Hey, I am a 65 year old woman and do not know what the child is talking about. Friends with benefits should be a good thing. However, the world’s phliosophy today is “Good is Bad” and “Bad is Good”. With that kind of worldly thinking, it’s not easy to protect ourselves, let alone our children.
It means friends you have sex with when your other options are limited. It’s not my way, but that’s what it means, and she’s right to avoid the topic of the term as long as she can. The daughter doesn’t need to know that yet.
Don’t shoot the messenger, ok? I didn’t just come out with it, nobody knows what it means and it’s in today’s strip, so it can’t be wrong to define the term if people asked. I just couldn’t think of a way to not use the word sex and still have the term properly understood. There’s no love involved with the term.
cdward almost 15 years ago
…or you could try telling her the truth (in age-appropriate bits, of course)
arsmall almost 15 years ago
Exactly cdward…
hkbritt0920 almost 15 years ago
Hey, I am a 65 year old woman and do not know what the child is talking about. Friends with benefits should be a good thing. However, the world’s phliosophy today is “Good is Bad” and “Bad is Good”. With that kind of worldly thinking, it’s not easy to protect ourselves, let alone our children.
mrslukeskywalker almost 15 years ago
It means friends you have sex with when your other options are limited. It’s not my way, but that’s what it means, and she’s right to avoid the topic of the term as long as she can. The daughter doesn’t need to know that yet.
Don’t shoot the messenger, ok? I didn’t just come out with it, nobody knows what it means and it’s in today’s strip, so it can’t be wrong to define the term if people asked. I just couldn’t think of a way to not use the word sex and still have the term properly understood. There’s no love involved with the term.