[ SECRET POST #2538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2538 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Other than the Woman's-Insecurities-as-Punchline bit mentioned above, I'm not really up to speed on why people hate the comic or think it's sexist. Part of the problem might be that it eventually got kind of dated - at least that was the way it felt to me when I was last reading newspaper comics with any regularity in the late 90s. The strip started in the mid-70s and I think something that it was trying to express was what it was like to be a working single woman at that time, but didn't necessarily evolve to maintain as close a match to the experiences of women in subsequent decades. I can't really put my finger on how, though. Comedic characters like Liz Lemon and Mindy Lahiri have similar kinds of foibles and angst, but I find them more sympathetic and relate-able than I ever did Cathy. That's probably because they are current/recent whereas Cathy had already been around for nearly 30 years by the time I finished grad school and actually became one of those single career women.

One thing about feminism is that you have to keep moving forward or else it stops looking like feminism. What I mean is, if women start doing X (voting, working in traditionally male-dominated fields, delaying or forgoing marriage and/or kids) it's okay at first to treat it like its radical and be all "Hear me roar!" about it because it is radical, but there comes a point were taking this approach starts to look like you think it's weird and unusual for a woman to do X and it really is no longer that unusual and shouldn't be seen as weird.

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[(Anonymous)]

My mother's almost as old as some of my friends' grandmothers, so perhaps it's not surprising that a character who's a lot like her is a bit old-fashioned.