When I first looked at this, it looked like a rape joke. I mean, it obviously *is* a rape joke, I thought it was *only* a rape joke, as if a rape joke can be “only”..
But it’s not, is it? A few seconds later I noticed the room next door which cannot possibly be interpreted as anything other than the woman’s parents’ bedroom. The young woman has elvis posters, the room next door has man-and-wife posters and there’s this man being kicked out of bed by what can only be his own daughter
The rape interpretation was horrifying enough. The rape-your-own-child one is even worse. But the subtlety of the other bedroom suggests that this cartoon was drawn for men who actually fantasised about raping their children. The adjoining bedroom was there for their benefit. It’s subtle enough to render the cartoon as ‘only’ a rape joke but obvious enough to wink at people who want to fuck their own daughters and feel that it’s society that prevents them from doing so.
A charitable interpretation of this cartoon is that it’s saying sex education is giving girls the courage to stand up to predators that they may not have had before. Or maybe I’m grasping at straws.
You. Fucking. WHATNOW, Playboy?
When I first looked at this, it looked like a rape joke. I mean, it obviously *is* a rape joke, I thought it was *only* a rape joke, as if a rape joke can be “only”..
But it’s not, is it? A few seconds later I noticed the room next door which cannot possibly be interpreted as anything other than the woman’s parents’ bedroom. The young woman has elvis posters, the room next door has man-and-wife posters and there’s this man being kicked out of bed by what can only be his own daughter
The rape interpretation was horrifying enough. The rape-your-own-child one is even worse. But the subtlety of the other bedroom suggests that this cartoon was drawn for men who actually fantasised about raping their children. The adjoining bedroom was there for their benefit. It’s subtle enough to render the cartoon as ‘only’ a rape joke but obvious enough to wink at people who want to fuck their own daughters and feel that it’s society that prevents them from doing so.
HOLY FUCKING ACTUAL FUCK.
latsot – I had noticed the same thing. It’s horrifying.
I know. I didn’t notice that detail at first either. Layers of skeeve.
Yeah, you can even see the wife’s head on the pillow in the other room. I fail to see the humour…
A charitable interpretation of this cartoon is that it’s saying sex education is giving girls the courage to stand up to predators that they may not have had before. Or maybe I’m grasping at straws.