I mean, would other birds take the rejection as well as they did? Other birds might have tried to wash away their pain with an entire bottle of cheap tequila, but not parrot. Their bottle had, like, at least two swigs left in it. Other birds might also have buried themselves at home, not talking to anyone for two weeks, but Parrot is strong. They went to the corner store, maybe about, twice and even said "thanks" and "goodbye" to the cashier ... once.
Comic transcript
Panel 1:
Parrot explains:
Imagine all possible things as points in some abstract, hyperdimensional space. It is now our brain’s task to draw borders that determine how we feel about them.
Panel 2:
As long as all the things we know are far apart, we don’t need to be very specific, which is easy...
Panel 3:
...but as we learn about things that fall in the gap, the border needs to get more complicated. This is difficult. Our brain doesn’t like that.
Panel 4:
This is where categories come in very handy! By grouping things into categories, i.e., clusters of points, we don’t need to take as many points into consideration.
Panel 5:
By choosing points that are representative of whole clusters, generally called “stereotypes”, our brain only needs to draw the border between those. Much easier!
Panel 6:
As useful as this is, it is a generalization, though. Even categories that you don’t care about might contain points that lie way across the border! Sometimes, you just need to look past the obvious ...
Panel 7:
Parrot is at the bar with the beautiful parrot.
BP: REALLY??? That whole damn monologue boils down to: “I’m not like the other birds”?!
P: Yeah ...