Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Pickles and Zits: Bye, Mom!


Jokes like the ones in Pickles and Zits today annoy me, because they manage to demean both men and women, in that they:
  1. Characterize men as overgrown children incapable of caring for themselves and
  2. characterize women as being primarily responsible for taking care of men.
Also, they're not funny.

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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