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kodomo
13hr ago
That comic could very well have the brain on a stick in both panels as none of the descriptors in the first are usually associated with anything other than the brain. Also, "hopes, dreams, and aspirations" are basically synonyms.
There is a point to be made that delving into the hypertransactional abyss in defining relationships wraps back around into meaningful compassionate connections when all factors are considered (e.g. A shareholder doesn't want Amazon to have a bad reputation, and a shareholder has a long-term perspective that would not encourage short-sighted "cost-savings")
Usually the zero-sum punchline of the "Sexual Empowerment" of women is the belittlement of male sexuality.
Let's take the Sexual Empowerment perspective and apply it to Male sexuality:
"Attraction to a woman's appearance regardless of her innerworkings is an undescriminating love of bodily-form akin to the unconditional love of Christ. Men love beautiful form regardless of what dwells within, opening themselves to become romantically-entangled with anytype of woman who attracts him in appearance."
And now for parody :
"It is a man's right to goon to anyone he wishes: Laws against public masturbation are a sexist anachronism meant to shame and restrict him while making women feel comfortable. The freedom of men is far more important than the comfort of women"
kodomo
13d ago
It's called having your cake and eating it too. It's tough for progressive comedy to emerge from the end of wokeness and actually allow raunchy humor.
In the context, it is quite funny without betraying the premise of wokeness, as the jokes are explicitly writen by the black comedian to make the white comedian uncomfortable and viceversa (and they don't see the jokes until they see them on the cue cards?) which is a funny premise in itself.
a white man saying the meanest, most racist shit.
This is too obtuse of a characterization, like saying that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a show for Audiences to laugh at racist people who wear blackface.
kodomo
13d ago
via gemini:
colloquially known as the "Knight/Beast Complex" (or Saint/Brute) and the popular cultural idiom "Every woman wants a bad boy who is good only for her."
kodomo
14d ago
On the right, this is most frequently a “hot girl deficit”
As opposed to "famously hot" lefty women?
What a fantasy to tell yourself.
Hot people tend to be against equity and equal distribution and in favor of traditional "conservative" beauty standards.
kodomo
17d ago
Nobody knows what the Democrats are since they've been delaying internal change since 2016. Republicans happily let go of the Bushs in 2016, but Dems couldn't let go of the Clintons. Their nostalgia for the Clinton/Bush political dynasty-building paradigm has bizarre outcomes like outspoken Dem alignment with Liz Cheney of all people, plus, of course, the Biden Necromancy and prospective diversity hire dynasty (Biden > Harris > Walz)
I think they intuitively inderstand that their own party may well transform in a similar way as the Republican Party in 2016 and want to delay and delay to mitigate the deleterious effect of the transformation which will likely benefit them in medium run (while Republicans cling to the nostalgia of Trumpism). They will likely endure more losses in the mean time.
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