276a | Oh, So You’re a Psychic!

Aaaaand…here come the tentacles.

Nothing good comes from the addition of tentacles.
….Or nothing BUT good, depending on your preference…

Give the guy a break why don’t you!? She is trying to tentacle rape him as if he was a japanese schoolgirl in a poorly dubbed anime after all.

Okay, so, three things:
1. I think you’re confusing a specific sexual preference with xenophobia. He never said he didn’t like her species, simply that he was not physically attracted to it (it, being the species)
2. As, I believe, was already mentioned a few pages back, his comments are meant to highlight his post-mind-wipe character in all it’s childishness
3. You seem to be taking this very seriously for a story that’s basically a parody of space opera; space opera itself not being the most serious of genres.

Now you’re making this be about semantics, which it isn’t. Xenophobia describes quite a specific mindset and it is not the one Zap is exhibiting here. He isn’t saying: “You are untrustworthy/evil/inferior, because you’re of a different species”, all he’s saying is “I find you’re species unattractive, or indeed, physically repulsive”. The simple difference being that while the former is unacceptable and generally reprehensible, the latter should, at the very least, be tolerable.

As for taking this debate too seriously… perhaps you’re right, perhaps I’m right, or perhaps (and this may blow your mind =) each of us is right and we’re both taking this too seriously. If that’s the case, then I invite you to add whatever you’ve left to add so that we can end this little discussion before it gets out of hand, and so that we can return to enjoying the marvelous webcomic that is Zap!

 Who died and appointed you Grand Arbiter of the Web?

Worked didn’t it?

Son?