2009-06-29

A single-panel comic. A weary woman in a white lab coat, who is a gynecologist, wears a yellow miner's hard hat with a headlamp. She holds a hand to her head and faces a younger woman, saying with a sigh, 'I get it. You need a miner's hat because-' then snapping, 'because you're a slut!' A caption below reads: 'Sometimes I wish Mom had never entered gynecology.' The joke equates examining a vagina with descending into a mine. Votey aftercomic: a roughly sketched woman leans in smirking and says, 'Put down that canary!' -- extending the mining metaphor (miners once used canaries to detect gas).