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Heh, but he does hate her outfit.

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Oh, yeah...

Man, getting called out on your fashion by Rorschach of all people... I can see why Laurie was pissed.

Considering his old day job, I've always wondered why he didn't just make her something he felt was more appropriate.

RORSCHACH: "Uniform too revealing, not practical enough. If you'll excuse me, Miss Juspeczyk..." *steps into the next room*

*machine noise*

LAURIE: "Is that a sewing machine?"

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"It's a turning world."

--- Moorcock's Multiverse.

ARCHIE. 99 Accessories, but a dash lighter ain't one.

YOU WIN A MILLION INTERNETS

MAKE IT WORK!

Rorschach is such a fashion Nazi. FABULOUS!

LMFAO.
"Those high heels worry me" *CHOP*
"But - those were Italian!"
"Now they're practical."

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^ I am scared now... (curls up into a ball and starts crying helplessly)

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THIS would never happen!

Non sequitur:

TOUCHING ME WITH LOTUS FEET

Sorry, I had to do that. It's been bothering me for a while.

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Gone fishin'

Just let those who would idolize, sexualize, and romanticize a man who would, in reality, smash their heads though a mirror do it in peace. It's all that keeps their minds off of things.

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He did it.

This is one of the best things I've ever seen.

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We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Hurm, Rorschach's fear of women and viewing of them as mostly whores due to his childhood and treatment from his mother reminds me of Ed Gein, minus the grave-robbing and mutilation.

Huh. As a massive true crime buff, I never would have thought to put Rorschach and ol' Eddie Gein in the same mental factor. But, I do think that Rorschach has a bit of a Norman Bates complex. Bates' character was based strongly off of Gein...Hurm...

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I might be way off. I was just reading about Gein, and certain qualities such as shyness especially around girls as a young boy, being bullied, being ugly, etc reminded me of Ror.

IT ALREADY HAPPENED!



OMG, it would be an honor for Rorschach to make me clothes!

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I have a theory that in an even more alternate version of the Watchmen's alternate history, Walter Kovacs would have become his timeline's equivalent of Tim Gunn.

Oh crap, I've just gone off-topic again, haven't I?

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"It's a turning world."

--- Moorcock's Multiverse.

ARCHIE. 99 Accessories, but a dash lighter ain't one.

Holy...fuck...

*shoots self*

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Rorschach, despite all his faults, I can't seem to see him really "beat" a woman in any way, not even a bitch-slap across the face or a broken finger.

Yes, he does refer to his landlady, Dolores, as a whore and suspects her for cheating on welfare, but he never pursued that inquiry. And yet he searched Moloch's house thoroughly for a gun permit? It's not like him to suspect someone of a crime and not pursue it to its finish, yet with women, he seems to turn a blind eye.

Other evidence is the prostitutes. Clearly, he sees them as repulsive and prostitution is a crime, but for some reason he turns a blind eye to them. He ignores them completely, even when they're right in front of him. When the prostitute gave him the finger, even if she didn't follow it up with a curse, I sense that he knew she did this anyway and yet did nothing about it.

Also, interestingly, there's a few panels where Rorschach watches a nude woman at a window and STARES at her until her lover enters and draws the curtains. We don't know his exact reaction to this because he doesn't say it or write about it in his journal. Panels where he rescues a woman from a mugging/murder/rape and the 6-year-old girl. So there's this factor of "pure women" and/or "victim woman" as an "innocent".

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As for Rorschach walking down the streets, I tend to agree with what has been said. He travels at a horrible ghetto streets, where few police seem to patrol, and if they do patrol it always seems full of people...so he seems to "blend" into the crowd better than any of the other characters. Also, yes, he does walk with his head down and his shoulders raised, which hides his face, along with the help of walking in the shadows of the nightlife, so you couldn't make out his face. And if they did, they wouldn't want to get on Rorschach's BAD side.

As for rooftops or underground subway tunnels, actually, he seems a guy who would do both depending on the choices. He can't write his journals in a dark tunnel, so up in the rooftops is best, away from the crowds of the ground. Plus you have a better view of criminals up there. In the tunnels, I think he would use those for speed reasons when he needs to cut through the city fast to get to another location in an emergency.

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But even Rorschach's occasional leniency towards women comes from a sort of underhanded sexism. He does not respect them as people able to make their own decisions and assert their own freewill. If you've ever seen The Searchers or Taxi Driver, you can get a sense of what I'm talking about. Both protagonists obsess themselves with saving women who may not need or want to be rescued. Both men think they know what is best for the women in their lives and work to free from the "evils" that are keeping them apart. They supplant people's judgments and decisions with their own, because they think they know better, which is a big part of what Watchmen is all about in the first place.

Rorschach never really gets bogged down in this sort of narrowly focused revenge, and frankly thinks that he has bigger fish to fry, but, as Rorschach is so heavily derivative of the Travis Bickle character, I thought I'd point it out.

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He did it.

You mean he has a good side? Where the hell have I been?!

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