Editing Talk:322: Pix Plz

It's a little unfair to say that the "rule", such as it is, exists because internet users believe women are too stupid <sic> to be online. A more accurate reason would be because so many men masquerade as women for various reasons. (Such as extra attention, or as a fetish)

Therefore, someone claiming to be female is met with cynicism online - often with unfortunate results. {{unsigned|‎161.31.32.81}}

I find it amusing that, while ostensibly egalitarian/feminist/what-have-you, this comic's last panel still has Black Hat giving Joanna the order to fire -- for all his high-flown (and largely justified) rhetoric, he still doesn't realize she doesn't need telling. [[Special:Contributions/71.97.137.127|71.97.137.127]] 22:28, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

If I ask you to close the blinds, because you are closer to the window, would you assume I think myself superior? Same here, Joanna has the gun, BHG doesn´t, therefore he asks her to do it. {{unsigned|91.64.172.40}}
::Furthermore, Joanna seems like something of a soldier type. No matter how much she wanted to, she would not fire unless given the order, lest she incur the wrath of Black Hat. [[User:Hppavilion1|Hppavilion1]] ([[User talk:Hppavilion1|talk]]) 18:51, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Females are often met with lots of males trying to hit on them by private messages in chat or on the main screen no matter the subject content of the chat room. This predatory-like wave of sexual lust will often cause the female gender to use gender neutral sounding screen names to try and avoid this effect. Hence making the internet seen void of females except for porn site spam bots profiles.... The behavior of males have lead to a reaction behavior of females to hide who they are for dread of harassment both online , in gaming and in the geek culture in general.[[Special:Contributions/184.39.244.206|184.39.244.206]] 04:01, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

So do people who are surprised someone is a girl and don't act like a sexist dick get a free pass? I mean, the answer must be yes, but at the same time XKCD's hyperfocus on some things above all other has often left me, your typical computer enthusiast, in the dark. [[Special:Contributions/68.58.90.223|68.58.90.223]] 08:35, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I don't see how this remains incomplete; Cueball's actions seem to be accounted for. I have removed the Incomplete tag. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 19:53, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm surprised no one bothered to mention the title text. I added a short explanation, referring to the "It's okay, I have a black friend" excuse. Feel free to refine it. [[User:Dulcis|Dulcis]] ([[User talk:Dulcis|talk]]) 17:01, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

I removed the incomplete tag because the reason for this being incomplete was invalid. Dulcis (who added the racist rationalisation argument) was not asserting that the title text was racist but used a racist concept as a simile to explain the title text. [[User:Foyfluff|Foyfluff]] ([[User talk:Foyfluff|talk]]) 15:36, 07 January 2014(UTC)

:I agree. Case closed. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 19:30, 7 January 2014 (UTC)


I would dispute that this comic "pre-dates" the No Girls On The Internet "meme", which I seem to remember being around wayyyyyyyyy before 2007 - maybe even back into the 90s (though there's something tugging at my mind saying it was a post millennial thing born of SomethingAwful or FARK). Unless of course we have citeable evidence for it being birthed after the comic was uploaded... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.163|141.101.70.163]] 15:32, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
:My experience of pre-web internet (if you'll excuse this late reminiscence) is that the concept was there, already, by the beginning of the '90s, and was already a broken trope, when Usenet/IRC/BBSs/mailing-list-powered-fora were the essential social/academic/B2B media of the time. Whilst it was already not true that 'TANGOTI', it ''was'' however true that the limited number of ''people'' who geeked-out enough to be present were probably intrinsically male-biased just for 'gateway' reasons (tendency to pursue technical strands of academe/employment). That said, I knew a significant number of RL women who were online in some capacity. I probably didn't notice all those (male or female) who ''didn't'' interact much by the BBS/etc, though.
:Additionally, just to say that I (male) have joined a certain MUD a couple of times under both a female character-name (for ''SFW'' role-playing purposes; but it also has some gameplay differences, i.e. ability to join the Witches' Guild vs the Wizards' one) and female 'real' name (because I never ever put my real name/contact in such fields, so I matched it as most practical instead) and almost immediately got hit-upon by a particular long-standing regular of my normal acquaintence. Both times. Nothing overly creepy, but a lot more attention than any male-type newbie character ever had been given in a similar position. Perhaps more a case of being 'helpful' than anything, but verging upon discomfort (partially for my own passive duplicity, TBH), even if it was perhaps a form of positive discrimination/encouragement. - This was 2000s/2010s, having myself having had other alt-histories on there since the early '90s, and not RPing the helpless-newbie/hinting at being a returned-oldie.
:I'm not sure I changed my own (veteran character) behaviours at all... but I would like to think I was just equally and impartially inept at social nicities no matter what the (supposed) gender of any other random online contact might be. Not for me to say, though. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147|172.70.162.147]] 12:21, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Its kind of funny that the fact that apparently Black Hat smashed the door completely off it's hinges in order to enter the room goes completely without mention in the description or comments, almost as if everyone just presumes it's so common it doesn't even bear mentioning. - Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.155|108.162.250.155]] 23:32, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
:Black Hat has stolen a Russian submarine to get his hat back, flooded a government building with playpen balls as an elaborate prank, and disassembled a double-parked car in order to get its extra parking spot. If you only want to count what he had done predating this comic, his record's still pretty impressive; he has (for example) strapped James Bond to a centrifuge and corrected his scientific knowledge, he can employ the vicious CAREBEARSTARE attack, and he sliced off Cueball's hand for making a stupid/nonsensical joke and then acting smug about it. Kicking a door off its hinges isn't that impressive, in context. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.209|108.162.216.209]] 04:53, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:: ...links? [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]<sup>&#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&#93;[[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 07:55, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
::: [https://xkcd.com/2034/|'''L'''] [https://xkcd.com/498/|'''i'''] [https://xkcd.com/496/|'''n'''] [https://xkcd.com/123/|'''k'''] [https://xkcd.com/146/|'''s'''] [https://xkcd.com/169/|'''!'''] [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]<sup>&#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&#93;[[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 14:56, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
:I mean... it is. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 12:33, 22 March 2021 (UTC)