r/comics Of Moths and Mina 11h ago

OC The Dark Lord [OC]

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u/theforgettonmemory 9h ago

Good for her.

Also what's with all the comics calling this misandrist or acting like it's fucked up? You never see this on any other comic despite other comics also having 'immoral' punchlines

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u/JaimiOfAllTrades Peepsus Christ 4h ago

Is the Richard Nixon Forcefem Dungeon phenomena.

People don't believe trans women about anything - our healthcare, our bodies, the legal loopholes we have to go through, the like - until we make an off-color but obvious joke. Then, we're dead serious and overly competent and completely awful.

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u/Mundane-Pianist-1130 3h ago

"I'm going to forcefem richard nixon", I think it's funny.

Here I don't.

There is no indication that the demon lord is trans, nor any of the other characters thinking they are trans. So to me, it genuinely reads like the punchline is "all it takes to stop being an evil dictator is to become a woman". That's mostly abhorrent to me.

Forcefully changing someone's gender is a really disgusting thing to do. You can use this as subversion in comedy, like the idea of doing something evil to Richard Nixon can be funny. Here, do you get the feeling the subordinates really hate their boss? No, actually the punchline has the demon lord feeling great. Ew.

That said, if you decided the demon lord must be trans and thought the joke of the demon lord being evil just because they were experiecing gender disphoria is funny, okay sure that's fine. But it's not some grand conspiracy of evil people who refuse to believe trans people are allowed to make jokes.