I love everything you do re: Chaos Life but this was a very confusing and odd kind of dated statement panel. I don’t resonate with the comparison of a very personal invasion of space (Ass-grabbing, not too common on the streets but TOTALLY WRONG) with a lunatic fringe that is essentially mocked and has no real clout whatsoever. And I have had my tits grabbed at work, but I still don’t see how reducing any population even if it is the “privileged”, to meat on a hanger is any better than the treatment we women rail against.
K Here:
It’s a comic.
It’s a joke.
Of course we’re not advocating selling people (or killing them for offenses, minor or otherwise). That would be absurd; thus the absurdity of the comic — the absurdity of the joke.
No one is comparing the Westboros to sexual assaulters, but both are on my “enemy list” for their own reasons, so it only seemed fitting to put them both in, as they’re both fresh on my mind and… Well, it’s my/our comic.
Quite honestly, it was more of a knee-jerk reaction to people continually asking for “Fall Fashion” tips and we thought a dose of righteous self-assurance would be more useful to one’s well-being than the trendiest boots. It was my own personal reaction to a friend asking me for fashion tips because I had been reading Marcus Aurelius and anecdotes of Genghis Khan recently. I shouted “The Blood of My Fucking Enemies, that’s what I’m going to be wearing!”
We do subversive jokes here and there, I’m not going to start apologizing for them any time soon. I’m not going to be tone-policed for being a woman with a harsh JOKING opinion. Statements like this are meant to be cathartic, not an actual suggestion over reasonable discourse. If you can’t separate the two, there’s a real problem there, but it’s not with the comic itself. Edit: Also, I don’t appreciate the sentiment that “ass-grabbing [is] not too common”. Maybe not for you, but for me and where we live/socialize (a college town with raging hormones, mostly), it most definitely is. It’s really lucky if you don’t experience it much, but that luck doesn’t hold out for other folks. I don’t need a stranger’s perspective on how often I’m touched in an unwelcome manner — it just adds insult to injury.
“Of course we’re not advocating selling people (or killing them for offenses, minor or otherwise). ”
Weeeell, Time to put away the axe, one day though
“I don’t appreciate the sentiment that “ass-grabbing [is] not too common”
That really fucked up, i live in aachen (there is the university with highest male-to-female ratio in germany) and have never encountered or heared from someone who was victim to something like that.
Just because you have not heard, or encountered said happenings does not mean they do not happen. Alot of the time people will not openly admit they have been grabbed or touched.
On another note, I must say I love this and Find Chaos! Keep up the Good work please!
“I still don’t see how reducing any population even if it is the “privileged”, to meat on a hanger is any better than the treatment we women rail against.”
Well… You’d stop getting your tits grabbed at work, for a start!
Wow Kim Poole, lighten up, it’s a comic!
And this one totaly made my morning!!! You guys are beyond awesome :-D. To me todays comic was absoltely ‘Top 5’ material. Thank you!
(I know plenty of perfectly healthy and happy bisexual trans people, and it’s never seemed to confuse them that their sexual interests/attractions and gender identity are two entirely separate things. Geesh.)
I’m sure they’ll make a lovely warm coat, and “blood red” is the new fall lipstick trend! 😉
Are they trained specifically to being in charge of transitions or are they just a general psychologist? If they’re just a general psychologist, they might just seriously have a lack of knowledge on the subject (though they should study it more when dealing with a patient like yourself). If they are specifically in that field, they need to find a new career, because I don’t think they’re made for it.
Hey Fluffy! Any psychologist who has knowledge and experience with gender understands that the link between gender and sexuality is more casual than causal. I am a transwoman whos is as bi as I can be. I recommend selecting a provider who is listed with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) at http://www.wpath.org/
Is it wrong that my biggest objection to this is that whole people would be so heavy? (And smell after a little while, then start decomposing…) But I guess drawing shawls etc. made out of the cured skins of one’s fallen enemies would be less clear…
We figured they’d be elegantly stuffed and cured as sorts of skin-dolls, so as to be light enough to wear, but identifiable enough to get a good hate-on. 😉
I actually had a guy ASK me this year what I’d do if he grabbed my ass. (Said with a big grin on his face) I told him I’d pistol whip him. “seriously” he didn’t want to grab my ass anymore. Hey, it worked. :/
This was something that happened about two years ago, and has since been sort of fixed, and sort of not.
Here in Sweden there are only a few institutions and hospitals that are authorized to give care to trans* patients. so I can’t actually go anywhere else.
Now, her incompetence eventually got her fired, but not before mucking up my transition to the point where I was treading water for an entire year.
now it’s back on track though, going to the doc for a physical in prep for hormones, and then voice-coaching, hair-removal etc.
50% of politicians!
More like 75%, amirite?
Yes you are, Howard. Yes you are.
I just keep running into you, reynard. XD
Wow … that’s awfully dark. I love it!
I’ll do it.
Shoulda gone with PETA…
I’m a vegan and I actually 100% agree with you on that. PETA is evil as fuhhhh
Thank goodness that there are other animal organizations. It’s just too bad that PETA has to be the most well known D8
Fantastic! But does it come in pink?
This…..is just perfekt.
I love everything you do re: Chaos Life but this was a very confusing and odd kind of dated statement panel. I don’t resonate with the comparison of a very personal invasion of space (Ass-grabbing, not too common on the streets but TOTALLY WRONG) with a lunatic fringe that is essentially mocked and has no real clout whatsoever. And I have had my tits grabbed at work, but I still don’t see how reducing any population even if it is the “privileged”, to meat on a hanger is any better than the treatment we women rail against.
K Here:
It’s a comic.
It’s a joke.
Of course we’re not advocating selling people (or killing them for offenses, minor or otherwise). That would be absurd; thus the absurdity of the comic — the absurdity of the joke.
No one is comparing the Westboros to sexual assaulters, but both are on my “enemy list” for their own reasons, so it only seemed fitting to put them both in, as they’re both fresh on my mind and… Well, it’s my/our comic.
Quite honestly, it was more of a knee-jerk reaction to people continually asking for “Fall Fashion” tips and we thought a dose of righteous self-assurance would be more useful to one’s well-being than the trendiest boots. It was my own personal reaction to a friend asking me for fashion tips because I had been reading Marcus Aurelius and anecdotes of Genghis Khan recently. I shouted “The Blood of My Fucking Enemies, that’s what I’m going to be wearing!”
We do subversive jokes here and there, I’m not going to start apologizing for them any time soon. I’m not going to be tone-policed for being a woman with a harsh JOKING opinion. Statements like this are meant to be cathartic, not an actual suggestion over reasonable discourse. If you can’t separate the two, there’s a real problem there, but it’s not with the comic itself.
Edit: Also, I don’t appreciate the sentiment that “ass-grabbing [is] not too common”. Maybe not for you, but for me and where we live/socialize (a college town with raging hormones, mostly), it most definitely is. It’s really lucky if you don’t experience it much, but that luck doesn’t hold out for other folks. I don’t need a stranger’s perspective on how often I’m touched in an unwelcome manner — it just adds insult to injury.
“Of course we’re not advocating selling people (or killing them for offenses, minor or otherwise). ”
Weeeell, Time to put away the axe, one day though
“I don’t appreciate the sentiment that “ass-grabbing [is] not too common”
That really fucked up, i live in aachen (there is the university with highest male-to-female ratio in germany) and have never encountered or heared from someone who was victim to something like that.
That’s nice for you.
Just because you have not heard, or encountered said happenings does not mean they do not happen. Alot of the time people will not openly admit they have been grabbed or touched.
On another note, I must say I love this and Find Chaos! Keep up the Good work please!
From what I’ve read/heard, we do get less random groping in Germany than people do in the USA. That doesn’t make their experiences less valid or true.
Just a joke? Well crap. Now what am I going to do with a walk-in full of anti-choicers and rape apologists?
Barbecued long pig anyone?
Can I get mine medium-well?
“I still don’t see how reducing any population even if it is the “privileged”, to meat on a hanger is any better than the treatment we women rail against.”
Well… You’d stop getting your tits grabbed at work, for a start!
Hey, OT, but BTW… Was THIS you guys?
http://themetapicture.com/not-so-thrilled-with-his-new-prosthetic/
Looks like your pus… uh… CAT. 😉
Wow Kim Poole, lighten up, it’s a comic!
And this one totaly made my morning!!! You guys are beyond awesome :-D. To me todays comic was absoltely ‘Top 5’ material. Thank you!
Can I get a tie or a vest sewed from the tongues of promise-breaking politicians?
Ironically, the ad at the bottom of this page was for Forever 21’s “prefall” collection. I cracked up.
If you ever meet a guy named Jacob Henn, I would love a DIY package. Behemoth ego and a good back-stabbing knife included.
Ah, repressed rage, where would I be without you…
I’d like one in “Psychologist-in-charge-of-my-transition who said I can’t be both Bi and Trans”, please?
Oooohhh, that’s infuriating. Grrrr.
(I know plenty of perfectly healthy and happy bisexual trans people, and it’s never seemed to confuse them that their sexual interests/attractions and gender identity are two entirely separate things. Geesh.)
I’m sure they’ll make a lovely warm coat, and “blood red” is the new fall lipstick trend! 😉
Are they trained specifically to being in charge of transitions or are they just a general psychologist? If they’re just a general psychologist, they might just seriously have a lack of knowledge on the subject (though they should study it more when dealing with a patient like yourself). If they are specifically in that field, they need to find a new career, because I don’t think they’re made for it.
Mine was a Lesbian, she didn’t see any problem with me liking women, and I know she has BI patients. Perhaps you need a better psychologist?
Hey Fluffy! Any psychologist who has knowledge and experience with gender understands that the link between gender and sexuality is more casual than causal. I am a transwoman whos is as bi as I can be. I recommend selecting a provider who is listed with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) at http://www.wpath.org/
meant to reply to you… but firefox apparently freaked out.
https://chaoslife.findchaos.com/foe-fashion#comment-3723
I laughed WAY too hard at this. 🙂
Now if fashion was like THIS! I’d take an interest!
Brilliant.
Wait, what? This wasn’t SERIOUS fashion advice. Oh man… I’m going to need a LOT of bleach…
Is it wrong that my biggest objection to this is that whole people would be so heavy? (And smell after a little while, then start decomposing…) But I guess drawing shawls etc. made out of the cured skins of one’s fallen enemies would be less clear…
We figured they’d be elegantly stuffed and cured as sorts of skin-dolls, so as to be light enough to wear, but identifiable enough to get a good hate-on. 😉
I should have known you’d have this totally figured out 😀 Carry on then! 😉
I actually had a guy ASK me this year what I’d do if he grabbed my ass. (Said with a big grin on his face) I told him I’d pistol whip him. “seriously” he didn’t want to grab my ass anymore. Hey, it worked. :/
I hate the Westboro baptis church as much as the next person, but this is a little dark.
Threat-a-porter :))
What sizes do “parents” come in? Maybe then they’d stop telling me I dress like an emo 14 year old boy.
My sister’s comment was “Do you have an ‘ex-husband special’?”
This was something that happened about two years ago, and has since been sort of fixed, and sort of not.
Here in Sweden there are only a few institutions and hospitals that are authorized to give care to trans* patients. so I can’t actually go anywhere else.
Now, her incompetence eventually got her fired, but not before mucking up my transition to the point where I was treading water for an entire year.
now it’s back on track though, going to the doc for a physical in prep for hormones, and then voice-coaching, hair-removal etc.