# I don't quite get today's "Questionable Content" strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 13, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967 "2010-04-13T17:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 114
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2262 "2019-05-22T15:17:49Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > A [couple strips further](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3304), May makes it sound as though her chassis isn’t particularly prepared for sexy fun-times (although she makes the same mouth/lube joke). I get the impression that she’s not especially soft or supple either given the exposed joints and pinchy bits. Which makes her post-sex robo-nudity seem a bit odd but I suppose I’m just as happy not dwelling on it. Maybe the black bars are covering Sven’s pinched, bloody hog, and the fleshlight taped to May’s crotch. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2263 "2019-05-22T15:23:43Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Maybe the black bars are covering Sven’s pinched, bloody hog, and the fleshlight taped to May’s crotch. This isn’t sweetening the pot to contribute to that Patreon. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2264 "2019-05-25T01:44:32Z")
He still has the other half of the melon over his dick. And May is a Barbie doll, as always. The censor bars actually help it look raunchier. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2265 "2019-05-25T13:44:50Z")
I got five bucks says Sven had sex with May all over again while she was de-powered. He is kind of a dick, after all… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2266 "2019-05-25T18:52:15Z")
a lot of people are complaining about Google starting to censor stuff in various ways … you know something i figured out how Dora sells the coffee shop but it stays in the family: Hannelore comes back for the wedding meets the new characters realizes she misses everyone and she’s tired of wandering around and buys it ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2267 "2019-05-25T22:15:20Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Golly! > > …I wonder whether May smokes after sex? (Her chassis might not be able to take this sort of friction) Nah, looks like they used plenty of lube. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2268 "2019-05-26T00:11:23Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Nah, looks like they used plenty of lube. Yep…I noticed not only the bottle of lotion, but the can of WB-40. And while I understand that Sven is a mighty man, that amount of goosh over them couldn’t possibly all be semen. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2269 "2019-05-26T02:06:56Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I got five bucks says Sven had sex with May all over again while she was de-powered. > > He is kind of a dick, after all… He is, but he’s also been on a (long paused) story arc of improving himself. Also, unless her mouth was left open, she has nothing for him to do that with. She is a barbie doll. That is why they used a melon. (The one with the smiley face from an earlier comic.) Plus, no matter how big a dick he was, Sven never came across as a rapist. Not even at his worst. Remember how he didn’t even put a move on Hannelore since she didn’t want him to.] If he were a rapist, Jeph would not be trying to make people feel sorry for him at all. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2270 "2019-05-26T02:20:37Z")
Yeah, the idea that Sven is a rapist is pretty far out there. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2271 "2019-06-14T16:12:09Z")
In case anyone else couldn’t remember who the heck Beepatrice was… [https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3883](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3883) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2272 "2019-06-15T01:16:01Z")
Roko may not like her new body yet, but I think it’s just fine. ‘Specially the way it fills out those shorts. Rowr. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2273 "2019-06-15T01:59:19Z")
A few months back we saw Basilisk quitting the police force over moral qualms. [She wasn’t doing anything immoral personally but she decided that the police in general were so immoral that she was tainted by being in the profession.](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3837) So she quit and became a social worker (which presumably is a “moral” profession). And what do we see her doing now as a social worker? [She’s bullying some guy she doesn’t know with threats.](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4024) It’s over a trivial cause; she just doesn’t want the inconvenience of waiting until May has a day off. And it isn’t based on any actual knowledge; she just assumes that somebody in a certain job must be a criminal on the side, which is blatant profiling. If a police officer did this, it would be a prime example of the kind of immorality that Basilisk was supposedly opposed to. But now she’s doing it herself. Is this intentional? Or is it just one of Jacques’ blindspots? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2274 "2019-06-15T02:09:58Z")
He’s just subscribing to a typical prejudice of lovable cuddly old anarchists like myself. All bosses are evil, all workers are exploited saints. Feel free to walk off the job even if it leaves your employer in the lurch. He’s probably off somewhere up to no good, grinding widows and orphans under his heels. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2275 "2019-06-15T02:37:47Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > He’s just subscribing to a typical prejudice of lovable cuddly old anarchists like myself. All bosses are evil, all workers are exploited saints. > > Feel free to walk off the job even if it leaves your employer in the lurch. He’s probably off somewhere up to no good, grinding widows and orphans under his heels. When has Jeph ever used the “mean boss” trope before? Dora has always been portrayed as a cool boss. Tai was always cool with Martin. I seem to recall that Martins boss before he got the library gig was pretty cool, although the job itself kind of sucked. Who am I forgetting? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2276 "2019-06-15T02:47:07Z")
Jim (Sam’s dad, Marten’s mom’s boyfriend, owner of the bakery) is cool, too. Don’t think we’ve ever met the owner of the Horrible Revelation, but Will, Elliot, and Brun seem OK with them. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2277 "2019-06-15T02:47:23Z")
I’m not saying Jeph did it from the outset…I can’t remember an asshole boss in the strip. But who else has had a gig as shitty as May’s? He’s just doing it in the present case. May’s job makes her miserable; clearly her boss is a dick. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2278 "2019-06-15T02:52:37Z")
Observation: Tai spends most of her workday stoned and watching th’ cartoons. It’s a testament to her employees love and respect for her that they actually do their jobs, instead of getting stoned and watching th’ cartoons right along with her. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2279 "2019-06-15T03:26:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Observation: Tai spends most of her workday stoned and watching th’ cartoons. > > It’s a testament to her employees love and respect for her that they actually do their jobs, instead of getting stoned and watching th’ cartoons right along with her. [Tai also asked one of her employees to come with her while she got a clitoral piercing.](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1247) Imagine how that would play out if a male supervisor did it. (I’m not being an MRA here. I’m saying it’s wrong either way. But Jacques, along with many other people, can see the same situation as being either outrageous harassment or quirky humor depending on who’s doing it.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2280 "2019-06-15T05:31:23Z")
Jaysus…THAT’S reaching back into pre-history. I didn’t think Tai went BACK that far. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2281 "2019-06-15T13:20:13Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > When has Jeph ever used the “mean boss” trope before? Dora has always been portrayed as a cool boss. Tai was always cool with Martin. I seem to recall that Martins boss before he got the library gig was pretty cool, although the job itself kind of sucked. Who am I forgetting? Corpse Witch. Which sort of serves Roko’s point. I wonder if this is the character arc that files down another character’s rough edges and makes them one of the gang. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=115)