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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The point is that being confident in themselves is interpreted as a boxing fight against beauty standards, which then is acknowledged as hard. X got hands is a meme that comes froma boxing game I think as a way to say that the opponent is strong.

So basically, it's hard to have self confidence with these beauty standards is what's saying.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I was in the same boat as the previous person. That comic is basically alien speak if you don't know a very specific variation of that meme.

It doesn't even leave a clue that it might be a reference to something, and it's practically nothing but a reference.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well, it's both a reference and a critique to body standards.

Anyway, I also read some comics that have issues that make no sense to me (the Farside) from time to time when they show on my feed. Humor is context specific and that's fine.