Political Cartoon: "O, that I were a man"
Pre-election cartoons published belatedly are perhaps even more meaning-laden now
Hello all! It’s been a while.
Two cartoons for
have passed since I last posted here on Substack. I unexpectedly had to move not once, but twice in the last month—in the hellish New York City real estate market, no less—and I’m finally in my, er, final resting place. Things are smoothing out and I’m excited to get back in the groove.I have two cartoons to share with you that have been published since I last posted here on Substack. Here is the first of them, posted on
on Tuesday, October 15th.This is possibly cope from not posting this yet, but the points emphasized by the election results and fallout (see: “your body, my choice”) add to any poignance this cartoon had:
It’s bleak out there for women. I haven’t seen videos of hateful people speaking hatefully before that have terrified and devastated me like that Nick Fuentes clip. He didn’t get the memo about disguising raw hatred and evil a little more than that. Maybe that’s not necessary anymore.
I have another cartoon that was published on Counterpoint in the last few weeks coming to Substack soon.
As Shakespeare once wrote for one of his female characters:
“Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”