Talk:642: Creepy - Revision history

Aprilfoolsupdate! at 12:04, 3 July 2025

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Apollo11 at 17:22, 1 May 2024

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Nafedalbi at 14:11, 8 December 2021

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Nafedalbi: Response.

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Response.

172.70.210.203 at 21:38, 22 November 2021

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172.68.221.5 at 19:51, 11 September 2021

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The Cat Lady at 13:23, 19 August 2021

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172.69.62.19 at 16:43, 18 May 2021

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172.69.62.19 at 16:41, 18 May 2021

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172.69.62.242 at 16:34, 18 May 2021

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	Yes 100%. NAfedalbi, that was the PERFECT explanation for this comic. Thank you. :) [[User:Apollo11\|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11\|talk]]) 17:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)		Yes 100%. NAfedalbi, that was the PERFECT explanation for this comic. Thank you. :) [[User:Apollo11\|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11\|talk]]) 17:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
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		+	In my case, it’s actually an infinite loop. Fearing that I would be embarrassed but also fearing that I will lose an opportunity but also fearing I am wrong and I will be embarrassed but also fearing I might lose an opportunity [[User:Aprilfoolsupdate!\|Aprilfoolsupdate!]] ([[User talk:Aprilfoolsupdate!\|talk]]) 12:04, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

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	I hate to say anything in this type of conversation because I usually make things worse, but just a PSA that nobody's personal experience is representative of more than 3 billion people. Lots of good assessments of this comic have been made, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the origin of this comic. It's a lighthearted way of bringing up the issue of being anxious in public. The characters in this comic are not unrealistic; they may not be like you, or most people, but they are perfectly plausible. And this comic isn't Randall indulging his fantasy; it's just encouraging openness because most people are fine with starting conversations. Randall isn't being creepy here, and I think the explanation for the comic explains it nicely. But I guess it's likely for the oh-so-intelligent readers of XKCD to use it that way, so fair point. ([[User:Nafedalbi\|Nafedalbi]]) 2:00 PM, December 8, 2021 (UTC)		I hate to say anything in this type of conversation because I usually make things worse, but just a PSA that nobody's personal experience is representative of more than 3 billion people. Lots of good assessments of this comic have been made, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the origin of this comic. It's a lighthearted way of bringing up the issue of being anxious in public. The characters in this comic are not unrealistic; they may not be like you, or most people, but they are perfectly plausible. And this comic isn't Randall indulging his fantasy; it's just encouraging openness because most people are fine with starting conversations. Randall isn't being creepy here, and I think the explanation for the comic explains it nicely. But I guess it's likely for the oh-so-intelligent readers of XKCD to use it that way, so fair point. ([[User:Nafedalbi\|Nafedalbi]]) 2:00 PM, December 8, 2021 (UTC)
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		+	Yes 100%. NAfedalbi, that was the PERFECT explanation for this comic. Thank you. :) [[User:Apollo11\|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11\|talk]]) 17:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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	::::The point is that "girls like the one in the comic" are a male wish fulfillment fantasy and do not exist in real life. If a woman is sitting on a bus, it's because she needs to get to wherever the bus is going.		::::The point is that "girls like the one in the comic" are a male wish fulfillment fantasy and do not exist in real life. If a woman is sitting on a bus, it's because she needs to get to wherever the bus is going.

−	I hate to say anything in this type of conversation because I usually make things worse, but just a PSA that nobody's personal experience is representative of more than 3 billion people. Lots of good assessments of this comic have been made, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the origin of this comic. It's a lighthearted way of bringing up the issue of being anxious in public. The characters in this comic are not unrealistic; they may not be like you, or most people, but they are perfectly plausible. And this comic isn't Randall indulging his fantasy; it's just encouraging openness because most people are fine with starting conversations. Randall isn't being creepy here, and I think the explanation for the comic explains it nicely. But I guess it's likely for the oh-so-intelligent readers of XKCD to use it that way, so fair point. ([[User ~~talk~~:Nafedalbi\|~~talk~~]]) 2:00 PM, December 8, 2021 (UTC)	+	I hate to say anything in this type of conversation because I usually make things worse, but just a PSA that nobody's personal experience is representative of more than 3 billion people. Lots of good assessments of this comic have been made, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the origin of this comic. It's a lighthearted way of bringing up the issue of being anxious in public. The characters in this comic are not unrealistic; they may not be like you, or most people, but they are perfectly plausible. And this comic isn't Randall indulging his fantasy; it's just encouraging openness because most people are fine with starting conversations. Randall isn't being creepy here, and I think the explanation for the comic explains it nicely. But I guess it's likely for the oh-so-intelligent readers of XKCD to use it that way, so fair point. ([[User:Nafedalbi\|Nafedalbi]]) 2:00 PM, December 8, 2021 (UTC)

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	:::Most of the time, sure, but definitely not all the time. "Leave her the fuck alone" is the right approach in general, but it causes minor anguish for girls like the one in the comic. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.221.5\|172.68.221.5]] 19:51, 11 September 2021 (UTC)		:::Most of the time, sure, but definitely not all the time. "Leave her the fuck alone" is the right approach in general, but it causes minor anguish for girls like the one in the comic. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.221.5\|172.68.221.5]] 19:51, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
	::::The point is that "girls like the one in the comic" are a male wish fulfillment fantasy and do not exist in real life. If a woman is sitting on a bus, it's because she needs to get to wherever the bus is going.		::::The point is that "girls like the one in the comic" are a male wish fulfillment fantasy and do not exist in real life. If a woman is sitting on a bus, it's because she needs to get to wherever the bus is going.
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		+	I hate to say anything in this type of conversation because I usually make things worse, but just a PSA that nobody's personal experience is representative of more than 3 billion people. Lots of good assessments of this comic have been made, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the origin of this comic. It's a lighthearted way of bringing up the issue of being anxious in public. The characters in this comic are not unrealistic; they may not be like you, or most people, but they are perfectly plausible. And this comic isn't Randall indulging his fantasy; it's just encouraging openness because most people are fine with starting conversations. Randall isn't being creepy here, and I think the explanation for the comic explains it nicely. But I guess it's likely for the oh-so-intelligent readers of XKCD to use it that way, so fair point. ([[User talk:Nafedalbi\|talk]]) 2:00 PM, December 8, 2021 (UTC)

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	::This has <i>everything</i> to do with the comic. This is typical male wish-fulfilment fantasy on Randall's part. Women <i>do not</i> want to be approached in public by men, as the very well-written comment by sr above explains. <b>Context is everything!</b> If a woman is sitting by herself in a <b>singles</b> bar <i>then</i> feel free to approach. If she's just out in public going about her day, <i>leave her the fuck alone!</i> [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 13:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)		::This has <i>everything</i> to do with the comic. This is typical male wish-fulfilment fantasy on Randall's part. Women <i>do not</i> want to be approached in public by men, as the very well-written comment by sr above explains. <b>Context is everything!</b> If a woman is sitting by herself in a <b>singles</b> bar <i>then</i> feel free to approach. If she's just out in public going about her day, <i>leave her the fuck alone!</i> [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 13:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
	:::Most of the time, sure, but definitely not all the time. "Leave her the fuck alone" is the right approach in general, but it causes minor anguish for girls like the one in the comic. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.221.5\|172.68.221.5]] 19:51, 11 September 2021 (UTC)		:::Most of the time, sure, but definitely not all the time. "Leave her the fuck alone" is the right approach in general, but it causes minor anguish for girls like the one in the comic. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.221.5\|172.68.221.5]] 19:51, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
		+	::::The point is that "girls like the one in the comic" are a male wish fulfillment fantasy and do not exist in real life. If a woman is sitting on a bus, it's because she needs to get to wherever the bus is going.

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	:Okay. This has nothing to do with the comic. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.171\|162.158.58.171]] 10:20, 12 February 2019 (UTC)		:Okay. This has nothing to do with the comic. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.171\|162.158.58.171]] 10:20, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
	::This has <i>everything</i> to do with the comic. This is typical male wish-fulfilment fantasy on Randall's part. Women <i>do not</i> want to be approached in public by men, as the very well-written comment by sr above explains. <b>Context is everything!</b> If a woman is sitting by herself in a <b>singles</b> bar <i>then</i> feel free to approach. If she's just out in public going about her day, <i>leave her the fuck alone!</i> [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 13:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)		::This has <i>everything</i> to do with the comic. This is typical male wish-fulfilment fantasy on Randall's part. Women <i>do not</i> want to be approached in public by men, as the very well-written comment by sr above explains. <b>Context is everything!</b> If a woman is sitting by herself in a <b>singles</b> bar <i>then</i> feel free to approach. If she's just out in public going about her day, <i>leave her the fuck alone!</i> [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 13:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
		+	:::Most of the time, sure, but definitely not all the time. "Leave her the fuck alone" is the right approach in general, but it causes minor anguish for girls like the one in the comic. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.221.5\|172.68.221.5]] 19:51, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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	:Okay. This has nothing to do with the comic. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.171\|162.158.58.171]] 10:20, 12 February 2019 (UTC)		:Okay. This has nothing to do with the comic. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.171\|162.158.58.171]] 10:20, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
		+	::This has <i>everything</i> to do with the comic. This is typical male wish-fulfilment fantasy on Randall's part. Women <i>do not</i> want to be approached in public by men, as the very well-written comment by sr above explains. <b>Context is everything!</b> If a woman is sitting by herself in a <b>singles</b> bar <i>then</i> feel free to approach. If she's just out in public going about her day, <i>leave her the fuck alone!</i> [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 13:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

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 ::::Men are more likely to be murdered than women.  [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386:_Duty_Calls You are wrong on the internet.]  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.123|108.162.216.123]] 18:48, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
-:::Why is this so hard for you people to understand. Men get murdered more than Women. Women get raped (forcibly penetrated) 22 times more than Men. For other kinds of sexual violence (forcibly penetrating someone else, coercion, stalking) the gap  is smaller but still significant. Men represent 80% of murder victims. They are at higher risk for non-sexual violence.
+:::Why is this so hard for you people to understand. Men get murdered more than Women. Women get raped (forcibly penetrated) 22 times more than Men. For other kinds of sexual violence (forcibly penetrating someone else, coercion, stalking) the gender gap is smaller but still significant. Men represent 80% of murder victims. They are at higher risk for non-sexual violence.              Source for rape stats [https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf] skip to page 11 for the executive summary. Source for men having higher non sexual crime victimization [[https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=955]]  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.242|172.69.62.242]] 16:34, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 :::Quite frankly, the rates of violence against men are much lower, and almost all of it is committed by men (as you can tell by googling "literally anything about crime statistics"). Men are less harmed and less affected by these issues (see, eg, Moradi and Huang 2008); further, what you just posted is a strawman, because what was posted above does not claim that men cannot be harmed or raped, only that one fear is greater than the other.

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		+	:::Why is this so hard for you people to understand. Men get murdered more than Women. Women get raped (forcibly penetrated) 22 times more than Men. For other kinds of sexual violence (forcibly penetrating someone else, coercion, stalking) the gap is smaller but still significant. Men represent 80% of murder victims. They are at higher risk for non-sexual violence. Source for rape stats [https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf] skip to page 11 for the executive summary. Source for men having higher non sexual crime victimization [[https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=955]] [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.242\|172.69.62.242]] 16:34, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

	::::Men are more likely to be murdered than women. [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386:_Duty_Calls You are wrong on the internet.] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.123\|108.162.216.123]] 18:48, 7 November 2014 (UTC)		::::Men are more likely to be murdered than women. [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386:_Duty_Calls You are wrong on the internet.] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.123\|108.162.216.123]] 18:48, 7 November 2014 (UTC)