Not cool, Jon
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
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In my experience, it's less "confusion" more knowing you can't react the way you want, and he deserves you to (knee the fucker in the balls) because you'll end up being dubbed "difficult", and potentially lose your job (or in other situations a selection of other negative consequences from being given a reputation and bullied for it, to literally getting murdered).
Some will try to say the comic is a "product of its time" or whatever, but it is exactly this kind of normalisation that we've had in our popular culture and media for all these centuries that makes rape culture still so prevalent today.
Fuck this.
E: just to be clear, my issue isn't with OP posting this, it's with anyone who would brush it off as somehow ok, then or now.
This is why we have laws and policies clearly spelling out that you can't commit this kind of assault. Because it was considered funny less than 50 years ago.
If they say no, sexually assault them!
Thus proving the ongoing theory that Jon is a psychopath (which is why much of 'Garfield minus Garfield' suits his character).
Really one ups yesterday's strip in terribleness. Wtf.
Wow. Just wow.