A two page update, as promised! (Go back one page to read all of today’s update!)
The update is one day late, though … I was lending my apartment, with my scanner inside it, to some friends, and one of them stayed one day longer than expected. While they were here, I stayed at my “weekend place”, a construction trailer on a little plot of land outside the city. With a solar cell that’s too small to power my computer, there is nothing to do but work in the garden and on the trailer and draw comics in sunlight and candlelight. I wish I could live there permanently, if I’d just install some kind of shower.
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Tinet the Great Relationship Expert, almost 30 years old, ‘not bitter, only disappointed’, says: “Actually, in my experience it hardly fazes women to learn that a guy they are interested in has a girlfriend. Men, on the other hand, will indeed leave a woman alone if they find out she has someone already. Maybe because women on average respect other women – and themselves – much less than men respect other men – and themselves. But maybe the ladies of the Sha-Guo Marine Workers’ Solidarity Committee have a greater sense for honour than the average 21st century hipster slut …?”
[Addendum, August 29th, after I broke up with my boyfriend: “… Or maybe women just know whether a man is a slut or not.” :op]
Hah! Nice one, Aeron. And I like Shannon’s comment, it’s too true…
Good grief, Willie isn’t going vegetarian on us now, is she!? Still, I’d never eat hedgehogs. Too cute, fuzzy, and parasite-infested.
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… You’re quite right about the peculiarities of relationships and ‘availability’. Sadly, this probably has it roots in a rather sexist tradition of women being men’s property. And has only evolved into a sense of “masculine honour” in more recent times.
What’s this “good grief” business …? :op
Yeah, you’re quite right about the “property” aspect.
Men! Pigs! Sweet, delicious pigs. … I’m sorry, I just came home from Corsica.
You should make more vegetarian propaganda comics. I already feel bad about the octopus… Not to mention the piggies. It’s better to be a man-eater, I guess.
One problem is that women tend to see a “taken” man as valuable, while there must be something wrong with a single man. If at least one woman can stand having him around, he must be a rare treasure indeed. Is this a cynical view on women or on men? Personally, I know a lot of nice men AND nice women who are mysteriously single.
YOU ATE PIGGIES???!!!! V;(oo);V
To qualify my earlier statement about vegetarianism, growing up on an almost vegetarian diet (my mum was vegetarian then, and was the cook) rather put me off it in later life. I have friends who are vegetarian for environmental reasons, and others for moral reasons, so I’m used to ribbing vegetarians all the time (no pun intended). To each their own, I guess.
Heh, I’m used to being ribbed by non-vegetarians, so it’s okay. :o)
When our mum introduced vegetarian meals in our diet, it was often a harrowing experience (but so were some of her meat dishes). Only later did I decide on my own to be vegetarian for both moral and environmental reasons, although in recent years I eat certain types of fish once in a while, because they just taste too good. (Sorry, all you poor mackerels …)
Okay, I have *got* to draw a picture of cutsie mackerels crying, now…
Nooooo! ;_;