Sigh.

This bothers me.

It bothers me a lot, basically.

First of all, CAD is a big believer in the myth of the Gamer Girlfriend. Lilah plays video games - in fact, she's better at them than Ethan! She plays them for a living! So Ethan buys her a video game even though he knows she's going to disappear into it.

Up until now I'm like "Oh okay that's not so bad" because hell, it's realistic. My boyfriend gave me a copy of The Wrath of the Lich King with tears in his eyes because he knew it was like standing at a train station watching your girlfriend travel off to an exciting new land without you. (He didn't see me for a few days, and I may have hung up on him once or twice with "QUIET I NEED TO LEVEL")

In CAD though, Ethan is the centering force in the entire comic, so he can go work for Bioware under Lucas's name or join the Mac Panthers or set a house on fire or whatever the hell wacky shit he does and that's okay. But Lilah getting tied up in a video game means he needs a boob contract.

And they say feminists hate men. I can't imagine anything more condescending then being told I couldn't let my partner do her own thing for a few hours because I needed to look at her body too much.

Another reason why the myth of the Perfect Gamer Girlfriend is poop.