These cartoons help poke fun at broader, more serious issues in society. I feel like gender issues are one of the constantly repeated problems of our modern day generation and progressive society. As academic students, gender is included in my daily academic literature, discussions in classrooms and experience as a University Student. The circle of people I associate with have a very in depth knowledge about gender and have similar, open views to mine, but a very key theme I have seen over and over is the focus on comic relief around gender. Comic relief and laughter is essential for life, to let out confusion and even a natural reaction for people who do not know how to vocalize their opinion, but are we as a generation looking too much towards comic relief? If there's too much laughing, does the point get lost? I posted this next link because I thought it to be very clever, and it does provide a humorous aspect to providing awareness...however, I feel as if it slightly undermines the issues being raised. Agree or disagree, enjoy a quick laugh!
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/m/masculinity.asp
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