Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 10, 2014

He’s not married — it wasn’t legal back then.

Love that old type black phone…land line too….

Times change… boys and girls don’t…

My, that relationship moved fast. I thought they just had a second date.

Was Gary trying to stereotype women as paranoid and irrational?

Gays couldn’t marry their sweetheart of the same sex, but they could and did marry and have kids.

Thursday is Talk Like a Pedant Day.

Right now as we sit reading this comic, heterosexual women are being slaughtered in certain countries because the families of the husbands they were sold to didn’t think the family paid a large enough dowry, or because they were raped with no witnesses so they ‘shamed’ their families. Or because they married someone other than the person their family had decided to sell them to….

I agree. But as a fomer renter, it has been my experience that eventually there is an interest to “rent to own”. This happens when the poor slob realizes that she DOESN’T want to marry him. She’s just waiting for something better to come along……and, if she is good looking (smile) it ALWAYS DOES. Love it.

Joanie, sweetheart, I have something to tell you. Wait for it…..wait for it………WORLDS CRASH, EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE, THE OCEAN DRIES UP, FLAMES, DESTRUCTION……OOOOH THE HUMANITY!!!

does anyone still do an “air dial” to try to remember a phone number?.Joanie is still in 1950’s mode, despite the leaving the stuffed shirt, living in a commune, and starting classes at law school. Women didn’t really ask the guys – they expected the guys to do the telling first. And it is also a “preserving the male ego” thing. … I can’t recall, but I think Joanie gets things figured out.