I’ll admit I’m somewhat stumped by this cartoon of two women talking to each other re the punchline. Please to explain.
Lets try that again
Cartoon
She’s questioning her taste in friends, because her friend(s) are always complaining about their men?
(IOW, ‘Girlfriend, how about nice steaming cup of shut the fck up!*’)
That sounds about right. Can’t figure it out any other way.
Seems to me one of these women is pretty sick and tired of hearing about loser guys from the other, and has decided that rather than trying to get her friend to have better taste in men, she’s just going to find friends who already HAVE better taste in men, thereby eliminating all the whining.
I know whereof I speak. I have a good friend who is an amazing woman, but she attracts total hosebags and will go on and on and ON about them way past ad nauseum. And when she finally wises up, and gives the guy the heave-ho, she says to me, “God, why didn’t you TELL me he was such a dirtbag?” Then she gets another dirtbag, and goes on and on and ON about him… She’d be one of the neatest ladies in the world if she’d stop taking up with losers.
(Sorry - but as I said, I know whereof I speak!)
Could the girl be sleeping with the other girl’s male friends?
Yeah, I assumed the one girl was fixing the other up with her friends, so she was saying that she has bad taste in (male) friends–the other girl isn’t doing anything wrong.
She’s saying that the friend (the woman she’s talking to) is the problem, not the losers the friend dates.
Imagine this scenario: A woman always dresses really badly and her husband complains about it all the time. Finally, the husband says, “I just realized it isn’t your taste in clothes that’s the problem, it’s my taste in wives.”
Does that help?
(By the way, I don’t think it’s a funny cartoon, but I’m weird.)
I think it’s that her friends are always telling her what losers her dates are, and instead of facing up to the fact that she may be stupid in picking men, she’s going to choose friends who are more of a “yes-man.”
BTW, I’m female, and I didn’t find it particulary funny. It’s a bit telling on some women, that they don’t want to hear bad things about their men. Sad, but true.
I believe that drawing ought to be associated with a particular advice column. The cartoon is generally meant to reflect one of the letters in the column. The name of the column escapes me at the moment, but it’s written by a woman, and it’s generally pretty good; far superior to the “annie’s mailbox” and “dear abby” retreads.
it’s Carolyn Hax, and her column, “Tell me about it”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62105-2005Feb3.html
link, with standard cartoon