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My response to the May 23 Doonesbury comic strip at:
http://www.doonesbury.com/media/contact/index.html
Garry Trudeau apologized for running the May 23 "head on a platter" strip so soon after Nicholas Berg's beheading in Iraq. As a men's issues advocate, I have to ask why it would be OK to have published the cartoon if the beheading had not recently taken place.
There is a double standard in the media in which violence against women is (rightly) presented as abhorrent, while violence against men is (wrongly) portrayed as humorous and well-deserved. This particular strip is yet another example of this.
In my view, sexism in the media is a two-way street. While the media is vigilant against misogyny, it's male-bashing (misandry) goes largely unchecked. This must cease if Western society is to achieve a balanced approach to gender equality for men as well as women.
Steven G. Van Valkenburg
Founder of Men's Issues Online
-a voice for men's advocacy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MensIssuesOnline
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by Anonymous User on 02:48 PM May 24th, 2004 EST (#2)
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If you're thinking critically, you'll realise that Trudeau has simply drawn literally what most people take for a metaphor.
Calm down, people.
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by Anonymous User on 09:17 PM May 24th, 2004 EST (#3)
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by Anonymous User on 03:45 AM May 25th, 2004 EST (#4)
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"If you're thinking critically, you'll realise that Trudeau has simply drawn literally what most people take for a metaphor.
Calm down, people."
Actually, I think he has drawn the methodology used (literally) by a significant number of women who have historically employed 3rd party violence (in one form or another) to achieve power and control over men. Remember Salome' who said, "Bring me the head of John the Baptist on a platter" for redress of the perceived insult against her Mother?
The timing of this cartoon to the beheading of Nick Berg is not in my opinion (my perception) purely coincidental, but rather timed to exploit the passion of the moment surrounding that event, but since it is being fully discussed as a topic here, I offer this T-shirt design as criticism to the substantive message of the cartoon. The T-shirt design is not new. It has been in the shop for months so no coincidental connection. No disrespect intended to anyone, unless maybe towards exploitive women like the one in the cartoon, advocating violence against men to get their way (to get power and control). This cartoon is no coincidence to women's historic use of 3rd party violence, even if it is channeled through an unwitting male cartoonist. Does anyone remember the bumper stickers that are on every LAPD cop car in L.A. from the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)? They say, "There's No Excuse For Domestic Violence." The only question I have about that is, "Why doesn't that apply to women too???" ...and just to offer a little more perspective here is an article by Glenn Sacks.
(click) Female Murderers Seen In A Different Light
Ray
Here's the T-shirt design,
(click) What Can Women Do?
(Please do not scroll up the page of the linked item(s). All the info I am trying to convey is only as the page comes up initially.)
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