Political Cartoons 2013: Click Here To Hate Yourself

Which one do I include the cartoonist in? I'm not about to fly off half cocked at his correct use of a word with no other attempt to make it a gender insult. The first cartoon? Have at it, sure.

This may also be another example of the differences across the pond; over here the usage really isn't considered to be feminine.

I was going to try and explain the difference between the different definitions at one point, but JasonT is right. It doesn't matter anymore because they have become too intertwined.

On a side note, are there any terms for cowardice more biting than "coward" or "yellow" (I don't know if I wanna look up the ety on that) that aren't also used to question one's cis-hetero-maleness?

There's a clear semantic divide between "pussy" (insulted man) and "pussy" (slang for vagina,) but that doesn't mean the usages are unrelated or free of toxic enough gender baggage to keep the insult from being off limits. Calling a man a bitch is different than calling a woman a bitch, but the "male insult" still carries a implication of effeminacy and thereby a gender political payload.

My tl;dr is that etymology notwithstanding, "pussy" is firmly on my linguistic no-fly zone even when I'm furiously pissed and want to insult the hell out of someone who would really be insulted by that word. Its two most common usages are too inextricable. When I saw that cartoon I thought, well, he did probably accomplish his mission of maximum poo-flinging-in-NRA-hardman-eye, but unfortunately ruined it with the word choice.

Not more biting, no. I'd say the actual word coward plus a bunch of intensifying adjectives and adjunct swearing is about the best one can do. "Wimp" isn't gender/effeminacy related but it doesn't sting either, any more than old-timey cowardice-related language does.

I suspect it's partially a cultural divide, as over here, the word cunt is rarely ever heard, and is one right up there with 'the most offensive things that can be said', while the word pussy is almost always meant to represent the anatomy over the cat.

Which one is most likely to start a fight?

A. You are cowardly, like a cat.

B. You are cowardly, like a woman.

Also it makes you sound like the bad guy in an eighties high school movie.

Forgot one…

Before I can judge I need you to please remove the word "a" from both sentences and repeat them in sort of a Russian/Heavy Weapons Guy accent THANKS.

I don't think we're going to see an end to the use of slurs on a man's masculinity as being an effective insult any time soon.

There are other ones (chicken), but I don't know that I'd call any of them "biting." I think insulting someone's bravery doesn't really have the sting that it used to.

So what you're all saying is you want more Minimum Security and Lester's terrible abomination?

As always I applaud your fortitude in bringing these comics but MY GOD ARE THESE FUCKING BORING. FUCK YOU LESTER.

This one is shockingly timely for Drunky Duck
And yeah, made a total fool out of herself. As evidence you present literally half a sentence.



Oh Bagley :D




Shut up Beeler

Ho SHIT! Nut punch from Bennet!

Tell me more about how free speech exactly equals free and restrictionless guns
And the "Haha liberals use guilt by association" argument coming from the party of "OMG Obama=Reverand Wright=Bill Ayers=his grandpa's friend" is hilarious.


That "Benghazi" label could be literally anything else "Bith certificate" "unemployment" "Pikachu"

What's your point? Bad things are bad? Huuuuuuuur!
And the guy blatantly reading the newspaper during the President's address is the hero here.
TELEPROMPTER!

"GUYS THE THING THAT IS HAPPENING IS HAPPENING!"
From SA:

They kind of made me feel a little bit of sympathy for him, in a weird way. It's hard to stay mad at someone who gets that confounded by Zumba.

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

Is there a difference between condom ghosts with their faces on the tip end vs. condom ghosts with their faces on the roll end?

And 99% of them aren't even fucking jokes it's "Hey this word kinda sounds like this word!!" The other 1% just make no sense whatsoever. He puts less effort into this job than I do in collecting them.

Condom ghosts with their faces on the tip end walk like this. But condom ghosts with their faces on the roll end walk like this.

News to me that the Pope does his own driving.



Would actually have been pretty effective without the unnecessary speech bubble, dumbass.

Pikachu isn't ice-type!



There. All better.

This one is awesome. <3 <3 <3 <3

Depends on the audience. I respect and admire a lot of women, but I hate all cats.

I can't help it, I love the guy on the right's face.

This cartoon is ALMOST perfect. The biggest problem with it is that everyone knows that what priests REALLY feel fear and loathing towards is condoms that are "ribbed for her pleasure."

You get a like, contingent upon your promise not to show us any more Poky-mans.

Nothing screams "THIS IS NOT A FUNNY JOKE" like an ellipsis.

As one of the most liberal people I know I resent Stephanie Mcmillan for making me a little more Republican every time i read her stupid fucking poorly drawn and sophomorically written comics.

What offended you about that comic? Not saying I thought it was brilliant, but it didn't make me any more republican.

Actually it wasn't that comic specifically but it reminded me of her "Minimum Security" comic from which extended excerpts have been posted in this thread. As to this comic, it takes a special sort of ability to write badly to make a CARTOON which makes the reader say "Gosh, the dialogue in this cartoon is too cartoonish even for cartoons."

I like to imagine that somewhere there is a fairly conservative Republican who hears Todd Akin talking about how women can't get pregnant from rape who puts his head in his hands and says "No, no, no, stop saying stupid things while sharing my politics, because you're getting your stupid all over me and embarrassing me." That's how I feel about McMillan's cartoons.

What's your source for this claim?

I love ellipsis.

...oh...

It's just so fucking smug. Like Rall or Ramirez or the McCoys. Nothing subtle or nuanced, no metaphors or imagery just "HEY THESE GUYS ARE BAAAAD". It's a basic rule for good storytelling: even the bad guy doesn't think he's the bad guy. But not in McMillan's world, all the bad guys are MWAHAHAHA bad.

Likely none. According to Ye Olde OED, "pussy" is used to describe a woman as early as 1557ish, although in this case it is in an affectionate manner by comparing her traits to an affectionate cat. The vulgar use to refer to women's genitals shows up as early as 1699 (although this gets a little weird because OED cites the same quotation as the earliest use of the word to refer to a cat (As Fleet as my Feet Could convey me I sped; To Iohnny who many Times Pussey had fed)), with the next source cited arriving from 1790, and it's definitely vulgar (Thro' Susan's Holland smock or spare Or on her pussie for to stare). If we consider just "puss" as a vulgar term for female genitals, we get 1664 as an earlier and definitely more convincing usage (Æneas, here's a Health to thee, To Pusse and to good Company; And he that will not do, as I do, Proclaimes himself no friend to Dido). Use in place of "cowardly" isn't cited until 1842 (I walked up very carelessly among the soldiers..and concluded they could never fight with us. They appeared to me to be too pussy). So we've got nearly 300 years between "pussy" referring to a woman and referring to a coward, and a solid 175 years between referring to her genitals and usage as coward. Obviously these aren't first usages and simply first recorded usage as known by the editors of the OED, so do with that what you will.

It gets a little weird, I liked this odd bit of history:

GUYS HAVE YOU SEEN PRINCESS BRIDE? YOU SHOULD SEE PRINCESS BRIDE IT IS A GOOD MOVIE
And Muiry Sue is still gripping those children in the exact same way he was yesterday. I can only hope Muir tries that pose himself (just not with actual kids because that's a fucked up way to hold children)
(ps: Muir apparently posted this comic five minutes into the SotU)

Has anyone registered "EverythingisObamasfault.com" yet?

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Might as well have just had the words "Image goes here" in the middle of the page.


YUP! Let's mention priests and "youngins" in the same sentence. YUP!


YES! "If global warming why cold"!


Haha! Those signs aren't even mutually exclusive you twit!

This is...not terrible. I mean the message is stupid but the comic itself is not god awful. Hm.

People brought inspirational figures, victims, family members of victims, to balance it out someone brought Ted Nugent.


Isn't...isn't that how it works?


Guys I like Bors, I think Bors is funny, but I wouldn't call him a "political cartoonist" he does a comic strip with political themes. I'm just sayin'


ASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess it would be more work to actually find something to complain about rather than just say there was and trust your audience to trust you.
And I doubt it was the Democrat's idea to turn a Senate Confirmation Hearing into a skating contest for no reason so who's rigging things?

Damn you Obama for raising taxes on job creators and cutting our military spending! Now what are your economic plans?

YES ASAY: IT IS SILLY TO WAIT UNTIL 2014 FOR HEALTHCARE. GOOD POINT.

I'm a little confused. Is Chuck Asay comparing paying for wind power to slavery?

"Brung."

I can't cringe any harder.

!! MAH ROOSEVELTS!

(PS: Fuck the LAPD, they straight up murdered this dude and acted like violent thugs the entire time. However Muir's photoshop filtered disingenuous "government bad when run by people I don't want" bullshit is just disgusting. )


Just a reminder: Marco Rubio started his speech with "My fellow Republicans."

This was funnier

Heh

What are "two things Obama has never said"?

Nice!

You know there are website for the Cupid, no need to waste your arrows.

That's McCoy's idea of a really attractive woman.
McCoy can't get laid? Obamaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!


Those are all bad and dangerous things. When applied to guns.
Also these bad and dangerous things? Represented by guns.


I think the water thing is gonna stick.

Two things: OF COURSE "Business" is represented by a woman. Because women are fickle gold diggers just looking to upgrade.
And B: the good guy here is the Romney looking guy who's been following this couple for FIVE BLOCKS with his car door open.

Just a quick update on Obama's job with BPRD: he's caught the evil toy people and is going to burn them despite the fact that they liked his speech!
Good job putting your job, and the public safety, over your ego.

I'm guessing that he's whining about how poor ol' regular joe bill payers have to shoulder the burden of financing all that wacky, pointless, liberal alternative energy stuff, when he clearly scribbled in on his last payment "For the burning of hydrocarbons only. NO ALTERNATIVES!"