Comic Strips

13750 readers

2949 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

Web of links

[email protected]: "I use Arch btw"
[email protected]: memes (you don't say!)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lawrence

406

It happens to all of us (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by klarvy7 to c/comicstrips

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The one that got me was being called "that man".

My dad is "Mr. " and he thought of his dad as the same, but both he and I have courted and expected the same title in various places and if you're called that name enough times, you can kind of get used to it.

But when a small child almost runs into you and their mother chastises them with "Careful! You almost ran into that man!" and "that man" is you. Oh boy. And another time "Why does that man look so sad?". As you might imagine, I was not having a particularly good time before that small child said that.

But I suppose it wasn't "that old man"...

[–] moistclump 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Exact same feeling when a child almost ran into me and her mom said “watch out for that lady” when I’d have expected to be referred to as “that girl”.

I’m 30 now but the moment still stuck with me as a memory about the transition to adulthood .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I used to object to it because I was just "a guy." It felt so unnatural because I still felt like a just-stopped-being-a-teenager adult. I defended calling women "chicks" for the same reason because, to 22 yo me, "men" and "women" were middle-aged. Fortunately, I learned not to keep doing that.

But yeah, this comic is pretty easy to identify with.