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"A dream you dream alone is only a dream; a dream you dream together is reality." -- Yoko Ono
"In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist." --Gloria Steinem
Jan
11
Feminists Aren’t Humorless Just Because Your Jokes Suck
Filed Under 2008 election, Democrats, assholes, bigotry, gender, media, misogyny, patriarchy, politics, sexism, stereotypes | Posted by Cara |
This comic by Pat Oliphant was run yesterday in the Washington Post (click the link for a slightly larger version of the cartoon). I wasn’t able to determine if the cartoon ran in the print edition, as the “print” versions of the paper online don’t seem to include cartoons (anyone have a hard copy laying around?). But Oliphant is a syndicated editorial cartoonist.
If you feel inclined to let the Post know that extreme sexism counts as neither humor nor commentary, they have a special email address specifically for online comic feedback. That the email exists makes one wonder what kind of cartoons they generally run, but all the same, you can find the contact information both for online comics and online content on the contact page.
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"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." -- Susan B. Anthony
I saw this cartoon earlier, it was really terrible. I looked at Oliphant’s previous cartoons, actually none of them are funny at all.
You know what’s odd is the interview with the lady who asked the question that prompted Hillary Clinton to cry, where the questioner said she was moved by her response but was then turned off by how quickly Clinton regained her posture. I have no idea how to gauge that kind of a reaction.
By the way hope you didn’t offense to my previous comment on the office “temptress” post. I’ve heard this argument a million times before as I’m sure you have, and each time it just comes off as some dude whining about how completely incapable he is of making decisions on his own, while villifying women. Doesn’t make us look good.
Why do people keep saying that Hillary cried? She showed a little emotion - big deal. The media was predictably over the moon about it but in my mind it has less to do with misogyny than simple lack of intelligence. We simply aren’t very smart anymore, or we’d demand better news coverage. We have a dunce who was never elected in office, anti-intellectual dolts like Chris Matthews are rewarded with their own shows and people think Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, two DLC clones, represent “change.” It pains me to say it, but America’s just stupid and getting dumber every day.
Well, I’d be one of the last to argue that Americans aren’t stupid. But I think that misogyny is pretty fucking stupid, too. And the two are intricately intertwined here, in my humble opinion.