I love this. Click to go to the original.
The mouseover text is full of win, too.
@Megalodon: They've made it clear that their first target is trans Americans. They'll get to that mass deportation stuff when…
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And now the Republicans want the same for the Capitol restrooms. After Delaware elected the first ever openly transgender member…
@Dianne I suspect all three of those are true for different Trump voters.
It’s strange that even imaginary “undecided voters” would give Trump a total pass for repeatedly defaming entire classes of people…
But I can imagine an undecided voter thinking “Those are my friends he’s talking about, and I know they’re decent…
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Best. XKCD. Ever.
Randy has a wonderful skill of dropping the F-bomb with the perfect level of parsimony. He uses it when, and only when, it maximizes the punchline, like here.
Also, alt text:
I really like the emphatic way she leans forward (or bounces out of her chair) in the last frame. Sure, just a stick figure, but still dynamic.
Oh, win.
I giggled over the PFW book, since someone I know got it as a wedding present (fun friends!), but yeah, when I’m looking for porn, I’d rather the object of my desire was nekkid and aroused, rather than ironing. But xkcd says it so much better. :)
Ironing in the nude when you are in possession of sticky-outy bits sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, although now that I’ve typed that out I’m not sure clothing would offer a lot of protection in that circumstance.
Anyway, as the person who does most of the cooking in my household, I haven’t noticed it being particularly a turn-on. I don’t think there’s anything weird or even notable or particularly praiseworthy about a man who cooks.
I dunno, Hershele. I did propose to my spouse on the spot after the first time he cooked mushrooms for me.
They were really, really good mushrooms.
Heh.
Well said.
Housework works as seduction or foreplay, certainly. Or maybe porn, but you have to do it naked or scantily clad for that.
Well, it’s true that I don’t find my Hubby doing housework as arousing. That being said, him doing housework means I’m more likely (and more easily) aroused later. I don’t feel resentful, I don’t feel tired, I don’t feel distracted when he pitches in.
‘course, my porn has a lot of fucking too.
That being said, him doing housework means I’m more likely (and more easily) aroused later. I don’t feel resentful, I don’t feel tired, I don’t feel distracted when he pitches in.
That’s a horse of a different color, of course — yes, you’re going to be more attracted to someone who does their part in life. If your significant other spends their time sitting on the couch drinking beer and watching TV while you clean the house and take care of the kids and hold down a job to boot, you’re going to be less attracted to your s.o., and that’s true regardless of gender or orientation.
But there’s a difference between “I really love my s.o., in no small part because they do their fair share” and “what really turns me on is a man loading the dishwasher.” Nothing against those women who are into housework porn — but that’s a subset of all women. An awful lot — I daresay most — women find housework to be more of a basic requirement than a turn-on.
YES!
I too giggled over PFW, and part of me wants to ask “don’t you people have any sense of humor?” It’s not really supposed to be pron, for Pat’s sake. (An almost belated happy St. Pat’s day to everyone btw, as long as I’m taking his name in vain.)
Also, what Antigone said.
Also, I do most of such housework as happens around here, because I work part time and my husband works full time. Like my husband, I am a born slob, so we pay to have our house cleaned (in part so that we are forced to move our stuff out of the way). With rare exception the cleaners are of course women. “The only way to get out of cleaning is to be born male or hire another woman to do it.” I will be seriously impressed by anyone under 35 who can identify the source of that quote.
Yes, I am a bit conflicted.
To men who think of women as sexual gratification- and housework machines, though, “not tonight, honey, I’m too tired” is like some sort of weird out-of-cheese error. So all they know is that when they cook or clean or whatever, she doesn’t get these out-of-cheese errors. You can see how they draw the wrong conclusion.
We got the joke.
It’s just that XKCD’s joke was funnier.
@Hershele Ostropoler
I don’t want to vent about my marriage online, but all I get out of cooking and cleaning around the house is raised expectations (and yes, I do all the cooking, and thus also keep the kitchen clean). I think my cheese is defective.
Actually, SiF, no one in our household keeps the kitchen clean. Me cooking doesn’t raise my partner’s expectations of me because I actually do it, and so meet her expectations.
But I don’t do it to get sex, I do it because I like cooking I’m good at it and she’s indifferent though good at it. And, y’know, I can, if I want to, because I’m emancipated like that.