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The idea that women are playing crazy mind games on men is just from their minds being unable to understand superior logic. Not that women can’t play mind games on men, it is just that when we do, your heads just seem to explode.
It’s not superior logic. It’s that men drop about 40 IQ points around attractive women. Apparently nature thinks guys have to be pretty stupid to want to stick around.
Riniko; don’t ever start a gender war, ’cause there will eventually come a man who a) will not stand for this BS, and b) knows enough to win the argument.
I hate that particular sentiment. If anything, women tend to have less logic than men. Women are just so accomplished at bullsh****ng that most men never notice the logic failures. Here’s why (this “joke” comes from a licensed marriage councilor):
“A man’s mind is a series of boxes, all carefully aligned on shelves, so that no box touches any other box. Each box is a topic; politics, food, religion, sex, etc. When a man thinks, he carefully takes a box of the shelf, making sure it touches no other box, and goes through its contents. When he finishes, he carefully puts everything back into its proper place in the box, and puts the box back into its proper place on the shelf, making sure it touches no other box.
A woman’s mind is a series of wires, all tangled up into one indiscriminate mass. Each wire is a topic; politics, food, religion, sex, etc. When a woman thinks, she tries to grab one wire. Since the woman hasn’t bothered to untangle the mass, though, she can’t grab just one wire-she has to grab the whole block, all the time, every time.
This is the reason for the three greatest obstacles in male-female relationships:
1) Men are slow but logical & precise in thought, while women tend to be fast and wild. Both types of thought have pros and cons, but both types of thought are incompatible with each other.
2) Men are often confused talking to women, because the women don’t ever give the men time to change boxes. Women are confused talking to men because a man’s insistence on logic frustrates a woman’s natural ability to move fast.
3) Even when a woman is wrong, which is at least half the time, they usually bull**t the man into submission. The whole stereotype of a man’s ‘head exploding’ comes from the fact that we know the woman is wrong, we can see the flaws in the logic, and we even know how to most effectively point this out. We just never get the chance, because once women start arguing, they never stop bullsh***ng, and the only reliable way to make her stop is physical violence.”
“It’s a trap!” You know it’s not technically a Trap as it was a full body change. That being said as Denver is a immature dragon; which way is the Trap going to spring.
Yeah, men get so much stupider when they’re around a girl they like. I’ve seen it happen so many times. One moment a guy will be completely sensible and coherent, capable of using sound logic, than the girl he finds attractive walks into the room and all that is thrown out the window.
Violence should never be used as a means of settling a disagreement, if a disagreement has reached the point that one party feels that is the only answer than they have already admitted that they are wrong. Now, stepping away from that, I have a question. Someone in an earlier posting (chat side) made the joke about the curse now being contagious. If Denver got transformed would that then lock him into being a human female that would not change into a dragon?
Probably not. The transformation only seems to affect gender not species. The NYMPH changed genders without becoming human. Most likely, if Denver were to become female through the curse, Denver’s transformation into a dragon would most likely be accelerated since females change first.
Hah, the gender ‘war’ is kinda funny. Funnier is that guy is somewhat correct with points 1 and 2 from a psychological standpoint..not 3 though..jumped off the deep end there. I’d argue that mens head don’t explode due to the complexity of mind games, but due to the moral compass and possible cognitive dissonance. Either way, back to the comic at hand. Do we know how it’s contagious? I mean, Denver kissed her and is still a man..hopefully. Be one of the manliest looking woman so far and I think he’d notice some bits missing. Are we sure how the Nymph caught it?
I partially apologize for the mention of violence as a means to solve an argument. I have been dealing with women for a long time, and though I have never used violence myself, I have been working with people who have. So far, I have been unable to find a reliable alternative to violence-I’d really appreciate some help.
As for how the curse is contagious…it seems as if it only spreads when a spellcaster actively tries to examine/alter it. You’ll notice that Tiffany has had extreme (i.e., violent), extensive contact with all kinds of people, yet none of them have been the victims of a gender-bender.
There is the case of that one water nix, but given that (s)he actively tried to use an enchantment on Tiffany for sado-pervert purposes, I think that falls under “actively examining/altering the curse”.
I think the dragon part is just suppressed while they are in their human phase of development. After that the dragon takes over. I believe that the dragon is hyper-intelligent (described in June 2007) and retains the memory, but no longer sees itself as human or caring that it was formally human. They do seem to avoid killing the child (human) version of the species. No word of any showing that they want to change back after the final transformation, tho it seem that until then that they are not happy (cue the sister reaction in her halfway state.
ChristianGuy: But…violence is the most energy-efficient way to solve a problem! According to the laws of thermodynamics, any process increases the amount of entropy in a system. So, using non-violent means to solve a problem creates an excess of entropy, where entropic states are chaotic and violent at least at the atomic level. If, however, the problem is solved with violence, the state of entropy that results solves the problem!
Riniko: I think that may be true for the most part…however I kinda see Denver as retaining his human personality and memories…largely because around Typhan-knee and Peonie, things tend to turn out in…unexpected ways. Although Denver would probably be complaining about “the voices in his head.” At that point, cue the Unicorn.
@CHRISTIANGUY — I suspect the Crusaders and the Inquisition just felt they were reasonable guys who KNEW they were RIGHT and there was no use arguing so hey, might makes right, right? A little brute force will always change someone’s mind and results in long-term solutions… (I couldn’t find the font that literally drips with sarcasm, sorry)
If you haven’t found any reliable alternatives that actually lead to long-term effective (as opposed to short-term but ineffective) results, you might want to read up on some guys named Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Or I hear there was this one guy named Jesus once…
Actually, Dr. Sooth, if you knew as much about history as you seem to think you do, you might consider that the Crusades were defensive wars- the first started when muslim savages started butchering Christian settlers in the Holy Land and the Church had to send armed protection.
Oh, and second, “Inquisition” means “Holy Tribunal” it’s a basic church trial. Those kooky Spaniards are the ones that intermingled secular authority with religious and started using it as an excuse to steal people’s property. It was ALSO an inquisition that put a stop to it.
And Martin Luther King was an inveterate womanizer who plagiarized his entire doctoral thesis. He had a personal history of treating women like craps, which neatly undermines your actual point. Ghandi’s culture also considered women lesser beings.
The neat thing about the INTERNET you are CURRENTLY CONNECTED TO is that you can find all these things out for yourself.
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I love Tiff’s Reaction in the last window. lol. 😀
It’s a trap!
Spoken from personal experience, Tiff?
The idea that women are playing crazy mind games on men is just from their minds being unable to understand superior logic. Not that women can’t play mind games on men, it is just that when we do, your heads just seem to explode.
It’s not superior logic. It’s that men drop about 40 IQ points around attractive women. Apparently nature thinks guys have to be pretty stupid to want to stick around.
Riniko; don’t ever start a gender war, ’cause there will eventually come a man who a) will not stand for this BS, and b) knows enough to win the argument.
I hate that particular sentiment. If anything, women tend to have less logic than men. Women are just so accomplished at bullsh****ng that most men never notice the logic failures. Here’s why (this “joke” comes from a licensed marriage councilor):
“A man’s mind is a series of boxes, all carefully aligned on shelves, so that no box touches any other box. Each box is a topic; politics, food, religion, sex, etc. When a man thinks, he carefully takes a box of the shelf, making sure it touches no other box, and goes through its contents. When he finishes, he carefully puts everything back into its proper place in the box, and puts the box back into its proper place on the shelf, making sure it touches no other box.
A woman’s mind is a series of wires, all tangled up into one indiscriminate mass. Each wire is a topic; politics, food, religion, sex, etc. When a woman thinks, she tries to grab one wire. Since the woman hasn’t bothered to untangle the mass, though, she can’t grab just one wire-she has to grab the whole block, all the time, every time.
This is the reason for the three greatest obstacles in male-female relationships:
1) Men are slow but logical & precise in thought, while women tend to be fast and wild. Both types of thought have pros and cons, but both types of thought are incompatible with each other.
2) Men are often confused talking to women, because the women don’t ever give the men time to change boxes. Women are confused talking to men because a man’s insistence on logic frustrates a woman’s natural ability to move fast.
3) Even when a woman is wrong, which is at least half the time, they usually bull**t the man into submission. The whole stereotype of a man’s ‘head exploding’ comes from the fact that we know the woman is wrong, we can see the flaws in the logic, and we even know how to most effectively point this out. We just never get the chance, because once women start arguing, they never stop bullsh***ng, and the only reliable way to make her stop is physical violence.”
“It’s a trap!” You know it’s not technically a Trap as it was a full body change. That being said as Denver is a immature dragon; which way is the Trap going to spring.
Yeah, men get so much stupider when they’re around a girl they like. I’ve seen it happen so many times. One moment a guy will be completely sensible and coherent, capable of using sound logic, than the girl he finds attractive walks into the room and all that is thrown out the window.
Violence should never be used as a means of settling a disagreement, if a disagreement has reached the point that one party feels that is the only answer than they have already admitted that they are wrong. Now, stepping away from that, I have a question. Someone in an earlier posting (chat side) made the joke about the curse now being contagious. If Denver got transformed would that then lock him into being a human female that would not change into a dragon?
Probably not. The transformation only seems to affect gender not species. The NYMPH changed genders without becoming human. Most likely, if Denver were to become female through the curse, Denver’s transformation into a dragon would most likely be accelerated since females change first.
Hah, the gender ‘war’ is kinda funny. Funnier is that guy is somewhat correct with points 1 and 2 from a psychological standpoint..not 3 though..jumped off the deep end there. I’d argue that mens head don’t explode due to the complexity of mind games, but due to the moral compass and possible cognitive dissonance. Either way, back to the comic at hand. Do we know how it’s contagious? I mean, Denver kissed her and is still a man..hopefully. Be one of the manliest looking woman so far and I think he’d notice some bits missing. Are we sure how the Nymph caught it?
I partially apologize for the mention of violence as a means to solve an argument. I have been dealing with women for a long time, and though I have never used violence myself, I have been working with people who have. So far, I have been unable to find a reliable alternative to violence-I’d really appreciate some help.
As for how the curse is contagious…it seems as if it only spreads when a spellcaster actively tries to examine/alter it. You’ll notice that Tiffany has had extreme (i.e., violent), extensive contact with all kinds of people, yet none of them have been the victims of a gender-bender.
There is the case of that one water nix, but given that (s)he actively tried to use an enchantment on Tiffany for sado-pervert purposes, I think that falls under “actively examining/altering the curse”.
Okay! Which one ya bimbos has been telling our secrets? >(
So, in this strip, do dragons lose their intelligence and memories when they change over?
I think the dragon part is just suppressed while they are in their human phase of development. After that the dragon takes over. I believe that the dragon is hyper-intelligent (described in June 2007) and retains the memory, but no longer sees itself as human or caring that it was formally human. They do seem to avoid killing the child (human) version of the species. No word of any showing that they want to change back after the final transformation, tho it seem that until then that they are not happy (cue the sister reaction in her halfway state.
ChristianGuy: But…violence is the most energy-efficient way to solve a problem! According to the laws of thermodynamics, any process increases the amount of entropy in a system. So, using non-violent means to solve a problem creates an excess of entropy, where entropic states are chaotic and violent at least at the atomic level. If, however, the problem is solved with violence, the state of entropy that results solves the problem!
Riniko: I think that may be true for the most part…however I kinda see Denver as retaining his human personality and memories…largely because around Typhan-knee and Peonie, things tend to turn out in…unexpected ways. Although Denver would probably be complaining about “the voices in his head.” At that point, cue the Unicorn.
Rule #6: If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
@CHRISTIANGUY — I suspect the Crusaders and the Inquisition just felt they were reasonable guys who KNEW they were RIGHT and there was no use arguing so hey, might makes right, right? A little brute force will always change someone’s mind and results in long-term solutions… (I couldn’t find the font that literally drips with sarcasm, sorry)
If you haven’t found any reliable alternatives that actually lead to long-term effective (as opposed to short-term but ineffective) results, you might want to read up on some guys named Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Or I hear there was this one guy named Jesus once…
@deveren *way up there before this conversation*
Oh, right, “Sister Teresa” would never play and crazy mind games…
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
*Notices argument in comments*
Ooh, a fight!
*Eats popcorn*
Dr Sooth, you might want to discuss that premiss with a Carthagenian.
Actually, Dr. Sooth, if you knew as much about history as you seem to think you do, you might consider that the Crusades were defensive wars- the first started when muslim savages started butchering Christian settlers in the Holy Land and the Church had to send armed protection.
Oh, and second, “Inquisition” means “Holy Tribunal” it’s a basic church trial. Those kooky Spaniards are the ones that intermingled secular authority with religious and started using it as an excuse to steal people’s property. It was ALSO an inquisition that put a stop to it.
And Martin Luther King was an inveterate womanizer who plagiarized his entire doctoral thesis. He had a personal history of treating women like craps, which neatly undermines your actual point. Ghandi’s culture also considered women lesser beings.
The neat thing about the INTERNET you are CURRENTLY CONNECTED TO is that you can find all these things out for yourself.
If you bother to look.
Head Shot O_o
@Dr. Sooth Ironic he would’nt know him,considering his avatar….XD