Everybody To Safety

Viewing on Facebook? Click through. This comic has a whole discussion attached to it. I’m on the critical side.

resaltador:

sexartandpolitics:

gauntlet:

jgh:

robot-heart-politics:

jgh:missworld:letstalkequality:sexismandthecity

Am I the only person annoyed by this?

Why are you annoyed by it? I laughed because I feel like it’s close to home. I’m very much like the woman on the right panel.

ETA: I know I should be annoyed because it’s dividing women yet again with a binary and anti-feminist women deserve our respect too and blah blah blah, but I don’t feel like getting into it. Sometimes a cartoon is a funny cartoon.

Blondes are like so dumb with their designer knockoffs and cock tails. Actual feminists eat cold beans from the can and keep it real with their spider friends.

I agree with whomever is annoyed by this. The message purports that all anti-feminist women are gorgeous and perfect / plastic and materialistic and that all feminist women are boring and ugly / radical leftists. It’s impossible to tell exactly who the cartoon is making fun of and who its applauding. It suggests simultaneously that being materialistic is anti-feminist and living like an anarcho punk is feminist. It lumps a lot of political stereotypes onto the feminist - for example, being a feminist doesn’t necessarily mean you’re an advocate for worker’s rights (although it should, from my socialist opinion).

It dives into the age-old question of whether paying attention to your looks is objectification or empowerment and as someone has said, suggests that feminism doesn’t support women who spend a lot of money on shoes and want to appear sexy. While I FULLY AGREE that Capitalism (because objectification sells shame as well as junk food and diet solutions, and sexism is institutionalized) is the enemy of any woman looking to feel authentic and positive about herself and her body, but I don’t believe that feminism is about EXCLUDING ANY kind of woman.

Feminism is supposed to be about choice. It’s about accepting and uplifting women of all kinds, including women who use the available tools to feel sexually empowered as well as others that often get shafted from the feminist label such as stay-at-home mothers. While there are all kinds of feminists and feminist debates, and while it should be true that sometimes “a cartoon is just a funny cartoon”, (AND while I think the artist may have had good intentions), I think this particular message is damaging both to women and to feminism.

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