Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic draws a humorous analogy between a common bedroom frustration and the universal experience of dealing with an unresponsive computer. In the first panel, a woman lies in bed thinking about why her partner keeps nudging her when she's clearly not interested in sex. The scene then cuts to "Later..." where she's sitting at a computer, frantically clicking on an email that won't open, thinking "Maybe if I keep clicking, it'll eventually..." and suddenly realizes what she's doing.

The punchline, "This is what it's like to have a penis," draws the parallel between her compulsive, futile clicking on an unresponsive computer and her partner's persistent physical nudging. The comic suggests that both behaviors come from the same irrational impulse: the belief that repeating the same action will eventually produce a different result. It's a clever way of creating empathy through a shared, relatable experience with technology.