[ SECRET POST #2538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2538 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the big problem with Kathy in the later years was that it was well dated. When it first came out it was a positive cartoon strip. A woman in the working world and the humor came from not her being a nagging wife or mother. But like For Better or Worse the more out of touch with the current generations the cartoonist got, the worse the cartoon got.

[logicbutton]

Exactly. From what I understand, it was considered a feminist strip at first - but then feminism continued to evolve, and the strip didn't evolve with it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think at least Cathy's cartoonist realized it and tried to update it and eventually I think gave it a decent ending. The same can't be said for FBoW.

[logicbutton]

I agree. Lynn Johnston's ego got in the way of her work and turned For Better or for Worse into a total wankfest.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone did a very good revision of the ending of FBoW and gave the comic a much better ending. You can find it here: http://insertmonikerhere.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.html

[(Anonymous)]

True. Cathy started in 1976 and ran for the next 34 years - without the main character ever really aging. Cathy could represent the 70's and maybe even the early 80's pretty well - but by the 90's and into the 21th century she really did not age well. And in all likelihood the artist's views stayed while not in the 70's she is not on the same page as young women who came of age in succeeding generations. So those women did not really see themselves in Cathy.

And without knowing the age of the OP (or her mother) that maybe why OP's Mom reminds her of the character.

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[(Anonymous)]

Mentioned this in another comment--my mother's sixty years old.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Makes sense to me. My mom is in her 60s and Cathy reminds me of her.