• enkers
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    2372 years ago

    Somebody actually took time to sit down and draw this.

    I guess my life isn’t that bad after all.

    • The Barto
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      162 years ago

      I’ve always felt self conscious about making a comic because I suck at drawing, but yeah if someone can happily produce and release that, I think I might be right.

    • @[email protected]
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      What’s even worse are the talentless losers that find entertainment in it with no tradable skill.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    1232 years ago

    It’s much easier to argue against something if you completely make up ridiculous scenarios to argue against.

    Our kid is non-binary. No parent is happy for that to happen. I don’t think any person is happy to realize it about themselves, except to the extent that it explains why they had been so unhappy previously.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      As someone in their late twenties who just recently came to understand and accept that I am nonbinary, I applaud you for your acceptance of your kid.

      I never fit in growing up and never knew why. Now as an adult I still probably won’t mention it to my parents, despite making some significant life changes, due to their proven lack of empathy.

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        52 years ago

        That sucks, I’m sorry. If there’s anyone in your life who should accept you for who you are, it’s your parents. They’re the ones who have seen the most of your life experiences, and who contributed whatever stuff you were born with.

        I certainly wish our child had an easier situation, but they’re beautiful and brilliant and kind, and we couldn’t be prouder of who they’ve become.

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          No need to apologize but I appreciate the empathy! We definitely need more parents like you in the world. Though your parenting may be more challenging than some have it, just know the tremendous impact you are making by being accepting of them!

          The crazy thing is that I am actually a parent myself. It is very challenging to work towards being who I want to be, my true self, compared to what I grew up thinking a parent should look like. It is especially hard to become myself outwardly, in this stage of life, without feeling like I am putting my needs above my family’s. For this reason I again appreciate your views on your kid - I very much wish I knew myself earlier on.

          Nonetheless, through the help of therapy, my current focus is to be, love, and accept my authentic self such that my little ones can see an example of acceptance in whomever they want to be. The nonbinary parent role models are few and far between so I must try to be my own!

          • AFK BRB Chocolate
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            22 years ago

            Inspiring comment. You know, for eons (and still, somewhat today) people in horrible marriages would stay together “for the children.” Maybe a laudable sacrifice, but it turns out that it screws up the kids worse than divorcing and getting into healthy relationships, because kids learn about relationships from watching their parents.

            I feel like that’s analogous to a non-binary or trans parent keeping their true self hidden to protect the children. I don’t think it’s been studied, but I think it’s very likely that a similar thing would happen and the kids would be better off being with parents who love themselves for who they are.

            So good job, I think you’re doing the right thing.

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      That’s the thing the angries don’t realize, life would be much simpler for the people concerned if they were just cis-heteros, it’s not about being contrarians and it’s not a choice, it’s just who they are and that should be ok so it becomes something that isn’t more difficult!

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        252 years ago

        Exactly! I’ve never experienced it first hand, but I’ve seen the anguish of friends whose parents keep setting them up on straight dates with people they fundamentally aren’t attracted to. I’ve had trans women friends who weren’t close to passing and who desperately wanted a relationship with a straight man. Often they’d end up dating gay men, feeling unsatisfied because those men treated them like another man. So much sadness.

        I often think that the people who believe sexuality is a choice must at least be bi. There’s just no circumstance where I could choose to be attracted to men instead of women, and it’s laughable to think otherwise. I feel like anyone who thinks otherwise must have the capacity to make that choice, and the poor reasoning skills to think someone would.

        • A Phlaming Phoenix
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          As a bi guy, it doesn’t work any different for us. We’re attracted to men and women whether we like it or not. We don’t choose our attractions. We don’t think it’s a choice.

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            What sexuality am I if I love everything about women and feminine looks, but also like a big fat cock, yet dislike literally every single other thing about men and masculinity? Legitimately asking.

              • @[email protected]
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                42 years ago

                Non-op is totally a thing. There are downsides to bottom surgery, and not all transfolk want it.

                • JackGreenEarth
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                  I know. Also top surgery. I don’t think surgery should be forced on anyone who doesn’t want it. If they do want it it’s a different matter of course

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                  You’re not alone, I’m the same way, albeit a bit more open to somewhat masculine traits (my attraction extends to twinks or sufficiently effeminate men). This made it hard to understand if I was bi or something else, but eventually I concluded that the words we choose to use are inherently imprecise because we create them to represent definite categories that only approximate reality.

                  My attraction to all women, some men, and trans women with and without bottom surgery I guess makes me approximately bi.

            • A Phlaming Phoenix
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              I don’t know, and it’s not for me to say. Sexuality is a fluid spectrum, and I’m reluctant about labels in the first place. I’m especially reluctant to label an Internet stranger for them. You are what you say you are. Sounds like somewhere in the bi/pan/omni range.

            • DroneRights [it/its]
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              22 years ago

              You’re either a lesbian, a straight man, or a femme-attracted nonbinary. Penis doesn’t make someone a man or not a woman, and it sounds like you’d be very happy with a penis having female woman.

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            22 years ago

            Oh, understood. My thought was that those far right Christian conservatives who think people choose to be gay must live straight lives but have at least some attraction to the same sex.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 years ago

            Yeah I think some people don’t understand that it’s no better if you need to contain your feelings for someone just so you can try and find someone else to be with just so you can pass for an hereto…

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    352 years ago

    Ahh yes, orphanage buy baby so they can let gay parent to adopt, and transgender is forced by parent.

    Checkmate, aesthetic.

    • Cyrus Draegur
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      152 years ago

      the illustration is stupid, but what it’s illustrating is not an orphanage but a surrogate.
      it portrays them paying for a surrogate mother to gestate some eggs that were fertilized with either of their sperm,
      and they state that they aborted every fetus that had two x chromosomes until they had one that was XY,
      which they allowed to mature into a viable infant, which was then birthed.

      notice how the infant is reaching for the individual in the bed.
      they are reaching for their mother.

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    The most realistic part about all of this is walking out of a hospital with a baby one hour after giving birth.

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    Wait, does the author think this is a thing? Or is this lampooning the attitude?

    Classic Poe’s Law.

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      152 years ago

      From looking at the person’s social media it would seem they are not making that joke. They are mostly a retweeter of StoneToss and Mr. Pumpkin, both white supremacist comic writers. They seem to occasionally make their own blending the two styles, hence the MrPump_Toss watermark.

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    22 years ago

    Their capabilities not only exclude comedy, they also exclude drawing and the fine arts 😂 🤣 😅 😆

  • Sex-selective abortion is not uncommon, but is an uncomfortable ethical quandry.

    Do conservatives really object to the use of surrogates, or only when they’re used by gay couples?

    TBH, I initially thought the comic was going to be about sex-selective abortion; I didn’t get what they were trying to say until the last panel :-/

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      Using PGD they can choose a baby’s sex but it’s really expensive. Though if someone is shelling out for a surrogate already is gonna be loaded.

      What’s funny is it’s typically used by people who have very binary and old fashioned views on gender, aka conservatives. The people who think like this comic. They want both so dad can teach the boy how to play football and a girl for mom to dress up her little princess!

      I watched interviews of people who had done this and that’s literally how they described it. I don’t think there’s refunds if their kid turns out trans lol

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      Objecting to surrogates would be one thing conservatives do I understand. It’s basically human trafficking

  • JokeDeity
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    Wow, this is so incredibly stupid it feels like a parody of itself. Does the author have a mental condition? I mean besides religion and conservatism.

  • @[email protected]
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    342 years ago

    I would love to talk to someone who really thinks this is funny - we would be like to aliens from different worlds.

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          It amalgomates a few things the conservatives hate, abortion, gay parents, transgender. The result is grotesque and funny. It’s also funny to think that this is what conservatives think the left wants.

          Maybe it’s because I live in a progressive country i can find the comic amusing. We don’t really get staunch conservatives around here and they are not really a threat.

    • @[email protected]
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      I made the sacrifice and checked the IG account - it’s full of equally bigoted posts, in the spirit of a 4chan incel, where each post has between 0 to 3 likes. Especially the ones where he complains about the dating market are sad.

      It’s a mass shooter in the making.

    • DroneRights [it/its]
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      I think this is funny in the sense that whoever made it is pathetic and I want to laugh at them for being so wrong and hateful

  • @[email protected]
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    412 years ago

    They reach so hard for imaginary scenarios, it’s actually amazing how far they will go to justify carrying on their asshole behavior