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PDittie

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41. What's the message in the portrayal of

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 08:13 AM

Mar 2017

the "Democrat" as old, white, male, and fatigued, while the "Republican" is the same except for the exhausted part? Passivity replaced with high aggression and agitation?

The message we all get, the one the GOP regularly sends to women who dare speak up on their own behalf -- or for a better world -- is clear but I'm not sure the poor lady trembling back over to the slouchy, condescending Dem is the outreach effort the party would wish to have shown. Even in satire.

Course it's just a toon; maybe shouldn't read too much into it.

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Posted without comment [View all] n2doc Mar 2017 OP

There was a time... Blanks Mar 2017 #1

+ 100 nt iluvtennis Mar 2017 #26

Great cartoon Gothmog Mar 2017 #2

Because your comment at JPR on this same cartoon wouldn't go over well here? seaglass Mar 2017 #3

thanks for letting us heaven05 Mar 2017 #6

"closet right-wingers" truebluegreen Mar 2017 #9

"closet rightwingers" heaven05 Mar 2017 #20

Gee, I guess I was objecting to the idea that truebluegreen Mar 2017 #24

not necessarily true heaven05 Mar 2017 #32

Please define "closet rightwingers". BTW, (upon reflection) you might find this term interesting... xocet Mar 2017 #18

send this heaven05 Mar 2017 #22

Amazing... n/t xocet Mar 2017 #23

IKR? truebluegreen Mar 2017 #25

thank you heaven05 Mar 2017 #27

btw, term is "free rein." truebluegreen Mar 2017 #28

oh, I see that heaven05 Mar 2017 #33

A free reigning triumvirate. Riiiight. truebluegreen Mar 2017 #38

oh no you are right heaven05 Mar 2017 #40

Heh, figures. Starry Messenger Mar 2017 #10

Hard to believe some folks who spend so much time here JTFrog Mar 2017 #35

.... LexVegas Mar 2017 #37

To quote my FIL: "I'm against it! Now, what's your question?" n Xipe Totec Mar 2017 #4

bout right, yet sadder now heaven05 Mar 2017 #5

Yeah. That's how their parents treated them. tenorly Mar 2017 #7

Meaning what? WinkyDink Mar 2017 #12

Meaning that the guy in the GOP stand sounds just like many GOP parents. tenorly Mar 2017 #30

??? (nt) ehrnst Mar 2017 #15

See comment above. tenorly Mar 2017 #31

They left the follow-up caption out, where she votes in the next election for the GOP candidate ffr Mar 2017 #8

Or she stays home with the other 94 million who didn't vote last time n/t n2doc Mar 2017 #16

But you posted on another board with comment, didn't you? nt msanthrope Mar 2017 #11

Why shoud he post a comment Curmudgeoness Mar 2017 #39

What is the source of your health coverage? Starry Messenger Mar 2017 #13

Nor will they be shipped south without their children. Jakes Progress Mar 2017 #17

+1000 Starry Messenger Mar 2017 #29

Milquetoastery as a cure for the batshit insane. HughBeaumont Mar 2017 #14

Anarcho-capitalists ... Fantastic Anarchist Mar 2017 #19

Oh, it's a total logical bollocks. HughBeaumont Mar 2017 #34

Here we go again, a circular firing squad elmac Mar 2017 #21

Toon fail Hekate Mar 2017 #36

What's the message in the portrayal of PDittie Mar 2017 #41