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Frivolity for Valentine’s
From Steven Levine, this remarkable advertising image: Elsie the Cow, in a maid’s apron and nothing else — yielding a racy image — offering a very substantial breakfast. Smiling and dancing. More on...
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Women’s comics
An AP story from the 16th: “Pa. exhibit traces history of female comic artists” by Kevin Begos: It took a war to let the country’s female comic book artists break character. A new exhibit at...
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Women in comics
The Dork Tower cartoon (by John Kovalic) from the 24th (a bit fuzzy from being blown up): xx
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Decline and rise of gay
Geoff Nunberg writes with this Google Ngram: This shows the usage of gay (at least in the books Google samples) gently declining until roughly 1980 and then zooming up. The interpretation I’d provide...
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Communicators
Two cartoons today — a Zits and a Bizarro — about communicating: (#1) (#2) In #1 we see the stereotype of the (male) teenager as extraordinarily taciturn, especially with his parents, but quite...
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Three more for Friday
Three cartoons today, on diverse topics: Calvin and Hobbes on explanations, Zits on means of communication (again), Bizarro on word play turning on ambiguity. (#1) Inventive but screwy explanation,...
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What happened to the dinosaurs?
Gillian Burlingham writes to say that her partner Sariya has figured out why dinosaurs went extinct: they were all “he” and “him” . Just read any kids book or watch any kids’ video on dinos and you’ll...
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Fathers Day Five
An unusually big crop of cartoons this morning, including one (a Rhymes With Orange) on stereotypes about men’s tastes (for Fathers Day). Plus another Zits with the stereotype of chatty teenage girls;...
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Name that product
Recent bulletins from the world of commerce: cricket chips, bed-hair mousse. Cricket chips. From the 5/25/14 New Scientist (p. 14), “More legs, more flavour” by Hal Hodson, about crickets: These are...
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Two from Out
Yesterday, it was The Advocate; today, it’s another LPI publication, Out (or OUT) magazine, again with two pieces of interest for this blog in the latest (October 2014) issue: one on straightsplaining,...
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Saturday trio
In today’s comics crop, a Zits on language and the sexes (once again), a Rhymes With Orange with language play, and a Bizarro metacartoon on the visual conventions of the comics: (#1) (#2) (#3) Love...
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Leslie Feinberg, verbing, and pronouns
From The Advocate website on the 17th, this death notice: Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues [1993] Author Leslie Feinberg Has Died She was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights,...
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housedress
Posted on Facebook recently by Susan Fischer, this photo of her ca. age 3, in her blonde phase, with her mother. Her mother in a 1950s-era housedress, something you don’t see a lot of these days. (#1)...
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Chatty girls (again)
Today’s Zits: Once again, the strip turns on the overwhelming chattiness of teenage girls. Or so it seemed to Jeremy.
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Masculinity in court
In last week’s New Scientist (1/3/15), a story by Dan Jones — “Booming voices are no boon for male lawyers” (in print), “Masculine-sounding lawyers less likely to win in court” (on-line) — about a...
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manspreading
Joe Dator’s January 9th New Yorker daily cartoon: (#1) Extreme manspreading on the New York subway. The MTA launched a campaign a while back to curb the practice: (#2) Meanwhile, the Word of the Year...
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Gendered playthings
Today’s One Big Happy: (The strip appeared in my feed today, but it’s dated December 25th, in keeping with its content.) In any case, both Ruthie and her older brother Joe seem to be fully satisfied...
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Anonymously on the internet
Today’s Scenes From a Multiverse (on-line here) has the superhero Colonel UnitedStates woken from 70 years of sleep: Of course, not to their faces! Insults go behind people’s backs!
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Popeye, Bluto, and Danny Shanahan
Passed on by Tim Wilson on Facebook, this Danny Shanahan cartoon from 8/17/98, with Popeye and Bluto holding hands at a cocktail party, talking to a bemused woman: (#1) Background information: on...
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Gender equity
Today’s Dilbert, one in a series: Wally [um, no, the CEO] explains to Catbert that height and gender determine how much people get paid and complains that Alice just refuses to understand this....
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