It is a crass warped justification for aristocratic white dudes and wannabe aristocratic white dudes to tell everyone else how to think and act in the name of “protecting personal liberties.”
Reblogging since my pull-quotation of Robert Reich from a year ago seems to be popular.
Also because I followed a link to the student-radical screeching that was the Futurist Manifesto, a right nihilistic and bombastic, not to mention histrionic and pimply, scream of “We’re so much better than you DEATH TO EVERYONE EXCEPT US!” At least that’s what jammed in my memory.
Can we stop equating the super-rich with fatness? It’s outdated as fuck. Nowadays rich people are skinny, and poor people are fat, and that’s the result of income inequality which is supposedly being criticized here. Fat hasn’t been associated with wealth since I dunno like before Taft. JFC.
Obesity is unfortunately still correlated in the popular mind with greed, sloth and stupidity; traits that the cartoonist did not want associated with the regular Joe on the left. The venal and selfish 1% richies on the other hand…
Also, drawing the bad guy as enormously fat visually describes the weight he can throw around, politically and economically, compared to the skinny, frail ordinary Joe in front of him. After all, they own everything: political parties, media conglomerates, the food distribution networks, law enforcement… you get the idea.
Reblogging for the charming artwork. Maybe I should look at getting back into comics, using this style (and that old-school slapstick) for inspiration.
A quick editorial cartoon about the intersection of self-pity, entitlement, rape, territoriality, misogyny and fear of women. You see it all over the place online in the form of Men’s Rights Activists (of whom there are a few reasonable non-misogynists), Men Going Their Own Way, Pick Up Artists, and dudes touting the “Red Pill”, because The Matrix is a good movie. Look any of these up if you have the stomach for it. These are extreme examples, but watered-down forms of these ideas are everywhere.
In lurking their blogs and youtube channels for a while, I’ve noticed that beyond the standard patriarchal chauvinism there is this deep fear of women - what they will do to me, how they will reject me, how they will use me, how they are changing society in a way that does not favor me, how they are making men into something I don’t like, how they are making themselves into something I don’t like, that they won’t give me what I want, and that they won’t give me what I think is rightfully mine. This goes beyond fear of feminism- this is fear of women at its purest. And that, to quote a puppet, leads to anger and hate. It’s sad.
I am a feminist. I think there’s enough ice cream to go around, but it does mean those of us with 3 scoops might have to give one or two up. Also, The Matrix is a fun movie but probably not anything you should be basing a philosophy on.
