I generally like your work, and the punchline without the bonus panel works well (and I agree that seeing the rose guy again is a nice touch), but framing women as a commodity for men to purchase (E: in the bonus panel) is unnecessary misogynistic bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This could have been the same comic but with a woman. It wouldn't change a thing, you're interpreting things into it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The joke in the bonus panel only works because women very clearly are not a commodity for sale unlike the other items on the list. That's what makes the bonus panel an absurd twist, that there would be such a thing as a "girlfriend store".

As in, if the final item on the list was "get jewelry", and the then the bonus panel showed a closed jewelry store, there'd be nothing funny about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, it doesn't make sense

What jewelry store would be closed on valentine though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

If perhaps it was a brothel or something seedy I'd feel like you. I just saw the girlfriend store and thought the joke only works because it doesn't exist and was a silly concept. Especially given that Valentine's Day would be for your partner and not that you'd need to purchase one like you do the other items.

I could be wrong, but that's what I got from it.

[–] woodytrombone 3 points 9 months ago

Who let Tumblr federate in here?