So this comic actually reminded me of something a professor of mine talked to us about in my first year of SVA. And the weird thing is I don't think he intended to send this message.
We were talking about this scene in a movie he liked called "Picnic" and this very chaste dance scene that's considered one of the sexiest movie scenes of all time. He was comparing it to the infamous Miley Cyrus performance at the VMAs that year, asking why the scene where nobody is even wearing anything revealing was considered sexier than a young woman in flesh-colored underwear twerking.
Then a few classes later, he was showing us this old Mighty Mouse cartoon which had female mouse hula dancers who had disturbingly humanoid bodies and concluded that the animators must've been repressed and horny. I asked if he'd ever seen The Great Mouse Detective, and he said "I think that was meant to be more tongue in cheek and not deliberately sexy." Of course, the people have spoken on which scene they find sexier.
I think that through that class and especially this comic, I learned the major difference between sexual and sexy, that something that isn't sexual in the slightest can be incredibly sexy and vice versa.
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