The Erroneously-Anticipated Violence Conjecture.

[dreadedcandiru2]

The very interesting thing about watching Elizabeth react to having done something wrong is having to watch Elly's being completely baffled by the fact that for some reason that eludes her, the reason Liz quotes for not fessing up as quickly as possible is her fear of being spanked. We know that neither she nor John would lay a hand on her because

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[howtheduck]

The very interesting thing about watching Elizabeth react to having done something wrong is having to watch Elly's being completely baffled by the fact that for some reason that eludes her, the reason Liz quotes for not fessing up as quickly as possible is her fear of being spanked. We know that neither she nor John would lay a hand on her because unlike a boy, their daughter has feelings that can be hurt so Mike gets his ass tanned for blinking funny while Liz could kill someone and just get a time out.

Eventually Elizabeth figures this out and her retaliations against Michael grow increasingly violent, because she knows she will not be punished and Michael, as a boy, is incapable of being physical hurt by a girl in this comic strip.

[dreadedcandiru2]

And he's also incapable of learning from his mistakes. One gut punch should teach most people to shut their mouths if their only export is hateful verbal abuse but the cement-headed dolt is not most people.

[howtheduck]

Except that the gut punches are from a girl so in this universe they cause no actual pain or harm.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Thus does Lynn's idiotic belief that a weak little girl can NEVER hurt a big strong man make women's lives worse: men don't learn shit THAT way!

[howtheduck]

Worse than that, the girl punches were played for laughs, so not only were they weak but they were funny.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Ripping off old cowboy movies like that led directly to the stupidest sequence ever: Anthony giving Howard a purple nurple and telling him to get out of Milboring by sundown......

[howtheduck]

That was essentially what she was after. I guess she didn't realize the world had changed. If she did that comic strip now with #Metoo going so strong, I imagine the backlash would have been monstrous compared to what she got 12 years ago.

[dreadedcandiru2]

She'd have had to install air raid sirens.

[howtheduck]

I suspect Howard Bunt would have gotten a much more severe penalty than he did if she did the strip today.