Run
Explanation
This comic plays on the absurdity of unsolicited advice and the impossibility of avoiding social judgment.
In the first panel, a father tells his child: "Dad, I want to ask this girl out but what if she doesn't like me?" The father's advice is blunt: "Then run." The child presses: "Run?" and the father doubles down with intensity.
The father then launches into a tirade about how embarrassing it would be if a person you asked out doesn't like you back -- describing it as though your "whole being is rejected outright," invoking judgments about your looks, taste, hair, and more. His advice is essentially to flee from any possible rejection.
In the punchline panels, the child asks: "This sort of thing is why Mom left, isn't it?" -- revealing that the father's terror of rejection is not theoretical wisdom but a deeply personal pathology that has already ruined his own relationships. The father deflects: "Can't blame me if I don't answer my phone" -- showing he's still running from confrontation, even now.
The comic satirizes the way parental advice often reflects the parent's own unresolved issues rather than genuine wisdom. The father projects his catastrophic fear of rejection onto his child, and the child is perceptive enough to see that this mindset is exactly what drove the father's wife away.