Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 15, 2023

Right there infront of poor Snoop too.

I resent that remark. Do you get to lay around all day and do nothing, get fed, poop, and sleep?

That’s dumb, dogs get to run around with no pants. Being born a dog is a blessing.

I can see why Shermy, or whatever his name is, never stuck around.

Anyways, about the topic of girls, I think we’ve all met a few who were certified dogs of the female variety. Probably born that way, too.

They did wear pants, though. Or at least, skirts.

Who’s Mister Silvertongue?

Ugh. I will never forget the horror of my mother cutting my hair really short one summer. I was in a store and the clerk called me “Little boy.”

I was furious. Being mistaken for a boy was the worst insult in the world.

Look at the state of the world. Look at the wars and crimes and violence. People aren’t afraid to go out at night because they fear women will rob and kill them.

Peppermint Patty?

When I was around 10 and given the chore of washing dishes for the family (6 of us) I was very resentful because my brothers never had to wash dishes. Got together with my friends and found out most of us got stuck with household chores our brothers didn’t have to do. Male privilege! One of my friends said, “I wish I was a boy…” I said we didn’t need to be boys. We just needed to have our parents be more fair about assigning household responsibilities. Since our brothers ate, they should be involved in helping with the clean up.

The grass is always greener…

I can see a whole different dialogue these days……..

Being being born as a dog wouldn’t be so bad. In fact, Elvis Presley thought it would actually be quite pleasant.

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=Itxu6WPp3Ps

Thank goodness Schulz wasn’t woke … Patty would have showed up as a boy in the next strip.

Male person here. Growing up, I totally sucked at sports. No disabilities, I was just really, really bad at it. Not surprisingly, I eventually lost all interest in it, and told my parents I wanted to find some other activity to occupy my time. They freaked out and demanded that I stay involved in it, which sparked off a two year long war between me and them.

In one of life’s little jokes, my sister, who was not expected to be athletic, was. She was categorically everything in sports that our parents wanted me to be, and she was good at it.

One day, at the height of my fighting my parents about it, one of them got in my face and said (regarding my sister), “She should have been born the boy instead of you.”

Did wonders for my self-esteem.

Isn’t this a prediction of the future society we live in now?

This is probably the start of Shermy’s exit from the strip. As Snoopy’s star rose, he never forgot that insult…