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Mothra

@ Mothra @mander.xyz

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  • Saturday morning breakfast cereal Witch

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  • Yes she's ecstatic in that last panel lol

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  • If you see a single comic it may not come across as particularly shitty. When you see a few, if you are paying attention, you see a pattern.

    This artist typically draws scantily clad women in situations where average women wouldn't be dressed like that. If you see a single comic, you might think this is just a character quirk, something specific of this particular character. But no, it's the default.

    Now I love a pin up just as much as anyone else. I wouldn't consider overly revealing outfits a problem if that's all that was to it. But it's not. The "humor" often pivots on "exposing the hypocrisy" of said women. And then again, this is not an individual character quirk but a catch all bag of stereotypes. We see women showing off their body for online clout, women dressing provocatively only to get angry at people looking at them (or wait, maybe that one means women purposely dress provocatively just to troll people looking at them?), we see women just being bitches to each other for petty reasons, etc. Get it? Hot women are either stupid and shallow or hypocrites. Ha, ha.

    But wait, there is more. We have the ranting feminist woman character, who is also a hypocrite for supporting depictions of hot men but not those of women (dumb strawman argument if I've ever seen one) and just being annoying. This woman doesn't show her boobs or undies to you, remember this. Just like the other woman who also doesn't show her boobs and undies, and is a short-sighted, anti-gamer parent.

    Ah but we also have the feminist who protests topless, and is somehow bothered by another woman who is dressed provocatively. Because, we already mentioned, women are hypocrites, especially feminists. He outdid himself with the strawman argument on this one.

    Then we also have the skinny fashion model women whose sin probably is being vain so it's ok for Artist Representation Character Guy to call them zombies. Fuck any nuance in why these unhealthy standards exist, it's probably all women's fault because they are shallow.

    Then we have fap jokes, awkward santa jokes about sitting girls on his lap jokes, and remember, stories that put LGBTQ in a positive light are probably propaganda so let's laugh at people supporting that too jokes. Ha ha ha.

    Oh and this. Companies lure and switch you. Yes, a valid critique. The unpleasant switch though? Masculine women, because, like we already said, women who don't show you their D cups are unpleasant.

    Not shitty enough?

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  • Maybe, I don't know. Perhaps I'm already so negatively biased against this artist that I presume the worst from the get go.

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  • I'm not sure if I'm "in" on the joke. I've seen the Japanese Jesus ones but it's the first time I see this one with the fish. I noticed the right to repair, foss message of JJ. I get the feeling this comic would have a similar bent. I have no idea if these characters belong all in the same universe, or if he's already made one in which the puffer fish explodes, I don't know, but I dig

  • The Looming College-Enrollment Death Spiral

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  • Paywalld

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  • Your interpretation of reality is rather accurate, I agree with your view on the first panel. Is this a case of broken clock sometimes right though? I'm not sure.

    The second panel places what appears to be a trans person in the role of the unpleasant character. Odd choice, especially for someone who typically doesn't depict minorities like these. If the message was just as you say, it could have been easily delivered with a character that doesn't raise questions about their gender identity. All this character needs is to be rude and look buff and ugly. Why choose someone of ambiguous gender for this if you also don't consider this trait a part of the unpleasantness?

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  • Interesting.

    Looking forward to this cereal comic.

    I wonder if that puffer fish is destined to pop at some point.

  • Jucika measures blood pressure

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  • I like the subtle hint on that graph at the end of the bed.

  • Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

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  • [Meta] Posting comics from transphobic artists?

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  • I'm against censorship, but I'm pro for curated content. I would be happy to make a rule in which after reaching a certain amount of downvotes, a post has to be removed. I also think it is reasonable to ban someone if they consistently post content that keeps getting downvoted. This is no different than spamming or trolling.

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    vestibulectomy

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  • Sounds like the average Australian doctor to me

  • The implication of that

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  • I'm not much of an outdoors person myself however I do own two foldable knives. Indoors I tend to use kitchen knives and the retractable blades sorts which is actually stationery but yes we agree blades are incredibly useful

    However having said that easily half the people I know don't own any blades that cut, not even in their kitchens.

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    Just roommates

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  • Hah yes exactly how clever of you to figure it out, thanks for explaining me! And how clever of the artist to come up with a hog cranking joke! Almost as good as a fart joke!

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  • 🤔 hm... I guess that works too

  • [Meta] Petition to include comic identifiers in post titles

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  • The majority of his content posted here is cringe and misogynistic, in that order, but yes I've also seen the trans/queer phobia content. You are not wrong.

    I would just ban it on the grounds that the sheer amount of downvotes proves the majority of the community deem the content subpar, so why leave the trash to spoil the rest of the otherwise nicely curated gallery? We already have rule 2 which says content should be enjoyable by most. The user posting those is clearly a troll and a repeat offender at that.

  • [Meta] Petition to include comic identifiers in post titles

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  • I'm not 100% seeing how this could be implemented. I get the concept though. You speak of tags, however tagging systems are very inconsistent across the fediverse and apps used .

    I don't have anything against the idea, but only as long as this doesn't become in itself reason for banning content. Optional yes, compulsory no.

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  • I'll keep my peepers open

  • Do y'all feel like you just have no shame in front of family (or I guess also very close friends) and randomly sing weird songs (or even made up ones), but feel kinda embarassed in front of strangers?

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  • No. I tend to be quiet but I've learned this often makes people uncomfortable. I don't need to talk around close family, but if I notice uncomfortable body language in a colleague after a long pause in conversation I'll try to come up with something to say.

    I never sing though. Anywhere.

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  • Wait, I haven't seen these outdoor gyms around in Sydney. Granted, I'm not paying close attention to playgrounds, in which cities have you seen them?