Flaccid lines for flaccid cocks: masculine self-pity amongst cartoonists
I’ve only just latched on to Scott Adams’ withdrawn-but-not-retracted, reposted-with-caveat, misogynist-rant story, most probably because I just don’t care about the Dilbert cartoons. Increasingly, I’m finding cartoonists a pretentious bunch who reduce life to corny sentiment and ignorant generalisation, before serving their work up with the utmost piety. Consider Leunig.
Leunig, who while using his trademark floppy lines to decry the culture of kids left in daycare centers, failed in a series of cartoons back in the day, to manage much anything other than blame mothers as a causal factor.
But it was his response to the outcry (being called a misogynist and having pointed out to him scenarios like the single mother who has to work while her child is in daycare because her husband is a deadbeat) that was laughable. Claiming of being called ‘a misogynist’…
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Brilliant. (The caveat is useful. In reading the penultimate paragraph I was just forming the thought the caveat rejects, and then I caught on.)
I had the caveat in mind before I chose the title, and it was a concern well before I’d even considered a post with this much phallic metaphor. Recently I’ve been seeing self-pitying dudes raise the ‘feminists laugh at my peen’ card a bit too much, and with much exaggeration, so I thought I’d burst that bubble while I was at it.
It wasn’t an afterthought!
Loved it loved it loved it.
It’s true that the Men’s Rights whiners are prone to using such overblown macho terminology that it comes across as just plain silly. Especially when you realize that most of them are dull men with white collars. Hardly the noble savages they wish they were.
Great article Bruce! So many brilliant pithy quotes for me to appropriate (with full referencing of course). The line: “I never tire of saying about such self-pity, that you’ll know nanotechnology has matured as a field when it finally creates the violin small enough to play an appropriate lament”; needs to be printed again and again.
Thanks for the kind words Warren. I’ve been experimenting with scraping the insides of lemon peel onto my keyboard.