Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 25, 2020

Lack of restrooms!

Because I’ve never seen a woman want to be a hermit in the mountains.

Because unlike like women men do know everything

Moan!!! Sorry… one of my pet-peeves. I dislike gender specific titles.

Actress, seamstress, hostess… the end additive implies that they are lessor and can be paid less… or has less skill for the job. And titles that ‘everyone knows the gender’ is worse! Nurse, witch, king, farmer… are just a few. This is the 21 century! It is almost 100 years since women have had the right to vote. Daddy’s are becoming acceptable to stay home and take care of the children. When do these silly jokes… no longer seem to be laughable?

A woman’s place is in the Om.

Actually, I was hoping it was a woman. I get mansplained all the time.

is that an oversized goat on the distant peak?

I’m more curious about what the goat is assuming.

I’ve been reading these comics long enough that I wouldn’t even assume it would be a human being.

Well, men don’t seem to have gotten much right since Adam and that apple. Eve was just ribbing him, and he bit the bait!

As long as the hermit doesn’t listen to lame stream and/or sociopathic media, I don’t care what they are!

Her name is Alexa and she lives in the cloud…

“Well, I guess after decades of male sexist cartoonists’ drawings, that’s just the image in my head.”

Tomorrow: Ask Gurubear.

This is actually a really good point.

Same reason “god” brings a male image to mind. After centuries of seeing it portrayed as male, hard to think of it as female.

The Oracle at Delphi was always a woman.

Nice. Though when you think of it, why would any “wise” woman want to sit atop a lonely peak waiting for ignorant people to come up and talk to her. I’m thinking she would track them down and sort them out straight away.

Guy just started a l-o-o-o-o-ng fall back to reality and he doesn’t even know it.

My niece formerly-known-as-my-nephew goes by “they”, which I’ve always found puzzling and awkward.

BECAUSE THAT’S ALL WILEY’S GIVEN IS TO GO OFF OF UP ‘TILL NOW.

So, this is not meant as a joke but as a commentary on how little progress the human race has made – it is satirical comment not humor (as much of Wiley’s toons are)!

“MAN”

(imagines more than one interpretation of this piece of dialogue in the cartoon (such as the piece being a synonym for the word “human”))

It is not the word itself that implies inferiority or superiority! It is the mindset of the person using the word. Change your mindset not the language.

Her husband/“partner” is cleaning the cave!

Reminds me of one of Graham Kerr’s stories (back when he was funny as “The Galloping Gourmet”). In short, man dissipates fortune, health and youth searching for the Meaning of Life. At death’s door, on a mountaintop, he discovers a guru who tells him, “Life is a Fountain”. After a prolonged, disappointed rant from the seeker, the guru says, very puzzled, “Life is NOT a Fountain?”

walk away dude, just walk away….

He’d have been there sooner, but he wouldn’t ask for directions.

You did this on purpose, didncha, Wiley? WHAT A KERFUFFLE! Nice going. . .

Astronaut joke from Sputnik era: Astronaut lands and is debriefed. He says, “We’re going to have to change our thinking about god.” The debriefer asks, “How so?” The astronaut replies, “Well, first of all she’s a woman.”

Because a man doesn’t need all his friends around to support what he says.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ah

I could use some wisdom.

What about that next mountain over?

I have a nudge of grey beard so it was cool to see her faux beard peeping out at the side. Ooommm

Well, he was probably expecting Whoopi Goldberg in a funny hat, proffering frozen, alien, non-alcoholic cocktails across the bar of the Ten-Forward lounge…

Because women are way too busy to just sit around.

Wow. Hard to believe that there are these many people with no sense of humor. If you’re so damn picky why do you read comics in the first place?

Consider the following facts:

Most witches are women; most men are too-often trapped in the merely physical.

In Pagan times ‘wise women’ were the go-to for healing, prophecy, and connection to divine wisdom.

A preponderance of successful psychics, seers, and mediums are women.

Many of the ‘male’ psychics who passed the “repeatable experiment” test of science were (or are) gay.

Most men are trapped in the physical world alone – unaware and in denial that more exists beyond what their six-senses reveal. Except when they go into a church and pray to an invisible, intangible, imaginary being that was created by other men. Even that is a one-way street – except for the hucksters…

Because a woman wouldn’t be so stupid as to live in a cave on the top of a mountain.

Maybe a woman wouldn’t be dumb enough to sit on some mountain top? A guy? Oh yeah, more than dumb enough.

Maybe the goat ôn the farther mountain top has all the answers!

Someone is up at 1 AM? And they have nothing better to do than check the comics? Suddenly, I feel much better about myself.

At 9 PM…20 hours earlier=1AM (My comment made @ 9PM ESDT)

I don’t think women appreciate the arc as much as men do.

@1JennyJenkins “Taylor: An English name meaning ’Cutter of the cloth; one who alters garments ’”

The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the 110 livery companies of the City of London. It received its royal charter in 1327.

probably get more wisdom on the next mountain over