Monty by Jim Meddick for January 31, 2013
January 30, 2013
February 01, 2013
Transcript:
I found them! I found lil Donnie! Hey, wait... I notice you give your ants both male and female names equally... But are you aware that almost all ants in a colony are sterile females? I sure hope lil Donna doesn't grow up with some sort of sexual identity issues...
hometownk Premium Member almost 12 years ago
They’re ants. There will be no issues.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I can just picture EB trying to perform gender reassignment surgery on an ant.
“Now where did I put those little tiny… ?”
AlexPK85 almost 12 years ago
Didn’t realize Monty was such the entomologist.
Sisyphos almost 12 years ago
Donnie/Donna…. Didn’t a movie called Victor/Victoria cover that (twice, in fact)? But, seriously [—really? Seriously, here?!], E.B., I don’t think ants are prone to sexual identity crises.
puddlesplatt almost 12 years ago
there goes another Dream!
KasperV almost 12 years ago
Kylie: quite right! Sex is a biological condition, gender a grammatical one. However, since the acceptance of people with different dispositions (for want of a better expression), we need a new word for when the two don’t coincide exactly. Meanwhile, we’ll keep using ‘gender’.
iced tea almost 12 years ago
Nutty comic!
Cornelius Robinson Premium Member almost 12 years ago
She’s sterile. She doesn’t care what you call her.
pam Miner almost 12 years ago
I don’t think any of them do any breeding. Just the queen and her few chosen males.
stamps almost 12 years ago
You’re an ants uncle.