Today's Boondocks

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John Edwards is one FINE hunk of white boy. There's nothing woman about him!

There is something quite mysoginist, possibly homophobic as well, and odd about calling Edwards a woman - this is not a progressive cartoon at all!

Because he ranked Edwards above CMB in terms of maturity, power and responsibility? Id check that labeling at the door.

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as having positive qualities mostly associated with women, then i agree. edwards is a good man.

McGruder has a bias towards Edwards because he's a southern white democrat, and he doesn't care about showing respect to him if it fills a crappy little cartoon and he can get paid

/Nelson

That's a hoot!

I'm going to sit back and watch for those who praised the SNL skit (which could have been hilarious had they actually bee going off on a real Howard Dean flaw) denounce this cartoon!

that would be called consistancy...

:)

I guess Braun and Sharpton are so much more "heroic" than Edwards because they're "of color" which means they automatically get more respect from him.

I really have lost most of my admiration for him before this, but now it's all gone.

No, I'm really not an uptight person at all, and this isn't fake outrage, it's just another example to me that people like McGruder are narrow-minded knobs

The Wonder Twins had nothing even resembling real super powers and were always being saved by the real Super Friends.

Edited to add: including Wonder Woman!

But I don't know what that has to do having the grounds to equate a man who has lead such a good and just life to a woman in a national editorial cartoon

Is that a whiff of sexism in the air? If Edwards cant take a joke... you know the rest. Being compared to Wonder Woman is NOT an insult.
Unless you have really low opinions of women and icons like WW.

Let's try not to get overly PC. Don't pretend that McGruder didn't intend to imply unmasculinity in Edwards, which is always an insult.

I guess one isn't aloud to be a good looking white southernor in a presidential primary dominated in large parts by angry leftist stooges like McGruder

then you cannot understand the humor contained within the cartoon.

In other words, since you do not understand the references to the Super Friends, you will never get the joke.

If he really wanted to make fun of Edwards, he'd be Robin - the Boy Wonder; a peripheral character... just like CMB and Al are the Wonder Twins, about as peripheral as it gets.

Here's the question... who's everybody else?

Dean should probably be Superman, since everything bounces off of him.

Right here:

Just because I didn't watch the show, (the cartoon says JUSTICE LEAGUE by the way) doesn't mean I don't know of it and who's who in it.

He's basically calling Edwards a pussy, which is bullshit, and I think it's wrong for him to demean Edwards with nothing to back it up.

you do not get it, and that seems to be a chronic problem. Wish I had time to splain it, but...

or read the comics. It is impossible to get such a reference without the background required.

you don't like the anti-woman references, then you use a slur like "pussy?" :eyes:

attacks on anybody. If you think that word is a slur, I'll edit it out, but I really don't think it's a an "anti-woman slur" the C word is, but defenetly not that word. Sorry, I use the casual diction of the male 18-29 demographic, and if you're an older woman or something I can understand if you didn't want me using it. But I wasn't calling someone it, I was illustrating what the cartoon was basically implying. That Edwards was a wuss or a fairy, or some other demasculizing term

using a slang term for a female body part to illustrate demasculinization is offensive to me. I hope you can see why. I understand the "causal diction" but that doesn't make it okay, in my opinion. I also hate the term "wife beater" for the sleveless tee shirt - because it makes light of something so wrong. I hate the way a lot of terms insulting to women are in vogue.

On the playing fields, boys are taught to use words like pussy for wimpy players or losers. They're told "you hit like a girl." So the when worst insult for a boy is being compared to a girl, or to slang terms for her genitals - we have the seeds of misogyny being planted.

Yes, I am an older woman - and one who's been living with inequality and sexism my entire life. I wish we could do better, here at DU and in the world.

Thanks for listening.

Way to play into the misogyny.

case closed!

You'd know that Wonder Woman is nearly as powerful as Superman.

Her invisible airplane and her magic lasso. Not to mention her magic bracelets.

Being Wonder Woman is a hell of a lot better than Friday's cartoon was for Gephardt. Being Aquaman is much worse than being Wonder Woman. And MacGruder threw sexist remarks away by making Carol Mosley Braun one of the Wonder Twins instead of Wonder Woman, too.

He did beat Namor, after all.

Dropped an Orca whale on him. That's ingenuity.

Not much of a win if you ask me.

:D

A-man went in as the quintessential underdog.

Namor can fly, has super strength and reflexes.

A-man can swim and talk to fish. Nobody gave him a chance against Imperius Rex. And he still pulled it out by effectively using what he was given.

Aquaman is the seagoing Batman. No real super powers to speak of so he has to use his head and as much technology as possible.

:D

A-man sure isn't no B-man.

And is it me, or does Clark seem more like Plastic-Man than Batman?

Then who would be Batman?

And who is Leiberman?

I'd buy the Plastic Man reference to Clark, making Kerry Batman.

Maybe Lieberman would be Wonder dog, the comedy relief of the Super Friends?

Oh, and by the way, the Aquaman as the Batman of the sea reference would make Namor the Superman of the sea. ;)

the Wonder-Twins monkey.

Works for me ;)

Dean = Superman
Kerry = Batman
Gephardt = Robin
Edwards = Wonder Woman
Kucinich = Green Lantern
Clark = Plastic Man
Sharpton = Male Wonder Twin
CMB = Female Wonder Twin
Leiberman = Gleep

Aint no Orca gonna put the hurt on Bill Everett's best and brightest.
Musta been some kinda imaginary DC tale.

woman. It wouldn't have been funny (to anyone, not just people who don't like Edwards) if he had said Superman or Batman or Aquaman

Because they have penises, and Wonder Woman doesn't, and you know that it's a shot at his manhood

Just as if somebody called Janet Reno a man

and has better technology.

Batman was referenced as Clark on Friday, so here, the Boondocks characters are placing a higher regard for Edwards than for Clark.

But since Clark is not the Dean "Superman" I guess that's a huge slam against Edwards.

:eyes:

It was obviously an inside joke for people who are in the know about comics.

Just because you don't get the humor and subtext, doesn't mean it wasn't funny.

I think it was a very nice comparison for Edwards. They guy who nobody expects to be nearly as powerful as the Alpha Dog.

That's why I want to see a Dean/Edwards '04 ticket.

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you would understand the linkage between the Super Friends and the Justice League of America. You would also be getting the jokes.

wondering?

and it's obvious that it's supposed to be funny because Wonder Woman is a woman, and Edwards has been made fun of (by people like Limbaugh) as the breck girl or the dumb good looking guy.

There is no joke if he says a male superhero, of which there are many, the majority, in that team. Superman, Batman, Aquaman, the dude with the bow and arrow etc

Edwards as Wonder woman is more powerful than Gephardt as Aquaman.

Read the series.

Plus, you don't have any idea about the idiosyncrasies at all. The Green Arrow, for instance, is the one nobody notices and isn't around much, ergo, Bob Graham.

form of wine and sour grapes.

Man, I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to turn into...

something made of water.

:eyes:

....

er...um...

Wonder Twin Powers, deactivate.

some people have a hard time comprehending a comic strip. Beware their other analysis, I guess.

Bloom County. His head might explode.

The White House and Rush are already labeling Edwards, the Breck Girl, now this.

What would be the villain line up for the administration?
Maybe Bush= Solomon Grundy

edit: Chris Matthews= Two Face

Bush = Bizarro superman
Rove = Lex Luthor
Cheney = Solomon Grundy

but you ar right about one thing. Chris Matthews = Two-Face