Jokes like the ones in Pickles and Zits today annoy me, because they manage to demean both men and women, in that they:
- Characterize men as overgrown children incapable of caring for themselves and
- characterize women as being primarily responsible for taking care of men.
That said, Pickles at least gets credit for the clever punchline in the last panel, which is more about a turn of the phrase in the third panel than the sexist set-up in the first two panels.
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