Construction
Original: Construction on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Red-haired woman: People tend to think gender is biologically or socially constructed. I'm more holistic.
Panel 2
Red-haired woman: I have a set of criteria that I think cover everything: legal, anthropological, social, evolutionary, religious, scientific.
Panel 3
Dark-haired woman (with glasses): Why those categories in particular?
Red-haired woman: Ask me how gender is...
Panel 4
Red-haired woman: ...constructed.
Panel 5
Dark-haired woman (deadpan): How is gender constru--
Red-haired woman (shouting, leaning in): L.A.S.E.R.S.!
Votey:
Red-haired woman (in a speech bubble): There's probably other stuff but it doesn't fit the acronym, so who cares?
(She is drawn with a wide, satisfied grin.)
Red-haired woman: People tend to think gender is biologically or socially constructed. I'm more holistic.
Panel 2
Red-haired woman: I have a set of criteria that I think cover everything: legal, anthropological, social, evolutionary, religious, scientific.
Panel 3
Dark-haired woman (with glasses): Why those categories in particular?
Red-haired woman: Ask me how gender is...
Panel 4
Red-haired woman: ...constructed.
Panel 5
Dark-haired woman (deadpan): How is gender constru--
Red-haired woman (shouting, leaning in): L.A.S.E.R.S.!
Votey:
Red-haired woman (in a speech bubble): There's probably other stuff but it doesn't fit the acronym, so who cares?
(She is drawn with a wide, satisfied grin.)
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired woman in a pink shirt talks to a dark-haired woman wearing glasses. Panel 1: the red-haired woman says people think gender is biologically or socially constructed, but she's 'more holistic.' Panel 2: she lists a set of criteria she thinks covers everything -- legal, anthropological, social, evolutionary, religious, scientific. Panel 3: the dark-haired woman asks why those categories in particular; the red-haired woman, ignoring the question, prompts 'Ask me how gender is...' Panel 4: '...constructed.' Panel 5: the dark-haired woman flatly begins 'How is gender constru--' and the red-haired woman lunges forward shouting the word 'L.A.S.E.R.S.' in jagged stylized letters -- revealing her six categories were chosen to spell LASERS. Votey (aftercomic): the grinning red-haired woman adds in a speech bubble, 'There's probably other stuff but it doesn't fit the acronym, so who cares?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.