waist
Original: waist on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Grey one-eyed alien robot: WHY ARE HUMAN BEAUTY STANDARDS THE SAME EVERYWHERE?
Man (red hair, beard): THEY'RE NOT! THERE'S A HUGE AMOUNT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
Panel 2:
Alien robot: NAH. IT ONLY SEEMS DIVERSE BECAUSE YOU GET OBSESSED WITH MINOR DIFFERENCES. I MEAN LOOK AT SCI FI NOVEL COVERS.
Panel 3:
Alien robot: YOU CAN HAVE A 12 FOOT TALL WOMAN WITH BLUE SKIN, SNAKES FOR HAIR, ONE GIANT CENTRAL EYE, FOUR ARMS, FISH SCALES, WHO'S TRYING TO ELIMINATE YOUR SPECIES VIA TORTURE, AND YOU'LL STILL PERCEIVE HER AS ATTRACTIVE IF SHE LOOKS REASONABLY FIT AND HAS A 1.7 WAIST TO HIP RATIO.
Panel 4:
Man: YEAH, WELL ROBOTS ALL USE FUNDAMENTALLY THE SAME HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE.
Alien robot: THAT IS DIFFERENT. HOW DARE YOU.
Votey:
Man (off-panel/sketched face): ALSO ARE THERE PICTURES OF THIS LADY YOU'RE DESCRIBING?
Grey one-eyed alien robot: WHY ARE HUMAN BEAUTY STANDARDS THE SAME EVERYWHERE?
Man (red hair, beard): THEY'RE NOT! THERE'S A HUGE AMOUNT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
Panel 2:
Alien robot: NAH. IT ONLY SEEMS DIVERSE BECAUSE YOU GET OBSESSED WITH MINOR DIFFERENCES. I MEAN LOOK AT SCI FI NOVEL COVERS.
Panel 3:
Alien robot: YOU CAN HAVE A 12 FOOT TALL WOMAN WITH BLUE SKIN, SNAKES FOR HAIR, ONE GIANT CENTRAL EYE, FOUR ARMS, FISH SCALES, WHO'S TRYING TO ELIMINATE YOUR SPECIES VIA TORTURE, AND YOU'LL STILL PERCEIVE HER AS ATTRACTIVE IF SHE LOOKS REASONABLY FIT AND HAS A 1.7 WAIST TO HIP RATIO.
Panel 4:
Man: YEAH, WELL ROBOTS ALL USE FUNDAMENTALLY THE SAME HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE.
Alien robot: THAT IS DIFFERENT. HOW DARE YOU.
Votey:
Man (off-panel/sketched face): ALSO ARE THERE PICTURES OF THIS LADY YOU'RE DESCRIBING?
Alt text
Four-panel black-and-white SMBC comic. A grey, vaguely humanoid robot/alien with a single yellow eye is talking with a red-haired bearded man. The alien asks why human beauty standards are the same everywhere. The man insists there's huge cultural diversity. The alien argues it only seems diverse because humans obsess over minor differences, citing sci-fi novel covers: you could have a 12-foot-tall woman with blue skin, snakes for hair, one giant central eye, four arms, and fish scales who is trying to exterminate your species via torture, and you'll still find her attractive as long as she's reasonably fit with a 1.7 waist-to-hip ratio. The man counters that robots all use fundamentally the same hardware architecture. The offended alien snaps, 'THAT IS DIFFERENT. HOW DARE YOU.' Votey panel: a sketchy human face asks, 'Also are there pictures of this lady you're describing?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.