{"id":23994,"date":"2018-05-24T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23994"},"modified":"2018-05-24T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:20:11","slug":"cartoon-but-she-never-said-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23994","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: But she never said “NO”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This stip was created with Becky Hawkins<\/a>, who is also my collaborator on SuperButch<\/a>! Becky drew this comic, while I wrote, lettered, and added the colors.<\/p>\n

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If you enjoy these cartoons, and can spare it, please support them on Patreon<\/a>! A $1 pledge really matters to me.<\/p>\n

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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/strong><\/p>\n

The title image of this cartoon has the words “But she never said ‘NO’ in large white letters that fade into the background. Below the title is a drawing of telephone wires, with two birds sitting on a wire.
\nFIRST BIRD: Does this comic strip need a content warning?
\nSECOND BIRD: I think the title covers it.<\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/p>\n

A woman and a man are on a sofa. The man is leaning towards her, putting his lips near hers, while she pulls back and puts a protective hand, in a “stop” gesture, in front of her mouth.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: I’m not sure I want to do this right now…
\nMAN (thought): That’s not literally saying “no.”<\/p>\n

PANEL 2
\nA closer shot of him from over the woman’s shoulder. He is smiling. She’s still holding up a “stop” hand. His thought balloon partly obscures her speech balloon, but not so much that we can’t read what she’s saying.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Hey c’mon, this isn’t a good idea.
\nMAN (thought): That’s not a literal “no.” So it’s okay to grab her boobs.<\/p>\n

PANEL 3
\nA closer shot of him leaning in to kiss her as she pulls away. She’s saying something, but we can’t read it because his thought balloon gets in the way.<\/p>\n

MAN (thought): She still hasn’t literally said “no.” I’m good!<\/p>\n

PANEL 4
\nA close-up of his face. The woman’s not in the panel, but her word balloon – still mostly obscured by his head and his thought balloon – indicates that she’s positioned below him. He looks like he’s concentrating.<\/p>\n

MAN (thought): Pulling away while I’m trying to pull her pants down isn’t literally saying “no.”<\/p>\n

PANEL 5
\nIn silhouette, we see that she’s lying on her back, with him on top of her. She isn’t saying anything.<\/p>\n

MAN (thought): Now she’s just being silent and unresponsive. No talking means she’s not saying “no!”<\/p>\n

PANEL 6
\nThis is the final panel. The setting has changed; the man is now holding his arms up and looking frustrated. A few people in silhouette are looking at him; their posture makes it seem like they’re angry at him.<\/p>\n

MAN: How was I supposed to know? I’m not a mind-reader!<\/p>\n

KICKER PANEL<\/p>\n

A small panel below the bottom of the strip shows the man, now looking full of himself, talking to a different couple of people.<\/p>\n

MAN: I do <\/strong>consider myself a feminist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This stip was created with Becky Hawkins, who is also my collaborator on SuperButch! Becky drew this comic, while I wrote, lettered, and added the colors. If you enjoy these cartoons, and can spare it, please support them on Patreon! … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23996,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions\/23996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}