gender
Original: gender on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Doctor (holding a newborn baby, speaking to the mother in a hospital bed): "Congratulations, it's a girl!"
Mother: "I really don't want to saddle my child with a gender identity before they've had the chance to determine who they are."
Panel 2:
Mother (close-up, looking skeptical/annoyed): [silent / reacting]
Panel 3:
Doctor (holding up a large magnifying glass over the baby): "I'm sorry, ma'am, but take a look through the magnifying glass: that's sensitive enough to detect cooties."
Mother: "Well, I'll be damned."
Votey:
A caption above reads: "FUCK BOYS."
Below is a small black amoeba-like blob creature (a cootie) with a single eye and tiny legs, looking up.
Doctor (holding a newborn baby, speaking to the mother in a hospital bed): "Congratulations, it's a girl!"
Mother: "I really don't want to saddle my child with a gender identity before they've had the chance to determine who they are."
Panel 2:
Mother (close-up, looking skeptical/annoyed): [silent / reacting]
Panel 3:
Doctor (holding up a large magnifying glass over the baby): "I'm sorry, ma'am, but take a look through the magnifying glass: that's sensitive enough to detect cooties."
Mother: "Well, I'll be damned."
Votey:
A caption above reads: "FUCK BOYS."
Below is a small black amoeba-like blob creature (a cootie) with a single eye and tiny legs, looking up.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A doctor in a hospital holds up a newborn and tells the mother in the bed, "Congratulations, it's a girl!" The mother replies that she doesn't want to saddle her child with a gender identity before they've had the chance to determine who they are. Panel 2: A close-up of the mother looking skeptical. Panel 3: The doctor holds a large magnifying glass over the baby and says he's sorry, but the magnifying glass is sensitive enough to detect cooties; the mother says, "Well, I'll be damned." The joke plays on the childhood pseudo-science of 'cooties' as if it were a real diagnostic for gender. Votey (aftercomic): The caption "FUCK BOYS." sits above a small black amoeba-like cootie creature with a single eye and tiny legs.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.