Funny/Sad cartoon

[DBennett]

Don't normally post in this section, very much a lurker though, but thought this might be my début.

Just found it all too accurate.

I know what you mean Pogle - but the "humour" of what her original commenter said stems from the fact that he's offering to be her "woman". And that's really funny, because she's the woman. Offering to have someone's babies (NOT in the case of you and your DH obviously that's a bit different :)) is quite a strange idea of a reward, unless you accept that the ultimate reward is sex. And presumably she drew her cartoon for some other reason than because she wanted someone to volunteer to have sex with her. (Willing to be corrected if the original says "please marry me and have my babies!" or something)

Sooo...to me it's a bit like catcalling someone, the commenter let her know that no matter what she is doing/drawing/making/thinking, he is seeing her in terms of sex. And it's like there's no escape for women from being thought about in sexual terms by total strangers, just for putting their work out there.

Does this make any sense at all?

Yeah,thanks all - my brain is sorted now,(and a straw poll of my friends and aquaintances has shown that I'm the only person I know interpreting this how I was,so I am obv.wrong and it is expunged from my vocabulary as of now...)
I don't know if it is just me but some of the issues that are talked about here seem blindingly obvious,but others I think about and think I've "got it" and then it is almost as if my brain resets to its default settings the moment I stop concentrating...

Thanks for the link,blackcurrants - now that half term is over hopefully I'll get some time to read the rest of Feminism 101 as well!

Nah I think it's the same for most people. A lot of the things on the feminism section I either disagree but sometimes change my mind, or just can't muster the energy to bother about.

And then you get a thread like this where your posts made me clarify to myself what exactly it was that bothers me about that phrase. :)

Isn't the point also that when she said 'thanks, but erm no thanks' instead of just going 'ok, next time I'll just stick to comments on your work' it triggered a whole landslide of comments from tons of guys.

Because if you said 'guy-who-drew-a-cool-comic, marry me and have my babies?' and he said 'no thanks, stranger, please don't talk about babies when you're telling me my comic rocks' would you say 'ok, sorry about that - I loved the way you drew the facial expressions!

or 'dude, why don't you want to have my babies. You should be grateful that I want to have sex with you and that I took time out my day to tell you so. And you are wrong.'