My grandmother drove my grandfather to suicide, and then talked shit about him at his funeral. Essentially what happened in this comic. Things like this happen, it’s not some patriarchal conspiracy.
I said nothing about patriarchal conspiracies. It’s just a medium-funny joke, which has been beaten to death like 20 Yeats ago. The artist should geht better material
Why aren’t the genders switched in this comic if it is about that?
Because at the time of publication, probably somewhere in the 80’s, this wasn’t even something on people’s list of concerns. As sexist slander this is very weak, because the point isn’t to throw dirt at women. It does present two stereotypes though, a nagging woman (or perhaps a clean freak woman), and a suicidal man. Both are statistically true, women tend to fuss more over cleanliness and men have higher rates of suicide than women. Are you also upset over every piece of media that shows a woman cooking for her husband or men as the main income earners in a household?
How do you determine when a piece is sexist or not? Is gender switching your gold standard? If so, this also works with genders switched. You would have your stereotypical abusive husband completely losing it over the house-cleaning wife leaving a stain after killing herself. The underlying criticism would be the same, people valuing more the material than people’s lives. The man would be demonized in this situation just as much. What a slaveowner husband, husband bad.
I like to weigh in the body of work of an artist (if I am aware of this work) and take it into account. People’s views show through, but you can’t usually pick them up based on a single piece. Funny how some people here are completely fine with dumb jokes from people who are either openly nazis or have a clear disdain for minorities and women, but get riled up over something by an award winning artist known for championing human rights in his work.
And my grandfather was alright, as far as I’ve known. You probably got confused with your thread of replies. Thanks for your concern though.
As someone who has spent the past six months trying to repair their 10 year relationship, only for every attempt at expressing my need for accountability and a basic sense of compassion to fail, all I can say is:
Sometimes your partner turns into a cunt, and it’s not gender exclusive.
Wife bad
And sometimes they actually are, get over it.
My grandmother drove my grandfather to suicide, and then talked shit about him at his funeral. Essentially what happened in this comic. Things like this happen, it’s not some patriarchal conspiracy.
I said nothing about patriarchal conspiracies. It’s just a medium-funny joke, which has been beaten to death like 20 Yeats ago. The artist should geht better material
If you really think this is about wife bad you are probably missing the point of the comic.
What would you say it’s about?
Valuing more a piece of upholstery than a human life. Satire on materialism with an absurd delivery.
Besides that being a good point I go the “the problem is not that i see sexim everywhere, but more than you don’t” argument:
Why aren’t the genders switched in this comic if it is about that?
I totally get your point and I am very sorry for your grandpa, no human being deserve so much shitty people in their life.
Because at the time of publication, probably somewhere in the 80’s, this wasn’t even something on people’s list of concerns. As sexist slander this is very weak, because the point isn’t to throw dirt at women. It does present two stereotypes though, a nagging woman (or perhaps a clean freak woman), and a suicidal man. Both are statistically true, women tend to fuss more over cleanliness and men have higher rates of suicide than women. Are you also upset over every piece of media that shows a woman cooking for her husband or men as the main income earners in a household?
How do you determine when a piece is sexist or not? Is gender switching your gold standard? If so, this also works with genders switched. You would have your stereotypical abusive husband completely losing it over the house-cleaning wife leaving a stain after killing herself. The underlying criticism would be the same, people valuing more the material than people’s lives. The man would be demonized in this situation just as much. What a slaveowner husband, husband bad.
I like to weigh in the body of work of an artist (if I am aware of this work) and take it into account. People’s views show through, but you can’t usually pick them up based on a single piece. Funny how some people here are completely fine with dumb jokes from people who are either openly nazis or have a clear disdain for minorities and women, but get riled up over something by an award winning artist known for championing human rights in his work.
And my grandfather was alright, as far as I’ve known. You probably got confused with your thread of replies. Thanks for your concern though.
It’s about your shoes, Terry! You’re tracking dirt through the house, AGAIN just after I vacuumed last week!
“Joke”
As someone who has spent the past six months trying to repair their 10 year relationship, only for every attempt at expressing my need for accountability and a basic sense of compassion to fail, all I can say is:
Sometimes your partner turns into a cunt, and it’s not gender exclusive.
So sometimes: wife bad (but unironically)
Sorry that happened to you. Doesn’t make this kind of comic any less repetitive (and boring and boomer).
Oh well. It’s relatable for some, who are valued merely by their output, and not as individuals.
It speaks to me. But I suppose that’s trite.
“trite” is a new word for me. Thanks for using it