sexy

A six-panel comic. A woman with dark hair and glasses tells a man: "People say a nice car is sexy or a big bank account or an expensive haircut. No. You know what really makes a man sexy?" The man guesses, "Kindness?" She replies, "Killing a large mammal and bringing me its meat, then gaining status by giving surplus meat to members of our shared in-group." The man stares blankly while she clutches her chest emphatically. He says, "You've gotten hard to talk to since you became an evolutionary biologist." She points at him and shouts, "Meat is babies! Babies is power!" The joke: her romantic ideal of a sexy man is reframed entirely in cold evolutionary-biology terms. Votey: in close-up, the woman flatly tells him, "You would make weak babies," and he stares back looking dismayed.