This really should be flagged NSFW with a content warning. It’s pretty fucking dark, boomer humor aside.
What content warning should I use? I already tagged
It’s not uncommon to put trigger warnings in the title.
Boomer ass “I hate my wife” comic. Not funny.
I guess you can interpret it that way. If you were familiar with this artist you’d know it’s more likely to be “the rich value more the material than the people in their lives”. Poking a jab at the superfluous wealthy upper class is a recurring theme with him. And yes you are right, this is decades old.
When I was a child middle-class women would usually have multiple rooms of the house in which no one was allowed to exist because our very skin oils would destroy the fancy fabric, so I understood this immediately. I was made to sleep on floors so as to not ruin couches.
My parents’ house had such a room! I always thought it was weird to dedicate a room as a shrine to some mythical guest who would someday come and honor it with their presence.
I’ve seen rooms like this and, while it sounds like a stereotype I promise this is just an observation, they were 100% of the time created by bored rich wives who were all but estranged from their always working or golfing type husbands.
My grandparents had that! It had an old TV, old furniture, and pictures of old people who I didn’t recognize. Sometimes my grandparents would close off this den, but we were never allowed to touch things in there either way. I thought that the people I didn’t recognize from the old photos were some family who was renting the room from my grandparents; the doors were obviously closed when this imaginary family was home.
My wife and I bought their house, donated everything we could to museums or families who need stuff, and have turned it into an office/gym/workspace. But my mom, wife, and I still call it “the other people’s living room,” just like I did as a kid.
Wife bad
Edit: guess I have to include this
/s
Omg. I didn’t even realize. In my defense, Quino’s work probably precedes the loss trend. I couldn’t find the date for this one but he was at his most productive in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. He passed away in 2020.
what’s this cryptic diagram ?
Loss or, better: Is this Loss?
English’s firts logogram.
Dead guy was committed to holding and keeping the letter between two fingers during strangulation. That’s impressive.
Or is it just a comic strip and the author used visual representations to illustrate a concept? And the letter reinforces the concept of suicide. What else… Did the author use exaggeration to transport his message? Is it a parable, maybe? What would be the message?
I need coffee.
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Always nice to see a Quino here.
It’s difficult to find ones without text. Glad to see the Quino appreciation :)
I’m married to one of these.
I’m afraid to ask… But which one?
Wife bad
As someone who has spent the past six months trying to repair their 10 year relationship, only for every attempt at expressing my need for accountability and a basic sense of compassion to fail, all I can say is:
Sometimes your partner turns into a cunt, and it’s not gender exclusive.
So sometimes: wife bad (but unironically)
Sorry that happened to you. Doesn’t make this kind of comic any less repetitive (and boring and boomer).
Oh well. It’s relatable for some, who are valued merely by their output, and not as individuals.
It speaks to me. But I suppose that’s trite.
“trite” is a new word for me. Thanks for using it
And sometimes they actually are, get over it.
My grandmother drove my grandfather to suicide, and then talked shit about him at his funeral. Essentially what happened in this comic. Things like this happen, it’s not some patriarchal conspiracy.
I said nothing about patriarchal conspiracies. It’s just a medium-funny joke, which has been beaten to death like 20 Yeats ago. The artist should geht better material
If you really think this is about wife bad you are probably missing the point of the comic.
What would you say it’s about?
It’s about your shoes, Terry! You’re tracking dirt through the house, AGAIN just after I vacuumed last week!
Valuing more a piece of upholstery than a human life. Satire on materialism with an absurd delivery.
Besides that being a good point I go the “the problem is not that i see sexim everywhere, but more than you don’t” argument:
Why aren’t the genders switched in this comic if it is about that?
I totally get your point and I am very sorry for your grandpa, no human being deserve so much shitty people in their life.
Why aren’t the genders switched in this comic if it is about that?
Because at the time of publication, probably somewhere in the 80’s, this wasn’t even something on people’s list of concerns. As sexist slander this is very weak, because the point isn’t to throw dirt at women. It does present two stereotypes though, a nagging woman (or perhaps a clean freak woman), and a suicidal man. Both are statistically true, women tend to fuss more over cleanliness and men have higher rates of suicide than women. Are you also upset over every piece of media that shows a woman cooking for her husband or men as the main income earners in a household?
How do you determine when a piece is sexist or not? Is gender switching your gold standard? If so, this also works with genders switched. You would have your stereotypical abusive husband completely losing it over the house-cleaning wife leaving a stain after killing herself. The underlying criticism would be the same, people valuing more the material than people’s lives. The man would be demonized in this situation just as much. What a slaveowner husband, husband bad.
I like to weigh in the body of work of an artist (if I am aware of this work) and take it into account. People’s views show through, but you can’t usually pick them up based on a single piece. Funny how some people here are completely fine with dumb jokes from people who are either openly nazis or have a clear disdain for minorities and women, but get riled up over something by an award winning artist known for championing human rights in his work.
And my grandfather was alright, as far as I’ve known. You probably got confused with your thread of replies. Thanks for your concern though.
It’s just a medium-funny joke
“Joke”
