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2018-02-12

by shaenon on February 12, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. Robert Nowall
    February 12, 2018, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Is he equipped for it?

    • Bruce A Munro
      February 12, 2018, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Well, he’s no water cooler.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 12, 2018, 9:54 am | # | Reply

        “This farmer is upset. ‘The kids have been writing their name in the snow!’ His neighbor says, ‘Calm down, all the boys fool around that way some time or other.’ The farmer says, ‘Yeah, I know, but this is in my daughter’s handwriting!'”

        • bergerjacques
          February 12, 2018, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

          HA! Never heard that one before.

          • Robert Nowall
            February 12, 2018, 5:20 pm | #

            Thought it was old when *I* heard it.

        • jjjdavidson
          February 12, 2018, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

          When folklorist Vance Randolph published a collection of “unpublishable” jokes and folk tales from the Ozarks, he chose his title from that joke: Pissing in the Snow.

        • Tuscahoma Jack
          February 12, 2018, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

          Ah yes, Pissing in the Snow. Had some truly bawdy stories, a great many of which were in very poor taste. I loved that book.

    • D. Walker
      February 12, 2018, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      The more worrying thought is that UNITY herself might in fact be equipped for it. She does enjoy nabbing stray body parts and sewing them on to herself, regardless of whether they’re supposed to be there…

      • Darkstarling
        February 12, 2018, 2:47 am | # | Reply

        I thought that realization is what Sweetheart was ‘Wait, what’ing

        • D. Walker
          February 12, 2018, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

          I had assumed Sweetheart was not understanding the basic concept of writing her name in the snow itself, given that she is a female dog who has never had access to a phallus before.

          I guess it’s a question of just how innocent and naïve Sweetheart really is. In this case, it arguably could be interpreted either way.

          But in my experience, I find it’s the safer bet to overestimate her naïveté than to underestimate it.

      • jrwences
        February 12, 2018, 3:08 am | # | Reply

        Agreed, and it now occurs to me that Unity could do a convincing remake of “We Are the World” all by herself.

      • Seph
        February 12, 2018, 5:55 am | # | Reply

        Wouldn’t be the first time: http://skin-horse.com/comic/said-sweetheart-8/

  2. Dave
    February 12, 2018, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    That seems a bit unfair of Unity. It’s not an issue of conforming as path of least resistance; as things are now nobody can even hear what Sweetheart’s SAYING.

    • Shen Hibiki
      February 12, 2018, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      …but she -could- have been female. She picked male specifically ’cause she wanted extra respect. =P

      • casimir
        February 12, 2018, 2:40 am | # | Reply

        I didn’t see any female drones in that closet pile.

        • khade
          February 12, 2018, 2:56 am | # | Reply

          Clearly that was the closet filled with male drones. The female drones are probably one room down.

        • Brian-M
          February 12, 2018, 6:25 am | # | Reply

          You can’t see enough of the drones to determine whether or not they’re *all* male, or if just the majority of them are.

          But either way, Sweetheart decided she wanted a male drone before she was even aware that the ready-made drones existed, so the point Shen Hibiki was making is still valid either way.

        • arqyx
          February 12, 2018, 7:51 am | # | Reply

          The females were, no surprise, under the males?

        • Kirala
          February 12, 2018, 9:45 am | # | Reply

          Of course not. Ginny doesn’t fantasize nearly as often about Nick driving a female drone.

      • Towering Barbarian
        February 12, 2018, 10:14 am | # | Reply

        Which is completely reasonable. The more authority you have then the fewer the number of throats you have to rip out in order to establish pack dominance. Sweetheart is therefore clearly doing all her two-legged packmates a favor by thinking this way. ^_^

      • Dave
        February 13, 2018, 12:23 am | # | Reply

        You have a good point.I assumed Unity was talking about the “getting into a drone” thing altogether, not just the specific choice of drone.

    • theysabet
      February 12, 2018, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      Like I pointed out the other day, Sweetheart went straight for the male Caucasian statistical norm, only with a freakin’ big chin. And she didn’t HAVE to, but she did, and she probably did so without even questioning it– it’s like somebody asked her, “Hey, Sweetheart, would you like to be an Alpha Male?”

      • casimir
        February 12, 2018, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

        I wondered if she was thinking about impressing Unity, whatever that would mean. It’s hard to know what type Unity would find attractive. She liked Remy (sp?)

        • Candace
          February 13, 2018, 2:10 am | # | Reply

          I think Unity likes people for who they are, not what they look like. After all, she can completely change her appearance at will if she wants, so she of all people knows that a person is who they are inside, not what they look like outside.

  3. s854
    February 12, 2018, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Unity’s use of language and choice of observation do make me wonder a little about what she’s had to eat today..

    • TheSexyMenhir
      February 12, 2018, 2:53 am | # | Reply

      It was always implied that unity is smart even without an influx of grey matter…

    • Seph
      February 12, 2018, 5:56 am | # | Reply

      The brains seem to mute her impulsiveness and empathy‍, more than anything.

    • Rodford Smith
      February 12, 2018, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

      You mean WHO she’s had to eat…

      • Seph
        February 12, 2018, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

        You mean WHOM she’s had to eat.

  4. mnemex
    February 12, 2018, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    Wow. Unity is -owning- Sweetheart today. Comes of all that time being a dead activist, I suppose!

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 12, 2018, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    File our ever-loving files,
    A file won’t bring it here to me.
    Can’t even see my kind, it’s wrong,
    And that can bring some fear to me.
    New body’s got some glory.
    Some like it kinda gory.
    How, hereof, just how I’ll be,
    This drone is fine and I can whoah you
    With my love.
    Squawk, ecdysiasting nerds,
    And predicate it all on me.
    If I can have this new male life,
    It’s clear that you would fall for me.
    You think that I’m just venting spleen,
    It’s so absurd to say.
    It’s so absurd, absurd is all I have,
    To fake my part today.
    It’s so absurd, absurd is all I have,
    To fake my part today.

    —from “Words,” the Brothers Gibb.

  6. Emanate
    February 12, 2018, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t think this is where the joke is going, but just in case:

    Hey, what parts you have has /nothing/ to do with what gender you identify as. To say otherwise or make it a joke is kinda disrespectful to transgender people. All kinds of trans people have all kinds of parts, and not all of them are uncomfortable enough with what they might have been born with to want to change that.

    Thanks for keeping things fairly cool in the comments so far, though! As pointed out in other comments, too, this isn’t the first time Unity’s even hinted at this, and the characters in the comic have so far been surprised and slightly confused, but didn’t react badly overall.

    You’re all cool with me, just needed to say that. :-}

    • Beachfox
      February 12, 2018, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      Given past comments made in the comic (and Unity’s general Unity-ness overall), I’ve read it as “I, Unity, am a (stone cold badass) chick, but that doesn’t mean I can’t switch out equipment for whatever it is I need/want/feel like at the moment. Because I am already a mass of self-aware nanite-goo who identifies as a (usually)human-form chick, and adding an extra arm or willy to that don’t make that any weirder!”

      And the fact that neither she nor anyone else in-universe has ever felt the need to elaborate on the setup to that extent is part of what makes it all so awesome.

      That’s my headcanon, at least.

      • casimir
        February 12, 2018, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

        Now you’ve gone and made me wonder just what exactly is her snow-writing medium.

      • Emanate
        February 13, 2018, 12:32 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, Unity is pretty delightfully transhuman enough to really not give a care about any of that, and it’s awesome.

    • Frank
      February 12, 2018, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

      I think you may be reading too much into it. But just in case, cf. Freefall

  7. cbob
    February 13, 2018, 5:43 pm | # | Reply

    Somehow this one really bring the Norm voice in

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