Just got done reading the whole archive and I’ve gotta say…great comic. Though I am a little shakey on the feminism movement, and by that I mean I’m all for why it started, equal rights and all that…but some women seem to have taken it so far. You know, like the women that think just cause a woman wants to be a stay at home mom they aren’t living to their full potential or think that all men are pigs…stuff like that, though I guess most of it can’t be blamed on feminism…All this being said, I think I’d love to talk to Gyno-Star about stuff…I’d just need a promise that she wouldn’t kick me in the face or anything if I made the wrong joke at the wrong time…I’ve got a bit of a sick humor haha.
I’ll be honest with you: I don’t think there are very many feminists who think that being a stay-at-home mom is a waste of potential. Almost any feminist you talk to will say that feminism is about freedom of choice. Women (and men!) should have equal opportunity. The choices they make after that are up to them. People who oppose feminism work hard to paint an inaccurate picture of it. They claim that feminists look down on stay-at-home moms, when in reality feminists fight to get society to respect and value domestic and child-care work.
There also aren’t many feminists who think “all men are pigs.” The feminist movement doesn’t blame men for women’s inequality; it’ blames patriarchy, which is a social system which favors men — and only certain men at that. It’s a lot more complicated than blaming or hating men.
Anyway, thanks for the comment and I’m glad you like the comic!
TBH I was hoping that most didn’t think that way, but I did remember a story my…I think 6th grade teacher (I’m 19 now…not that that matters but yeah) told me about how he held a door open for a girl one time and she freaked the hell out…also my mom who has been around since the…70s…I think…remembers some feminists who were WAY too extreme.
But yeah like you said I knew most were like that…but yeah just felt like giving my two cents at least…also It was around 5AM buy the time I got from the first comic to this one…so brain wasn’t going at 100% xD
I’ve come to realise that most anti-feminist anecdotes leave out a hell of a lot of context. So, yeah, your teacher held a door open for a girl once… ok, why would she freak out about that? Was she a minute down the corridor, and he just stood there waiting, leering at her? Did he say or do something particularly demeaning as she walked through the door? Was she someone he knew who wanted nothing to do with him ever again for unrelated reasons? You never get enough information to understand the situation fully, only enough to make the presumed feminist look crazy. It’s all a bit suspicious.
I have a friend who spends a lot of time trying to convince me that it is in my best interest to become a “men’s rights” activist. Apparently I’m not really a feminist, I’m like a kindly school teacher who calls himself a nazi. He once told me that a fairly well known feminist with whom we share a few affiliations is a terrible person because she rejects evolutionary psychology, and she once called him a rapist. That’s all the information I got.
Nothing about whether she completely rejects that idea that human psychology is influenced by our evolutionary history, if she rejects the assumption that those influences mean that most women are gold diggers (a commonly made claim among MRA groups) or anything else.
Nothing about what she actually said that counts as accusing him of being a rapist. Considering the misrepresentations of a thing called “Schrödinger’s Rapist” and related ideas that he buys into, it could easily be a total fabrication on his part. These things are almost always lacking most of the important information that we would need to know the truth of what actually happened.
I was once detained by a woman down a dark alleyway when I was young… true story, sounds pretty appalling. She was a police officer, it was the middle of the day, she stopped me to check whether I should have been in school at the time. I shouldn’t have been, it was the lunch break and I was going home for something to eat. The whole thing was done in a minute and I went on my way, but by omitting the right details, I can make it sound like police brutality toward children (I was 15 at the time) or an alteration with a predatory feminist paedophile, or pretty much anything I wanted to.
Once, I too held the door open for a woman and got yelled at for being sexist! The irony being that I held the door open because I had *heard* footsteps behind me, I had no idea if the person was male or female. I was simply being polite to a person, not a gender. But I got chewed out for being sexist all the same.
Of course, that’s ONE time, in my entire life of 45 years. It stands out in my memory, of course, while who knows how many thousands of times I held the door open for men and women and didn’t get chewed out have all faded into inconsequence.
If I let that one woman define feminism for me, well… that would be bad, wouldn’t it? I have no idea how many women (and men!) that I held doors open for would self-identify as feminists while not berating me! I only know the one that did. And it’s the aberrations that stand out in memory and color our perceptions of the world.
Luckily, I was already a feminist myself and knew from my experience with other feminists that the woman was NOT an example of feminism writ large, she was just an asshole. No shortage of examples of those in my memory!
Feminism?! What is this feminism thing, I haven’t seen any bra-burning attempts to kill all mans, so I know this is not a feminist webcomic. I am pleased by the depiction of Vlad Deferens as a strong, empowered man!
I know I am responding to a comment that is over a year old, but I just want to express to all future readers how appreciative I am and have been of your comments, Trollatar, since I first read them! You are MY kind of troll! 😀
Sooo…. tinfoil hats?
Dammit, stole my line.
Hahahaha I can’t wait to find out why the oven negates the homemaker virus.
I’m sure it’s a “ray” rather than a “virus”… projected from her snow-globe home-base on the moon. The big metal box probably scatters the radiation.
Just got done reading the whole archive and I’ve gotta say…great comic. Though I am a little shakey on the feminism movement, and by that I mean I’m all for why it started, equal rights and all that…but some women seem to have taken it so far. You know, like the women that think just cause a woman wants to be a stay at home mom they aren’t living to their full potential or think that all men are pigs…stuff like that, though I guess most of it can’t be blamed on feminism…All this being said, I think I’d love to talk to Gyno-Star about stuff…I’d just need a promise that she wouldn’t kick me in the face or anything if I made the wrong joke at the wrong time…I’ve got a bit of a sick humor haha.
Thanks, Michael!
I’ll be honest with you: I don’t think there are very many feminists who think that being a stay-at-home mom is a waste of potential. Almost any feminist you talk to will say that feminism is about freedom of choice. Women (and men!) should have equal opportunity. The choices they make after that are up to them. People who oppose feminism work hard to paint an inaccurate picture of it. They claim that feminists look down on stay-at-home moms, when in reality feminists fight to get society to respect and value domestic and child-care work.
There also aren’t many feminists who think “all men are pigs.” The feminist movement doesn’t blame men for women’s inequality; it’ blames patriarchy, which is a social system which favors men — and only certain men at that. It’s a lot more complicated than blaming or hating men.
Anyway, thanks for the comment and I’m glad you like the comic!
TBH I was hoping that most didn’t think that way, but I did remember a story my…I think 6th grade teacher (I’m 19 now…not that that matters but yeah) told me about how he held a door open for a girl one time and she freaked the hell out…also my mom who has been around since the…70s…I think…remembers some feminists who were WAY too extreme.
But yeah like you said I knew most were like that…but yeah just felt like giving my two cents at least…also It was around 5AM buy the time I got from the first comic to this one…so brain wasn’t going at 100% xD
I’ve come to realise that most anti-feminist anecdotes leave out a hell of a lot of context. So, yeah, your teacher held a door open for a girl once… ok, why would she freak out about that? Was she a minute down the corridor, and he just stood there waiting, leering at her? Did he say or do something particularly demeaning as she walked through the door? Was she someone he knew who wanted nothing to do with him ever again for unrelated reasons? You never get enough information to understand the situation fully, only enough to make the presumed feminist look crazy. It’s all a bit suspicious.
I have a friend who spends a lot of time trying to convince me that it is in my best interest to become a “men’s rights” activist. Apparently I’m not really a feminist, I’m like a kindly school teacher who calls himself a nazi. He once told me that a fairly well known feminist with whom we share a few affiliations is a terrible person because she rejects evolutionary psychology, and she once called him a rapist. That’s all the information I got.
Nothing about whether she completely rejects that idea that human psychology is influenced by our evolutionary history, if she rejects the assumption that those influences mean that most women are gold diggers (a commonly made claim among MRA groups) or anything else.
Nothing about what she actually said that counts as accusing him of being a rapist. Considering the misrepresentations of a thing called “Schrödinger’s Rapist” and related ideas that he buys into, it could easily be a total fabrication on his part. These things are almost always lacking most of the important information that we would need to know the truth of what actually happened.
I was once detained by a woman down a dark alleyway when I was young… true story, sounds pretty appalling. She was a police officer, it was the middle of the day, she stopped me to check whether I should have been in school at the time. I shouldn’t have been, it was the lunch break and I was going home for something to eat. The whole thing was done in a minute and I went on my way, but by omitting the right details, I can make it sound like police brutality toward children (I was 15 at the time) or an alteration with a predatory feminist paedophile, or pretty much anything I wanted to.
Once, I too held the door open for a woman and got yelled at for being sexist! The irony being that I held the door open because I had *heard* footsteps behind me, I had no idea if the person was male or female. I was simply being polite to a person, not a gender. But I got chewed out for being sexist all the same.
Of course, that’s ONE time, in my entire life of 45 years. It stands out in my memory, of course, while who knows how many thousands of times I held the door open for men and women and didn’t get chewed out have all faded into inconsequence.
If I let that one woman define feminism for me, well… that would be bad, wouldn’t it? I have no idea how many women (and men!) that I held doors open for would self-identify as feminists while not berating me! I only know the one that did. And it’s the aberrations that stand out in memory and color our perceptions of the world.
Luckily, I was already a feminist myself and knew from my experience with other feminists that the woman was NOT an example of feminism writ large, she was just an asshole. No shortage of examples of those in my memory!
What poor design, that one of the items that requires cleaning blocks the waves that compel them to clean.
It does seem like a major oversight, doesn’t it?
Feminism?! What is this feminism thing, I haven’t seen any bra-burning attempts to kill all mans, so I know this is not a feminist webcomic. I am pleased by the depiction of Vlad Deferens as a strong, empowered man!
THANK you. Finally someone who “gets it.” 🙂
I know I am responding to a comment that is over a year old, but I just want to express to all future readers how appreciative I am and have been of your comments, Trollatar, since I first read them! You are MY kind of troll! 😀
Am I the only one fighting the urge to make Sylvia Plath-based comments? Please tell me I’m not the only awful person reading this comic…
You may be the only awful reader, but you’re no more awful than the writer. This was intended to be a Sylvia Plath joke in the first place.