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Penny Arcade - Comic - Kissytown
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Kissytown
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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What's strange about it?
They're both ashamed they made their toys kiss when they were kids. What's there to be ashamed of, exactly? Are they so sensitive about having played with toys in a way generally associated with how girls play with their toys? I think it's a strange comic for Penny Arcade in 2022, because they have generally moved away from repeating these kinds of gender stereotypes.
Yeah, I’m pretty surprised to see gender stereotypes and vague homophobia in a PA comic these days. But, here we are.
I see it as them both coming to the realization that they both did those things as kids. Seems more like tearing down of those concepts more than reinforcing them.
Yeah, I saw it more as mockery. The characters both say stuff all the time that's the opposite of what the authors believe, not because they believe it but because you are supposed to agree with them that the character was wrong.
Like this old nugget:
That was from... let me check my notes.. right. Two days ago.
Try and tell me these aren't the most kissable of robo-lips.
True, but Optmus still had ports and pistons. I'm sure they could figure it out.
Otherwise Duke can just come inside the truck cabin.
Ah, but Beast Wars was probably not too late...
"Give me your face" is the quote, I believe.
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Reading the newspost about this strip, it sounds like Jerry didn't care much as a kid when he was playing with his sister.
Enh, I wouldn't go that far. My family wasn't big on enforcing traditional gender roles, but it just never occurred to me to have my toys kissing and such. At least, that's my foggy memory. I'm not really big into traditional gender roles myself (again, probably at least party as a result of very little enforcement of it in childhood), and don't really "perform" my gender. Maybe in my case it just had more to do with me being oblivious of romance at that age (and much further, unfortunately).
I don't remember making my toys kiss as a kid, though more because it wasn't really the "plot" of my games.(and the idea that a robot could kiss never occurred to me back then). I wouldn't have been against it on principle.
Now about the point of the comic (which wasn't necessarily Optimus Kissing or not kissing Joe), i dunno... i feel "the magic" is kinda lost when every single character in existence appears in the same thing. There's not the same level of excitement as with a actual crossover.