For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 15, 2017

SpongeBob and Patrick could give you lads some ideas; they too played in a cardboard box with some (cue rainbow made from hands) imagination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbPWe9U4uPU

This comic strip was brought to you by:

1. The He Man Woman Haters Club from The Little Rascals and

2. Ernest Borgnine’s classic “What do you feel like doing tonight?” scene from the movie Marty.

All that male posturing…that will continue through high school and college. Little girls feel bad and left out…and learned tricks to get their attention and get invited…something called testosterone that responds so well to estrogen.

I bet the girls would have more fun in it. Probably play house. They’d also have more room, being smaller.

Try to figure out a way to keep his mother from finding out that he used her good knives in building the club house.

How old is he? Two bad spelling mistakes

Kind of like the Little Rascals exclusive boys’ club, no girls allowed….

So? Let the girls form their own club. The boys will come snooping around soon enough.

I know,they can work on their spelling.

Whatever happened to “Lizard Breath?”

Males have done this for thousands of years, why stop now?

My older brother & his friends started a Horror Club in our cellar when I was about 5 or 6. The fact that it was Horror alone was enough to keep me out, until the time when I HAD to go down. I had a doll that I loved: it was a cloth-bodied doll, as big as me, with elastics in her hands & feet so that I could “dance” with her. One day I couldn’t find her, so I looked everywhere for her, inevitably going into the cellar. The Club had decorated their area with silly string for cobwebs and various pictures & posters and, hanging on a noose from the ceiling, was my beloved doll. They had slathered fake blood all over her and stuck a little gardening hand-rake into her back. I had nightmares for weeks, and my brother’s club was put to an end.

There are so many classic examples of “boys only” clubhouses in the comics and movies. This adds to the lore.

As a boy I never had feelings of alienating girls. Not one thought.

Don’t want to forget Calvin and Hobbes’ anti-girl club!

And What do you want to do, Marty?

Girls allowed if quiet; just NO talking!

@Kind&Kinder Their G.R.O.S.S. club could work even better than Calvin’s — Get Rid Of Slimy Sisters!

Not to mention The 1934 feature from Columbia “Woman Haters” starring the Three Stooges in one of their earliest (perhaps first?) Columbia features. From Wikipedia: “The Stooges were not known professionally as the Three Stooges when the film was released and were billed under their own names”. They were not yet relying on physical humor – the entertainment value here was much more based on the writing and the musical element. If you don’t like later Stooges because of the violence, but are a fan of old black & white films, you may enjoy this!