Vee: I'm not gonna lie- this whole comic is an excuse for James to talk about his weird theory regarding the transmission of childhood tropes. So I'm just gonna hand over the figurative mic.
That means that each little meme survives only by being shared from child to child, from generation to generation, in that tiny window of time between being too young to understand and being too old to care.
What possesses little boys to build forts?
It's not as if their parents encouraged them to steal tools and supplies (which they will lose in a ditch somewhere), build totally unsafe structures in the forest, and then abandon them come winter time - and yet you can walk into any woods and find forlorn ladders hammered to tree trunks and half unraveled rope swings.
Not to mention the myriad of games and activities girls play with each other, from 'cracking an egg' on their heads to intricate rhyming and clapping games.
