Ban Treating Meningitis in Kids!
July 10th, 2022 Barry Posted in LGBT cartoons | No Comments »
If you’d like me to keep making cartoons like this, the only solution is to wear a clown nose twenty four hours a day two hundred sixty days a year (you get weekends off) while standing on a street corner offering free hugs to every fifth passerby unless the passerby has a dog in which case hug the dog unless the dog looks mean in which case you need to stand on your head on your bed for twelve minutes or you could support my patreon.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows the same two women talking as they walk through a hilly park. The lighting is a bit dim.
The first woman has long brown hair, and is wearing a plaid shirt and jeans with rolled-up cuffs. For convenience, we’ll name her “Plaid.” The second woman has short dark hair, and is wearing a tee shirt, a skirt, and black tights. We’ll name her “Skirt.”
PANEL 1
Plaid and Skirt are walking through a park. Plaid is looking a little concerned, and Skirt looks a little angry.
PLAID: I read about a fifteen year old with meningitis. They treated her with steroids, but it made things worse. she ended up wishing she hadn’t taken steroids at all.
SKIRT: Maybe we should have a law banning treating meningitis in minors?
PANEL 2
Plaid, looking a little annoyed, turns her head to speak to Skirt. Skirt looks doubtful, but raises a finger, making a point.
PLAID: What? Of course not! Think of all the kids with meningitis who are helped by being treated.
SKIRT: But some kids recover from meningitis without treatment.
PANEL 3
A closer shot. Plaid looks angry, and Skirt looks distressed, her eyes wide and her hands on her cheeks.
PLAID: But other kids need treatment! What about them?
SKIRT: You’re right! What was I thinking? Banning kids from getting medical help is obviously cruel! And irrational! Even monstrous!
PANEL 4
The “camera” has pulled away to a far-away shot. We can see the (very cartoony) landscape: rolling hills, trees and houses, distant mountains, and large clouds overhead. The two characters have their backs to the camera as they crest the top of a hill.
SKIRT: Unless the kid is trans.
