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Grrl Power #1281 - Match game
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Imagine onid kids playing dodgeball in middle school, only they play it with rocks because they're a hardy race, then some kid gets clocked in the fun-knee bone and has to spend the next hour with a tingly stiffy. It's the kind of thing that the other kids won't let anyone forget, because middle school is hell. (Or so I'm told. I went to a Montessori school - partly because my mom was the vice principal there - but my middle school years were totally fine. That said, going from a class with 20 kids and two teachers to public high school the next year - my graduating class was something like 800 kids - was a bit of a shock.) But I'm told that middle school is where kids really start to figure out cliques and bullying and body shaming and gossip. Of course, learning about all that as an adult, it sounds ridiculous because anyone who has finished their primary education knows that nothing that happens in middle and high school means jack shit the second you graduate. Well, maybe if you had a violent diarrhea attack in the middle of a basketball game and it got smeared all over the court and 40 people got cholera after slipping and sliding around in the immediate aftermath. That might get talked about after graduation for a while. But otherwise, stuff like "Suzie got her bangs cut weird" doesn't have the staying power middle schoolers think it does.
Of course, a mixed alien middle school would probably be worse? Different species with wildly varied physical abilities, even differing senses, learning speeds, memory retention? It'd make for a challenging social and teaching environment, that's for sure. On the plus side, they would probably have anti-diarrhea lasers built into the plasma ball gym, so incidents of that nature would probably have better outcomes than Earth schools, so, six of one half a dozen of the other.
Comments
Ampws
I've been thinking Cora's crew can't be wholly composed of Brutes there must be SOME speedsters,
Aaron Mauthe
I feel like Maximus never had a partner that could effectively outmuscle her to the point that it could be called “a lady tamer”
Todd Ellner
I prefer "Zygote Poker". Hat tip to Hentai Action Theater
eddi_TBH
We shall see.
eddi_TBH
Not even Gumby can bend like that!
eddi_TBH
Better watch that flexibility too.
Stephen Gilberg
That's what I meant. I just couldn't think of a pithy way to put it.
Brett
Or, it's on the list of things to get Maxima to say.
Mark Magagna
Whether middle school stays with you likely depends on where you are. If you're in a small town with one school, and you don't move elsewhere after graduation, then likely the whole town knows everything, and talks about it for decades. After all, what else is there to talk about? If on the other hand, you're in a large city (or move away) and you never encounter your classmates later, then nobody knows. Unless you tell on yourself, or keep acting that way. Army might be different, because your parent may have been posted all over the world, but you're likely in school with other army kids. And that's its own little culture.
Person
Given that Math only lost the initial fight with Whats-her-style due to dem tiddies, and hasn't lost one since? Pretty damn good.
Stephen Gilberg
I wouldn't be surprised if she said "lady tamer" for the sake of that Maxima buzzword bingo.
Tie Toter
Now I gotta wait till Thursday to see what happens...this is getting good!
Dave Barrack
His race is bendy.
Dave Barrack
It's more a reflexive reaction to Dabbler saying it than it is her being genuinely offended by the notion. But also what Liam said above.
Miyaa
I saw where some French pole vaulter’s lady tamer betrayed him on his first attempt at the pole vault.
Brett Peirce
Oooohhh. Is THAT what she was saying? 👀
Brett Peirce
That's a lotta speed lines. He must be fast!
Gelatinous Cube
It sounded...very specific. We probably shouldn't go looking for school articles about the "Great Diarrhea Disaster", right?
Town Crier
So, it figgers that, even though Math may be one of the best martial artists on Earth, it does not necessarily means the same in the big ol' Universe.
Dave Barrack
Just something gross I thought of as I was typing up the comment.
Liam Meara
Less so a reaction to sex, more the implication that a woman is tamed by a man's schlong.
Mike
That diarrhea line sounds like a movie reference. What's it from? Or is that a personal anecdote?
Teksura
Max's reaction to "lady tamer" feels a bit out of place. I get that's a whole thing with her, but "lady tamer" feels like one of the more polite ways Dabbler could have said that. Is Max really such a prude that just acknowledging that sex is a thing that exists will upset her now?
Michael Obert
Nothing like the satisfied slurp to let us know Dabbler is back and proper in the pink, and no phrasing intended there
Justaguy
Yeah sorry, "routinely got waylaid by a group of 8 other kids and beaten the dhiryout off, of the way to and from the school you moved to to get away from them" still has major impact after you leave highschool. Especially if it drives you away from some of the few out of school activities you felt safe and enjoyed. Luckily at least one of that group is in prison now, but the rest are parents, raising the next generation...
Bharda Sullivan
I feel like Sylv is not yet used to remembering that Math trains with people who have actual superpowers, and that we are about to get a very nice HFY moment.
Fogel
Does Sylv just not have a spine or something?
Ronnie Henriksen
Dabbler said that on purpose, and I absolutely love that term now
Todd Ellner
Timing and distance can counter speed. Let's see how good his,distance and timing are
