Gabby's Playhouse: Discussing Sexism on the Internet

[mad]

So, recently Kate Beaton made some comments on Twitter about how sometimes guys that like her work will respond with comments she finds creepy/uncomfortable/offensive.

Gabby's Playhouse then did a webcomic entitled "How Every Single Discussion About Sexism and Woman-Type Stuff on the Internet (and real life) Has Ever Happened And Ever Will Happen, Always, Forever, Until the Earth Finally Falls Into The Sun. (Or until the patriarchy is finally dismantled.)"




[Source.]

I don't quite get that last panel, but the rest of it is kinda recognizable.

Comments

[retro_nouveau]

From the preface I read on Amazon.com, I'm very dubious that there is any value here. My takeaway was, pooh, pooh, it's much more complicated, and men and women do not communicate differently. I will agree that it's very much more complicated than a formula XX is not equal to XY, but there is something going on that we need to understand, or there's no chance at all that Gabby is wrong. But I will read it anyway, psychology is one of my interests.

[valtyr]

Well, yes, I would be more interested to hear your assessment of its value after you've read the evidence it presents.

Confirmation bias is also a very real phenomenon that affects us all.