r/comics • u/tabithajaneart • 3d ago

OC 2026 vs 1886 [OC]

Post image

Great-great-great Grandma was serving

My Instagram, Tiktok, and Tumblr are tjnovakart!

30.1k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

500 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/Metatality 3d ago

I dunno, I think it's a good idea to represent reality up front, because any men that are going to have a problem with them "not being big enough" are men you want to filter out early anyway.

It's not like keeping them around a bit just for it to come up later is helpful.

5

u/amortized-poultry 3d ago

any men that are going to have a problem with them "not being big enough" are men you want to filter out early anyway.

Men and women are both allowed to have physical preferences, it doesn't necessarily make them bad partners.

11

u/Metatality 3d ago

Agreed, but it's still a bad match up, I'm not advocating for throwing them in a volcano like the other person, but they should still both look for other people better suited to them.

8

u/liberty 3d ago

I don't think it's correct that a person has a "true" appearance, and that any "enhancements" (e.g., clothes, makeup, padding, etc.) are completely extrinsic to that person. For example, a certain clothing or makeup style can look completely different between one person and the next. Their effect can vary wildly depending on the knowledge and skill of the wearer. Someone's preferences in terms of self-expression and self-identification can favor one style over another.

In that sense, it's almost silly to consider someone's "true" appearance their unadorned look. How often does a person present themselves like that anyway? It's just one variation of many that a person may have.

So yeah. Person "A" may think that Person "B" looks better than Person "C" when neither wears makeup. But "A" may think that "C" looks better than "B" when both wear the same (or even their respective best) makeup. "A" can decide whether the makeup or no-makeup look is more important to them, but the no-makeup look isn't inherently the best metric for which of them is "better suited."