Men’s Rights Jeopardy: I’ll take “Kill the B*tch” for two dozen upvotes, Alex.

Oh, that comment. Got it.

Luckily, I’m home sick so I can safely look at NSFW cartoons…

Here is what I think is happening in that cartoon.

Old woman, pathetically slathers herself with face cream to compete with nubile teenagers.
Meanwhile, in the house across the way, a teenaged girl is Skyping with someone of unknown age, presumably male, and offering him another look. Next frame is her naked torso. Then she says she has big boobs for a 14-year-old. The old woman hears this, and screams that her neighbor is a pedophile.

I’m … not sure why this is supposed to be funny. The old woman would probably know if her neighbor with the window right next to her bathroom is an adult or a teenager himself; the fact that she screams that he’s a pedophile probably means he is a creepy adult egging on a 14-year-old girl to flash him online.

Thanks for looking at that so the rest of us don’t have to, cloudiah.

Also, as someone who did have big boobs when she was 14, trust me when I say that the comments pointing this out were always coming in my direction from creepy older men, rather than the other way around.

that should be tilted, not titled.

For those who don’t want to look directly at it, the text underneath the cartoon is below. I find it interesting that it talks about how brilliant the cartoon is without saying even one word about the cartoon’s actual content or how it shows “multiple feminist issues” (it does?)

I was going to try to write some extended commentary on this but this one picture criticizes several aspects of feminism, and this cartoon is able to communicate what it would take me a long time to write much more quickly. This cartoon proves that a picture truly is worth a thousand words.

I also like how this cartoon shows how multiple feminist issues are connected to each other. I have noticed more and more people saying “there’s nothing wrong with feminism except for X”. If you just got rid of that X, these people believe that opposition to feminism would just disappear. (Conveniently, that X typically is something that person doesn’t personally like about feminism.) In reality, feminist issues have a web of connections to each other so you can’t get rid of just one part of feminism. (This web of connections even connects to things not typically considered feminist because as Fidelbogen says, “feminism has fuzzy borders”.) If you are able to get rid of one aspect of feminism, such as abortion, then you end up with conservative female supremacism or traditionalist conservative feminism. If you are able to get rid of another single feminist issue then you end up with nazbol misandry or some other form of misandry.

Agreed with cloudiah’s interpretation, and adding I think that it’s supposed to be a critique in that it’s “pointing out” that “feminists” are trying to look young, while condemning men who are into young girls? Or something? It’s basically calling “feminists” hypocritical for wanting to look young and then criticising men who like young girls.

Which makes no sense because being young =/= being a young child. And liking young girls is gross no matter who you are if you’re an adult.

I wonder if there’s any group of angry reactionaries in the US who aren’t obsessed with communism, and linking everything they dislike to communism.

Argenti, haha, yes, pretty much that! My sis and I literally tell each other that when either of us asks what we’re typing so furiously for, it reminds us we’re awesome and is just deprecating enough that we’ll stop a moment to remember these people are disgusting and we shouldn’t get so invested.

because as Fidelbogen says

I missed this. LOL at anyone who listens to that person, since they really don’t make much sense at the best of times.

“Like Fidelbogen says” is kind of like “like the Chick tract says”.

Okay, I read that comic, and the primary thrust is, indeed, the notion that feminists are just old women who are trying to make men ashamed of their ‘natural desires’ for 14-year-old girls, who are totally capable of consenting to sexual activity. This is presumably because they want to snag the Alpha Male for themselves for that golden sperm so they can get child support. So yeah, pretty much another damned sex-predator apologia, with a kicker of ageism.

Worth noting–we can’t see the male neighbor watching the cam, because that would highlight just how skeevy his behavior is (even though I doubt the artist would be able to properly portray the age-difference in a meaningful fashion).

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“When Fidelbogen talks, douchebags listen.”

If I don’t use moisturizer my skin gets dry, which is uncomfortable. I don’t want it to make me look like I’m 14, I want it to make my skin feel good.

(Also, no offense meant to our teenage readers, but when I think of 14 year olds I think acne and braces and awkwardness, not “wow they’re so perfect, I wish I looked like that”.)

I rarely ever put any kind of cream or moisturizer on my face. Does that mean I’m not really a feminist?