This is the way.
Acolytes of Sir Mix-a-Lot are often inclined to wax poetic about the improved aesthetic of a rotund derriere.
Or, as the kids say these days, gyatt damn .
Finally, a funny.
I mean, I don’t think that Devils Panties is intended to be uproariously funny. Like, comics don’t have to just be a “funny” art form.
That being said, I like early Calvin & Hobbes for humor, and there’s !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world. Bill Watterson got kind of…grim and not funny towards the end, but the earlier stuff is great, IMHO.
Not funny is fine. But the last few ones have been… boring.
They’re not boring, they’re realistic
That’s not mutually exclusive.
I had a year or so that I had realistic mundane dreams. Just doing my chores, which I then had to do again when I woke up. Worse than any nightmare.
You don’t enjoy comics where the entire strip is “I have non-sociopathic beliefs, also here’s a banal anecdote about my boring life”?
I’m not a parent, but maybe the lesson should have been “judging people’s bodies right to their faces is fucking rude?”
If you perceived the children’s words as judgment maybe you could’ve benefited from this form of reinforcement as a child. Kids can also grown into maintaining an internal dialogue, and not trumpeting their opinions out into the world. But the mom wanted first and foremost to show body positivity. Instructing them to “not share that with everyone you meet” might have been the hypothetical next panel.
It’s a 4-panel comic, not their whole parenting strategy.
Yeah, but they’re also children. Rudeness takes second seat to curiosity, kindness, and learning.
Yeah to some degree, but no to some degree. Kids will sometimes say non-judgemental descriptive things like in this comic, but other times they say massively judgemental rude things. Like instead of saying your belly is soft they’ll say “ew your belly is so fat” or “your butt is broken, it hangs way down”.
Let’s not pretend kids are non-judgemental, often times they’re the most judgemental of all
Yeah, but they do still learn that from somewhere. They don’t come out of the womb with derision for fat people, it’s very much cultural.
Who taught them those things though? If their environment (generally at home) teaches them that being fat is gross or bad, then yes, kids will repeat those things.
If you’re incapable of teaching your kids how to properly socialize then you probably… Okay, never mind. I realized as I was typing how hopeless this endless nightmare is.
Belly’s
