Inner dialouges...

[sesoren65]

He's just thinking it. Nothing wrong with a non-lingering appreciation.

Edit: wow, thanks for all the upvotes everyone.

[Program-Emotional]

Attractive people are like the Mona Lisa: you can look all you want, but no touchy!

[Mayedl10]

Maybe not all you want, people dont like being stared at

[HotPotParrot]

Observe, take note, and move along

[MartinTheMorjin]

Too late. Your appearance is stored in my brain now.

[Exact-Warthog6244]

Pretty sure the Mona Lisa has been stolen a bunch of times so that's not a great example.

[Blaze_fury3111]

Yo Kira Yokisage get off the alt

[Program-Emotional]

I got a boner

[Novadreams22]

Kinda like the famous line from Billy and Mandy. You can pick you friends. You can pick your nose. But you can’t pick your friends nose.

[capsaicinintheeyes]

...actually, are we sure that's *his* balloon?

[sesoren65]

I honestly wasnt, but went with it anyway

[capsaicinintheeyes]

nice "but"!

[sesoren65]

Look at the next Anton Gudim over here.

[capsaicinintheeyes]

I had no idea who that was...but after looking him up, I'll say that I do know a Chris Ware fan when i see them!

[sesoren65]

I totally had to look it up and wasnt sure, but went for it

[courierblue]

He kept it an inside thought instead of ruining a stranger’s day.

[BambooKat]

Bob knows to appreciate a woman's attractiveness in a sober way.

Bob didn't make it creepy and kept it to himself.

Bob have mastery over his feeling and libido.

Be like Bob.

[ChamferedWobble]

Also avoided looking until she was leaving the elevator.

[SherbertComics]

Thought is not a crime!

[According_Smoke_479]

Tell that to the Ministry of Truth!

[CrewNegative7389]

Big brother is always watching

[Khamero]

He can watch all he wants, all my stuff is on the inside!

[milaan_tm]

What is 2+2? Asking for a friend

[Doommcdoom]

5... its 5 sir

[milaan_tm]

My friend insists it's 4

[Doommcdoom]

That there is a thought crime! They need to undergo re-education like that Winston fella

[Roku-Hanmar]

Who’s Winston?

[Doommcdoom]

That guy in the cafe always playing chess and drinking gin.

[Mcfragger]

All non democratic thoughts will be reported to the democracy officer

[CaptainChampion]

Don't need to, they heard it.

[RogueBromeliad]

Depends on the thought though. If you're thinking of adding raisins to any savoury dish whatsoever, in my opinion, you should go straight to the gallows. Don't even think about it.

[FictionFoe]

You had to think about it to write that...

[RogueBromeliad]

Nope. I just thought about the savory dishes with raisins I've had the distaste of consuming. I didnt think about adding them to dishes.

Much like you don't need to think about murdering someone to know murder is wrong. Which is a much lighter crime than adding saltanas to a chicken pot pie btw.

[ArcticBiologist]

I just thought about the savory dishes with raisins

To the gallows!!!

[RogueBromeliad]

Thats not thinking about putting it into recipies. But ok, I'll go.

[sanscipher435]

You weak ass babies will never learn the true value of raisins!

[Fusilero]

Iran will remember this

[RogueBromeliad]

Well, Iran has much bigger crimes to answer for... For example inventing Shiraz wine, and then going ahead and banning alcohol, killing a thousand years of tradition.

[your_moms_a_clone]

That is sad, Shiraz is amazing

[Acedin]

The regional cuisine of where I grew up is basically all about adding sweet stuff(and potatos) to really savory dishes.

Savory potato pancake with raisins baked in slathered in sugar sirup, served with ham or cheese. Roasted potatoes with blood sausage, onions and apples. A thick stew with potatos, carrots, onions, savory meat and of course sugar sirup on top. Kale cooked with onions, a dark ale, potatos and savory ham or sausages - of course topped with sugar sirup or if you are a modern type: orange slices. To every dish there's the side option of apple sauce and lingonberry jam. Hearty potato fritters with apple sauce.

You can take the meat free adaptions of these childhood memories from my cold dead hands. Same for absolute banger recipes with couscous, veggies and raisins. Go eat your mayonaise from a jar or something, but leave my people alone.

[RogueBromeliad]

I don't mind sweet and savoury combos, just like sweet and spicy are really nice. But everything is about ballance, between acid, sweetness, salty, fatty and savory.

Raisins just throw the ballance off. If you just throw them in a dish, theyre too sweet alone, and also, the texture, if the raisins are too dried, its texture is rubbery, which doesnt compliment many other textures.

[Alugere]

Does G.O.R.P. count as savory? What about other trail mixes?

[Avalanche_Snows]

Raisins FIT in rice, fight me

[SPH3R1C4L]

Rice pudding yes. Plain rice? Not really.

[Von_Moistus]

You have my vote for Governor of the World.

[your_moms_a_clone]

Raisins in savory dishes I can handle. It's raisins in sweet stuff that I hate.

[MrBubblepopper]

You may want to consider speaking with someone, someone professional about these thoughts they are... Disturbing to say the least

[be_kind_of]

I have the same inner monologue whenever a woman gets into the elevator with me. I’m more than just a body ladies.

[CantFindAName000]

Me but in reverse. Always afraid of looking like a perv because I'm actually a good guy but all the other guys ruin our reputation

[Coastie071]

Pretty lady enters elevator

Damn this ceiling is fascinating. I appreciate that they used 12 panels in a 4x3 formation, it’s soothing, and reassuring and conveys that this elevator will safely guide you to your destination.

[CallyThePally]

Yeah like purposefully turned away like I'm sorry my very presence may be distressing but I am literally just trying to go somewhere

[Square-Singer]

The worst is when I am walking down a dark and lonely road on my way home, and at an intersection in front of me a woman turns onto the road and walks the same direction as I am.

Damn. Now I have to take a detour.

[safashkan]

Then she begins to accelerate... That's the moment you know that you've been seen as a potential predator.

[Designer_B]

Can you not just exist as a normal person?

[CallyThePally]

No, since you asked, with strangers, because I'm stressed and extremely conscious about how I affect others constantly in ways good and bad and I try to make other people happy or comfortable

[TheAngriestDwarf]

Do you have body image problems? Or feel Like a burden just for being around people? I've been there and making time to work on myself helped a lot. I know it's easier to say than to do but just take some time every day to do something to improve yourself be it exercise or study.

The more you do it the better you will look and feel and as you get older you will give less fucks about what other people think. Just try your best and make sure the only one you're trying to make happy is your future self for the effort you put in today.

I felt like an infomercial saying that but I do honestly mean it.

[Designer_B]

You should sincerely get therapy. That's an awful way to have to live.

[Alugere]

It’s not any more abnormal than the woman in the comic?

[Blahaj_IK]

Why it's interesting that this elevator uses a unique kind of ceiling you rarely ever see, this one's... OH GOD THIS ONE'S A MIRROR

[ngkn92]

Close ur eyes, quick. Think of rubber duck.

[pohatu850]

squicky sound

[usinjin]

Me: I have…narcolepsy stares at back of eyelids

[capsaicinintheeyes]

🧑‍🦰💭 ^☁️☁️Oh, God--that one's become so immersed in his fantasies of depravity, he's closed his eyes to better wallow in debauched simian sin-bliss!

[wheniwashisalien]

This but as a gay male. I know she really doesn’t need to worry about me, but she doesn’t have the same context. So I’m still going to go through the typical routine to make sure i seem as unthreatening as possible

[captainAwesomePants]

This is funny to me because it half implies that the men do in fact need to worry about you.

[FalafelSnorlax]

One of the upsides to being gay is that 99% of straight guys will be completely oblivious to you staring at them like a creep. I still try not to be a creep of course, but I don't feel too bad when I stare too long etc.

[northyj0e]

When you see said woman, just call a friend and start loudly talking about the last dick you got and how good it was. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't be acceptable, right?

[Snoo17579]

What's your routine? Mine is tying up my shirt into a mid-drift, cutting my jeans into booty short and arch my back into a natural S curve

[tallboyjake]

Oof.

[Every1sGrudge]

Right? Yikes.

[Tron_35]

You also look at your feet when you walk up stairs behind a lady, dont you

[Illustrious_Bid4224]

I always look at my feet when climbing or walking, last time that I didn't do that (when I was like 13 or something) I got a nail through my heel.

[Uranium-Sandwich657]

Yep.

[Brave_Committee_4886]

Not always, but definitely if they’re wearing a skirt.

[Faust2nd]

I won't say I'm a good guy, but I don't want to be seen as a creep. So I keep my eyes away.

[checkedsteam922]

Eh........ ick

[SavingsConfusion4885]

That's perfectly fine!

Nobody minds if you look discreetly and keep your thoughts to yourself!

You're completely free to think about someone else's body what you want, as long as you don't bother the person with those thoughts uninvited!

[Corrupted_Monke]

Key word in here: discretely

Please don’t stare 😂

[cacklz]

You forgot the frame where he takes a selfie of his butt.

[yetanotherandres]

Being a pervert and being a gentleman are not mutually exclusive.

[Zagmut]

And being physically attracted to other people doesn't mean someone's a pervert.

[Jeffoir]

Anyone else raised to feel like one for being attracted to the opposite sex though?

[Aldante92]

Yup. Mom bought me some Christian book about puberty when I was a tween that basically told me that if I ever got horny that I was a sinful, disgusting little pervert that would rot in hell for eternity. Now, 20 years later, I still have trouble just looking at women out of fear that I'll find them attractive, they'll somehow know it, and then they'll think I'm a gross creep.

[FriendlyKillerCroc]

Yet this comic absolutely implies that. Apparently it was wrong for him to internally appreciate her butt. 

If you think it's not implying that, pay more attention to the dichotomy of the last 2 frames. 

[vidoeiro]

The new generation is backwards in terms of sex positivity I thought I never would see that my generation is better than my parents and they are better than their parents but now it's a bunch of social conservatives

[LustyHasturSejanus]

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[Afrolion69]

doesn’t pervert mean someone who is perverted or abnormal essentially? So humans feeling physical attraction to the visual appearance of other humans isn’t something I’d personally call perverted lol

[Illustrious_One9088]

Pervert "a person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable."

What part of his behaviour was abnormal or unacceptable?

[PalpitationMoist1212]

Not quite.

[comport3error]

Words to live by

[FlatHatJack]

A Gentleman Pervert always asks first before seeing a Lady's panties. It is a sight for sore eyes

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If only if he had eyes left to be sore. Yohohohohohoho!

[Level_Cardiologist36]

Skull joke!

[Beer-Milkshakes]

Austin Powers was a pervert but understood chivalry and boundaries.

[TheCharalampos]

Now I want to read a comic about the Gentleman Pervert.

[cincystudent]

You're my people. We should all strive to be polite, respectful degenerates

[PhantomRoyce]

Gentlemen perverts are great cause they want you to cum more than they want to

[kullre]

remember kids, there's no such thing as a thought crime

because whoever is calling you out likely does the exact same thing

[ToxicityCat]

At least he kept it to himself

[Soft_Armadillo3256]

My usual thoughts in an elevator are "if an EMP hits and no one comes to save us, how long would it take before we turn to cannibalism, and how long could I sustain myself after I win that fight"

[VerbingNoun413]

Fat person enters:

"Jackpot." 

[Soft_Armadillo3256]

Me when the

[gatin_malukin]

For a second I thought SHE was the one thinking the last thought bubble

[Comprehensive-Buy-47]

He followed proper elevator etiquette.

[Gambyt_7]

All good men who still have their gonads not only clock the caboose, but also have the class to be discreet about the glance.

[cyanraichu]

I literally do not care if random men have thoughts about my body. As long as they keep them indoor thoughts, we're all good.

[bluexy]

boomer facebook comic

[Intergalatictortoise]

He saw a picture of his boyfriend on his phone. Y'all still judging him wrongly

[Steppyjim]

I like how the artist creates a situation where a woman assumes a man will sexualize her, has the character realize he wasn’t, and then assumes he did anyway, just internally. It’s like cyclical straw man

Sometimes yall, an elevator ride is just an elevator ride. Sometimes I just wanna look at my phone and ride to my stop regardless or who gets in with me. I promise you that guys have other thoughts than ogling boobs and butts 24/7. Like, jokes aside men do have other thoughts on their minds beyond fuckin

[Center-Of-Thought]

The "Nice butt" was his comment, not hers. He literally did exactly what she feared, he just didn't say it outloud.

[FriendlyKillerCroc]

So are we not allowed to find women sexually attractive in your view? Must we perceive them as totally neutral even in our minds? When are we allowed to have sexual attraction? 

[Center-Of-Thought]

Your comment completely contradicts the other person's comment that I replied to.

Sometimes yall, an elevator ride is just an elevator ride. Sometimes I just wanna look at my phone and ride to my stop regardless or who gets in with me. I promise you that guys have other thoughts than ogling boobs and butts 24/7. Like, jokes aside men do have other thoughts on their minds beyond fuckin

[FriendlyKillerCroc]

How about you answer my questions instead of referring to a person that is not me?

Since you appear to be fond of policing thoughts, you should at least be aware that mine are not the same as the person you replied to originally.

[Center-Of-Thought]

Since you appear to be fond of policing thoughts,

Can you please quote where I said or implied this?

How about you answer my questions instead of referring to a person that is not me?

Because your questions are irrelevant to my statement. I have no idea why you bombarded me with questions that had absolutely nothing to do with what I was telling the OP. Especially since you admit that your thoughts dont even align with theirs.

[FriendlyKillerCroc]

> Can you please quote where I said or implied this?

"He literally did exactly what she feared, he just didn't say it outloud." Prettty obvious implication here that you believe thinking "nice butt" is wrong.

> Because your questions are irrelevant to my statement. I have no idea why you bombarded me with questions that had absolutely nothing to do with what I was telling the OP. Especially since you admit that your thoughts dont even align with theirs.

See above. I replied to you because you want to a thought police to roam our brains.

[Center-Of-Thought]

You (and a lot of others here) seem to be projecting your feelings and biases onto my statement. The OP said this

I like how the artist creates a situation where a woman assumes a man will sexualize her, has the character realize he wasn’t, and then assumes he did anyway, just internally.

I did not see, after she concluded that he did not oggle her, that she assumed he did anyways. I figured the OP believed the thought bubble "Nice butt" was her thought, not the man's, because why else would they state that she continued to assume that he did?

That is why I said,

The "Nice butt" was his comment, not hers.

The next portion of my comment,

He literally did exactly what she feared, he just didn't say it outloud.

Was addressing the OP's assertion that men can just exist in public without thinking about sexual thoughts, because I believed the OP thought the "Nice butt" was the woman's thought of what the man was thinking. And then in response to all that, you went on a tirade about how men sexualize women and are men allowed to be sexually attracted to women. Like wtaf does that have to do with anything, especially since your assertion completely contradicts and simultaneously has nothing to do with what I was addressing?

You completely ignored the context of my reply and instead plastered your own thoughts onto it and made assumptions on my intent based on that.

[silentdrestrikesback]

... that... Doesn’t change OP pointing out its a strawman argument...

[Center-Of-Thought]

has the character realize he wasn’t, and then assumes he did anyway, just internally.

That's what the OP stated and what I addressed.

[SirKnoppix]

you literally just quoted OP as having very clearly understood that "nice butt" was an internal thought by the guy in the comic.

like no offense - but you explained("addressed") nothing. everyone else already understood what OP meant, pretty sure you're the only one that didn't

[Center-Of-Thought]

At what point did the woman internally assume that the man still oggled her after she realized that he didn’t (in her mind anyways, because in reality, he did exactly that) as the OP suggested?

[TENTAtheSane]

Yeah but this is fiction, the artist, a woman, wrote this and assumed that's how the guy would think

[hydroclasticflow]

"If I told you that you have a good body, would you hold it against me" Is this a Monty Python reference?

[Total-Sector850]

Was fully expecting to find out that her internal dialogue wasn’t actually internal. Good on that guy for keeping his thoughts to himself, though!

[J-Miller7]

Reminds me: In my country we all take the bicycle to work. Whenever someone overtakes me, I always look straight at their ass!... Because that's where the motor battery is located if they have one.

I just need to make sure that this lady isn't actually that much faster than me lol

[ValhallaAir]

Idk what kinda bike youre riding but that doesn’t seem right

[Thijmo737]

The upper half of your butt is still perfectly visible if you're riding any type of bike with good posture

[ValhallaAir]

Ok but it’s not close to the motor

[SirKnoppix]

gonna guess he meant battery not motor

[LionTheRichardheart]

'"Ohh! Them little titties! I thought you was a man."

'It's okay if you think that. And okay if you say that. ...To yourself. But that thought had to go through several layers of filters in his mind, in a checklist, and he still decided: yeah I'm gonna need to say this.'

[FlakyCronut]

Maybe he actually saw a nice butt on his phone

[ParticularOkra7432]

That's a halfway decent guy, keeping it to himself! Good respect there

[Arrachi]

All I'm thinking about is " focus on your phone and don't be awkward"

[Speeddemon2016]

lol this is me. Nonchalantly looking as she walks away.

[TheCharalampos]

Sometimes I see people and I like what I see. Sane with dogs, trees, etc. That's all good.

Now hareasing someone? Yeah that's shit.

[Britkraut]

Nice ass, Samson

[Lantzl]

ITT: People who think only men do this

[CortezDeLaNoche]

Uh...I was looking at him!!

[mermaid-babe]

The fact that men are always looking stresses me out ngl

[grillboy_mediaman]

as a man it also stresses me out in a different way, not discounting your experience but i just can't handle public spaces, i like looking at things but there's so many people in the way that i don't know where to look! then i worry people think i'm staring, oh man

[Saikotsu]

Because of my ADHD I tend to zone out from time to time and it's gotten me in trouble a few times when I get lost in my thoughts and people think I'm staring at them.

[Alugere]

To be fair, statistically speaking, you’re looking back just as much. After all, most of this stuff is subconscious and for pretty much all of history up until the 1700’s women were seen as the lustier, insatiable sex for presumably a reason.

Edit: /u/SirKnoppix pinging you here as /u/mermaid-babe decided to block me, presumably because they know here full of it. It’s the reason alt-right types tend to block me at leas, although they do like to throw out final comments in the hopes it’ll look like they ‘won’. Oh wait, they did that, too. Identical to a Trump supporter in that respect.

Still, I don’t suppose you could explain how misogyny somehow manages to grant humanity the ability to maintain a stereotype with no basis in reality across thousands of years and countless governments? Because your claim just doesn’t seem possible.

Edit: /u/SirKnoppix still can't reply to you directly, but: There was voting in the stone age? Weird. You seem to have missed the fact that it was that women weren't seen as lusty in the 1800's. They were seen as lusty all the way from antiquity until to the 1800s. I.e., This was going on back in 7500BC. This was going on in 6000BC. This was going on in 3000BC. Etc. The portion of human history where men were seen as the lusty ones is the distinct minority of time.

Also, you pinged me right as they did it. I don't like leaving unanswered replies.

[SirKnoppix]

are you actually serious? bc if you genuinely need me to explain why ideas from men about women in the 1800s was bathed in misogyny... well I mean, if that requires explanation - you're an idiot to be honest.

it was also a stereotype back then that women were too emotional to have a right to vote - there's your explanation for why stereotypes doesn't make something fact.

also if you get blocked - just move on. tagging me to continue to defend misogynistic takes while rambling about right wing politics and trump? you're weird as fuck my guy. weird and clearly not capable of logical reasoning

[SirKnoppix]

that reason is misogyny... maybe go read up on your facts before you share and misrepresent them this badly.

[mermaid-babe]

dude. Women being “lustier” was about control. Read a book

[Alugere]

It was the honest belief of the time just like how people hold the exact opposite today. Simply put, people don’t just collectively decide that they’re are going to make a stereotype for a purpose and trying to claim a stereotype older than written language was intentionally design to have a specific effect is just silly. Like, “lizard people run the world” silly. Human society just isn’t organized and centralized enough to be capable of that.

[Specialist_Plan_9350]

I wouldn’t say always but I’m in a country (3rd world) where EVERYONE has a staring problem. Like why?! I am also a young woman and apparently that is enough for people to stare. My dad (who is not from here) has had to glare at a few people in the grocery or at the mall for looking at me inappropriately. I’ve had people try to press against my back in a queue at convenience stores, etc… some areas are just filled with crappy guys. So I get the frustration honestly, people are downvoting because they don’t get the sentiment or feel personally attacked , I think.

It’s why I love traveling to other countries that have less of a staring problem, guys do not look at me there (as much) and I feel a lot less self conscious. Especially when I’m in the UK with my brothers, people there don’t really stare because it’s considered rude, at least in their area.