I really appreciate the validation here. I just feel dull and humorless so often. Here are things that I don't think are funny: -gender essentialism -Comparative Oppressions 101 -sex negativity -globalization ->And much, much more!
Which doesn't always amount to a bean's worth of humor either way at times, but let that pass.
Let's look at the comic though. Now, it could be that this is just the author making some sort of statement that many would find sexist. Is this woman just defined by her ability pump out babies? Is she being objectified as a "factory"? Or maybe there is a distinct intention between the male character's opinion and the author's? After all, these two stick figures are identical, save for the long hair. I know men with long hair and women with short hair, and since it takes both sperm and egg to procreate, males could be just as easily be likened to "factory that makes more of you." So maybe the shebang (or is it hebang?) is just a joke about gender norms.
Now, if we really wanted to get into things we could ask whether the authorial intent actually matters, or only the meaning we derive from it. But I think I've relived enough of my Methods of Interpretations class for today.
That's exactly how I took it, too. Being someone born into the male sex* and raised/developing myself in a more or less masculine/male gender, that more or less mirrors my own amazement - particularly since I am not able to do so - at the idea of a life developing in another person.
*Sex is the biological component, correct? I remember the basics, but I sometimes forget which word describes which attribute.
You're right that there's been a big move to say that gender is socially constructed, but sex is static and [insert science-y justifications on physical anatomy, chromosomes, and some gender essentialism about thinking-style
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-gender essentialism
-Comparative Oppressions 101
-sex negativity
-globalization
->And much, much more!
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-Ranking Oppressions 101
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I didn't like today's so much, either.
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Let's look at the comic though. Now, it could be that this is just the author making some sort of statement that many would find sexist. Is this woman just defined by her ability pump out babies? Is she being objectified as a "factory"? Or maybe there is a distinct intention between the male character's opinion and the author's? After all, these two stick figures are identical, save for the long hair. I know men with long hair and women with short hair, and since it takes both sperm and egg to procreate, males could be just as easily be likened to "factory that makes more of you." So maybe the shebang (or is it hebang?) is just a joke about gender norms.
Now, if we really wanted to get into things we could ask whether the authorial intent actually matters, or only the meaning we derive from it. But I think I've relived enough of my Methods of Interpretations class for today.
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*Granted, it takes more than just a woman to make a baby, but the idea of growing another person inside strikes me as incredible.
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*Sex is the biological component, correct? I remember the basics, but I sometimes forget which word describes which attribute.
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