Guest Comic! By Mike Bromage
on June 20, 2012
and modified on April 18, 2014.
Today’s comic comes courtesy of Mike Bromage, creator of the weird and wonderful comic Dust Piggies.
Thanks for the comic, Mike!
The Adventures of Gyno-Star
Fighting the forces of evil and male chauvinism
After that last story arc, I gotta say I’m a little disappointed that Gyno-Star doesn’t shave her beaver.
This one was fun 🙂
I just finished a binge reading after being referred to this comic by Dave B over a Grrlpower.com and I must say I’m quite impressed. I will go on record as saying that I am very much a male chauvinist (I’m black, it goes with the territory) and feminism in its modern form does nothing but piss me off. I personally feel it has gone from the empowerment of women (which I’ve got no problem with) to the emasculation and feminization of men. Most “feminist” comics are little more than the haphazard misadventures of some one-dimensional Mary-Sue type character whose sole defining characteristic is her rage against the patriarchy. That kind of self-righteous preaching gets boring real fast and at first that felt very much like the direction Gyno-Star was initially headed. I’m glad I kept reading though because somewhere along the line you realized that Gyno-Star needed a personality if she was going to be viable character and you did that by making her a well-intentioned hypocrite. Something that every human-being can relate to.
I applaud you for ditching the angsty, teen-aged whinyness and beginning to dig into the heart of sexism, politics. Because that’s ultimately what it boils down to. Social control. Control the ones that carry the babies and you control the society. That’s why the Catholic is opposed to abortion, if you let women run around doing whatever they what with their bodies they don’t make more little Catholics who will eventually fill the Churches coffers.
Fine work all around, you earned yourself a regular reader.
Being black has nothing to do with being a chauvinist. It is being male and being taught that way. Ask any black woman or any woman at all. We males can be better than that. Much better.
Since you’re replying to someone who said “male” chauvinist you’re not really wrong in what you say but just in case somebody else comes along and misreads the fact you did’t but male in front of chauvinist but, I assume unintentionally, simply implied all chauvinists were male I’ll just state that: Women can be chauvinists too. (equality means equally capacity for evil as well ya know)
There, all better now. 🙂
Always ironic when I typo the heck out of a corrective statement! Durrrrr!