Today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse is all over the map. In the first panel, Lynn has apparently decided to write the anti-Elly, who doesn’t complain about unexpected houseguests, who says Connie is gone for a few days without once mentioning how terrible it is for her to be chasing after Phil, and declaring she can get a lot done because the boys are in school. Not only that but this anti-Elly wishes she could get excited about vacuuming. To make this point perfectly, anti-Elly declares she would come back in her next life as a man. Why do that? Anti-Elly is already acting like a man in this universe – no matter what she says about doing chores, we don’t see her doing them.

In the meantime, Anne disparages janitors, the only men in this universe known to do household chores. Anne would rather be a woman doing household chores than a man doing household chores. That says a lot about being a man in this universe.