For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 27, 2013

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 11 years ago

    in… uh… some ways

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    hsawlrae  over 11 years ago

    Same as what?

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    lily245pj  over 11 years ago

    No…………………We are not the same.

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    jeanie5448  over 11 years ago

    never could stand to shower at the gym, never know what kind of germs lurk in there. yuk.

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    YokohamaMama  over 11 years ago

    The same – but different.

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    TheSkulker  over 11 years ago

    Exactly. People should get over it.

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    ewalnut  over 11 years ago

    Didn’t she have to do this in school after taking gym?

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    coffeeturtle  over 11 years ago

    There are some things people prefer to do alone.

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    jgl756  over 11 years ago

    When we ‘compare’ we ‘judge’

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    vldazzle  over 11 years ago

    I avoided activities that put me naked with a crowded room (and still would). Still, it is normal to do in an exam room and I love to be … with my man ;-D

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    Rockyhammock  over 11 years ago

    I’d have no problem, but they keep kicking me out.

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    danlarios  over 11 years ago

    really?

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    JanLC  over 11 years ago

    We weren’t allowed to skip the showers. The teacher had a checklist and would tick off everyone’s name every day. (Being girls, we did have one excuse for not showering.)

    By the way, if Ellie is resisting the shower and Connie is still trying to talk her into it, why is she stripped down to her towel?

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    Bargrove  over 11 years ago

    All bottoms are not created equally

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    barbara chaffin Premium Member over 11 years ago

    elly looks small in the last panel

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    USN1977  over 11 years ago

    Sure hope Elly never gets a job in a nuclear power plant. Decontamination showers are a requirement!

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    loves raising duncan  over 11 years ago

    That statement is debatable!

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    USN1977  over 11 years ago

    There is a funny British film called “Nuns on the Run”, where two gangsters disguise themselves as nuns to avoid being killed. When speaking to the Mother Superior and told about the convent’s communal shower, they claim that “Nudisty is very evil where we are from”, only to be told by the Mother Superior that “Beneath our robes, God made us all the same.” Of course, they had a good reason for being concerned about the communal shower!

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    SuperNick1112  over 11 years ago

    bats aren’t blind, so that’s probably an insult to bats.

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    1MadHat Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Remember that we’re all unique – just like everyone else. 8^)

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    To quote an old saying, “If you’ve seen two, you’ve seen ’em all” – the rest is just proportion.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 11 years ago

    I can see Elly’s point — they may ALL be women but they AREN’T all the same! I’d feel extremely self-conscious stripping down and showering naked in front of a bunch of other people too (even though at 5’, 3’ tall and weighing 125 lbs., I’m pretty much where I’m supposed to be BMI-wise according to my doctor at last month’s annual check-up). But just as Coffee-Turtle said: there are some things people prefer to do alone . . . and if not wanting to shower in front of other people is how Elly feels, then Connie shouldn’t be pushing or shaming her into it. Just because she (Connie) doesn’t want to shower “alone” with all those strangers (or maybe it’s because she just wants a friend by her side to converse with while she does) doesn’t mean Elly should feel forced into doing something she isn’t comfortable with.

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    iced tea  over 11 years ago

    Theres big, medium, and small.

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    QuietStorm27  over 11 years ago

    I barely participated in gym, i only did enough to pass and I refused to shower at school. I was picked on enough as it is. Plus there were a couple of perverted teachers who watched.

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    gailatkinson  over 11 years ago

    Ellly, if it makes you uncomfortable don’t do it!

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 11 years ago

    We were forced to shower in high school, and we were also forced to let the teachers check us to make sure we had “soaped” all the right places. Anybody else see anything wrong with this?

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    kaystari Premium Member over 11 years ago

    How is it that her clothes are gone and replaced by a towel in the middle of their conversation? Elly hasnt even agreed to it and shes wearing a towel!

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    rugratz2222  over 11 years ago

    in my high school guys normally had to shower and we had to line up to get our towels from the coach … at the time, I never saw anything wrong with it … but some guys refused to shower and would stink the rest of the day … the girls had private dressing stalls in their gym area (went in one time when it was loaned to visiting rival teams) … didn’t think too much about it … my son is still very nude conscious – doesn’t even like to view it of either sex. No big deal to me anymore.

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