Post by immo » Wed Jun 19, 2019 9:32 am

nostarion: thank you for standing up. never chill because people like to use 'i'm just joking' to cover their bad behaviour and instead of recognizing that maybe they are wrong and should apologize, they tell you you're in the wrong.



zanda: I'm sorry to see you go and I also agree. Kinda, because I still do not know what is going on, these comics have been a little confusing for me recently. so I don't know what to think yet.



It went from the gender conforming camp where I thought this was a critique on performative and toxic masculinity, to... I don't know what. I'm not sure what the comic is trying to get at here because it's been a confusing ride for this arc and I don't think I've posted here before (hello), but this arc has not been the most... clear?



I'm not so sure what this comic is criticizing and it would be quite sad if this was an attack on the trans community.



But then looking at the one 'woke-man' strip, the 'problematique' character who is clearly problematic says 'women don't have penises'... and then the gender fluid tonic... I'm just really confused. Is it a critique on neoliberal white feminism? An attack on transitioning? Is it criticizing that the gender camps are so divided? What about those zombies with the different pronouns? Woke-man is... maybe not that woke so is problematique really that problematic? Which flips how she is problematic, on it's head? It's a lot of wrapping my head around this. I'm thinking it's more the latter... which I do have problems with since it focuses on binaries which is... weird because even human biology isn't so rigid. Like for the case of Caster Semenya, where she was subjected to sex-testing, and rules that were enacted that tested for androgen and testosterone.



So is the comic criticizing testing such as this and offering solutions to fit the binary as a problematic concept?



I'm not a huge fan of Jordan Peterson and I do want to avoid most of his 'teachings', and being from the city where he 'teaches' (I use that term loosely), it is kind of alarming to see shadows of this in sinfest, if that is what it is. But again I'm not even sure what I'm seeing?



I am disappointed if this is going in a trans-exclusionary vision, which really does break my heart. The trans community does face a lot of attacks as is and I'm not of the opinion that trans-women are NOT women, but it reminds me of something a friend of mine, who is a trans-women said. She did say that her experience as a trans-woman is very different from that of women who lived as a woman from birth. Does it make her any less of a woman? Is it a perceived privilege that gets so much vitriol from people? Or the perception of strangeness and other?



Still trying to wrap my head around the comic.



That's my main criticism on this.