Floral
Original: Floral on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with dark hair, walking on a forest path with a red-haired companion): Have you noticed that when talking about sex, men's bodies are described like animal parts and women's bodies like plant parts?
Red-haired companion: Huh.
Panel 2:
Woman: Budding... flowering... fruitful... even technical terms like deciduolization.
Panel 3:
Woman: It's just one more way that women are seen as passive and men active.
Panel 4:
Woman: We will teach our children to be DIFFERENT!
Panel (LATER...):
The red-haired woman, now a mother sitting on a couch beside a small child, gestures at a poster/chart on the wall reading "EAT INDIVIDUAL".
Mother: And then your testicles will descend like coconuts, ripening in an island breeze.
Votey:
The dark-haired woman (in a speech bubble): I'm still trying to find a plant that works like boners but the internet doesn't appreciate my innocent intentions.
Woman (with dark hair, walking on a forest path with a red-haired companion): Have you noticed that when talking about sex, men's bodies are described like animal parts and women's bodies like plant parts?
Red-haired companion: Huh.
Panel 2:
Woman: Budding... flowering... fruitful... even technical terms like deciduolization.
Panel 3:
Woman: It's just one more way that women are seen as passive and men active.
Panel 4:
Woman: We will teach our children to be DIFFERENT!
Panel (LATER...):
The red-haired woman, now a mother sitting on a couch beside a small child, gestures at a poster/chart on the wall reading "EAT INDIVIDUAL".
Mother: And then your testicles will descend like coconuts, ripening in an island breeze.
Votey:
The dark-haired woman (in a speech bubble): I'm still trying to find a plant that works like boners but the internet doesn't appreciate my innocent intentions.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic plus a votey. In the top panels, a dark-haired woman walks along a forest path with a red-haired companion and observes that, when talking about sex, men's bodies are described like animal parts and women's bodies like plant parts ("budding," "flowering," "fruitful," even "deciduolization"). She frames it as women being seen as passive and men active, and declares, "We will teach our children to be DIFFERENT!" In the final, wider panel labeled "LATER...," the red-haired woman is now a mother seated on a couch with a small child, pointing at a chart on the wall, telling the kid, "And then your testicles will descend like coconuts, ripening in an island breeze"—the joke being she has merely swapped which plant metaphors she uses, not abandoned them. The votey shows the dark-haired woman saying, "I'm still trying to find a plant that works like boners but the internet doesn't appreciate my innocent intentions."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.