Gays and lesbians have their own kids all the time. Not wanting to bang the opposite sex does not equal not wanting your own naturally born children.

But I agree, being parent isn’t coded into all of us. It just has nothing to do with being gay.

Bad weather is worse for agricultural communities than hunter/gatherers. We’re sedentary, currently seeing crop failures and artificially inflated grocery costs.

I’m a forager and my BFF is a hunter. You can absolutely fish and hunt and forage in the winter.

I’m like 99% infertile, an absolute bonus of a health problem because even the idea of being pregnant gives me anxiety. I can sex it up in god mode without worrying too much about birth control failing.

Being alone is my happy place. I don’t even like sharing a bed.

Even after waterloo he’d çtill have Nâpoléon’s çtink fetish.

It’s a magic mushroom.

That would be neat to see how the comic strip community defines a debate.

If anyone sees this and feels like answering, how would you define a debate?

Anyway, anyone can call someone an asshole, for sure. I didn’t call you call you an asshole, I said it wasn’t a cool, because one of the community rules is to be polite.

Did you not respond to me in a new thread to like… continue this debate? Almost like art can trigger strong emotions.

And here I was trying to be polite, following one of the rules of the comic strips community.

I will. My dick-breathing dragon prints are a top seller with judge-judy tarot coming in a close second. People like being mildly offended, just look at these comments.

Good luck, truly. The world needs artists. I only downvoted you after you called our friend there an asshole, which I didn’t think was cool, otherwise I enjoyed our debate.

Edit: Pig was about raising people to be disempowered by shielding them from negativity, and how it does them a disservice. I struggle to find a strong allusion to class struggle, since the primary theme is the danger of being naive.

You can’t? Have you tried?

I like to think I work with the full gamut.

Are you trying positive reinforcement with my Internet etiquette? It doesn’t work great when you do it with affective contempt.

I thought you were being ironic when you said you know art can evoke emotions but you were mad about the specific emotions this art evokes.

Astounding they got 1800 anime fans to agree that quickly, maybe they’re onto something.

…art plays all emotions?

The extreme negative reaction is part of it. Art plays all emotions, including inciting an audience against you. Sometimes artists don’t do it for us, they do it to see what happens.

Reminds me of Pig by Roald Dahl.

People expect some funny, maybe payback, at least for someone to do something. Nope. Just weird and sad.

Wait, so you can’t follow a story past four panels? What is “four panel logic?” I think you made that up.

I was quoting someone else.

My information is from reputable sources in healthcare, journalism and medicine. Do we not recognize Ph D’s here, now?

In every one of my comments I try to bring the discussion back to the narrative of the comic, you brought up pregnancy, which I addressed.

I don see this conversation being productive, so you can have the last word and I won’t respond. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Did you… did you read them? Or did you lose the plot after four statements?

I won’t respond, you have the last word if you like.

“I didn’t get it so the comic is wrong.”

I am a woman who has been to the doctor. I get asked “Are you pregnant or breastfeeding,” all the goddamn time.

Weird you think disagreement is an insult.

Countless men who have never been a woman in a doctor’s office don’t get it. Lemmy is about 73% men. They’re missing the point for the same reason this comic exists, because women’s experiences are minimalized in healthcare.

All the panels are related, that’s how a narrative works. A lack of media literacy doesn’t make it wrong, because women get it without needing an explanation. Unless the guys in the comments are actual doctors, they’re just a large volume of unsupported opinions. It is not routine to ask about a period in an emergency, the medical emergency is the context.

Again, the comic isn’t about pregnancy, it’s about dismissing women’s pain and blaming problems on hormones.

Source

…women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives, rather than pain medication, for their ailments. One study even showed women who received coronary bypass surgery were only half as likely to be prescribed painkillers, as compared to men who had undergone the same procedure.

Another source

Women are more likely to encounter scepticism regarding the severity or legitimacy of their symptoms as a result of gender biases and cultural norms ingrained in the medical discourse about women’s bodies and diseases over centuries.

Yet another source

Despite medical advancements, women frequently face underdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of pain (Pieretti et al., 2016). Healthcare providers often dismiss or minimize women’s pain, labeling it as “emotional” or “psychosomatic” rather than physical (Samulowitz et al., 2017).

edit: You know, as a mod of a community, I can see all the votes there, right? I’m just glad you found a healthy outlet.

NO

As WalrusDragonOnABike so perfectly put it:

Its satirizing the tendency for doctors to be more dismissive of women having pain than men, for example. This would be more of a problem with non-visible causes of pain, especially ones that predominantly effect women such as chronic migraines. This comic extrapolates this to comedic effect by using a gunshot wound instead.

AND

I love how a 4 panel comic about dismissal of women’s medical concerns is getting multiple commentors who want to dismiss those problems because a 4 panel comic doesn’t explicitly go into the a specific nuance they are focused on. Plenty of people get the punchline just fine without it.

It’s not about pregnancy. It’s about dismissing pain and blaming symptoms on hormones.

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I have more sources. They’re bookmarked. Does anyone need them or do we get it yet?