Drew458 wrote an amazingly articulate if harsh speculative commentary at the end of “yesterday’s” toon. And it seems to have been dead-on with the direction Chris is taking this.
Very thoughtful, and in many ways very accurate. If you didn’t, go back and read it. Don’t remember seeing him around here before, but I hope he stays. Excellent.
Chris is actually drawing a very distinct line between the ignorance and innocence of youth and its lifelong impact, as opposed to the avarice of willing participants in the “lay to play” entertainment biz that Drew mentions, who are now parlaying that decades-old play into pay.
“The “race card” is worn out. Now it’s the “rape card”…
…The Hollywood witch hunt has now gone political, and I was out of sympathy with nearly all of it long before that. The entire entertainment industry – film, music, TV, sports – has been Lay To Play for many decades. It sucks, it’s wrong, but there it is. So you don’t go to Hollywood unless you’re willing to sleep your way up the ladder of success, male or female. And all these accusations coming out 30-50 years after? STFU you millionaire hypocrite.”
He forgot to include media in that list of “entertainment” participants in this giant farce, but that little blurb is otherwise f’ing brilliant!
I remember “Sex Ed’ when I was in high school (1972-76).
First was a septuagenarian lawyer who basically told the girls “If boys see you dressed ‘provocatively’ they are going to Get An Erection, which is a Bad Thing”.
Then was a guidance counselor who looked like Darren No. 2 on Bewitched, who talked to the boys mainly about “ladies of the evening” and why it was a good idea to avoid them. He was rather embarrassed when I asked questions about typical current prices, etc.
(NB: Never try to BS a 16-year-old who reads the newspaper every day. That goes double for one who had been reading police procedurals like Ed McBain’s “87th Precinct” stories since he was 4.)
The only thing worse and more useless than “Sex Ed” was none at all. One of my bitch aunts fought tooth and nail to keep it out of the local schools in her demesne. When her 17-year-old granddaughter got knocked up as a result of having no idea what sex entailed other than distorted biblical exhortations against You Know What, she naturally blamed her granddaughter for “sinning”.
I asked her, “If she went out and wrecked a car because you wouldn’t let her take Driver Ed, would that be her fault, too?”
It was the only time I saw that “female” speechless.
It surprised me. I had expected her to say “Yes!”.
clear ether
eon
November 15, 2017 at 9:08 am
bill3542
i remember back in the day (1976 ) that we had a few stupids who pulled a train with the football team. didn’t have cell phones so it was the racy polaroid camera pics.
November 15, 2017 at 10:10 am
GruntGI
So I really try to live by only two major sex ed lessons I was able to learn from OTHER people’s mistakes:
* Never stick your dick in crazy
* Never screw ANY chick when she’s drunk. Unless she’s your wife and tequila makes here clothes fall off…then it’s a DAMN good night
🙂
November 15, 2017 at 10:29 am
nonncom
So, was it rape because Skye seduced the senior quarterback?….Eddie Murphy had an explanation for being a 17 year old male….”My dick got hard when the wind blew”….and, as the late, great Robin Williams noted, God did not give man enough blood to use both heads at the same time….
November 15, 2017 at 10:36 am
PaulS
So this was statutory “rape”?
More a case of underage sex it would seem. Throwing out the “rape” term, which implies use of force against an unwilling participant, is irresponsible when dealing with something defined by dates on a calendar. Sam knows Skye was doing it to gain popularity, perhaps she harbors some guilt, even if irrational, because it is her little sister after all.
November 15, 2017 at 11:40 am
MAJ Arkay
We don’t know how old the quarterback was. He could have been 18 already.
November 15, 2017 at 5:00 pm
John
And still in 9th grade.
November 15, 2017 at 11:40 am
MAJ Arkay
Somehow I got the notion long ago that Sam and Skye were twins. I sit corrected…
November 15, 2017 at 11:42 am
Johnny Z
I wonder who the pro football is now that Skye will claim raped her in high school?
November 15, 2017 at 12:48 pm
‘TreHammer
Have these facts about Sam and Skye (age differenc, etc.) been presented before in earlier episodes or am I just late for the game?
November 15, 2017 at 4:10 pm
PaulS
I knew Skye was younger, but did not recall knowing that it was 5 years.
This is not #MeToo…haven’t heard a peep from Skye about it. Maybe she recognizes the shared fault between two immature raging hormone adolescents. That’s a lot more than can be said for the ho’s staking their claims in the media.
November 15, 2017 at 1:31 pm
FFastone
Sorry, I posted on yesterday by accident. This was supposed to be here.
Maybe she lit the fuse, but when the time came she said “NO”! But, the QB said “YES”! It happens an awful lot in this world we live. If that happened, it could and should be considered rape. Because, NO means NO. I am the father of 2 girls. I was also a teen that was shut down on sexual advances. So, I’m not saying I didn’t want to have sex. But, when a girl said no, I respected that decision, no matter how close it was to happening, we even called it “scoring” when I was young. Why because I was taught at a young age to truly respect women. Now I would agree with the peanut gallery that a great deal more education needs to happen, by parents. Good luck with that one as many don’t understand what should even be taught. Much of the music that is listened to is all about SEX, SEX, SEX! Especially much of the Rap music genre that is sexually explicit. Does it help to escalate teen pregnancy, rape, unwanted sexual predators?
November 15, 2017 at 1:41 pm
Halley
One of the many tragedies of feminism is how, having exploited and weaponized rape as ammunition in their sick war against the male species, rape has become all but impossible to discuss in a real-world way, hurting women – as feminism always does – the most. Sad.
Little Rosie had her herself a romance fit for few
Screaming in her bed
Tearing out the spreads
Little Rosie covered walls with pictures of her prince
Shining just like new
Gracing just the few
Now I see Rosie shivers when warm
Burned down our dorm
It’s dangerous for us to be around
Rosie cut up her face
Jumped off her base
And sees no point in staying on the ground
Little Rosie used to cherish favours that were asked
She would run a mile
With her frozen smile
Now I hear Rosie clings to the trees
Talks to the bees and closes up whenever he’s around
Rosie pigtails and all runs from the ball
Wiping off the bloodstains from her gown
Little Rosie had her herself a roman, roman, roman, roman, roman, man,
Romance fit for few, romance fit for few
November 15, 2017 at 10:21 pm
NotYetInACamp
Delta Dawn with the flower on’s sister?
November 15, 2017 at 8:19 pm
Delilah T.
Gee whiz, High school class president, the guy with the looks and the ‘go to’ attitude, took the class floozy to the prom instead of me. Haven’t seen him since, but then, the word got back to me that he’s regretted having to marry her ever since. But that was you ‘had’ to get married because…. stoopiddd!!
I had some fun in the back of a pickup truck a few years later, but I had enough sense to keep my undies up.
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Wow.
Drew458 wrote an amazingly articulate if harsh speculative commentary at the end of “yesterday’s” toon. And it seems to have been dead-on with the direction Chris is taking this.
Very thoughtful, and in many ways very accurate. If you didn’t, go back and read it. Don’t remember seeing him around here before, but I hope he stays. Excellent.
One thing Drew is completely wrong about is Chris jumping on the #MeToo BS bandwagon. Quite the opposite I think.
Chris is actually drawing a very distinct line between the ignorance and innocence of youth and its lifelong impact, as opposed to the avarice of willing participants in the “lay to play” entertainment biz that Drew mentions, who are now parlaying that decades-old play into pay.
But here’s where he’s right…
“The “race card” is worn out. Now it’s the “rape card”…
…The Hollywood witch hunt has now gone political, and I was out of sympathy with nearly all of it long before that. The entire entertainment industry – film, music, TV, sports – has been Lay To Play for many decades. It sucks, it’s wrong, but there it is. So you don’t go to Hollywood unless you’re willing to sleep your way up the ladder of success, male or female. And all these accusations coming out 30-50 years after? STFU you millionaire hypocrite.”
He forgot to include media in that list of “entertainment” participants in this giant farce, but that little blurb is otherwise f’ing brilliant!
The plot unfolds……
Too familiar a story to too many people.
Sibling rivalry gone wrong… 🙁
I remember “Sex Ed’ when I was in high school (1972-76).
First was a septuagenarian lawyer who basically told the girls “If boys see you dressed ‘provocatively’ they are going to Get An Erection, which is a Bad Thing”.
Then was a guidance counselor who looked like Darren No. 2 on Bewitched, who talked to the boys mainly about “ladies of the evening” and why it was a good idea to avoid them. He was rather embarrassed when I asked questions about typical current prices, etc.
(NB: Never try to BS a 16-year-old who reads the newspaper every day. That goes double for one who had been reading police procedurals like Ed McBain’s “87th Precinct” stories since he was 4.)
The only thing worse and more useless than “Sex Ed” was none at all. One of my bitch aunts fought tooth and nail to keep it out of the local schools in her demesne. When her 17-year-old granddaughter got knocked up as a result of having no idea what sex entailed other than distorted biblical exhortations against You Know What, she naturally blamed her granddaughter for “sinning”.
I asked her, “If she went out and wrecked a car because you wouldn’t let her take Driver Ed, would that be her fault, too?”
It was the only time I saw that “female” speechless.
It surprised me. I had expected her to say “Yes!”.
clear ether
eon
i remember back in the day (1976 ) that we had a few stupids who pulled a train with the football team. didn’t have cell phones so it was the racy polaroid camera pics.
So I really try to live by only two major sex ed lessons I was able to learn from OTHER people’s mistakes:
* Never stick your dick in crazy
* Never screw ANY chick when she’s drunk. Unless she’s your wife and tequila makes here clothes fall off…then it’s a DAMN good night
🙂
So, was it rape because Skye seduced the senior quarterback?….Eddie Murphy had an explanation for being a 17 year old male….”My dick got hard when the wind blew”….and, as the late, great Robin Williams noted, God did not give man enough blood to use both heads at the same time….
So this was statutory “rape”?
More a case of underage sex it would seem. Throwing out the “rape” term, which implies use of force against an unwilling participant, is irresponsible when dealing with something defined by dates on a calendar. Sam knows Skye was doing it to gain popularity, perhaps she harbors some guilt, even if irrational, because it is her little sister after all.
We don’t know how old the quarterback was. He could have been 18 already.
And still in 9th grade.
Somehow I got the notion long ago that Sam and Skye were twins. I sit corrected…
I wonder who the pro football is now that Skye will claim raped her in high school?
Have these facts about Sam and Skye (age differenc, etc.) been presented before in earlier episodes or am I just late for the game?
I knew Skye was younger, but did not recall knowing that it was 5 years.
This is not #MeToo…haven’t heard a peep from Skye about it. Maybe she recognizes the shared fault between two immature raging hormone adolescents. That’s a lot more than can be said for the ho’s staking their claims in the media.
Sorry, I posted on yesterday by accident. This was supposed to be here.
Maybe she lit the fuse, but when the time came she said “NO”! But, the QB said “YES”! It happens an awful lot in this world we live. If that happened, it could and should be considered rape. Because, NO means NO. I am the father of 2 girls. I was also a teen that was shut down on sexual advances. So, I’m not saying I didn’t want to have sex. But, when a girl said no, I respected that decision, no matter how close it was to happening, we even called it “scoring” when I was young. Why because I was taught at a young age to truly respect women. Now I would agree with the peanut gallery that a great deal more education needs to happen, by parents. Good luck with that one as many don’t understand what should even be taught. Much of the music that is listened to is all about SEX, SEX, SEX! Especially much of the Rap music genre that is sexually explicit. Does it help to escalate teen pregnancy, rape, unwanted sexual predators?
One of the many tragedies of feminism is how, having exploited and weaponized rape as ammunition in their sick war against the male species, rape has become all but impossible to discuss in a real-world way, hurting women – as feminism always does – the most. Sad.
Reminds me of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA-KxBqgJfw
Little Rosie had her herself a romance fit for few
Screaming in her bed
Tearing out the spreads
Little Rosie covered walls with pictures of her prince
Shining just like new
Gracing just the few
Now I see Rosie shivers when warm
Burned down our dorm
It’s dangerous for us to be around
Rosie cut up her face
Jumped off her base
And sees no point in staying on the ground
Little Rosie used to cherish favours that were asked
She would run a mile
With her frozen smile
Now I hear Rosie clings to the trees
Talks to the bees and closes up whenever he’s around
Rosie pigtails and all runs from the ball
Wiping off the bloodstains from her gown
Little Rosie had her herself a roman, roman, roman, roman, roman, man,
Romance fit for few, romance fit for few
Delta Dawn with the flower on’s sister?
Gee whiz, High school class president, the guy with the looks and the ‘go to’ attitude, took the class floozy to the prom instead of me. Haven’t seen him since, but then, the word got back to me that he’s regretted having to marry her ever since. But that was you ‘had’ to get married because…. stoopiddd!!
I had some fun in the back of a pickup truck a few years later, but I had enough sense to keep my undies up.