Offence is a two way communication. It can be given but it also needs to be taken before it is truely an event. So if you never take offence, life becomes that much easier.
For a real education send Zack into school with the 3’rd panel sentence and see if he can diagram it. detached and dangling sections would look like a war torn road map.
Oh good, I’m not the only one who was confused by the 3rd panel. Must have slipped past the editor. I think it’s supposed to read, “Why not let Vince, who lives right here, go and tell her you don’t need to write it.” Vince is the hippie-looking gay liberal yoga instructor character.
@ PsychoDad – what is wrong with Non Sequitur? Kinda funny. Anti-Republican rather than racist. It is a wry and amusing strip, unlike this one with its painful anti-liberal heavy-handedness.
Now that Vince has been identified, helping us to see that what panel 3 contains is a recommendation for Zack to tell his teacher that some of his best friends are gay (but doesn’t help us see anything funny in the panel 4 punchline), let’s return to the overlooked second panel, and its reference to “those among us with identity issues.”
I’m not going to try figure out what that phrase is supposed to mean exactly, but the message is clear: poor Zack is struggling with the impossible task of tiptoeing around other people’s incomprehensible “issues.” No, Zack (and John and John): saying “That’s so gay” to describe something you think is bad means that you’re saying “gay” equals “bad.” Maybe I’ll start saying “That’s so Presbyterian” about anything I don’t like, and if any Presbyterians get upset I’ll just throw up my hands about how hard it is to please those among us with religious identity issues.
doc white about 13 years ago
Everything offends her.
celeconecca about 13 years ago
Huh?
yaakovashoshana about 13 years ago
I agree with celecca. The third panel sentence does not make sense.
Thehag about 13 years ago
Offence is a two way communication. It can be given but it also needs to be taken before it is truely an event. So if you never take offence, life becomes that much easier.
ladywyntre about 13 years ago
Hah, this strip doesn’t make any less sense than the rest of this straw man story arc.
LingeeWhiz about 13 years ago
Stargazer name gives it away…..it is an unobtainable goal to live life without offending anyone. Just a stargazing idea.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 13 years ago
What choice do you got now Zack? You might be doing class over and over again! Something must be done!
HOHNancy about 13 years ago
I agree with the others about the third panel….it doesn’t make sense.
Agent54 about 13 years ago
For a real education send Zack into school with the 3’rd panel sentence and see if he can diagram it. detached and dangling sections would look like a war torn road map.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member about 13 years ago
Oh good, I’m not the only one who was confused by the 3rd panel. Must have slipped past the editor. I think it’s supposed to read, “Why not let Vince, who lives right here, go and tell her you don’t need to write it.” Vince is the hippie-looking gay liberal yoga instructor character.
Shikamoo Premium Member about 13 years ago
What celecca says: HUH?
cynthia staples about 13 years ago
@ PsychoDad – what is wrong with Non Sequitur? Kinda funny. Anti-Republican rather than racist. It is a wry and amusing strip, unlike this one with its painful anti-liberal heavy-handedness.
Daniel Mishkin Premium Member about 13 years ago
Now that Vince has been identified, helping us to see that what panel 3 contains is a recommendation for Zack to tell his teacher that some of his best friends are gay (but doesn’t help us see anything funny in the panel 4 punchline), let’s return to the overlooked second panel, and its reference to “those among us with identity issues.”
I’m not going to try figure out what that phrase is supposed to mean exactly, but the message is clear: poor Zack is struggling with the impossible task of tiptoeing around other people’s incomprehensible “issues.” No, Zack (and John and John): saying “That’s so gay” to describe something you think is bad means that you’re saying “gay” equals “bad.” Maybe I’ll start saying “That’s so Presbyterian” about anything I don’t like, and if any Presbyterians get upset I’ll just throw up my hands about how hard it is to please those among us with religious identity issues.
Barnabus Blackoak about 13 years ago
i still don’t get it…