Jeanie Bottle 413
Jan10
on January 10, 2017
at 12:00 am
and modified on November 27, 2022. at 1:25 am
Chapter: Story 10: I Dream of Verisimilitude
Characters: Jeanie
Jeannie’s being a total ass about it, but (and I’m asking from a position of honest ignorance here) is she wrong?
On an unrelated note, last week’s comic seems to have generated an especially large amount of commentary. 86 comments as of last count. I wonder if any previous page has that many?
I think you’re wrong Jeanie, the only people who don’t sleep around are asexual because they have little to no interest in sex anyway.
-snort- wow, boy, you guys sure like to set off the powder keg of internet sex rantings 😛 lol
I was just re-reading the week post. In the first frame, Jeanie or Jean really didn’t know that Tina was the Editors Daughter, she seemed to be surprised even at this late date that Tina is the Editors Daughter. Jeanie wasn’t very tactful with the way she handled it, but, that Jeanie doing what Jeanie does. So he didn’t use Tina to get his job from his boss the Editor of the Magazine, but, Tina thought that was his motive.
Well, anyway, Jeanie or Jean is still a self-centered jerk and he not quit as bad as I first thought, but, he still not a very good person.
It could be that Jeannie didn’t know… or maybe he just forgot. On previous occasions, Jean’s been known to forget things. Sometimes conveniently.
So it’s still possible that he was using her. But even if not, he’s at the very least being a jerk. Jean has a lot to make up for.
Jean is a jerk but I don’t think he hides his nature so why would he have to make up for it. He would be apologizing for being him self. That makes no sense.
People can judge him by their standards but there is no reason he has to live up to them. Unless he had promised someone he would. Jean is just being Jean.
@Bad taiming: “Make up for” = “suffer for”. I didn’t mean “make up for”, as meaning “conceal”. Whether or not he hides anything is irrelevant.
And, no, claiming that you’re “being yourself” does not justify bad behavior. Otherwise you could kill someone and then say, “Hey, I was just being myself.” [Which, indeed, some people have tried.]
Jeannie has free will, and she CHOOSEs to behave badly. Nothing is forcing her to do so. So, yeah, she’s going to have to suffer the consequences.
Being a womanizer and being a murder is not a fair comparison. I for one don’t believe woman are helpless victims in a bad Romance. It is buyer beware clearly they didn’t do the background checks. Or maybe they did and ignored the warning signs.
A much better comparison would be womanizer to women that use guys like a ATM machine.
Should those women be made to suffer for using men? I personally don’t think so. Because like in the first case the guys can say no.
I think she’s wrong. For one thing, asexual people. For another, some people actually do tend toward monogamy. I’m… definitely not one of them, personally, given that I’ve been unhappy with every closed, mono relationship I’ve had. Also, girl here, so… potato?
I’m wondering why my last comment is awaiting moderation. It has no dirty words, no attacks on any religion, and not even a reference to Trump.
Anyway, I feel obligated to do my part to make sure this strip becomes the reigning Champion of Comments.
Now, a thought about Tina: We don’t know if Tina was yelling at Jean, or if Tina was just too loud for Jean’s taste. Maybe both, although Tina hasn’t been yelling–yet. Yelling requires at least bold print, and should use a larger font if there’s room for it. A meaner-looking font for angry yelling is nice, and of course some dingbats to stand in for curse words. I think the last is a fine tradition in comics, because it allows the reader to imagine worse curse words than the author had in mind, if he or she actually nad any in mind. Look at some classic Beetle Bailey strips for some splendid cursing dingbats.
Complaining about Tina’s drinking seems a bit much, though, what with Jean getting in trouble by drinking (illegal) moonshine (and flashing Bucktooth Willy to get it). I wonder if poor Araceli recovered from her moonshined kiss.
Tina seems to have at least raised her voice, going by the slightly larger font size and the “?!” at the end of her hostile question in panel two. As for dingbat cursewords, well, to each their own, but personally they’re just annoying to me, all I mentally “hear” from that is Qbert speech.
On Tina’s drinking, it seems it was more the combination of it and the yelling that got to Jean. Could be that Tina is just a loud, abrasive, and confrontational drunk, and Jeannie seems to be implying Tina spent a fair amount of time like that.
If I was writing this strip, I would give Tina some serious father issues. Daddy seems to be just as much of a horndog as Jean, and that would have made it difficult to relate to his daughter. I got the feeling her Dad would be very happy if Jean was his son. And if Tina has no brothers, the issues multiply.
I didn’t notice before that “You wanna go, bitch?!” in the second panel was in a slightly larger font, about the relative difference between 12-point and 14-point, but it was impossible to miss “JEAN, YOU DOG!” five strips ago; it was double-sized. That was yelling. Tina’s upset with Jean, but she’s not out of control. I guess that could change with the next strip, but for now, Tina’s showing a lot more class than Jean is. Having had all too much experience living with loud drunks, I really don’t picture Tina as being one of them.
Actually Marika’s comment is pretty much how I read Jeanie’s meaning about being drunk and yelling regarding Tina. Since Jean didn’t know that his boss is Tina’s father, I figured he left as she may issues like insecurity or jealousy that he couldn’t deal with. That’s just a guess though.
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I have a question for either CD or Robert. Do Jeanie Bottle and SailorSun exist in the same universe? If so, shouldn’t Jean’s DNA comment really have been a Helix comment?
I’ll try not to shoot myself in the foot.
SailorSun.org and I Dream in of a Jeanie Bottle is NOT in the same universe.
SailorSun.org is meant to be a comic universe where Helixes, TG, and weird things exist, while Jeanie Bottle is meant to be more in our own version of the world.
That being said… Will Bay and Honey ever cameo in this comic, as well as other comic characters? Well, go back to 408 to 410 for that answer.
OK, thanks.
From what I can gather from everyone is Jean has a bit of problem with being a “good guy” sleeping around, self centered, and not mindful of others feeling, but at the same time she is not tactful or cunning she has never had ulterior motives for most things and when she does figuring them out is a matter of knowing what she knows which is simple enough. In this case where all these women hating him for sleeping around I think is Jean just looking for a girl that’s right for him but not considering if she does what’s right for them that’s his mindless selfishness. Jean’s “current” girlfriend is someone I believe he’s found that she thinks is her longterm partner but is unwilling to accept that life has dealt her a hand that says otherwise is refusing to let go. Thus Jean’s tendency to dig herself into the deepest hole possible hurting herself and other along the way and always making it worse when trying to fix it.
Now as far these girls go they are hurt and are just being as women are connecting information together till it makes sense, while this reasonable it may or may not be true, so initially when approaching Jeanie they’re just looking out for her but now that Jeanie has gone and done a very Jean thing instead of a female thing they might see her as an enemy, threat, or a fool and in all case will be angry with her. Jean will tell herself that they’re all in the wrong in order to eliminate guilt and proceed to do more Jean things to aggravate them
Oh snap this wont end well
Ok, so. Since Jean does mention DNA, one shoudl assue she’s talking exclusively from an etological perspective, in which case she’s half-right.
Guys sleeping with multiple women IS adaptative, from a merely etologcal perspective, as it ensured that the species would survive. Women, however, wouldn’t benefit from multiple partners, so from a merely etological perspective, female want just one parter, the strongest one.
That’s in regards to DNA. However, societal biases would modify that thru socialization. I think she’s not wrong about her perspective, in USA society nowadays. Except that has nothing to do with DNA, and all to do with culture.
So, at the very least, she’s partially wrong.
The only women who don’t understand women…
Are blonde bimbos
Yes. There’s also a strong drive to form stable social connections. Lotharying is corrosive to that and can only exist when that drive to form social connectiosn is absent or it predominates. She’s just justifying.