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- Cloud: Mom, may I ask you a personal question?
- Ye Thuza: If need be…
- Cloud: Are you a strong woman?
- Ye Thuza: You can bet your life on it, buster!
- Cloud: Strong enough to strangle my man-hating biology teacher with bare hands?
- Ye Thuza: I’ll try to squeeze it in between church choir and taekwondo.
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@ Ry Rodriguez:
They could be being partially sarcastic, I think Cambridge will get more of a strong talking to and then get reported.
@ Ry Rodriguez:
I’m pretty sure she’s being sarcastic.
I could see certain people saying similar things IRL (and, obviously, then proceeding to not commit murder)
Most likely she’ll now ask for further details (probably off-camera) and then use a more subtle method.
Unlike what people’ve said, she is NOT a soldier. She’s a rebel.
It’s similar, but I’m sure she’s used to having to work within the law at times, to avoid drawing unwanted attention.
@ Valkeiper2012:
My Parents played Videogames. They still do.
I just want to say: I’m happy to see this arc. I’m enjoying it and can, sadly, relate to parts of it. Keep up the great work!
Well… that was a relatively quick resolution to this story arch. I guess we will go back to raccoons climbing walls now that the man hating feminists had died horrible. Oh so horrible.
@ Valkeiper2012:
My Parents played Videogames. They still do.mechwarrior wrote:
Wow, no wonder children are failing so much. There getting taut by dumbasses. (This does not apply to all teachers because some are good.)
Come final exam time
Question: Please write the appropriate answer under the question.
Question 1: What’s the difference between a male and a female?
Cloud: Females have better attributes than males. Also males are inferior.
Question 2: Why is reproduction important for a species?
Cloud: It’s not. It is forcing females against their will and stealing their innocence.
Question 3: what is the hardy Weinberg equation?
Cloud: WTF!!!??? She never taught me this!
A week later…
Note: Cloud, You failed your biology test. You didn’t even get a single question right. You’re going to summer school.
Cloud: Curses and Damnation upon your Soul Mrs. Camb*tch!
Sorry didn’t mean to say the same thing twice. My bad. I didn’t see it while typing.
McDouggal wrote:
Where I live nothing is ever affiliated with a church unless otherwise specified.
” I think you’ll find that creationists are pretty much relegated to Bible Belt fundamentalists.”
I think if you actually bothered checking you’d discover just how wildly inaccurate that statement is. Close to 40% of the adult population of the US believes that the world was created around 6000 years ago as described in the Book of Genesis, and it’s not at all confined to the Bible Belt. The belief that it’s something that doesn’t occur “here” is one of the things that allows it to flourish all over the nation.
I like that Cloud is smart enough to take this to his mother…
THAT’S what I’m talking about! Yay!
It’s amazing how so many men overlook qualities like “able to crush an apple with pure force” or “knows how to perform a german suplex” in a woman. Sure, physical appearances may be attractive at first, but those qualities of ‘badass’ are was really hold a relationship together. As Aristotle brought it up (sexism aside, mind you) friendship relies on both sides being fairly equal to thrive. Of course, the friendship back then is a better template for intimate relationships nowadays.
@ Carl Tomacruz:
Outside of the story, I’d guess that a lot of Westerners haven’t heard of Lethwei (I hadn’t, for instance), and the author used Taekwondo as an easily recognized martial art name. In-story, Ye Thuza is probably highly proficient in Lethwei and is now working to pick up useful techniques from other arts: Taekwondo, Savate, Escrima, Sambo, etc….
@ McDouggal:
It sounds to me like she’s in more than one choir. Church choir rehearse on Tuesdays, Ninja choir (you only hear them when they want you to) on Thursdays.
Actually, strangling a man hating biology teacher with you’re bare hands is a perfect warmup for Taekwondo.
@ Draccoon:
LEEEEEET’S GET GEADY TO RUMMMMMMBLLLLLLLLLLLLE!
Man, what awake-up slap this will be. And by slap, I mean
assassinationbeatdown.600 S&W comics already? DAMN! Congratulations!!! Next thing you know you’ll be reaching 1000.
HA! Buster! Like the Buster sword that cloud wielded XD
Kick her ass Ye Thuza 😉
Did kind of see this was going to happen.
Cloud you can’t have your mom strangle your man hating teacher…they don’t breath like normal people they only survive off of the ignorant hatred of others
I find it really sad that the biology teacher– while obviously a parody of feminism and certain bad teaching elements all at once– is actually not a far cry from reality.
I find it intersting that she knows this is a all-too-un-hypothetical question
After all what are strong willed mothers for?
Finally.
Honestly, I love this one to bits because she never once asked why, just schedules it in. 🙂
Ry Rodriguez wrote:
This is the first strip that makes Ye Thuza and family seem just a little bit psychotic to you?
@ PlutoniumBoss:
Very few people in this world are what one would stereotype as “sane”
I gotta see this.
@ PlutoniumBoss:
It doesn’t to me. It is close to an answer I could have given in this situation.
Followed by a grin, and ‘Ok, what’s the problem with this teacher?’
It actually looks healthy to me. You know, acknowledging that Cloud is upset and right to be, before you ask what that’s the matter.
@ PlutoniumBoss:
Until now, it’s the (mostly) harmless and fun kind of psychotic. I wish more people were like that; it would make conversations a lot less dull.
Book of Woo is a story written by Woo in the script of raccoons.@ Switch Master:
*sigh*
I have a serious crush on Ye Thuza. To bad that she is already married to a really sweet guy.
I’ve always hated the “earth was created in 6000 years” creationists. There are a couple of different versions of creationist, and those that like to ridicule them use the 6,000 year ones as almost a strawman.
Problems with the 6000 year interpretation.
1. Genesis never states how long Adam and Eve were immortal in the Garden of Eden.
2. Psalm 90 says that a thousand years are a day to the lord, so another literal interpretation is that the earth is 13,000 years old.
3. The word ‘day’ is figurative in both Hebrew and English. What definition of day is Genesis using?
That last one is a real doozy if you think about it. Who hasn’t heard someone say “Back in the day” or “Back in my day.” In the bible it frequently talks about man living his ‘day’ upon the earth, but you don’t see the literalists insisting that man only lives for a day.
Sometimes I look at the argument and to use an analogy of how I see the sides, is side A is insisting the the tree was cut with fifty chops of an ax, and since it was an ax that God couldn’t have done it. The other side is insisting that God spontaneously made the tree fall with just a thought. Me, I’m looking at it and thinking “why does no one put the ax in God’s hand?”
The debate has always had one part that has interested me. I accept that the earth is old. Much older than 6,000 years. However, I have never been able to accept the position that science takes, that the earth is 5 billion years old and sat empty and lifeless for 4billion of them. I can’t accept the 4 billion years of quiet, as life is never quiet.
I was once speaking to several of my geologist friends when that came up. The spent a good bit of time answering my questions of how we got to that number, and I was amazed at the ingenuity that it took to get to those numbers. But then came my last question, the one they couldn’t answer. How did they know they were dating the earth, and not the materials it is made from? Years latter (and the occasional reminder) I’ve still not heard an answer from any of them.
Nivarion wrote:
That’s odd, because it’s a very simple question to answer. To date (certain kinds of) rocks, we use two facts. The first is that, when molten rock solidifies,we know it has a specific ratio of certain chemicals in it. The second fact is that we know the ratio of these chemicals changes at a constant rate over time.
So when we date a rock, we are looking at these specific chemicals, measuring the current ratio, and then calculating how long ago the rock must have solidified from a molten state. There are rocks that are younger than the earth, but the oldest rocks are consistently about 5 billion years old. When that time period is given, we are specifically saying that this is when the earth’s crust began to cool and form rock.
Another thing you might find interesting is that we actually also find chemicals that appear to be byproducts of life in some samples of rock that are 4.5 billion years or older. Life, in an extremophile bacterial state, seems to have appeared almost as soon (in a geological sense) as the crust formed and outgassing began. The dominant form of life on this planet has always been and will always be bacterial. The development of complex multicellular life was not inevitable, it was contingent on a number of events that did not have to happen when they did, or at all.
Oh, Its a little weird, but I think Cloud’s mom is so cute! I like strong women with sense of humor! I am so excited to see what will happen for our biology teacher…
50srefugee wrote:
Does it really HAVE to be women’s work? Or even HUMAN’S work? I’m sure Woo could set a few shaped-charge explosives.
a clear fact is that the line between normal femenism and irrational misandry is very thin
but wall between strong women and a pampered baby raised raised on internet is huge