To be fair, “I don’t care what you think, I am confident in my own self-image” is several steps above the usual “YOU WILL SAY THE MAGIC WORDS OR I WILL CONTINUE YELLING AT YOU UNTIL YOU DO!”
Yes, Screechy Monkey, I give you that point but I am taking even more points off the reality-meter for this cartoon due to this bizarre trope the TIMs have that real women just roll up on men who are clearly delusional in public and start berating them. We should call it the LaBelle Trope because that TIM has his child cartoon persona facing down charging real women on a daily basis, LOL!
More proof that TIMs just don’t understand real women at all, no matter how they try to “be” us.
Here’s something that I’m sure everyone else noticed on their own, but I learned it in a psychology class way back when — we tend to react more positively to large eyes. It’s why in animation, the “good guys” all get big shiny doe eyes, while the villains get normal or beady little pinpricks. Consider Aladdin — the titular character, along with the genie, Jasmine, her father, and even the tiger, all have huge pupils and irises, while the evil vizier Jafar gets small pupils and no irises. (Jafar’s parrot is a slight exception, but then it’s a comic relief character so we’re supposed to like it.)
And sure enough, here our artist has given Adult Human Female smallish-to-normal eyes, while Our Brave Hero has huge eyes with large blue irises like she’s an anime character. It’s so blatantly manipulative. Frankly I’m just surprised they didn’t make the AHF character old and ugly.
Larger irises denotes innocence as well, whereas smaller indicate maturity, cynicism. Probably plugged in to the whole human “babies are cute” instinct.
In any case, birds aren’t theropod dinosaurs anymore than I’m a small shrew-like mammal. It’s pop sci poeticism, nothing more.
Stephen J. Gould did at least one essay about that big eyes thing. I think he was talking about the evolution of Mickey Mouse, if I remember correctly.
Yes, TRA author, birds are dinosaurs. But they are dinosaurs not because they self-identify as such, but because they share certain anatomical traits with the ye olde dinosaurs; traits that are the result of being descended from them. These traits are physical and so can be confirmed or disconfirmed through observation. A non-dinosaur cannot identify into that taxon, and a dinosaur cannot identify out of it.
In other words, this analogy disconfirms everything TRAs claim about being trans. Good job, muppet.
Also, I have to laugh at the various comics depicting trans women as being indistinguishable from actual women. When will there ever be a realistic self-appraisal of appearance from a trans author? Why no square jaws, adam’s apples, wide shoulders, 5 o’clock shadows? Oh right, these comics are projections of fantasy, and that’s why the nassssty feminist nasssstily accosts the innocent and pretty trans woman out of nowhere.
Catwhisperer, that was my thought, too. The trans’woman’ actually has more breast than the adult human female, at least as much as one can see of the adult human female (which I am sure is what her t-shirt is supposed to say, but the cartoonist cut off the last word, probably so people didn’t actually realize what sense she made).
And chalk up evolution as another thing the men who claim to be women don’t understand.
To be fair, “I don’t care what you think, I am confident in my own self-image” is several steps above the usual “YOU WILL SAY THE MAGIC WORDS OR I WILL CONTINUE YELLING AT YOU UNTIL YOU DO!”
Yes, Screechy Monkey, I give you that point but I am taking even more points off the reality-meter for this cartoon due to this bizarre trope the TIMs have that real women just roll up on men who are clearly delusional in public and start berating them. We should call it the LaBelle Trope because that TIM has his child cartoon persona facing down charging real women on a daily basis, LOL!
More proof that TIMs just don’t understand real women at all, no matter how they try to “be” us.
What is that smudge in the middle of “cutest”?
Plus, that is like no real conversation, ever.
Here’s something that I’m sure everyone else noticed on their own, but I learned it in a psychology class way back when — we tend to react more positively to large eyes. It’s why in animation, the “good guys” all get big shiny doe eyes, while the villains get normal or beady little pinpricks. Consider Aladdin — the titular character, along with the genie, Jasmine, her father, and even the tiger, all have huge pupils and irises, while the evil vizier Jafar gets small pupils and no irises. (Jafar’s parrot is a slight exception, but then it’s a comic relief character so we’re supposed to like it.)
And sure enough, here our artist has given Adult Human Female smallish-to-normal eyes, while Our Brave Hero has huge eyes with large blue irises like she’s an anime character. It’s so blatantly manipulative. Frankly I’m just surprised they didn’t make the AHF character old and ugly.
I did notice exactly that about the eyes, but wasn’t aware it was a known, systematic thing.
Larger irises denotes innocence as well, whereas smaller indicate maturity, cynicism. Probably plugged in to the whole human “babies are cute” instinct.
In any case, birds aren’t theropod dinosaurs anymore than I’m a small shrew-like mammal. It’s pop sci poeticism, nothing more.
Stephen J. Gould did at least one essay about that big eyes thing. I think he was talking about the evolution of Mickey Mouse, if I remember correctly.
Yes, TRA author, birds are dinosaurs. But they are dinosaurs not because they self-identify as such, but because they share certain anatomical traits with the ye olde dinosaurs; traits that are the result of being descended from them. These traits are physical and so can be confirmed or disconfirmed through observation. A non-dinosaur cannot identify into that taxon, and a dinosaur cannot identify out of it.
In other words, this analogy disconfirms everything TRAs claim about being trans. Good job, muppet.
Also, I have to laugh at the various comics depicting trans women as being indistinguishable from actual women. When will there ever be a realistic self-appraisal of appearance from a trans author? Why no square jaws, adam’s apples, wide shoulders, 5 o’clock shadows? Oh right, these comics are projections of fantasy, and that’s why the nassssty feminist nasssstily accosts the innocent and pretty trans woman out of nowhere.
Maddog1129, I think the “smudge” is where the t-shirt is slightly stretched between what I suppose I’d have to call the character’s breasts.
Catwhisperer, that was my thought, too. The trans’woman’ actually has more breast than the adult human female, at least as much as one can see of the adult human female (which I am sure is what her t-shirt is supposed to say, but the cartoonist cut off the last word, probably so people didn’t actually realize what sense she made).
Oh yes, that Gould essay…that rings a bell…
Google tells me it’s a chapter of The Panda’s Thumb.
Google is correct. I have the book. It is chapter 9: A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse
Thenk you.
I went to readings by Gould a couple of times. I must have at least one signed book somewhere, but I don’t remember which or where it is.