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Uuh what’s a training bra ?
It’s a bra for preteens without boobs to get used to wearing a bra. Although I’m sure they’re a thing partially due to peer pressure (not wanting to seem less developed than the other girls).
Thank you !
It’s partly peer pressure, but also a modesty thing, since nipples suddenly become demonized at a certain age and it’s no longer seen as socially acceptable for developing girls to wear a plain white tshirt without a bra.
Less of a thing in mainland Europe btw, I remember visiting my cousin for a beach trip as teens and was culture shocked that she and most other people our age would swim topless regardless of gender.
which part is the joke? I’m honestly missing the humor in this one, like I get it might be funny because the feminists want her to blow up the world maybe?
Petaaaaaahhh explain the joke?
Edit: is the joke the training portion? Like they are training her?
The joke is that it’s ‘Straw feminist’ as the title, as in ‘straw man fallacy’. The portrayal of the moon-dwelling earth-destroying feminist is the hyperbolic parody of straw man arguments against feminism.
Yeah I don’t understand that either, but thank you for the explanation!
Ok so further simplifying, Straw man fallacy is per wikipedia, the refuting of an argument by refuting a different argument that is not part of the original context, and failing to recognize the distinction.
So here, people refute feminists by using the stawman of them wanting to blow up the earth / being extremists? I feel like something has to come back to training bras, like societal expectations of underwear for women is the argument, but then the straw man is radical feminism?
Goddamn I really am not getting the humor in this one. I’m not trying to be obtuse or overly PC, I really enjoy comics and just want to understand the humor because it seems really abstract to me.
People tend to overdemonize feminists and what feminism stands for. This comic is making fun of that by portraying an absurdist scenario where a perfectly normal feminine practice: getting a training bra, is beset by moon-dwelling feminists who seek to destroy the earth.
Instead of, well, recognizing and demanding equality. The original straw man antifeminists make is to deviate from the idea that feminism is about equality. That’s probably the critical foundation this comic needs to make sense as that’s what it is poking fun at.
