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Women are brave if they hit men. Men are evil, brutal perverts if they hit women. This is addressing completely different situations. Women are brave if they fight back and defend themselves. They’re brave when they refuse to become a statistic. Men are fucking assholes when they beat the shit out of a woman for no reason other than to frighten and control her. A woman who beats a man for no reason other than control is as much of a piece of trash as the man is. A man who defends himself from assault, even if the assailant is a woman, is brave. Context is important, children.
Women are romantic if they suddenly kiss men. Men are perverted if they suddenly kiss women. If you’re suddenly kissing a woman and it is automatically making you a pervert, you’re kissing a stranger. You are not surprise-kissing your girlfriend/wife/partner and being labeled a pervert, that is not how this works. So if a woman suddenly kisses a strange man (context!), she is not considered a “romantic”. She would be labeled a “slut”. Brushing up on your social stigmas is important if you want to make it look like you know what the fuck you’re talking about.
It’s just a mistake if women go into the men’s bathroom. Men are perverted if they into the women’s bathroom. The issue here is assumed intent. We assume the woman has no intention of entering the men’s bathroom, she just didn’t pay enough attention to the signage on the doors and accidentally opened the wrong door. We assume the man opened the woman’s bathroom door on purpose to “sneak a peek” of women, I don’t know, changing or something. Which they don’t do, but that’s beside the point. Basically, we’re saying that women never intentionally peep on men (and society feels that men should be honored to be ogled by predatory women) and men never mistake which bathroom is appropriate for their gender. Assumed intent should always be the same, innocent until proven guilty. I have had a man accidentally open the women’s bathroom door once before, nearly have a heart attack while apologizing profusely and vacating the area faster than The Flash. Innocent and not assumed to be a pervert looking for jollies in the women’s bathroom.
Women doing work: “Help me!” Men doing work: “It’s natural.” I think you’re insinuating social stigma dictates women cannot do hard labor without the help of a man and a man is expected to hard labor without any help at all. It also seems like there’s an insinuation here that women are “needy” and whine when the work is hard, where as men will just take it as it is and do it without expecting help. I should not even have to explain what’s wrong with this. Let’s move on from this generally terrible panel.
Woman staring at man’s crotch: it’s flirting. Man staring at woman’s breasts: it’s perverted and offensive. I don’t know man, I think anyone eyeballing anyone else’s junk is a pervert. I bet the men who are subject to a woman’s “hungry eyes” do not always find it welcome or flirty. Happily married men, for one. A man who is smaller than the predatory woman in question, for two. A man who isn’t fit to defend himself in the instance of assault/rape, for three. A man who takes a peek at a woman’s body that is in plain sight isn’t offensive. A man who stares at a woman’s body like it’s a piece of meat or maybe a toy Santa forgot from the Christmas List is offensive. A man who thinks women’s sexual organs are the only thing that matters about her is offensive. A man who enjoys some fine scenery without being a shit about it is not offensive.
If a woman wants to split the bill, she is independent. If a man wants to split the bill, he is cheap. Hi, welcome. This is the year 2012, it’s not the 1800’s. Women now ask men on dates and assume responsibility for the date they instigated. I know, news to you.
If a woman sexually assaults a man, no one will take him seriously. If a woman is sexually assaulted by a man, he’ll be arrested immediately. This panel is the reason I started writing this. ‘Cause … no. Just no. First of all, sexual assault is sexual assault. Unwanted, unsolicited sexual contact is sexual assault whether a woman is doing it to man, a man is doing it to a woman, a woman is doing it to a woman or a man is doing it to a man. Second of all, the percentage of reported rapes that lead to a guilty verdict is less than 20%. Yeah. More than 80% of rapists walk away from the crime without so much as a slap on the wrist. Also, very few men who are raped will report it. Why? Society will tell them that they’re weak, pathetic and should be ashamed of themselves for “allowing” themselves to be overpowered and taken advantage of. Also, men are not “allowed” to be raped. Men are supposed to want any and all sex that comes their way, regardless of whether he really wants it or not. Any man who doesn’t appreciate “getting laid” isn’t a real man at all, so says society. And how many women don’t report their rape? Tons. They’re scared, they’re ashamed and they are told by society that they are filthy.
This particular panel rubs me all sorts of wrong ways. There is zero truth in it and I feel like it’s just perpetuating all of these underlying social stigma attached to the rape issue. It is making my blood boil looking at this piece of shit and thinking about all the dumbfucks reading it and going, “Omg that is soooo truuuueee!!!” ‘Cause it isn’t. It isn’t true, but the ignorant will swallow it like a pill because they don’t see all these underlying issues with everything being said here. Stop perpetuating social stigma that cause rape, misogyny and fear for those who are affected by a serious problem such as rape and sexual assault. Asshole.

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