bottledmystery:

noflyonthewall:

Gotta love CollegeHumour

This makes me really uncomfortable, and I don’t find it funny at all, and I’m not quite sure why. This is gonna be a bit of a ramble, so please bear with me.

Maybe it’s how the “feminist” guy still totally disrespects the woman’s answer? That she’s still denied agency, still treated as a punchline? He’s using all of these feminist/social justice buzzwords to tell her that her worldview is still wrong. It’s really clear how he and the men around him care more about appearing like modern, liberal, sensitive guys than about actually respecting women or practicing feminist values. Also, the boys’ club language and imagery in the last panel make me sick. The woman—the person with whom feminism is primarily concerned—is off to the side being snubbed by guys who have appropriated something that should belong first and foremost to her. (And other oppressed groups, duh.)

I’m not convinced that this was meant as a critique of that appropriation, though. If it were, I think it would focus more on the woman, at very least give her the punchline rather than making her the punchline.

Now, I’m not saying that men shouldn’t practice feminist values, GODS NO am I in no way saying that, but that isn’t what this comic shows. At all. Dudes, please just educate yourselves and behave accordingly.

Folks who’re more articulate than I, chime in? What do you think is wrong with this comic?