Benevolent sexism: a feminist comic explains how it holds women back
Benevolent sexism: a feminist comic explains how it holds women back
The French artist Emma, famous for her comic on the ‘mental load’, illustrates how certain ‘friendly’ remarks can belittle women in the workplace
The comic is a bit long but is very spot on. I work as a developer and if there's a girl with us (there's none) that would be my first instinct to do. Overly helpful and all that. I don't know why but that's what I would do.
I'm sad that this comic is still needed. I thought we figured this out a while ago. I remember being super weirded out at a colleague saying he worshipped women. That moment and probably things I read around the time solidified in my kind to treat women and other genders the same as I'd men.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Emotional Load by Emma (Seven Stories Press,U.S., £14.99).
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Jesus, how many panels in before someone would think "maybe this should just be a written piece". The comic format does it no favors whatsoever
I feel like the same story and message could have been conveyed in a single comic strip.
I think you overestimate how open minded the average person is. People are quick to reject an argument when it doesn't conform to their world views. This comic is long because it tries to address most doubts about it. It's slow to get to the point to avoid triggering the visceral reaction some people have to feminist theories.
Although I agree that a tldr would be nice.
I feel like you comment and sentiment could have been conveyed in a single emoji
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Fair point.
Men are all such fucking shitbags amirite?
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I honestly do not understand what you are trying to say. Are you implying this comic is one of the "all men are bad" category? Are you parodying how incels would react to a post like this?
No. I'm just tired of all the blame men are getting. It's like being a man makes you inherently a bad, evil person and a persecutor of women.
Men have their flaws, sure. And yes there is toxic masculinity. But at some point, blaming men all the time for everything is like they're using them as scapegoats for their own shortcomings. Fait exemple, is it because of men that this author isn't assertive?
And I also disagree with her other one about the mental load over responsibilities in her household and how men are lazy. And how, according to her, it's all women who have this problem and all men are like this. In my household, I'm the one who takes care of these things. I'm the one who plans groceries, thinks about repairs, thinks about laundry, cleaning, dishes, cooking, etc. Yet my girlfriend used her fucking comic to point out to me that I'm the lazy one in the house somehow because I have a dick and balls and spend longer periods in the bathroom than her.
She has a problem with assertiveness and she blames men for her own shortcomings.
And I'm so sick and tired of the anti-men bullshit that it's really affecting my self esteem and my perception of myself. I can't express how I feel about this either because someone will just repeat some fucking anti-men text they read off of some feminist meme and mock me by saying "nOt AlL mEn". As if "yes all men are bad". I've seen girl friends post shit on social media where they said all men should die and even mocked articles about suicide rates in men. They also laughed as they reposted articles about men committing suicide.
At some point, when are we going to recognize there is some toxic feminists who are just outright mysandrists and there is nothing men will ever do to make them happy?
Or maybe that's the solution isn't it? Maybe I should just fucking kill myself and do all women a big fucking favor.