Not even north-east, honestly, that starts at like, Pennsylvania I think, we’re mid-west. Or at least everybody I’ve talked to here refers to us as part of the mid-west, same with Ohio which is further east and Michigan which is further north. Granted, the mid-west region is so large it’s basically useless as a regional term, but still.
My mom once referred to somewhere around Chicago (I think) as east (compared to Montana) and they were not amused. It is like referring to Seattle as the coast, or parts of the Salish Sea as the ocean. That sea may have whales and other marine life in it, but the people of Seattle absolutely do not appreciate it being called ocean. It is funny, as I think the people of Vancouver, just across the country border, are perfectly fine with it. I guess that they might be considered more “open” than Tacoma, though I would say that they are similar to Everett.
In any case, directional terms are very specific to a region and some places are very particular about what they might be perceived as or called. I don’t know if Europe has any particularities as such, but would be interesting to know.
You are correct in this specific case, but I know so many leftist/progressive queer people and allies who use that lingo ironically, especially when referring to themselves, that Joyce saying this didn’t even register as weird for me at first.
I kind of get it– the evolution stuff connects to the entirety of how humans and everything came to be. LGBTQ+ stuff can be seen more as about people in society, and that changes over time. (Joyce is enough of a Biblical scholar to know about various “back then” stories that aren’t how things work now.) More than that, though, it’s a more intellectual difference. Joyce can see queer people, she knows queer people, she loves queer people. And I think Joyce is ultimately guided by kindness, which shapes her reactions. Evolution, not as much direct experience, not as clear how to approach with kindness.
in terms of how I think those specifically relate to her former Christian identity:
Evolution is something she denied on the premise that “there’s no room for evolution in a world where nothing can die”, i.e. in her Creationist view the world that existed in Eden before The Fall of Man completely lacked ANY phenomenon of pain, harm or dying,
Her cult’s doctrine of Original Sin hinged on the premise that humans were wholly responsible for bringing death *itself* into this world by defying God, with of course the Heavenly Father having convenient lack of accountability for neglecting to lock up fruits which could potentially poison his newborn human children.
as for her interacting with queer people, she previously compartmentalized them as the object of evangelism, i.e. “pray the gay away” to “save us” and all that bullshit
that said Joyce still has a long way to go in terms of breaking from not only her religious but social conservative indoctrination, but still, progress!!! ^^
it’s funny because historical Jesus was most likely a political activist whose niche was reforming old Jewish ideas and challenging bullshit from the Roman one percenters
The thing is, it doesn’t even NEED to be “enlightened athiest imagining a socialist historical Jesus.” It’s just the evangelicals have such a hyper-fixation on being counter culture, and they boxed themselves into a situation by defending shit that the Bible never focused on.
How important is it to one’s faith that you believe the world is like ~6000ish years old? Not at all, according to the Bible, and if cornered, no one would say, “You’re saved by being repentant of your sins and accepting Christ as Lord AND renouncing evolution and literally everything queer.” Because THAT would be adding to the Bible, something they tell you they do not do.
But then you listen to blokes like Ken Ham at Answers in Genesis, and suddenly you’re told, wait a second, ACKSHUALLY, it’s incredibly important that you believe in a young Earth; it’s CRITICALLY important, if you don’t believe this it starts tearing down the entire Bible, because all of it has a foundation in Genesis. They *literally* have this presentation where they go through the Bible and say, “Well, if Genesis isn’t literal, then this falls apart, and this falls apart, and this falls apart…” and demand all the kiddos don’t even *think* about any other interpretation. Which honestly is basically making a pull tab around Christianity labeled “Young Earth,” so that kids plop out even easier as atheists when they leave home.
If C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape, or for that matter Sir Terry Pratchett’s Crowley were real people, I believe they’d get a commendation for Answers in Genesis.
So yeah. Joyce balked at evolution because it was taught to her to be *the thing* that undid her religion. Whereas other aspects – gender, sexual orientation – are small portions of the larger faith, and can be tackled without shaking the whole.
I spent about 30 years dealing with the cognitive dissonance between growing up believing YEC was Essential Core Doctrine and my gradual realization that the evidence *was* there and evolution *was* real. (And by “dealing with” I mean “actively not thinking about.”) I didn’t go atheist, but to suggest that Christ was present in my life on a daily basis would be profoundly not true.
“elites” used in that context is a right-wing dog whistle used to refer to everything they hate bout the left
it also means “Jews” 👀
same with other conservative media machine verbal ammunition including, but not limited to:
– “globalists”
– “postmodernists”
– “cultural marxists”
– “funded by George Soros”
Honestly, any time conservatives fixate on a given word over and over I just assume that it’s their new codeword for “Jews.” Pretty much never fails, as a rule of thumb.
They should be bullied into submission at every opportunity. Like, not even just vicious mockery, they need to be physically humiliated. Give bigots wedgies. Duct tape them to walls. Lock them in tight spaces and leave them there for a while. Knock their lunch out of their hands. Slap their phones out of their hands while they’re talking to a family member and then pick the phone up and pretend they just got hit by a car.
I feel it’s not that she is repeating it in earnest, but instead she is mocking that very thing?
Like, in Germany, some right-wing politician at some point came up with the expression “links-grün versiffte Gutmenschen” – roughly “left-green grime goody two-shoes”, much to the amusement of said population because it is so over the top, and now people have reclaimed it and use it for themselves/to mock said politician.
Mom didn’t approve of him, but at least she acknowledges him, and Dad acknowledged him as “a good kid.” Whatever is dividing them is out, known, and begrudgingly accepted. So I dunno, maybe he voted Democrat once, or attends a Lutheran church, or something otherwise scandalous.
I headcanon-ed that he went through Joyce’s atheist awakening in high school, bolted the day he turned 18, and hasn’t looked back. Maybe keeping a minimal thread of contact with Jocelyne along the way.
Maybe someday he’ll appear in the strip after hearing about the divorce. Maybe.
I barely know of him, but in that context, I’m thinking he’s a Christ-centered fundamentalist missionary. That is, he emphasizes acceptance, love, and peace (which Hank can respect), and rejects Carol’s attempts at control (which Carol can never accept).
I mean anytime someone uses “woke” as an insult, I take it to mean they’re asleep at the wheel. I mean what the fuck else do they expect a sane person to take away from that?
Oh, yeah, I remember that one. These days I interpret it as people who are all passion and no strategy, of which there are many in both tails of the population.
I cringed at “the transes” but again, at least Joyce is trying, too hard perhaps but she’s trying. also Jocelyne’s outfit is really cute, wish I could wear something like that, but I got them big shoulders. ~<3
The cises, the gayses, the hetses, the homos, the transes. Joyce has all the latest terms. And to keep up, she only needs to ask Ethan, because he’s an expert on all this stuff.
It seems they both recognize the problem where news from their family is always bad, and both have the solution of not responding to calls or messages until it blows up in their face. Maybe the happy news can break the pattern, or maybe they can just start communicating more.
Reforming the family without Carol or John would be great for them. (Maybe Jordan too except they have no way to get in touch with him.) They can be and/or have The Brown Reformist Party.
Well, August/September Joyce probably would have gone running to Carol. She’s had a lot of character growth since then.
I used to be “with it”, then they changed what “it” was! Now what I’m with isn’t “it” and what is “it” seems weird and scary to me! This will happen to you!
Joyce says she’s only been okay with trans people since yesterday, but she shifted her entire worldview on a dime when Becky came out to her. Maybe she would’ve accidentally said things she shouldn’t if this conversation happened sooner, but Joyce would have accepted Jocelyne as her sister at any point. (Or at least after moving out of her parents’ house, but imo, even before then.)
Yea, she might have not said the right things but she wouldn’t have been a jerk about it. Just might have been more cringy and required more instructions.
These comments are sort of confusing. Like, it’s pretty obvious that Joyce was just telling a joke, right? To make fun of ridiculous conservative terminology? You see that kind of stuff all the time.
Some people really struggle to identify jokes in text form. This happens in the comments section of this comic all the time, people see a joke and start extrapolating whole personality defects from a punchline.
Depends I suppose. I text my sister multiple times most days but my brother who is over a decade older than me I text like a couple times a year, maybe a phone call around Christmas or on one of our birthdays. He is notorious for being bad at staying in touch though. One time he didn’t get in contact for ages after a massive storm (pre mobile phones being the norm) and our Dad got worried and traveled over 3000km (2000 miles) there and back to see if he was alive. He found him walking on the beach near his place perfectly fine. Dad was relieved. And pissed.
While this is a very new development for Joyce, I do like to hope if she’d been told earlier she would have made some very quick adjustments in her head in the same way she did for Becky.
Oh, Willis. I hate to tell you this, but I think Joyce is too young to be using these terms even ironically. That’s what I was doing at her age IN EARLY 2000!!!
That said, I don’t know what terms the young folk are using ironically these days, but I’d be sad if it was the same ones.
Or… didn’t have a negative initial reaction that would have vilified Joyce in the eyes of the audience while she’s still growing because it’s kind of hard to figure out how she would have tracked Joycelynn down if things went badly the first time.
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aaaaawwwweeee 🥲
also LOL XD
IKR? This is so damn cute on so many levels.
Wild
When your only dialect comes from red pilled conservatives
right? XD
girl has a LOT to learn, but on the other hand i can’t blame her that much?
Indiana has a well-known reputation as a religious red-state, so much so it’s sometimes referred to as the south of the northwest
of course a lot of her lingo comes from their ardent Christo-nationalist voter base
Northwest?
Did you confuse Indiana with Idaho?
I mean, Indian _was_ part of the Northwest Ordinance, but you have to be hip on your US History to know that, it’s not northwest _now_.
OOP North-EAST, yee
XD dammit i hate typos :/
Not even north-east, honestly, that starts at like, Pennsylvania I think, we’re mid-west. Or at least everybody I’ve talked to here refers to us as part of the mid-west, same with Ohio which is further east and Michigan which is further north. Granted, the mid-west region is so large it’s basically useless as a regional term, but still.
My mom once referred to somewhere around Chicago (I think) as east (compared to Montana) and they were not amused. It is like referring to Seattle as the coast, or parts of the Salish Sea as the ocean. That sea may have whales and other marine life in it, but the people of Seattle absolutely do not appreciate it being called ocean. It is funny, as I think the people of Vancouver, just across the country border, are perfectly fine with it. I guess that they might be considered more “open” than Tacoma, though I would say that they are similar to Everett.
In any case, directional terms are very specific to a region and some places are very particular about what they might be perceived as or called. I don’t know if Europe has any particularities as such, but would be interesting to know.
Nonono. Indiana is “the middle finger of the South”.
What does that make Florida’s peninsula?
The colon. (holds a lot of shit; needs uncomfortable colonoscopies)
And needs an enema once in a while.
Florida is America’s limp penis, obviously.
You are correct in this specific case, but I know so many leftist/progressive queer people and allies who use that lingo ironically, especially when referring to themselves, that Joyce saying this didn’t even register as weird for me at first.
It’s kind of funny, because “red-pilled” is basically just their Bizarro World version of “woke.”
Or, rather, more like “anti-woke.” Asleep, in other words. Maybe comatose.
Panel 2 Joss, ugh, I feel you.
Oh no, that doesn’t bode well for Hank’s reaction…
Any message from is dad or mom is trigger for anxiety to mu.
Dumbing of Age Book 15: I’m Woke-Pilled By the Liberal Collegiate Elites!
now banned in 19 states and counting!
I was gonna say… Joyce this is a very recent development for you lol
I laughed when she acknowledge the convenient timing.
I love how honest she was about that.
Speaking of, putting the pieces together about Ethan in 3 … 2 …
Hip is so last week, everything’s skibidi toilet now. (Kidding, it makes me happy to see this going so well.)
“I dig, I’m in step
When it was hip to be hep, I was hep
I don’t blow, but I’m a fan”.
It’s actually funny how Joyce reacted to trans and gay people better than she did evolution.
I kind of get it– the evolution stuff connects to the entirety of how humans and everything came to be. LGBTQ+ stuff can be seen more as about people in society, and that changes over time. (Joyce is enough of a Biblical scholar to know about various “back then” stories that aren’t how things work now.) More than that, though, it’s a more intellectual difference. Joyce can see queer people, she knows queer people, she loves queer people. And I think Joyce is ultimately guided by kindness, which shapes her reactions. Evolution, not as much direct experience, not as clear how to approach with kindness.
All that said, yes, it is funny.
in terms of how I think those specifically relate to her former Christian identity:
Evolution is something she denied on the premise that “there’s no room for evolution in a world where nothing can die”, i.e. in her Creationist view the world that existed in Eden before The Fall of Man completely lacked ANY phenomenon of pain, harm or dying,
Her cult’s doctrine of Original Sin hinged on the premise that humans were wholly responsible for bringing death *itself* into this world by defying God, with of course the Heavenly Father having convenient lack of accountability for neglecting to lock up fruits which could potentially poison his newborn human children.
as for her interacting with queer people, she previously compartmentalized them as the object of evangelism, i.e. “pray the gay away” to “save us” and all that bullshit
that said Joyce still has a long way to go in terms of breaking from not only her religious but social conservative indoctrination, but still, progress!!! ^^
Joyce is more Christ-like now than when she was a fundygelical. Which nis ironicnconsidering that she’s an “atheist” now.
it’s funny because historical Jesus was most likely a political activist whose niche was reforming old Jewish ideas and challenging bullshit from the Roman one percenters
…Plus gay. Or at least bi.
and non-binary!!!! ^^ <3
Historical Jesus worked in a toy store. Everyone knows that.
He found the tables to be very hard to flip.
+
For more about historical Jesus and Rome. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/554983.God_and_Empire
May I ask why the scare quotes?
Yes atheists EXIST. No quotes required.
The thing is, it doesn’t even NEED to be “enlightened athiest imagining a socialist historical Jesus.” It’s just the evangelicals have such a hyper-fixation on being counter culture, and they boxed themselves into a situation by defending shit that the Bible never focused on.
How important is it to one’s faith that you believe the world is like ~6000ish years old? Not at all, according to the Bible, and if cornered, no one would say, “You’re saved by being repentant of your sins and accepting Christ as Lord AND renouncing evolution and literally everything queer.” Because THAT would be adding to the Bible, something they tell you they do not do.
But then you listen to blokes like Ken Ham at Answers in Genesis, and suddenly you’re told, wait a second, ACKSHUALLY, it’s incredibly important that you believe in a young Earth; it’s CRITICALLY important, if you don’t believe this it starts tearing down the entire Bible, because all of it has a foundation in Genesis. They *literally* have this presentation where they go through the Bible and say, “Well, if Genesis isn’t literal, then this falls apart, and this falls apart, and this falls apart…” and demand all the kiddos don’t even *think* about any other interpretation. Which honestly is basically making a pull tab around Christianity labeled “Young Earth,” so that kids plop out even easier as atheists when they leave home.
If C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape, or for that matter Sir Terry Pratchett’s Crowley were real people, I believe they’d get a commendation for Answers in Genesis.
So yeah. Joyce balked at evolution because it was taught to her to be *the thing* that undid her religion. Whereas other aspects – gender, sexual orientation – are small portions of the larger faith, and can be tackled without shaking the whole.
I spent about 30 years dealing with the cognitive dissonance between growing up believing YEC was Essential Core Doctrine and my gradual realization that the evidence *was* there and evolution *was* real. (And by “dealing with” I mean “actively not thinking about.”) I didn’t go atheist, but to suggest that Christ was present in my life on a daily basis would be profoundly not true.
Remember when Joyce was transvestigating Dorothy for a secret weenis? That was like 2 days ago.
hey Joyce, HOT TIP:
“elites” used in that context is a right-wing dog whistle used to refer to everything they hate bout the left
it also means “Jews” 👀
same with other conservative media machine verbal ammunition including, but not limited to:
– “globalists”
– “postmodernists”
– “cultural marxists”
– “funded by George Soros”
Honestly, any time conservatives fixate on a given word over and over I just assume that it’s their new codeword for “Jews.” Pretty much never fails, as a rule of thumb.
pretty much
also if you see anyone on the internet put a dog whistle like that into triple parenthesis, as in
“(((term)))”
that’s a surefire sign you found a card-carrying white supremacist
I mean, by now it’s a much surer sign of someone pointing out other people’s antisemitism… context is needed.
It’s weird they have so many stupid codewords for Jews, because they’ll also just outright call people Jewish as an attempted insult.
they gotta have a slur for every occasion.
They should be bullied into submission at every opportunity. Like, not even just vicious mockery, they need to be physically humiliated. Give bigots wedgies. Duct tape them to walls. Lock them in tight spaces and leave them there for a while. Knock their lunch out of their hands. Slap their phones out of their hands while they’re talking to a family member and then pick the phone up and pretend they just got hit by a car.
make all restrooms all-gender,
and if they don’t feel “””comfortable””” sharing it with us they can use the bushes
or better yet piss themselves in public XD
Don’t tell them, but there’s an all-gender bathroom in their house right now! :O
*gasps in shock
*clutches pearls
*wonders where the hell these pearls came from
I’ve occasionally wondered why it’s pearls, specifically. What is it about being shocked that makes people think about grabbing a bunch of pearls?
“We’ve had to say a lot of stuff
we thought was fucking obvious
like, “Yes, It’s ok to punch Nazis!””
I feel it’s not that she is repeating it in earnest, but instead she is mocking that very thing?
Like, in Germany, some right-wing politician at some point came up with the expression “links-grün versiffte Gutmenschen” – roughly “left-green grime goody two-shoes”, much to the amusement of said population because it is so over the top, and now people have reclaimed it and use it for themselves/to mock said politician.
That said, you are probably right that she is not at all aware of the meaning of “elites” in particular.
Yeah, she probably doesn’t make the Jewish connection, but she’s definitely using it ironically.
That sounds a lot like an American conservative saying something like “I’m rubber, and you’re glue”.
Tbf, Ethan and Dotty *did* have a pretty positive effect on this development, so teeeechnically…
Soros’s checks keep bouncing and the Clintons are irrelevant now. Who’s the hip new dog whistle that will pay me those sweet sweet woke bux?
Wait, you’ve been paid? Howinhell do I get in on that?
Joyce has the rizz sticks
I love this storyline *so* much. ♥
It’s very possible that it could span all 4 years.
The real question:
Where is the mysterious Jordan Brown?
He betrayed the Irregular Hunters and hid himself inside a volcano.
What a maverick!
Mom didn’t approve of him, but at least she acknowledges him, and Dad acknowledged him as “a good kid.” Whatever is dividing them is out, known, and begrudgingly accepted. So I dunno, maybe he voted Democrat once, or attends a Lutheran church, or something otherwise scandalous.
I headcanon-ed that he went through Joyce’s atheist awakening in high school, bolted the day he turned 18, and hasn’t looked back. Maybe keeping a minimal thread of contact with Jocelyne along the way.
Maybe someday he’ll appear in the strip after hearing about the divorce. Maybe.
I barely know of him, but in that context, I’m thinking he’s a Christ-centered fundamentalist missionary. That is, he emphasizes acceptance, love, and peace (which Hank can respect), and rejects Carol’s attempts at control (which Carol can never accept).
Joss knows. Maybe she will tell us. Mom and dad won’t.
Last week she ‘didn’t know any transgenders,’ this week she’s up to two. At this rate, it’ll be her whole clique by midterms!
May wanna expedite any further penis behavior with Joe… sephine. Nailed it.
Joe can just become Jocelyn, for maximum confusion.
It’s too early to tell whether this effect is additive (she meets one more person per day), or exponential.
She doesn’t know many people! Either trend is not looking great vis-a-vis Joe’s penis.
Time is of the essence, Joyce. Chop chop.
… wow, that was poor phrasing.
It’s going to go fibonacci.
plenty of trans women have functional penises they enjoy using! Joesephine could be one of them!
I’m damn near 40 and that was still painful
You can tell she’s woke by how wide and open her eyes are.
I mean anytime someone uses “woke” as an insult, I take it to mean they’re asleep at the wheel. I mean what the fuck else do they expect a sane person to take away from that?
(This was meant to be a reply to Shade’s comment above).
+1!
They sound like brain damaged dogs. “Woke! Woke! Woke!” Like shut up already, the squirrel ran by three fucking hours ago and isn’t coming back.
“rainbows!?!??!?! the sky’s gone WOKE WOKE WOKE!!! BOYCOTT AIR!!! BOYCOTT REFRACTION!!! WOKE WOKE!!!””
“a black female protagonist in a cartoon? MUST make this problem SOMEhow, can’t FIGHT whitebred racist INSTINCT WOKE WOKE WOOOOOAAAAAHHAAAAH”
here i am i be like
are these fuckers for REALS? XD
If they’re gonna get so incredibly worked up all the time, they could at least do us all a favor and have heart attacks from the stress.
Co-signed. If they’re going to die mad about it, could they hurry that up a bit?
In all moroseness, I regret to inform you that, yes, they are for real. They are definitely in earnest. 🙁
I’m old enough to still use ‘bleeding heart liberal’. Unironically (yeah, come at me).
Functionally the same, but seems more antique, small batch & refined.
Oh, yeah, I remember that one. These days I interpret it as people who are all passion and no strategy, of which there are many in both tails of the population.
Please, Joyce, no more fundy/right winger jargon
It takes time to get out of the mindset. I’ve been out of the conservaloop for more than 20 years and I still slip up now and again.
I cringed at “the transes” but again, at least Joyce is trying, too hard perhaps but she’s trying. also Jocelyne’s outfit is really cute, wish I could wear something like that, but I got them big shoulders. ~<3
The bigger the shoulders, the more pretty floral print you can show off, though.
Tell me about it, if it wasn’t for Torrid I’d be doomed to menswear.
I am trans and I will never stop referring to us as the transes. It’s just incredibly funny
Contrapoints ruined me by saying “a tran.” It’s too funny not to.
Oh *that’s* where I got referring to myself as a tran from. Of course!
omg YES, I also can’t hear the word burgeoning anymore without her voice in my head lol
great, and now I’m thinking about Dr. Tran. ~<3
Currently picturing a 1950s style sitcom called “The Transes”
The cises, the gayses, the hetses, the homos, the transes. Joyce has all the latest terms. And to keep up, she only needs to ask Ethan, because he’s an expert on all this stuff.
“the transes” is something me and my friends have called ourselves and definitely comes off as “who are you” when Joyce says it XD
with the power of mild self-awareness i believe joyce can achieve anything
Joyce has so much negative rizz that it circles back around into positive rizz (affectionate)
I ADORE the last panel.
nope dangit crying again
she gets to have a DRESS, they MATCH–
It seems they both recognize the problem where news from their family is always bad, and both have the solution of not responding to calls or messages until it blows up in their face. Maybe the happy news can break the pattern, or maybe they can just start communicating more.
hank needs to show up and take them to (insert name for monkey master ver of disneyland) as a family trip 8D;
Reforming the family without Carol or John would be great for them. (Maybe Jordan too except they have no way to get in touch with him.) They can be and/or have The Brown Reformist Party.
This continues to be SO CUTE.
“You came at a good time”
Overstatement of the year. 😛
Yeah, definitely. Last semester would have been, well, dangerous.
Yesterday? I’d say it at least date since Becky came out to her.
good lord if she reacted to Jocelyne like she did to Carla she wouldn’t have a sister anymore
“Run off and tell mom” Not much anymore after the fallout.
Two. Two straight days of wanting to get Willis for the alt-text. Who even says on fleek and lit (much less marvy) on the reg these days?
Well, August/September Joyce probably would have gone running to Carol. She’s had a lot of character growth since then.
I used to be “with it”, then they changed what “it” was! Now what I’m with isn’t “it” and what is “it” seems weird and scary to me! This will happen to you!
Yea, she’s since seen how her mom treats people who are different but not hurting anyone.
Joyce says she’s only been okay with trans people since yesterday, but she shifted her entire worldview on a dime when Becky came out to her. Maybe she would’ve accidentally said things she shouldn’t if this conversation happened sooner, but Joyce would have accepted Jocelyne as her sister at any point. (Or at least after moving out of her parents’ house, but imo, even before then.)
Yea, she might have not said the right things but she wouldn’t have been a jerk about it. Just might have been more cringy and required more instructions.
It would seem that Joyce has been browsing just a bit of 4chan, and not the same parts that Jocelyne might’ve been stuck on at some point
may the “trans women are channers” trope die in my lifetime
In defense of the alt-text, Joyce does indeed have rizz – not too long ago she did in fact get some (mac n’ cheese) not too long ago
She did have some rizz on her hand, yes. (much to Sarah’s horror) 😀
These comments are sort of confusing. Like, it’s pretty obvious that Joyce was just telling a joke, right? To make fun of ridiculous conservative terminology? You see that kind of stuff all the time.
Extremely obvious to me as well, yeah.
It is really annoying but I’ll give Joyce a pass ‘cus she’s new.
She’s mocking the upbringing she shared with her sister. In that context, I’m really not sure what’s supposed to be wrong with it.
Some people really struggle to identify jokes in text form. This happens in the comments section of this comic all the time, people see a joke and start extrapolating whole personality defects from a punchline.
What do you mean? Conveying sarcasm without intonation and a single frame of expression is easy.
Finally! Someone who transes all the way.
Carla also “transes all the way” which I’m hearing to the tune of Jingle Bells now.
… I will not be able to unregister that when I hear the song now. Here’s hoping i don’t maniacally giggle in stores.
Transes bells, Transes bells
Transes all the way
(needs more development)
“Gender bells” was right there.
Joyce for the lot of heavens what kid sland are you using now
I don’t know if it’s ok for you or not, but passing long time without talking to your siblings is really uncanny to me.
Yeah I talk to most of my siblings every few days at maximum (sometimes daily), but I’m non-white so I think there’s a cultural divide there.
Depends I suppose. I text my sister multiple times most days but my brother who is over a decade older than me I text like a couple times a year, maybe a phone call around Christmas or on one of our birthdays. He is notorious for being bad at staying in touch though. One time he didn’t get in contact for ages after a massive storm (pre mobile phones being the norm) and our Dad got worried and traveled over 3000km (2000 miles) there and back to see if he was alive. He found him walking on the beach near his place perfectly fine. Dad was relieved. And pissed.
While this is a very new development for Joyce, I do like to hope if she’d been told earlier she would have made some very quick adjustments in her head in the same way she did for Becky.
I’m getting all the latest slang from Joyce! This is great! I mean, this is lit!
(aww yiss i’m so riz now)
This was rather perfect 😀
Thanks for the smile. I needed that. The punchline in was great.
Thanks Carla!
Oh, Willis. I hate to tell you this, but I think Joyce is too young to be using these terms even ironically. That’s what I was doing at her age IN EARLY 2000!!!
That said, I don’t know what terms the young folk are using ironically these days, but I’d be sad if it was the same ones.
Yeah, this whole arc was Willis getting Joyce ready so she didn’t wreck her relationship with her sister.
Or… didn’t have a negative initial reaction that would have vilified Joyce in the eyes of the audience while she’s still growing because it’s kind of hard to figure out how she would have tracked Joycelynn down if things went badly the first time.
I’m going to use that alt text in a future time, either IRL or in writing. Fair warning 😉