Women Need To Be More Warm And Approachable
November 4th, 2023 Barry Posted in Sexism & Misogyny | No Comments »
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has five panels.
PANEL ONE
We’re looking at a few students standing on a grassy area, with paths and trees, between large academic buildings. In the foreground, a good-looking student with neatly combed brown hair and a purple polo shirt is reading something on his phone. In the background, two more students – a woman with orange curly hair (I’ll call her Claire), and a man with a small beard and his hair in a ponytail (I’ll call him Ponytail)- are looking at the foreground student. Claire looks concerned, Ponytail is in cheerful lecture mode.
CLAIRE: That guy’s in my sociology class… He’s bitter and angry at women. Why are some guys like that?
PONYTAIL It’s because too few women are warm and approachable.
PANEL TWO
A close-up of Claire shows her looking back towards the man she pointed out and smiling.
CLAIRE: Hmmm… Excuse me a minute.
PANEL THREE
Claire has walked up to the guy in the purple polo shirt; we can now see he’s sitting on a public bench. He’s pleased and very surprised that she came up to him. She waves and smiles as she speaks.
CLAIRE: Hi, I’m Claire. We’re in Sociology together.
PANEL FOUR
A caption at the top of panel four says A FEW WEEKS LATER.
Panels four and five both show Claire and Ponytail sitting together at a round table in a cafe of some sort; there are framed photos on the wall, and large windows behind them, showing an area with a big tree. Claire has a coffee mug in front of her, and Ponytail is looking at a newspaper he’s reading.
In panel four, Claire is talking a bit angrily on her cell phone, waving her other arm a bit.
CLAIRE: Look, I don’t owe you being your girlfriend because I was nice to you! Just leave me alone!
PANEL FIVE
Ponytail hasn’t moved at all, speaking without looking up from his paper, Claire has laid her head on the table in a despairing sort of way.
CLAIRE: Great. Now I have a stalker.
PONYTAIL: It’s your own fault for being warm and approachable.
CHICKEN FAT
“Chicken fat” means easily-overlooked and meaningless details in a cartoon the cartoonist put in, which maybe you (and they) find amusing.
Panel one: Not really a gag, but Ponytail’s t-shirt has a traffic light design, which I rather like and think would make a good shirt.
Panel four: In the background, there’s a photo of Wilma Flintstone on the wall.
The headline of Ponytail’s newspaper says “Background Detail Monthly.”
Panel five: The photo on the wall in the background has changed to being Pearl from “Steven Universe.”
The headline on the paper now says “I think therefore I nsomnia.”
The coffee mug on the table, in panel four, had cartoon lighting on it; it now has a cartoon rainstorm on it.
Outside the window, Michael and Janet from the TV show “The Good Place” are looking in.
There’s also a squirrel.