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SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,345 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)This toon is just simply - in the age of "Me-Too" - inappropriate and NOT amusing.
It is NEVER appropriate to make light of rape, even metaphorically.
NEVER.
GoneOffShore
(17,345 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,345 posts)Wawannabe
(5,689 posts)My jaw dropped. Whoa! But truth!
Fuck!
Hekate
(91,005 posts)Gothmog
(145,845 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)that the toons etc are getting way "darker"? There's a huge amount of pent up RAGE growing...
marble falls
(57,490 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,774 posts)marble falls
(57,490 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,345 posts)malaise
(269,280 posts)And yes these are dark times for democracy
2naSalit
(86,925 posts)mountain grammy
(26,668 posts)tblue37
(65,528 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,774 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Gold. Lots of good ones.
Fwiw, laughter defeats panic and stiffens courage and determination. Evolution fixed us up that way. And in the middle of what really is a multi-front war right here at home, we have good reason to laugh these days.
murielm99
(30,783 posts)Collimator
(1,640 posts)The last image was disturbing to me as well.
I understand that the point of political cartoons is not to be genuinely amusing. However, the imagery used is generally, outlandish and outsized, even absurd. The visuals are meant to make us think about wrongs happening in the world through an exaggerated lense.
The visual in the last cartoon makes me think of actual rape. The caricature styling and the labels aren't enough to make me think of anything but the real, physical powerlessness of rape.
steventh
(2,143 posts)Thanks JHB for bringing toons to us.
k&r
Hekate
(91,005 posts)cp
(6,676 posts)"Take me to your leader"