The Dumbest Gender
I'm allowed to say boys are dumb, I'm a boy
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That age where the universe is nothing but cringe!
What messes us, especially when we're young, up is that relationships -- platonic, romantic, n.o.s. -- don't come with clear instructions, and if they did, the instructions would probably be wrong in many situations and would undoubtedly be boring. You wind up teasing or harassing someone you'd like to know better just to get their attention -- which is dumb.
I almost feel like we need those old "relationships" films again, but with actual useful information, not weird 1950s gender role propaganda. Like the original films were awful, but the idea of "hey, so, you're going to be experiencing new emotions, here's a primer how to deal with them" isn't a bad concept in itself.
I partially wonder if about 40% of people in this comment section have ever had a teenage relationship. The enemies to dating pathway is real, and also teen relationships are rarely actually good in the first place. I was bullied a LOT in high school for being "the weird girl" only to find out my senior year that 80% of the dudes and 40% of the girls who bullied me had harbored crushes on me. This continues to this day, 21 years AFTER I graduated, where people will randomly shoot me a message to be like "I always thought you were so funny and cute but I was too scared to take a risk (and then the part they never say: on an unconventionally attractive person.) Needless to say: if you're a little weirdo who is at least somewhat cute in a weird way there will be equal measures of people bullying you and getting crushes on you, and they'll probably overlap.
I've always been considered "non-standard" - on the edge of groups. I didn't find out until years later that a number of the girls in the class below me had crushes on me.
There's a needless apostrophe in the text "Bubbles' isn't entirely sure..."
Jeph is a boy and boys are dumb. So, it’s right on point.
I'm allowed to say boys are dumb, I used to be a boy. also ugh, boys. /s ~<3
ABAD
This situation reminded me of: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/gender/
Unfortunately, I think dumb is the default condition for 'boys' of any age. This is not the same as stupid, which many, but not all, also are.
But is a regular boy more or less "ugh" than a deluxe regular boy custom limited™? Asking for a friend from my pigeon watcher's club. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3540
That’s different, that boy is build and programmed differently than other regular boys.
As a boy, I can say that boys are indeed "ugh", but then, we've been allowed to be for a long, long time. If we want boys not to be ugh anymore, we need to start teaching them not to be. Hard to do with folks like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate around, to be sure.
Very true. Ugh Boys are made, not born.
Bubbles is a veteran. She has lived with soldiers. She knows *exactly* what Emmet's mom means.
I was going to say…
Getting back to this plot… why is Emmett embarrassed? This was between Harry and themselves only witnessed by their mother and Bubbles? Do they have fourth wall awareness and also knows we saw this too and we too agree: “ugh, boys?”
It's entirely possible to be embarrassed by someone's actions when you're the only two people present! Hell, I can be embarrassed when I'm entirely alone.
What happens when Sam finds out what was *really* up with Harry and Emmett?
Sam will get the deets from Bubbles, and then Sam will also go “ugh boys.”
Daaah they cute. Also i love how they just didnt question on Bubbles just in their house (assuming they didnt catch her ya know walking in during that awkward apology)
I can't imagine what anybody sees in us.
A gay male friend at one point said to me, "I feel like anyone being interested in men is evidence that sexuality is not a choice" 😂😅 slightly harsh but funny
Man, I've got WAY more embarrassing moments than that.
As a boy, I’m allowed to to say, I agree. We are very, very dumb.
As a boy, I can certainly say that boys are terrible.
Aaaaand how!
okay but i wanna know why he misgendered them in the first place
Because boys are dumb. I could count the number of trans students who were even out to friends at my high school on one hand (more since then), but I think gender identity would be on the list alongside weight, height, general appearance, etc that would be mercilessly mocked even among people who were "friends"
On the other hand, this is just a remake of Austen. Pronounce Harry “dar-see”
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I want to hang out with you and think you are cool."
Indeed. Boys.
Sounds like he was the opposite of dumb. He apologized. He complimented Emmett and honestly expressed a feeling. But Emmett does not yet have the emotional wherewithal to deal with the new reality
I think the dumb bit is deliberately misgendering somone you think is cool
I have been advised that FtM find such talk hurtful, so as a former boy i wish to clarify that what we really mean, is Ugg, Cis boys
Well, as a cis male individual I would just like to say... yep, fair enough.
I like Emmetts mom
As a boy, yes, boys are the dumbest gender
Boys are also smelly. https://youtu.be/pRnNxBQD5u4?si=6o0Dqbb5Y81xxUeX
Becky and Bubbles each look to the ceiling, where boys can typically be found.
Evidence: Lionel Richie is a boy.
Q: How many dumb boys do we have in this thread? (˙ɯǝɥʇ ɟo ll∀ :∀)
At my age, it's only wishful thinking to believe myself a boy. But hey! I can be a dumb old man, right? RIGHT???
B*ys.
Decades of experience as a boy and I still have no idea what we’re thinking.
Or how to express that.
Ugh Harry is either the kind of boy that teases the people he has a crush on *or* he's setting Emmett up for an even worse round of bullying - I trust him not.
*Or* he likes her but all his friends don't and he's too much of a gutless cowards to admit he likes Emmett in from of his friends in case they ostracise him
You're allowed to say boys are dumb because you're allowed to say things that are true. (I am also a boy.)
Them!
BOYS. THEY'RE THE WORST. (it me. i'm boys)
The boy that remains in my old-man's head is still an idiot.
Been a boy (arguably) for just shy of 58 years. I have no corrections to make here.
Same. My 58th is on Saturday. Yours?
72 years of insider experience confirms this. Anecdotally.
I'm a year older than you, and my experience also supports yours. While the plural of anecdote is NOT evidence, it suggests that there's a viable avenue of research here. So... LIZ!!! We gots us a study for YOU!
Am boy. Can agree. Boys dumb.
Was a boy once. Can confirm. Was dumb.
Poor Emmett.
Don’t mind me, just going through liking every post agreeing with “Ugh, Boys 🙄”
Ugh. Boys.
Everything Bubbles knows about boys, she learned from a targeting algorithm. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3502
A targeting algorithm named Robocop
I dunno. Military background, adopted a female presentation, life and trauma experiences, but viewing the whole Organic Hormone Soup as a detached outside observer, i bet she has full standing to 'ugh *boys'* as much as anyone else
Emmett is way too adorkable.
*nods* I will alert the authorities. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5014
Emmett if you go to your room you won't get to learn methods of disabling someone without crushing their windpipe!
I'm a boy teacher working at an all girls school because boys are dumb and I frequently remind my students of this
I LOVE EMMETT MOTORMOUTHING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE ROOM PUNCTUATION IS OVERRATED
Seriously gonna start all conversations with "HOKAY 'POLOGIES DONE" going forward.
Speaking on behalf of all boys past, present, and future: Lads, stop playing hackysack with the single brain cell, it's not good for it.
I am boy and I have the dumb.
'Ah dang it I'm cool now'
Coolness is overrated, just sit with the unpopular kids as an act of protest. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4693
Emmet showed their martial prowess. I don't see the confusion that the male pack member they've triumphed over now wishes to court them.
Yeah, realized the mistake after I posted. Already fixed it.
Bubbles worked alongside soldiers. The "Indeed, boys," is probably a very well-informed opinion.
But the lost memory...
Step 1: Antagonize Step 2: ??? Step 3: Friendship
Otherwise known as "The Faye Method".
It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys indeed be dumb.
That a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a clue.
Speaking on behalf of the Y chromosome half of the population, this is true, we can be very dumb.
It comes from not having the backup (error correcting) copy of the X chromosome. What sits on your shoulder crying "Pieces of Nine"? A parroty error!
Kid’s trying their best. Sorry, i mispelt that. Kids’ trying their best.
Ugh, boys.
I definitely fit that bill (dumb boy)
As a boy, can confirm, have some real dumb moments
Moments?
as a boy ugh boys
Seconded.