Clarissa is enjoying another perfect holiday in her fairy godmother charmed life where everything always goes as planned…. Oh wait…. No fairy godmother? Things not going according to plan? Oh Crap! Clarissa is so screwed, and ready to be destroyed by the little monsters in her class.
Isn’t that the one gay (at least I presume so) kid from the “take your daughter to work day” comic on the seat in front of Clarissa?
I just gotta say, I love all the little features you add to these comics showing all the shitty things bad parents will do and how it affects their kids. Clarissa’s obviously at the forefront of this, but little examples like the gay kid really do make your look into the shitty and fucked up side of reality that most people will ignore all the more potent.
Can’t speak on the sexual abuse part myself, but the physical abuse and degradation for not being straight part really resonates with me, good work dude.
Wait what does that hover comment mean? It sounds to me like a joke mocking the idea that anyone who is something other than gay, bi, or trans would have the right to be offended by something, framing them as too weird to be valid or something. Is that what it is? I want to believe it’s not, but if not what does it mean?
JY: Plus is a magical category! Danged if I know what it includes! Fill it with whatever you want 🙂
The plus means asexual, intersex, questioning, pansexual, queer, and the fact that the way people conceive of gender and sex is ever changing depending on time, place, and culture, and there should always be room to include more things. I don’t know what you think it is but a children’s book that offends asexuals, as in it implies there’s something wrong with you if you don’t have sex, is probably not a book elementary children should be reading anyway.
Clarissa is enjoying another perfect holiday in her fairy godmother charmed life where everything always goes as planned…. Oh wait…. No fairy godmother? Things not going according to plan? Oh Crap! Clarissa is so screwed, and ready to be destroyed by the little monsters in her class.
So I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while but never got around to it until now, but does Clarissa’s mother have a name?
JY: Probably!
Yup, still another emergency. Also, that is a threatening looking paper plane.
Isn’t that the one gay (at least I presume so) kid from the “take your daughter to work day” comic on the seat in front of Clarissa?
I just gotta say, I love all the little features you add to these comics showing all the shitty things bad parents will do and how it affects their kids. Clarissa’s obviously at the forefront of this, but little examples like the gay kid really do make your look into the shitty and fucked up side of reality that most people will ignore all the more potent.
Can’t speak on the sexual abuse part myself, but the physical abuse and degradation for not being straight part really resonates with me, good work dude.
Wait what does that hover comment mean? It sounds to me like a joke mocking the idea that anyone who is something other than gay, bi, or trans would have the right to be offended by something, framing them as too weird to be valid or something. Is that what it is? I want to believe it’s not, but if not what does it mean?
JY: Plus is a magical category! Danged if I know what it includes! Fill it with whatever you want 🙂
The plus means asexual, intersex, questioning, pansexual, queer, and the fact that the way people conceive of gender and sex is ever changing depending on time, place, and culture, and there should always be room to include more things. I don’t know what you think it is but a children’s book that offends asexuals, as in it implies there’s something wrong with you if you don’t have sex, is probably not a book elementary children should be reading anyway.