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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, November 16, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Men’s group chat draws fire for sharing explicit photos FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I must take issue with Tired Of “Boys” In Tucson your response to “Tired of Behinds” Dear Abby: I do not agree with you that what these men are doing is (Sept. 5), who was upset that her the equivalent of “old-time barber- fiance is part of a men’s group chat shop talk.” What’s being shared dig- that includes the sending and receiv- ing of pornographic female images. itally today isn’t at all like the mag- azines and chat from even 20 years While “boys will be boys” has ago. It’s far more graphic and less been the reigning excuse for male Jeanne woman-friendly. misbehavior for years — nay, centu- ries! — times are changing. “Tired” Phillips You are right that “Tired” will Advice has every right to demand that her not change her fiance. That’s why fiance behave respectfully toward she should leave now and avoid women, both publicly and in private. He the future heartbreak that could be wait- may not be able to change his friends’ ing. There’s always a victim when it comes behavior, but he has control over his own to porn. Just because the sharing is within and could demonstrate that he’s not a boy, a closed group doesn’t mean some women but a man who respects women for who weren’t victimized. Or that some men won’t they are, not their looks or perceived sex- become addicted. — Sad About This In ual value. Would he want others to look at The West Dear Abby: Speaking as a man who has his sister, his mother, his daughter or her that been part of multiple “men’s groups,” as way? I doubt it. Excusing “boys” for their misogyny well as happily married for many years, I only perpetuates our sexual assault culture. find “Tired’s” fiance’s chat group to be inap- “Tired” should take a long look at her fian- propriate, just as she does — particularly the ce’s behavior and decide whether or not he group icon picture. I respect women as peo- is the kind of man she wants to share her life ple, not physical/sexual objects. He should with. — Wants A Better World For My speak up out of respect for women. Doing so could influence one or more of his friends Daughter Dear Wants: Most, but not all, of the to rethink their position. — William In many women — and men — who com- Oregon mented on that letter agree with you. Read Dear Abby: These are private conversa- tions between adult men. Sexuality makes on: Dear Abby: Your response supported the the world go ’round. Yes, women deserve idea that for men to bond and feel like “real respect and not to be sexually harassed. But men,” they need to advertise to each other we shouldn’t have to totally remove sexu- their sexual interest in women other than ality from the equation. Women chat about their spouses, and women need to tolerate men and look at images just like we do. It’s it. The practice is hurtful and disrespect- just less talked about. — Mr. B. In Houston ful. How can a woman feel like her fian- Dear Abby: If these are solicited pho- ce’s friends care about her welfare if they’re tos, as the writer suggests, privately sent and sending naked photos of other women to then shared in a group, it is illegal in most him? It seems women’s feelings don’t matter states. You cannot share nude photos of at all in this bonding ritual. Furthermore, the someone without her/his expressed consent. men don’t have to touch these other women Perhaps “Tired” should inform her fiance of to have a “sexual experience” with them. — that! — Emily In Michigan DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 16, 1918 It took Pendleton people just 30 min- utes yesterday to volunteer to fill 10 Christmas cartons for soldiers overseas, for half an hour after the news appeared in the East Oregonian that the “Sammies” lacking friends and relatives had sent their labels to the Red Cross, all the boxes were spoken for. Not only was there a ready response, but a waiting list of 22 names is at the Red Cross office in the federal build- ing, in case more cartons are to be filled. Secretary Roosevelt has written headquar- ters asking for more labels of this kind. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 16, 1968 The demand for electric power is increasing sharply in Morrow County, with a “literal explosion of irrigation wells,” Harley Young, manager of Colum- bia Basin Electric Co-Op, told the group’s annual meeting Thursday. “There have been 43 new deep wells drilled for irriga- tion in Morrow County alone since Jan. 1,” Young stated. “These require in excess of 3,000 h.p. to be tied to the wells.” Ser- vicing these new electric consumers has created a problem during the past year in building new lines. Further major con- struction of lines and new transformers will be necessary to meet future demands. A new 5,000 h.p. transformer is planned for Jordan as one of the projects in the near future. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 16, 1993 A 2-year-old boy playing with a ciga- rette lighter started the fire Monday morn- ing that destroyed much of his family’s upstairs apartment in a Pendleton tri- plex, Ron Campbell, Pendleton fire mar- shal, said. No one was injured in the fire, although the boy’s mother, Vicki Morris, was given oxygen. The 10:22 a.m. blaze was set when the child, alone in a bedroom, used a cigarette lighter to ignite a bag of clothes, Campbell said. A smoke alarm sounded, prompting his mother to rescue the boy and his 4-year-old brother. The fire spread from the bag of clothes and climbed a wall, Campbell said. It generated enough heat to produce a ”flashover,” a flame that engulfs the entire room. The bedroom was gutted and other upstairs rooms were dam- aged by smoke and intense heat that melted items in the living room, Campbell said. BY SCOTT ADAMS THIS DAY IN HISTORY THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN On Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplo- matic relations. In 1914, the newly cre- ated Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities. In 1939, mob boss Al Capone, ill with syphilis, was released from prison after serving 7 1/2 years for tax evasion and failure to file tax returns. In 1959, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opened on Broadway. In 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in Cleveland at his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. In 1981, actor William Holden was found dead in his apartment in Santa Mon- ica, California; he was 63. In 1982, an agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players. In 2006, Democrats embraced Nancy Pelosi as the first woman House speaker in history, but then selected Steny Hoyer as majority leader against her wishes. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Clu Gulager is 90. Journalist Elizabeth Drew is 83. Blues musician W.C. Clark is 79. Actress Joanna Pettet is 76. Actress Marg Helgenberger is 60. Rock musician Mani is 56. Country singer-musician Keith Burns (Trick Pony) is 55. Former MLB All-Star pitcher Dwight Gooden is 54. Jazz singer Diana Krall is 54. Actress Lisa Bonet is 51. Actor-comedian Pete David- son (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 25. Thought for Today: “History is a gallery of pic- tures in which there are few originals and many copies.” — Alexis de Toc- queville, French historian (1805-1859). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
