Yes women do have their lives ended by men a lot in our society.
I think this fact overshadows any humor I can find in the idea of two normalized killers (in that it centers on them) calling their trophy collection a literal “facebook”.
The morbid reality that lots of men do think of women as lesser, objectifiable, and disposable is just going to creep in on me, sorry.
I think you might be overthinking a comic where the punchline is “Hey remember Leatherface from the well-known horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, who had the mask made of human skin? I bet if he referred to “Facebook”, it would be a literal book filled with faces.”
Hell, I’d bet real money that the only reason they specifically mentioned a teenage blonde is because one of the film victims was a teenage blonde. They mention her “hanging” around there, and the blonde teen in the film gets hung on a meat hook.
It sounds like your gripe is with the film, and the horror genre in general. This comic is just a pun.
Violence against women isn’t the same character of crime as violence against men, its not a crime where you (God like), can switch one gender out for another and have it play out to the same social/gendered beats, for the same social and cultural reasonings and circumstances.
I’ve said elsewhere that it’s not the comic that bothers me, it’s the wider social issues that push or lead to violence against women and femicide.
All that said, and perhaps more in line with what you’re asking (although my response probably won’t satisfy you): I’m not interested in redeeming or fixing the comic, or making it subversive. I’ll leave that to the content creators.
I think it’s because most would agree the punchline isn’t it’s funny because the Facebook is real faces - that’s just not very funny, especially given the context of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Leatherface, that takes away any absurdist element as it’s grounded in their context.
To explain this to downvoters, imagine it was an unknown killer speaking to a random accomplice and they were browsing a bunch of assorted races and gendered faces in the book, without the reference to the blonde 18yo girl. Is that still funny, or is it just a meh joke hardly worth drawing, and not worth an upvote. I think the latter?
The real punchline is that it’s funny because of how casually they talk about the murder of 18 year old, screaming girls. It’s subversive edgy humour in the worst way - punching down to a relatively powerless group in a way that dehumanises them to nothing more than a throwaway premise about a Facebook.
Yes women do have their lives ended by men a lot in our society.
I think this fact overshadows any humor I can find in the idea of two normalized killers (in that it centers on them) calling their trophy collection a literal “facebook”.
The morbid reality that lots of men do think of women as lesser, objectifiable, and disposable is just going to creep in on me, sorry.
Curse of the politically aware.
I think you might be overthinking a comic where the punchline is “Hey remember Leatherface from the well-known horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, who had the mask made of human skin? I bet if he referred to “Facebook”, it would be a literal book filled with faces.”
Hell, I’d bet real money that the only reason they specifically mentioned a teenage blonde is because one of the film victims was a teenage blonde. They mention her “hanging” around there, and the blonde teen in the film gets hung on a meat hook.
It sounds like your gripe is with the film, and the horror genre in general. This comic is just a pun.
If the man / woman roles were reversed in the four panel comic would you find humour in its subversiveness and reversal of tropic norms?
Edit: by “tropic” I mean relating to tropes, not Cancer nor Capricorn.
Violence against women isn’t the same character of crime as violence against men, its not a crime where you (God like), can switch one gender out for another and have it play out to the same social/gendered beats, for the same social and cultural reasonings and circumstances.
I’ve said elsewhere that it’s not the comic that bothers me, it’s the wider social issues that push or lead to violence against women and femicide.
All that said, and perhaps more in line with what you’re asking (although my response probably won’t satisfy you): I’m not interested in redeeming or fixing the comic, or making it subversive. I’ll leave that to the content creators.
Thanks for the response but, honestly, I only expected a “yes, no, depends…” type answer.
It’s not funny to me either.
I think it’s because most would agree the punchline isn’t it’s funny because the Facebook is real faces - that’s just not very funny, especially given the context of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Leatherface, that takes away any absurdist element as it’s grounded in their context.
To explain this to downvoters, imagine it was an unknown killer speaking to a random accomplice and they were browsing a bunch of assorted races and gendered faces in the book, without the reference to the blonde 18yo girl. Is that still funny, or is it just a meh joke hardly worth drawing, and not worth an upvote. I think the latter?
The real punchline is that it’s funny because of how casually they talk about the murder of 18 year old, screaming girls. It’s subversive edgy humour in the worst way - punching down to a relatively powerless group in a way that dehumanises them to nothing more than a throwaway premise about a Facebook.
Bleh.
Wouldn’t hardly be the first unfunny strip in this comm that’s highly upvoted.