[1027] Dating Tips For Boys, Part 1 Of 4
└ posted on Thursday, 4 October 2018, by Novil
Horse girls are enticing. Don’t fall for them! Or you’re a goner.
- Sign: Dating Tips for Boys – Part 1 of 4
- Ethan: I wish I had a girlfriend…
- Cloud: It’s true, having a girlfriend like Sandra is the best thing in the world! But: Being single is way better than a bad relationship!
- Ethan: Avoid man-hating harpies. Roger that!
- Cloud: Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Terrible women are often much harder to spot than terrible men.
- Caption: Will make her life miserable.
- Caption: Will make his life living hell.
- Cloud: But here are some types of girls to avoid at all cost!
- Girl #1: I did some soul-searching and came to the conclusion that I need more diamonds to be truly happy!
- Girl #2: Horse. Horse. Horse. Horse. Horse.
- Girl #3: Like, oh my gawd, I hate drama!
- Girl #4: Snippedy snippedy snap!
![[1027] Dating Tips For Boys, Part 1 Of 4](/comics/2018-10-04-1027-dating-tips-for-boys-part-1-of-4.png "[1027] Dating Tips For Boys, Part 1 Of 4")
I’d give “Snippedy snippedy snap!” a shot. I’d show her my sword collection.
@ shago00:
Obviously you have never met women like this. Trust me, the artist is 100% correct. @ shago00:
@ Arthiem:
No you wouldn’t. You don’t seem to get what she is implying cutting off.
@ Red5:
Coming from someone who clearly can’t tell an apple from an orange.
This is great! Especially the drama one is spotted a lot in the wild. (also as men)
Novil wrote:
that one actually looks least annoying and dangerous of presented options…
So, i forget, has this strip done dating tips for lesbian girls or gay boys at any point? These “for boys” and “for girls” strips are hardly comprehensive, if not. They’d make a good encore.
Is it bad that I found the fourth girl in the last panel kinda hot?
TachyonCode wrote:
Who would host it though? Zoey?
@ TachyonCode:
A single panel of Zoey depressed as she’s never dated anyone.
MidoriLuna wrote:
Don’t make me even sadder:(
To all the people questioning the horse girl thing, I want to illustrate that this most like is not some sort of ‘avoid someone obsessive over a hobby’ or something symbolic. Nope, it is most likely aimed at Horse Girls.
Not Horse loving girls, nor even farm girls who ride horses on the farm. No I mean full on EQUESTRIANS, people who have invested countless money and years if not an entire life of time into riding horses. What makes horse riding different from a girl who is let’s say a figure skater? The horse is a living breathing animal, and you bond with it. This takes the hobby to a whole new level of dedication then most others.
You go into a relationship with an Equestrian, 9 times out of 10, expect to feel like you are in a ‘one sided’ polyamorous relationship. Not every Equestrian girl is like this, but you are more likely to run into overly obsessed ones, most likely due to the fact that again, living breathing animal is involved. An animal that is super expensive and you can’t live at home with.
I love that one thing with the drama girl.
thats a good point@ Red5:
These are all great! But my favorite is the “Horse!” one, closely followed by the “Drama Queen of Denial”. 🙂
@ Ember:
And “Life Itself” revolves around the horse…even if she doesn’t have one!
Brijeka Vervix wrote:
You have not met my sister, or her best friend down the street. 😉 🙂 🙂
Tom West wrote:
Tom.. He’s -making fun- OF the -stereotypes-, not the actual people. 🙂
@ Iron Ed:
Obviously they are an exception. Since you worked in a stable you would see a rather condensed view of the horse fanatic population.
@ Iron Ed:
Look out everyone, men are made out to be idiots all day but lets not speak out against wahmen. They are pure.
@ oledakaajel:
“Don’t eat your kids.”
“If she prowls by daylight, she snarls at night.”
“Better 10 in the oven, than one in the nest.”
See? Easy. 😛
I’ve spent too much time wondering if #2 either really likes or hates Bojack Horseman.
Although #4 is inevitably a Johnny Depp fan.
Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln I see:
It’s better to be alone than in bad company, and it’s better to be in good company than being alone.
Also the Book of Bonecrackr from the No Ma’am blogsite highlights the important red flags to know which girls to avoid. Included are drug users (even stuff like weed), witches (yes, witches, Wiccans and Satanists), animal hoarders (this includes animal rescuers as they like animals more than they like people, even the men in their lives), etc. You get the idea.
http://no-maam.blogspot.com/2004/01/book-of-bonecrker.html
@ Brijeka Vervix:
The only one I’ve ever known was also back in school. But then, the characters in this comic are school-aged themselves, so who knows. Frankly, I suspect that if you drew a Venn diagram of people who: a) live in cities, b) are wealthy enough to sustain horse ownership despite living in a city, and, c) are just, like, super into horses… yeah, it would be a pretty small list, populated mostly by folks who don’t have have to worry about money yet.
And…William Shatner, I guess?
Ooo@ Zelnik:
Oooh… Shes Jewish…
This sounds like good advice to me.
@ Zelnik:
Your reply means less than nothing to me. If you were trying to communicate, try again. And this time don’t assume I can read your mind.
I think, I understand the three other types of girls but I don’t want to find out what the second type that’s on the list! >_<
@ SirArthurIV:
For them a “bad dragon” connected to a sybian
You know, I feel that this list is missing the most important person you should avoid for dating and it applies to both boys and girls. That is:
Boring people.
Boring people are, well, boring. Now, you might think this is good at first because maybe they sit around doing nothing and not nagging you or whatever but this is false and beside the point anyway. Boring people don’t do anything interesting and don’t want to do anything interesting. They will also consume your soul quicker than a dementor.
I tried dating a boring person once because I didn’t realise quite how boring they were. Firstly, all they could talk about was what they were studying at uni. I tried to talk about other things but I might as well have steered the conversation into a brick wall. I also invited them to two parties in two separate cities on the same night (it works with creative time management, trust me) to which they said ‘why not?’ (an agreement I think) however I later discovered that they were unaware that the two parties would be in different cities (they didn’t even know the second city existed because they had NEVER been out of the one we currently reside in!). They also had to be home before midnight by parental decree despite being an adult (and didn’t even want to challenge this)!
Basically,
Sleepover = no
Dating = no
Handholding = no
Inter-city X-treme partying = no
Fun = no
Lots of hassle trying to organise anything = yes
And then their cousin told me that because their parents were Chinese they would get extra stuck up about it (that was almost literally what they said so don’t call me a racist. If anything the cousin was being self racist). Well you know what, I’m not going through all this ridiculous crap just for a night out with a boring person who probably doesn’t feel anything for me anyway.
So there you have it. Don’t go after boring people. (This is all serious too and I hope that you heed my advice on the matter and avoid getting your hopes up for a waste of several afternoons)
@ ehrgeiz0:
I hung out with a “witch” back in college, even went graveyarding with her at midnight once. What can I say? Women were pretty thin on the ground at engineering universities in the frozen North back in the late 70’s.
Brett Bellmore wrote:
Barney explains it best:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0F6mX9JIw
I feel that Larissa definitely does a tightrope walk above the Vicky Mendoza line without ever falling under, though not by much.
“Terrible men are a lot easier to spot”? Maybe if women have lower standards…
@ Novil:
The sound immediately following that is the sound of every dude in the world simultaneously slamming his knees together.
See also: anime girl types, dere
@ Far:
Ironically, the original tsundere, Lum of Urusai Yatsura fame, wasn’t actually that bad. She was more of a “large type for the (girl) reading impaired” sort, than actually bad tempered. She only got mad when Ataru did something really obnoxious.
That was supposed to be the appeal of the character: Any teen aged boy watching the show would think, “In that idiot’s place, I’d have it made!”
Later anime writers misunderstood the concept, and simplified away all the appeal, turning tsunderes into just absurdly bad tempered girls.
@ Brijeka Vervix:
Hi Brijeka! Umm.. I think I mixed the quotes wrong or something. -I- never had a job in a stable, although I have helped ‘babysit’ a friend’s horse’s. I’ve only ever really known three serious horse-nuts; my sister and her friend, and my own friend who was actually pretty reasonable about the realities. (I later discovered my sister is nuts for more reasons than just horses anyway. ;-)) I was trying to be amusing as much as anything. I try not to take these conversations tooo seriously. 🙂 It’s supposed to be a -comic- after all. 🙂 🙂 🙂
p.s. Nice name!
Iron Ed wrote:
Thanks I guess?
where do i find scissors that big though
@ doubleDeuce:
Try gardening supplies. Those are not scissors. Those are hedge trimmers. [YIKES!]
@ Iron Ed:
Ed, he’s certainly not making fun “of” the stereotypes, he’s making fun of women *using* those stereotypes and in a ham-fisted fashion.
Honestly, the comic was pretty much on the same level as “make sure your Jewish friend isn’t a greed-head or that your Muslim friend isn’t a terrorist”.
And pointing out that there are people who do conform to stereotypes is no defense. Stereotypes are harmful, especially against vulnerable groups, specifically because allow us ways of dismissing entire groups of people without examining them as individuals.
“Why is she angry? Oh, it’s just Feminazis – they all hate men.”
Of course, this comic is only a single tiny brick in a whole palace of cultural influence aimed at denigrating groups. But it *is* one more tiny brick.
@ Tom West:
Be careful or the next strip might feature you beating up Cloud or something 😉
@ Brett Bellmore:
Urusei Yatsura was written by a woman after all.
Just saying
If you are offended by female stereotypes that are pathological when male negative stereotypes get a free pass…
You are part of the problem. Men and women get abused by their partners at nearly (it’s like a 43-57% spread i THINK) the same rate, and these sorts of behaviors DO happen. it’s why they call them a STEREOTYPE. We know they exist, and the damage they can cause.
People are generally OK. Bad people exist and it’s not a gendered issue. Stop ignoring pain just because the person experiencing the pain happens to have a penis.
@ TachyonCode:
Per point 2: Rural females with horses generally work with the horses and aren’t crazy. The ones who can dress in fancy English riding gear are big city, big money types, some of whom love their horses to distraction, and some of whom see them as accessories and might also be in point 1: Show off diamonds and fancy dresses in the evening, horses at equestrian events. But, living on a boundary between city and country I’ve seen and known both over the years and I can only say, this is a useful simplification for beginners, which these boys are!
Novil wrote:
Avoid gardener girls. Roger that…
“You can never compete with horses … because they make loads of money from horse racing.”
Roger that…
“Don´t date the daughter of a jeweler … they are waaaaay out of your league…”
Roger that.
@ Brijeka Vervix:
> Be careful or the next strip might feature you beating up Cloud or something
Oddly, I think a fair number orf readers would be mildly disturbed if it was Cloud making these observations within the comic. I suspect that there’s a deep understanding that playing to these stereotypes is a little demeaning to women, and we’d be unsettled if someone we admire like Cloud descended to making Sandra’s life just that teensier bit harder.
> If you are offended by female stereotypes that are pathological when male negative stereotypes get a free pass…
Look, I’m a straight, white male. I’m playing life on easy mode (which isn’t to say life is always easy, it’s just easier than it would be if I wasn’t straight, white male). Stereotypes harm everyone, but honestly, but the less power you have, the more harm stereotypes can cause.
Thus, I think we’d *all* be horrified if Novil was playing to the stereotypes of race and religion, after all, the powerless have been murdered in numbers based on the power of those stereotypes.
So, my radar of offense is attuned to using stereotypes to attack the less powerful, and thus while I’m not impressed by cheap stereotypes of any form, I’m less offended by those targeted to people like me who have (relatively speaking) power.
On the West outrage-o-meter, the comic’s stereotypes against men set me to 0.005, which is enough for me to roll my eyes while reading, while stereotypes against women reach 0.01, which is enough for me to (horrors!) spend 30 seconds posting a note disapproving of their use.
@ Tom West:
Or I could misread and not notice that it *is* Cloud making the comment. Reading comprehension fail on my part.