Over on Comics Should Be Good, glimpses of a terrifying misandrist future — and the man who set out to make things right again!
He does look cute in his little cleaning outfit, I have to admit.
Check the whole thing out. It’s pretty hilarious.
EDIT: I changed the link from Buzzfeed to Comics Should Be Good, which originally dug up the comic and shows more from it.
Virgil wrote that script for the comic right? The whole “if you give women a taste of power they’ll take over the whole world thing”.
Also, whoever did the comic doesn’t understand oppression. At all. All it takes is for one oppressed person to do something brave and the oppression ends?
Really.
Friendship of peoples!
Thanks, Historophilia! We really sweated over the names.
Yay babies! So widdle! And with such great names!
At least that is the fun kind of ridiculous. 🙂
Also, WHERE ARE THE ROBOTS? What kind of future is it where there are no helpful robots to make housework easier?
I bet the marshmallow bears will have robots. Hmph.
Some girl, I want a flying car! And a robot nanny, No sex bots though.
@Yoyo
I am sure the first thing the government did after women were in charge was outlaw them. After all, hasn’t Canada already done that? 😉
It’s a hard balance to get right, you want names to be interesting and individual but not ones that will get them bullied.
They’ve also got to be names that will work throughout their lives, I’ve seen so many girls given really cutesie names that will just be daft when they’re adults.
Some of the worst:
Pebbles
Mitzie-Mae
I kid you not.
So if you ever worry about the names always stop and think “I did not name my daughter Pebbles” 😛
@Historophilia
Pebbles?!?
Wow. I just heard about twins Tyler and Taylor. How’s that for interesting and individual?
/sarcasm
Mitzi is kind of neat as a retro name, but Mitzie-Mae is ridiculous.
Pebbles? Okay, who has a Flintstones fixation?
Selena and Adrian, on the other hand, are lovely names. 🙂
Cute babies Falconer!
Her brother better be named Bam-Bam.
(I think that would mean you’d be fating him to grow up to be a drummer, though, and have you seen Spinal Tap?)
The clothes they’re wearing, interesting. I guess the most emasculating outfit the artist could think of was a t-shirt with a boat neckline — and showing off the the dudes leg’s. The mom is in a uniform of some kind? But she’s rocking the Donna Reed heels with ankle straps advertisers and TV producers from the ’50s insisted women wear at all times (not that I don’t like heels, mind you).
Yeah, comic creator’s imagination was very limited.
I started watching Spinal Tap but didn’t really get the humour (this was years’n’years ago). When I think of drummers I think of the joke about how you know the stage is level – the drummer’s drooling from both sides of his mouth.
Those are great names.
I want my stinkin’ jet pack. They have been promising me a jet pack since I was a wee bitty science fiction reader and I want what I have been promised before I am too decrepit to use it.
Me too, bewilderness, me too.
I keep looking at the babies and looking at Falconer’s avatar and wondering when the babies will get fangs like the Cat. 😛
That comic inspired me to reread Egalia’s Daughters, which is the same premise but a different point.
I once helped handle a custody battle over some poor boy named Espn.
ESPN.
I shit you not.
@Kittehs’: They better not before 6 mos, or Beloved will not be pleased.
Falconer, yeah, I was thinking “hopefully not before they’re weaned!” Ordinary hoomin baby teeth are bad enough.
One of the stories in Ken Burn’s “The War” is of a family of civilians captured on Manila by the Japanese and imprisoned and starved for 3 years. The film interviews the daughter, who was 9 to 12 during her imprisonment. She says her mother kept nursing her little brother until the Yankees practically kicked in the prison gates (he was an infant when they were interned).
For some reason all I can think of is “Ow.” The enormity of being denied enough food to live on for three years is too big for me to process, I guess.