Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 25, 2023

I gotta say I called it…the old, " Tease the one you love…" routine

Sir? What do you know, Marcie’s admirer does have something in common with her!

Poor Floyd, he probably only heard Peppermint Patty being called Sir thanks to Marcie and thinks that’s her name.

Poor kid can’t catch a break.

Quite a setup for that gag.

PP just couldn’t take that she missed out on whacking that boy while Marcie was having all the fun!

“Love Hurts…” (Nazareth)

Anyone notice how a girl slugging a guy is considered totally ok, normal and good for a few laughs? Then when you tell people that in domestic violence there are actually almost as many battered men as woman, nobody wants to believe it – but the stats are there if you know where to look (NOT from police records… (men do NOT go to the police when they are beaten.. the REAL figures come from the hospitals and are NOT the stats that most people know about. In fact, the highest level of domestic violence isn’t even heterosexual… it is between lesbians. But telling people that women use violence as often as men just isn’t “acceptable”.)Imagine the outcry if this comic had been showing the boys bashing the girls… people wouldn’t be smiling and accepting things the way they do when the roles are reversed. Because we are conditioned to accept women’s violence as normal. (Think of how many films have a scene where a woman, out of anger or frustration, hauls off and smacks a man across the face … everyone accepts this as fine and dandy, and many sit-coms use such scenes and people laugh! Nobody stops for a second to say"Excuse me, but being a woman doesn’t give you more right to hit someone than if you are a man; BOTH men and women should control themselves and either walk away from a situation or use words instead of violence to deal with the problem.

Second consecutive week of strips without either Charlie Brown, Snoopy, or the Van Pelts.

Patti never kicks Marcie when Marcie calls her “sir”.

Marcie is the only person who is allowed call Peppermint Patty, “Sir.”

Forget the dispensary (https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2023/07/22?ct=v&cti=2208697), this kid may need to be booked into the local health clinic…

You’d think the kid would just give up after a few trips to the infirmary…

Get used to the ground, kid.

The entire quote is “Don’t Call Me ‘Sir’ I’m no d**ned officer” sometimes with “I work for a living” added. Inside joke told to The Count by a Former (Active Duty) Old Salt United States Marine. Semper Fi!

do as I say, not as I do. :}

You must call me “They/them”. (Pronoun police)

This thread is starting to look like a metaphor for modern dating…

This boy so resembles Charlie Brown or Linus in a black wig

BOOT !

He looks kinda like Linus with dark hair

Where is he?He got knocked clear into ONE BIG HAPPY.

Being a bookworm of sorts,I think Marcie is puzzled somebody would find her cute

This poor kid may not make it out in one piece

Am I the only one who could do without the Marcie character?

Run for your life, kid! They’re both wacko-crazy!

This kid is never going to want to go on camp again ( it hurts to much)

Kid may develop a fear of girls!!

He may have won her heart with that comment.

K. Someone point me (and the rest of us!) to when Linus was patting birds on the head. STILL one of THEE Classic Peanuts’ arcs!

This seems to be long before “bullying” became an item in the news.

Strange. I don’t remember the girls of this era being so belligerent.

Everyone has their own triggers.

This kid just doesn’t learn. Maybe he’s in it for the bruises.

You tell’im, Patty!

Certain personality types, as well as empathic people, tend to have difficulty recognizing romantic interest toward them

LOL, I can’t stop laughing! :)

Boot camp

People seem to be uncomfortable when deference is offered.

It’s Linus with hair!