewardess’, because adding ‘ess’ is the normal feminine form for names, like ‘lioness’, ‘tigress’, ‘shepardess’, it was only the feminists who made it an ‘evil male dominated form to putdown women’
I did say that they can be used for either gender.
But commonly, assumption is that they refer to a woman instead of a man.
Ah the decline of classical education…
inamorato
paramour (dual use)
several other that just need more coffee to unearth
(mine is the one with old fart in leather on it)
Coffee as a mining device…
What a vivid image. :D
new skillset for MineCraft: making coffee
You don’t use it to limit the blood content of your caffeine system?
I think she is of the opinion that using bdsm gear in the pool is not appropriate
If whore was gender neutral the phrase “man whore” wouldnt exist.
actually, the phrase Man-whore exists BECAUSE someone didn’t know it was gender neutral.
Sydney, with the important questions. I saw a sketch once of Venom from Spider-Man that answered this question. (Yes.)
There’s also another comic called Empowered that addresses the same topic…They just happen to be a lot more politically INcorrect about it than here. BTW, it’s still not an X-Rated comic & they also include “adult” topics in dialogue as well. But that’s what makes DqveB’s PG-13 rating here distinctly different, is the way that he depicts such issues.
Huge Adam Warren fan here.
Emowered is, to me, his finest work. Better hero/villain names than even Erik Larsen’s Savaged Dragon’s gallery. He tackles a lot of gender stereotypes/issues and issues of disproportionate power in relationships in a fairly nuanced way. And he does all of this with a playful attitude that’s pretty disarming.
Of course, as a guy, I’m probably not the best person to critique the work along all of these lines. :D
https://www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume-1-page-1 Emp’s suit is this tight….see about page 5 or 8.
Ha ha. Love Sydney’s gutter thought process, at the end.
Mind you I was surprised to find Harem’s initial comment mirroring my own thoughts. But Max’s counter did make good sense.
And .. Dabbler is Dabbler.
That’s not the gutter. It’s hardly deviating from the middle of the road.
If she was having her mind in the gutter she’d ask something like; “So, does it work like a condom, or does it let the little wrigglers through?”
….I really need to order more Dang.
it’s a shame that stuff only seems to come in orange…when you can still find it
ohhh, not Tang, DANG!
*giggles*
Comes in a lotta flavors…
Grape.
Orange.
Poon…
You speak of the original; which is orange in color, but is actually tangerine flavored.
Tangerine is a type of orange, like Navel or Mandarin
so. What colour is a green Orange?
Probably C Sharp. Although a cantaloupe might be Demisemihemidemisemiquaver Sharp.
and a piano falling on a Toon always plays b flat
Just a little something she had strung up in the dungeon…
Are you sure you’re not referring to Pixel?
Pixels not at the pool. She was feeling a little … whooped.
… Not long ago Pixel was strung up in a dungeon.
And then had a beam through her
That kind of penetration was way down on her ‘to do’ list…
It’s not even on Dabbles’ list
It struck me today that it may be an idea for me to blog the process of publicising my social engineering proposal, which I have alluded to in a few posts here.
Whilst ‘trying to save the world’ is … sort of… on topic, for a super-hero comic, the fact that it is using social engineering would invariably attract political comment. Which is not something that I would want to risk here!
Trouble is that I have never gotten into following blogs, of any nature. Whilst I am sure I can look up sites recommending what programs to use, from a technical perspective, I have no idea what would be good from a reader’s point of view.
If anyone is into a variety of blogs, have you noticed any similarities (from a technical perspective) of the ones that you like? Or, conversely,. the ones that put you off because of some feature. Obviously the main thing people are after, in a blog, is a good writer, talking about something that interests the reader. However it is purely the technical aspects that might influence you, that I am after please.
As an analogy, any web-comics which do not have the usual ‘start / left / right / end’ navigation buttons put me off, and need to have very good content to stand a chance of keeping my attention.
Plus I know a number of our readers have their own blogs, so would appreciate any tips for a newbie blogger and any pitfalls that I should avoid, should I decide to follow through with this idea? I would especially appreciate any suggestions for an idiot-proof blogging program, as technology hates me and I would not want to be delayed, by anything that has too steep a learning curve!
I suspect that, based on your previous posts, that when you say”social engineering,” you mean something different from the existing usage of the term (a con-artist technique to either gather information, or convince an individual to allow access), and are instead talking more in the realm of Scott Adams’ description of NLP-based social influence
Mmm, if I am using that term ill-advisedly that is very useful to know! Thanks.
Blogs typically don’t require a client, you do stuff with them in your web browser.
If you have your own web hosting you can set up a blog on that. Otherwise you’ll probably be going with a blogging service (these are often free with some limitations, but you may be able to pay for extras). The difference is that in the end, a blog which you have hosted is far more customisable. However, that level of customisation may be a bit overwhelming for a first-time blogger.
Five bucks says Dabbler has (at a minimum) three different, ah, “outfits” for Max to wear just in case the latter happy situation ever occurs. You know, just in case. A girl’s gotta be prepared.
… And one of them will be so over the top bad that Maxima grabs the one Dabbler was hoping to see her in just to end the argument.
Stay on the road to recovery! Don’t let the con crud make a return. How was the con? Did you see Fred there? Sadly I didn’t attend.
Hmm… we know that Max likely has diving experience of some kind given her background in military, but now I have to wonder what she has as part of her personal collection on the matter. Is she a more avid diver after hours when available? That’s clearly not a standard issue wetsuit in any case.
We know she’d needs oxygen tanks, since we saw her with a mask when taking Sydney up into the upper atmosphere (low oxygen)
But I doubt she’d need a wetsuit for diving. Though we don’t actually know how how/if her powers help her regulate temperature. A wetsuit might still be more comfortable.
Well, you don’t technically have to use a wetsuit to go diving. It’s more like where you’re going diving that you’d need one. I’ve seen a number of videos of people diving with out suits in warmer waters. So yeah, it’s probably a matter of preference more so than anything.
Even in the warmest waters I would wear at a dive skin and gloves, fire algae is evil and everywhere
actually it is less where and more “to what depth”. even in area where the climate is warm, once you get below certain depths the waters become very chilly. so regardless of the geographic location, it is likely you will need a wetsuit.
and even in shallow tropical waters it is wise to wear one. the shallows of tropical waters tend to be filled with coral reef, jellyfish, and all sorts of other lifeforms that can deliver nasty stings to unprotected skin.
geographic location (and thus climate) will just dictate how much insulation the wetsuit will require.
Never been diving myself… or even shopping for stuff. Kind of stranded in the middle of a desert here. >.> You seem to know quite a bit on the matter though. How much protection does a suit really give from those kind of stings? I get the algae part would be trivial at that point, but the rest of the hazards make me wonder.
Jellyfish nematocysts (stingers) aren’t very long. A pair of pantyhose will protect you from them. In fact, Australian lifeguards used to cut the crotch out of two pair of women’s pantyhose and wore one pair to protect their legs, and the other pair to protect their arms and chest.
You may get a lot of funny looks, but getting stung by a box jellyfish is so unfunny, it makes getting funny stares seem trivial in comparison. At best, it is excruciatingly painful; at worst, it can cause nausea, vomiting, breathing problems, and death (though you need to brush up against at least ten feet of tentacle for the latter.)
Do you remember the forum post about a lycra/spandex “rashguard” on the previous page? If wearing pantyhose is sacrificing too much dignity, one of those will protect you from jellyfish stings. A wetsuit definitely will.
Having been stung by a wide range, and including some of the most painful ones known, yea, I concur, I would be putting on the pantyhose.
I imagined the late 90s Rogue put on her green and yellow suit with the aid of a vacuum pump.
Or….
The unstable molecule costumes come out of the wash baggy and are tightened with a TSA-like wand.
(Although not technically hazing, the new gal on the X-team may discover the locker room tightener set to ‘very snug indeed’ )
It’s actually a feature of almost every super-heroine outfit. You might have to look for examples from different artists, but in almost all cases you’ll find the “vacuum pump” outfit you’re referring to.
He he. I that ‘Kitty Pride’ comment, on the bottom of the comic tickled me. Not that the name meant anything to me, with my problem on that front, but I managed to reverse-engineer who she is, from the ending. X-tremely good.
I like the fruit stickers. (“this thing is really tight” and (“seriously you guys”). Most carefully placed.
:-D
To be honest, obvious though it is in hindsight… eerm so to speak… the significance had not struck me initially. In fact I recall even thinking ‘who’s speech bubble is that?’
Dabbler does not appeal to me, in that way, so I did not think of it as strategic censorship.
Her cheeky attitude, smile and oblivious misunderstanding do appeal mind. And I do have a bit of a thing for the whole four-armed deal. So my attention was focused higher than that.
Initially I thought it was the Suit of Armor, but then I wondered if it was Dave. Now I’m not sure who’s speech bubble that is.
It’s either Dave or the unnamed third-person omniscient narrator. Who is often identified as being the author in any event.
It took me a second to figure out what I decided it must be – carefully placed commentary by the artist/author to call attention to just how tight the suit is while not actually showing us labia.
Both confusing and clever as hell. Well done, DaveB.
Yeah, at first I was ‘ok, slightly risqué suit, but for Dabbler its fairly tame’ before processing the expressions of others + strategically placed bubbles. Then it was ‘well, ok then!’
Body paint, in fabric/material form!
Liquid Latex
I think the phrase “thinner than body-paint” comes to mind here…Yes, body-painting is a thing you can look up on the web & it’s not nearly as censored as you think it might be.
The paint schemes that look like clothes are best, because of being able to walk around, in public, without anyone being concerned. A nice compromise, that avoids anyone getting embarrassed (unless they are looking too closely behind censor balloons).
Only seems to work on Brazilian women though, and not at all with men. Humans are strange.
Yeah, guys who wear body paint styled to resemble clothes don’t really work well. The proverbial “awkward boner” is more prominently awkward…
AKA: Dilbert’s tie
Most anti-nudity laws are silent on the subject of body paint, leaving police to make judgement calls. San Francisco’s 2012 anti-nudity law, for example, notes that a person “may not expose his or her genitals, perineum, or anal region.” It doesn’t make clear whether body paint is an acceptable covering, giving police broad discretion in deciding when to arrest, when to caution, and when to ignore painted exhibitionists in the city.
Other anti-nudity laws are more specific, seemingly giving body painters a pass. The Code of Federal Regulations, in banning public nudity in certain national parks, notes that nudity is the failure to “cover with a fully opaque covering [the] genitals, pubic areas, rectal area or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.” Several states, including Idaho and South Dakota, use similar definitions of nudity. (It should also be noted that many states prosecute public nudity only if paired with lewd or lascivious behavior, which would likely trigger an arrest with or without spray-on clothing.)
Recently, officials have stood by as body-painted (or even completely nude) environmentalists rode their bicycles through American cities in protest of our dependence on oil. In 2011, New York City officials allowed artist Andy Golub to paint otherwise nude models in public spaces as long as his muses wore bikini bottoms during daylight hours. Public officials can still be pushed too far, though, and rampant body painting in a locality often leads to a tightening of laws.
There’s not a lot of public opinion data on this issue, but small-scale surveys suggest that people perceive body paint a form of clothing. In 1995, a student at Missouri Western State College showed study participants a series of nude, painted, and lingerie-clad models. The subjects made no distinction between the painted and clothed models when assessing the picture’s propriety.
TL;DR: The typical American prudishness regarding the human body seems to be slowly starting to fade.
The sooner society transitions to a state where it ceases to draw a link between simple nudity and “lewd or lascivious” behavior, unless the latter is actually present, the better. Nudity is a natural state, and criminalising it is a peculiar aberration of our society.
Not that I have any wish to go prancing around naked mind. I am far too self-conscious, don’t work out and have a bunch of scars. So I would opt for clothing myself. But folks should have the choice, in suitable settings.
I don’t think I would be ready for naked folks wandering around an office or, even worse, in a school. But parks, beaches or other areas of nature, would be a significant step forwards, from our present situation.
It’s OK, we understand. You just want the best belly rub ever.
Yes!
*rolls over*
Interesting how that only happens below the belt, shouldn’t there be two more, or is Dabbler’s part alien physiology to blame for the lack of nipple prominence.
I was wondering about that same exact thing. Or is that better expressed as things?
Dave has done a shower scene nude of Dabbles. She has nipples, but no areola. And her nipples aren’t particularly pronounced.
You actually do see nipplage: that dark spot in the shiny-reflected part in panel four, the other black spot in the last panel, and that glint in panel six, all nipplage
Yes, my emphasis was on the word ‘prominence.’ Since as Josh mentioned with material that tight they should be far more visible than they are. But then Boxilar came in with the canon reference. I dunno though, I might need to take another look at that shower pic, a side view would make things far more certain than a headlights-on view.
If the, er, lower areas, are tight enough to need obscuring marks, why don’t we also see ones masking her nipples? Surely material that tight would have them on full display as well…
krona couldn’t tell what those powers were?
Pretty sure Krona was completely overwhelmed. From the way she reacted, it would be someone who had barely mastered basic third grade math being shown vector calculus. And she didn’t get to look at it very long, either.
vector calculus… wasn’t that, like, a herald of Galactus once?
If vector calculus was what I was doing in the latest math course I took, it would be more cool than “wtf even is this” to a third grader.
Ummm… Dave, there are such terms for Men; they are Perv and Frat Boy, okay so maybe not that second one as much but still, it’s the same stereotype. Also does Maxima realize that with her unrelenting Feminism, she’s not so much as standing up for women, as she is been incredibly mean, condescending to men and is just stereotyping men.
I mean she can’t blame them for staring most of the time, her boobs are at eye level and she generally walks straight up to people before saying Hello, instead of y’know, doing from a bit of distance so that the first thing they see isn’t her boobs
So she is the stereotypical online “feminist”, not the reasonable type that want actual gender equality?
It’s the impression I’m getting, but as for gender equality feminists, How come they never demand that there be more services for Male Abuse Victims?
You confuse the third-wave radicals with proper feminists. Proper feminists support male victims, as toxic masculinity harms them too. It’s the radicals who shun men/treat them as the enemy.
Hmmm… okay then. But the third-wave radicals generally have louder voices, so it’s easier for everyone to just start associating Feminism with them
They don’t need louder voices, the popular media does the job for them. What do you think brings more viewers/readers/audience? Reasonable people saying reasonable, intelligent things, or rabid haters spewing dung all over them selves and anyone getting to close?
The loop sided reporting makes it look like the majority of those who are involved with anything having to do with feminism are raving lunatics, also known as 3:rd wave feminists. It’s gotten so bad that to a lot of people feminism and 3:rd wave feminism is synonymous. That’s just as bad as if you were to claim that all christians are racist gay haters because things like Westboro Baptist Church, the Christian-Identity Church, America’s Promise Ministries, and the KKK exists, which obviously isn’t true.
Again true, that’s why I stay off most mainstream media and try to diversify my sources
I was about to say the same thing.
Womanizer, philanderer, lecher, perv, man whore and adulterer are the ones that come to mind, but there are a lot more than that.
Maybe someone should give Maxima a thesaurus.
Wouldn’t hurt… Unless Maxima makes it hurt, specifically for us
I would say that “perv” IS gender-neutral, as it’s a shortened version of the word “pervert.” Women can be pretty perverted too. “Frat Boy” is gender-specific, as there’s also “Soc Girl.”
“Pervert” (and, by extension, “perv”) is as gender neutral as “slut”. The former is primarily used as a derogatory term for men, just as the latter is primarily used as a derogatory term for women, but both can, at only a slight stretch, be used for either.
They are, however, quite different in meaning. Perversion is more to do with interest and dirty-mindedness than actually having sex.
Oh and “frat boy” is just a behavioural metaphor.
The only people complaining about feminism and feminists are online and/or far-right extremists (say hello Rush Limbaugh), and they’re near-universally ignorant about it right down to the basics.
How about people do basic research and read some feminist theory instead of letting some YouTuber making money off validating bigotry tell them what to think? Apparently not, since you’ve got people spewing literal Nazi propaganda while unironically calling feminists “fascists.”
And the “not caring about male problems” is outright bullsh-t. Most of the problems talked about are created by the same patriarchal problems feminists are trying to solve.
Only men being drafted? Men put that in place because of the traditional gender role for women being at home.
Male abuse not taken seriously? It’s because men are told they have to be tough by society and fit into their gender roles.
Women having advantages in a few (very, very few) areas? A feminist would want to give all genders equal footing in it (except in a few cases where it’s impossible to do so fairly).
Okay, you have some very strong opinions, how about we all agree to stop this before a Flame War starts
“Hsooowf”
“sulks”
Love how Dabblers horns automatically turn her hat into a Skyrim helmet!
“In the dragon tongue she is known as the ‘NidPaakKin’, the no shame born.” :-)
Wouldn’t it be Nidpaakkiin? “Born” translates to “Kiin”, with two i’s.
Am I the only one highly entertained that this discussion of translation is happening?
And yes, I find Klingon translators also entertaining as all get out – that level of dedication and fandom makes me smile.
Quite right, NidPaakKiin is more accurate. Truly your thu’um is more powerful than mine. As penance I shall leave my legendary enhanced dwarven crossbow in a respawning chest in Apocrypha the next time I read a black book (and reset my smithing back to 15).
Unfortunately, klingon is still too limited to traslate any but the most basic of songs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2bjc6U0tjI
I wish YouTube would give a feature where I could thumbs up (to encourage the artist) yet still indicate that I do not want any recommendations based on it.
Correcting it retroactively, on items in my “recommended for you” list, composing of Klingon poetry, inane pop music and the collected works of Shakespeare would not appeal to me.
Not tried a wetsuit, but used survival suits (ones for flying in choppers that does roughly the same job).
You can’t smell anything when you fart in them. Until you take it off and have the stench of those forgotten farts all hitting your nose at once.
I know Dabbler’s problem would be different. Especially as she doesn’t have to worry about clothes marinading in those killer farts.
…And when you do open that suit to get out of it, there’s that uncomfortable moment when you realize that even farts can go stale & stagnant too…
imagine if the farts , as they became stale, smelled BETTER (what perfume are you wearing, it smells delicious. oh, that’s not perfume [blush])
Wasn’t a fart, but one of my cousins (who teaches forestry at the University of Arkansas) was taking some students on a nature hike, and one of the females was wearing an interesting perfume… or so he thought.
Him: “That’s an interesting perfume. What scent is it?”
Her: “Deep Woods Off.”
Yup… he mistook insect repellent for perfume. That had to be embarrassing. xD
I too would like to know if it inflates due to farts.
Does Dabble not have nipples? In that level of tight there’s really no way you wouldn’t see at least slight outline if she did.
Sunlight glare censorship and… unusual anatomical placement, for succubi?
I rescind my comment as they are there just really hard to see on my tiny phone screen.
I apparently need to stare at Dabblers breasts for longer ;)
It’s still a valid comment, if the suit is as skin tight up there as it is down below you should have had no problem seeing them. There are women with bras on who have more definition up there than Dabbler currently has.
Agreed. At that implied degree of tightness, they shouldn’t be vague lumps, they oughta be full-prominence things like pencil erasers!
Might not happen till she hits the cold water.
That seems a suitable punishment / disciplinary action for failing to properly appreciate them at first glance.
The gleam from Maxima’s zipper-pull made me realize that her and Sidney’s wet-suits zip up the front.
All the ones I have seen zip up the back(with a nice long pull-string so you can still zip it up yourself).
This moves the permeable part of the suit(zipper) out of the usual flow of water(when moving forward), and also gives a better seal at the neck where the head and upper neck will tend to channel water downwards.
Never seen a Bond movie? Quite a few of the suits zip up the front (or, zip down the front)
Yeah, in a Bond movie they never seem to show women getting into those wetsuits…
O.o
Who cares, we get to see them getting out, and that’s all that matters ;)
A lot of the newer surfing suits are neither as well, they only have a small shoulder zip on one side and a flap that seals over your neck. Way more comfortable, but almost impossible to get off alone if its wet.
“Maxima doesn’t like words like slut and whore because they’re less descriptive than they are judgmental. Also she hates there’s nothing equivalent for men.”
Man-whore. Heck, I’ve called male friends who happen to be very successful with women, Slut.
In another note, nice one Sydney, but somehow I doubt succubus fart.
*sorry SUCCUBI
‘a succubus farts’ is also correct
Dammit Dave, I’m going to be late for work because I can’t stop laughing!
Unknown orb speculation time? I’m thinking one might be shapeshifting/ transformation.
If one of the orbs is about shapeshifing, I wonder if she would be able to use 4 orbs at the same time if she transform herself into a Dabblerlike shape.
Well, if one orb is shapeshifter, then she could only use three others at a time, not four, since she’d need to hang on to the shifter orb to retain the changes.
But she would use 4 at the same time anyway. And if she can do that, she would also be able to transform into a 6 arms being.
If Sidney could transform herself physically into DabbIer, I bet she would really enjoy it. A lot. The pranks they could make would be awesome. Lots of posibilities.
I wonder what different environments would require being in full body diving suits? Is there a policy that prohibits anyone from coming to the pool in normal street clothes?
BTW I love how everyone’s eyes bugged out at the sight of Dabbler.
Well, they are probably going diving.
Considering that this is how Sydney found the Orbs to begin with, underwater doesn’t seem like a different enough environment. Then again, maybe there are many reasons why they were underwater to begin with. Maybe Underwater is the orbs natural environment, though I highly doubt that.
Testing them in Outer Space would be something. There aren’t many naturally forming environments that I could think of that might trigger a reaction from the mystery orbs.
Next skill tree, Sydney really should choose a node associated with one or both mystery orbs. Just to see if that does something.
I don’t think she’s ever experimented with the unknown orbs under water though. She touched the fly orb first, and then just lifted out of the water.
Maxi did explain what would happen if she wasn’t fully covered (burnt retinas aren’t pleasant, and while they can recover, it’s not a guarantee)
I can’t help but picture DaveB doing a pic of nude Maxima… but all we actually see is her hair barely visible above a huge lens flare.
Ooo, evil! :D
Yes!
No that I’m aware of. Although you likely wouldn’t want to swim in what generally passes for normal street wear. Especially anything denim or particularly absorbent or heavy. I could see lifeguards asking someone to change if they felt the “swimwear” would be a hazard to the swimmer.
I’ve used nylon shorts before, because my actually swim suit had ripped and those were the only other light pants I had at the time. They’re basically swim shorts by material anyways, they just had pockets and plastic zippered fly.
Anyone else get the “Arrow to the Knee” look on Dabler
Oh yes. Maybe she’s auditioning to replace the famous stolen sweetroll? ;-)
And Sidney with the important questions.
…. Dabblers suit looks extremely uncomfortable. And irritating. I don’t care how thin it is.
I’m sure that any discomfort she feels is secondary to the lust (and envy) she inspires when wearing it.
Oh, come on. You know just as well as I that she can’t wait to take it off. It can be for more than one reason too.
I’ve got no problem with her taking it off though, so that’s easy to fix…
What sort of patreon target would be have to hit to get ‘Maxima dressed by Dabbler’ level cheesecake?
heh, Dave, unphasable, that’s completely unfeasible
(btw, I’d love to get a print of that frame with Dabbler in that lovely ‘suit’ without the text bubbles)
definitely would be a great voting incentive [just can’t afford to Patreon, or I’d’ve suggested that]
That could definitely help with the Patreon conversions if you ask for say $5 a month to get the image with the yellow CCA stickers on it.
ima be honest i always thought slut and whore worked for both genders…
It is similar to how bimbo was gender neutral for a time then himbo to specify males, or how politician is neutral but females have the gender tacked on because common perception is only of one gender for the term.
Politicianess? Nope, my spell-checker does not like that one.
Although you will find it as an archaic term, from the 18th century, in some dictionaries.
genderless terms like politician and lawyer don’t really need caveats added to them. i mean, if your lawyer is tall, green, statuesque, and female, you’re gonna know it.
I was wondering what those yellow bubbles were, like maybe Sydney was saying something Deadpool-style, then it hit me.
The issue with the idea of slutshaming Dabbler is that I’m not sure she’s capable of shame.
I entirely agree, I just think sexuality and anything related is the LAST thing she’d feel shame over…
Is it odd to me that Dabbler puts on more clothes to go swimming that she normally wears?
I think she ‘MISREAD’ The situation deliberately, and that’s no swimsuit.
she probably saw what Sydney and Maxima wore and decided, well, hey, i can wear more than that and still make it look sexy
Damn you, strategically placed text bubbles!