2011-05-19
Original: 2011-05-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: Pillow Talk: A Worldview Based Guide
The comic is a 2x3 grid. The columns are headed ABSOLUTIST and RELATIVIST. The rows are labeled MORAL, EMPIRICAL, and AESTHETIC. Each cell gives an example of post-sex pillow talk from that worldview.
MORAL / ABSOLUTIST: "That was a wicked thing we did! I'll be ready to do it again in five minutes."
MORAL / RELATIVIST: "Why should I feel bad? 'Brother's wife' is just a meaningless social construct."
EMPIRICAL / ABSOLUTIST: "Mmm... that sex was on the right side of the bell curve."
EMPIRICAL / RELATIVIST: "How can we be sure of anything? 'Did the condom break?' 'What's my name?' Can we ever know?"
AESTHETIC / ABSOLUTIST: "That sex was good because your ass is large, brightly-colored, and symmetrical."
AESTHETIC / RELATIVIST: "Oh yes. Oh GOD you're so very beautiful. But then, so is this hangnail, in its mysterious way..."
Votey:
A man drawing/writing at a desk, smiling, says in a speech bubble: "Ha! People love jokes about aesthetic relativism."
The comic is a 2x3 grid. The columns are headed ABSOLUTIST and RELATIVIST. The rows are labeled MORAL, EMPIRICAL, and AESTHETIC. Each cell gives an example of post-sex pillow talk from that worldview.
MORAL / ABSOLUTIST: "That was a wicked thing we did! I'll be ready to do it again in five minutes."
MORAL / RELATIVIST: "Why should I feel bad? 'Brother's wife' is just a meaningless social construct."
EMPIRICAL / ABSOLUTIST: "Mmm... that sex was on the right side of the bell curve."
EMPIRICAL / RELATIVIST: "How can we be sure of anything? 'Did the condom break?' 'What's my name?' Can we ever know?"
AESTHETIC / ABSOLUTIST: "That sex was good because your ass is large, brightly-colored, and symmetrical."
AESTHETIC / RELATIVIST: "Oh yes. Oh GOD you're so very beautiful. But then, so is this hangnail, in its mysterious way..."
Votey:
A man drawing/writing at a desk, smiling, says in a speech bubble: "Ha! People love jokes about aesthetic relativism."
Alt text
A chart titled "Pillow Talk: A Worldview Based Guide" lays out examples of things people might say after sex according to their philosophical worldview. It's a grid with two columns, ABSOLUTIST and RELATIVIST, and three rows, MORAL, EMPIRICAL, and AESTHETIC. Moral Absolutist: "That was a wicked thing we did! I'll be ready to do it again in five minutes." Moral Relativist: "Why should I feel bad? 'Brother's wife' is just a meaningless social construct." Empirical Absolutist: "Mmm... that sex was on the right side of the bell curve." Empirical Relativist: "How can we be sure of anything? 'Did the condom break?' 'What's my name?' Can we ever know?" Aesthetic Absolutist: "That sex was good because your ass is large, brightly-colored, and symmetrical." Aesthetic Relativist: "Oh yes. Oh GOD you're so very beautiful. But then, so is this hangnail, in its mysterious way..." In the votey aftercomic, a smiling man drawing at a desk says, "Ha! People love jokes about aesthetic relativism."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.