{"id":27044,"date":"2023-02-20T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27044"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:20:49","slug":"cartoon-right-winger-with-a-zinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27044","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Right-Winger With A Zinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This cartoon belongs to a particular subcategory of my cartoons – what I think of as the This Appeals To My Particular Sense Of Humor And I Have To Draw It To Find Out If Anyone Else Will Find It Humorous<\/em> category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cartoons in this category are often ones I’m especially fond of. And usually, at least some <\/em>of my readers find them funny, too. But some of the time, the cartoons just get no response other than what I imagine is an embarrassed quiet. I imagine my audience sitting silently in a metaphorical auditorium, not wishing to hurt my feelings but not knowing what to say. There is an occasional cough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Part of the appeal of this cartoon, for me, is that, like Fezzik in The Princess Bride<\/em><\/a>, I love inane rhymes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Washington Post<\/em>, Kat Jercich wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…There is no need to be cute or funny; don\u2019t say your pronouns are \u201cprincess\u201d and \u201cin charge.\u201d You may get a laugh, but is the cost \u2014 the alienation, discomfort or frustration of vulnerable people \u2014 worth it? A cisgender person who claims that their pronouns are \u201cdance mom\u201d and \u201cbrat\u201d is suggesting that they are not interested in how fraught this matter can be for trans and non-binary people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

…Taking pronouns seriously signals that you\u2019ve thought about what trans and gender-nonconforming people face. That doesn\u2019t automatically make you an ally \u2026 But it does mean you\u2019re at least trying to demonstrate basic respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s possible for cis people to make pronoun jokes totally innocently – maybe they’re not very hooked into the current political culture, and they don’t realize that pronoun jokes have been weaponized by the right as a way of saying “fuck trans people.” But we should learn better, because whether or not we all realize it, these jokes have<\/em> been weaponized and come off as deliberate disrespect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for many, it’s not so innocent. For right-wingers, pronoun jokes aren’t about being “cute or funny”; they’re a form of virtue signaling (for the peculiar form of contempt that right-wingers erroneously consider virtuous). A pronoun joke is a way they recognize each other. It’s a way of saying “I’m with you, I’m in the in-group, I hate all the same people you hate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drawing this one was so fun! The simplicity of the visuals (just one dude standing on a suburban sidewalk) let me concentrate on making clean and lively lines, and the figure drawing doesn’t look stiff to me. This is the sort of detail that I don’t expect anyone but me to pay attention to, but I think his mouth came out really well in this cartoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

This cartoon has four panels. Each of the panel shows the same man, a conservatively-dressed guy with short hair combed in part, wearing a polo shirt and gray slacks, standing on a suburban sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PANEL 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man stands looking directly at the reader, smiling, his arms crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAPTION: Right-Winger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PANEL 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man is now bursting with anger, raising a fist into the air and mouth open hugely as he yells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAPTION: Right-winger shit-slinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAN (yelling): Stolen election! Groomers! Hunter Biden’s Laptop!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PANEL 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a closer shot, the man is smirking as he speaks more softly directly to the reader. I did my very best to draw him with what’s referred to as “a punchable face.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAPTION: Right-winger shit-slinger with a zinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAN: My pronouns are screw <\/strong>and you<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PANEL 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The camera has pulled back again. The man is thinking very hard, sweating, one hand on his chin, looking up into the air, frowning with effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAPTION: Right-winger shit-slinger trying to think of a zinger that isn’t<\/em> that stupid pronoun shit for the 1000000th time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAN (hesitantly): Um…  Uh…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This cartoon on Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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