Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 14, 2022

Maybe they get it from you, Calvin.

Write your own.

Oh, the irony of Calvin calling someone ELSE weird.

The missing y chromosome causes all kinds of problems Calvin

Shhh Calvin “They” don’t want you to know.

Males have asked about this since the dawn of time.

Try looking under child psychology or child development.

I’ll bet that there is a copy of the book on Suzie’s bookshelf. She consults it when she wants to be weird.

I am sure a lot of books can be found under the “Religion” segment – that will satisfy your curiosity. A lot of “research” has been done in that area by that lot – globally.

Most of our books are by girls because boys’ attention span is too short to write a book. Try the comic book store.

ask a girl.

It’s all about networking, Calvin. Find other boys preferably teenagers. Ask them anything. They have all the answers and are never wrong about girls.

Was that a female librarian by any chance?

Giiiiiirrrrrllllllls are wiiiiieeeerrrrdddd because they have COOTIES!!!

Some things must be learned without the benefit of books, Calvin.

Librarians are usually female. There’s a clue right there, they have control over what information gets released…it’s a conspiracy. ;)

I gave up on trying to understand the Ladies long ago ( With age comes Wisdom sometimes . ) nowadays I try to just get along !

A book from Calvin’s time…Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus

It’s been written since this comic came out: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150701.Why_Girls_Are_Weird

Why Girls Are Weird by Pamela Ribon, 2007.

Everybody knows.

It’s because Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus….

Calvin, the world’s first Weirdoligist.

It’s a CONSPIRACY! Scientists know, they just don’t want us to know!

There are some things you have to learn on your own, Calvin!

A closed mind blames the messenger everytime. Not cool Calvin.

Men have been trying for a long time to figure that out.

When you figure it out, Calvin, please let the rest of us know. ;)

They aren’t weird, Calvin. They are just different. They only appear to be weird, because they are not like you. It works both ways.

In fact, I take pride in being weird in some other people’s eyes. It’s kind of like a badge of honor.

May he never grow up

Considering most librarians are women, it’s probably a conspiracy!

The last panel – classic Calvin pose

When did men are from Mars women from Venus book come out? Might be a bit mature for Calvin, but sounds like what he was going for

Plenty of research. Mostly by men. How about a nice copy of “Catcher in the Rye” instead?

You could try something by Freud, but few people take his idea on gender seriously anymore.

Republicans banned all those books.

I bet County Library was overjoyed when Caller ID was invented.

No one has mentioned a similar idea in one of the Harry Potter books. Hermione explains to Harry why his girlfriend Chloe was angry with him. Ron Weasley, who is in love with Hermione but expresses it in a similarly hostile way to Calvin’s “mild crush” on Susie, tells Hermione “You should write a book explaining to boys the weird things that girls do?”

Hermione is a lot like Susie in that she studies hard and has few friends. Ron has some similarities with Calvin but has a close friendship with Harry and Hermione. Ron’s older brothers Fred and George are about as mischievous and rebellious as Calvin.

At least this time Calvin’s not calling the county library about profanity. And at least he’s not speaking in a bad foreign accent to try and sound like a beeg eemportant rezearcher calling the pooblic lahbrorry.

Mothers teach their sons one way and their daughters another… That is why girls are so more advanced then we are!

Girls are still different despite efforts to make them into asexual commissars. :)

Yeah, a lot of curating of news and important information now days.

COUNTY library?

well, Calvin public libraries are a part of government. js

Now society can’t even define a girl.

I suspect Calvin might be into ‘weird’ girls when he gets a little older.

Strange……..I don’t remember of us boys thinking girls were weird…….just different from us. Didn’t think (at the time) why they were just that they were and acted accordingly ! ! ! !

Indeed, a mystery for all time.

The psychology books are numbered 150-159, Calvin. Get in there!

Reminds me of an exchange between a boy and his mother from one of the anime shows I watched as a kid:“Mom, why are girls crazy?”“They aren’t, honey. Their husbands make them that way.”

Well, there is that…

The pot calling the kettle, weird.

How do you know Susie hasn’t done the same thing and called them about books on boys being weird?

Difficult to understand Susie, Calvin? Understanding women has been a qusst for long and eternal.

It’s a conspiracy.