In spite of the fact that no one complained about it, the Albany Times-Union is having a retroactive baby over this Doonesbury cartoon from last Sunday, January 14. (This is a screen grab of the last two panels.)
Editor Casey Seiler has bent over backward — even though no one complained, did we mention that? — to inform readers that since this coming Sunday's Doonesbury continues in this same vein, it will appear in the "Perspective" section as opposed to the comics. Fair enough. We wouldn't want to open our paper in two days and not be able to immediately find Garry Trudeau.
Still and all, Seiler was excoriating himself for not realizing that "that's an awful lot of uses of 'rape' for a strip that runs in the Sunday funnies just above Classic Peanuts." Hmmm.
It strikes us as both amusing and disgusting that a bunch of white guys down in Albany are wringing their hands over a word — when very few seem to be troubled at all about the deed.
Because if they were, maybe they would cover Trump — a proven sexual assaulter — differently. And the while we're on the subject, maybe they could cover the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel differently as well. Nobody cares what happens to women, do they? Except maybe for Garry Trudeau. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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