At least in the military, we have male and female versions of the fitness test. My understanding is that you've got to be certified by a doctor as "male or female enough" (my words) in order to be tested in that category. Mind you, the fitness test is not a competition, but a measure of relative health to your age…

I don't use the word "hero" lightly…

That's a good note to end on. Here's hoping next week's discussion stays focused on comics and culture!

Last week, the show went from "grim" to "cartoonish super-grim."

- Tony
- Mr. Tawky Tawny
- Mufasa
- Sigfried
- …and so forth.

Pretty much. Best not to think about that at your next crab dinner.

Sorry, there's a broader context to my comment which exceeds the scope of my article. It's outside comment threads on AVC where I see a lot of dual standards of "do as I say, not as I do," particularly with regard to things like body-shaming and other insults. We've had colossal blowups on threads here about the…

Wait, Cyborg is Ezekiel?

On FTWD, they also showed crabs eating a zombie.

I only half-paid attention to the episode. I got home late and there was a lot of noise in the other room. Here's what I got:
- Carol's in bed feeling sad
- Morgan is still zen, except he isn't
- Nothing will eat zombies except pigs
- Hey, there's that guy with the tiger
- The Saviors are still assholes even when…

You know…no, I'm going to reject this as a rule. If I'm going to commit to Christianity, it's going to be under a standard of charity and not of satisfaction. I appreciate what you're trying to say, but it's not for me. If somebody needs to be "leveled," it's going to be because they're not living up to their human…

If hope there's an inherent reason for the punching other than "up." You know, "this guy is rich. Fuck him." Surely we can be a little more discriminating than that.

Dickery is not really helping your case, even if you're honest about it.. I think we're done here.

Well, way to stereotype. I'm no happier about that than you are.

Well, thanks for explaining the shuffle of insults in ascendant versus descendant cultures. I'm sure somewhere in the future when Christians are a definitive minority, non-Christian culture will be completely understanding when they're being punched up at. And then Christians will ascend again, and we'll flip the…

No, what I said was "I don't think Girard intends to hurt anybody with this, whereas my other guy was intentionally being a dick." Context is everything.

No, I got THAT. Reread my original comment.

I will accept this answer.

I mean, it might have been. Depends on the comic and the level of good fun or viciousness. I dunno. I like pie. Can we agree on pie?

I tend to use the word "absurd" in the Albert Camus sense. Most people don't, and it's frustrating.