Comic Strips

I think I've seen the things I've described happen with my own eyes. Yes, all of them, including gay men getting "shot down" only to reply to the other girl beside them "what? but she does! she has really nice tits!" ...

... but as far as what the comic was ACTUALLY portraying, I made no claims besides the obvious fact that we don't really know, beyond that details were specifically left-out or included for no other apparent reason than rage-baiting. Its a mad-lib/roll-your-own-humiliation of a scenario where evon IRL participants usually have no idea what just happened, what the other parties' thoughts were. They just tell themselves a story where they were the hero or at worst, victim.

Also, people are inherrently contradictory. Its really amusing watching people claim strangers they don't know, and fictional characters no less, are more consistent than that.

If she shot him a nasty look, I won't argue that's unwarrented or inappropriate, but that's not what's portrayed. I also tried to impy that most straight dudes don't distinguish all that much between positive and negative attention from attractive women; Like, holy crap, she turned towards him and gave him an excuse to look again, and he's somehow expected to actually feel bad about it? The woman with him feels worse, promise, than if nothing were said, whether she's the judgy-type or not, but society says she should keep any male companions on a leash(which society again?).

That's a big part of why I said its more than he deserved, and that the protaganist is working against her own intentions, even when it comes to shooting him down. She can be working-against her own intentions at every step of the way - Life is often painful like that, and a lot of us call days that turn-out like so "well crap, I failed to die in my sleep yet again, didn't I?"

I've also spent enough time around women who get upset with attractive and/or "under-dressed" women just for existing(IME, most of them), but only take it out on men and gossip behind closed doors, that I can promise you, no-one who pays-attention cares all-that-much about/for their verbal or visual disapproval. They are in the room with us right now, by the way, and this avoiding-their-ire-by-mansplaining to me look is winning you points with people you were better-off avoiding, but if that's what you are into...