Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 11, 2023

If a woman believes in God, SHE must be that woman!

It was hard to click “;ile” on this, but it’s the only option.

Research money for AIDS and cancer are most likely different today. Women can celebrate having people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert in congress.

more accurately: it was not a woman who invented the idea of a god.

- A woman has as much representation as a man does.

- Women are legislating our rights also.

- The statistic about 40% less pay is probably false.

- Unless God came from a previous race, God is neither man or woman.

Man made God in his own image.

the #1 killer of women isn’t breast cancer. it’s heart disease.

we love you Wiley, oh yes we do.. and we will always be true to you! when you’re not with us we’re blue.. ohhhh wiley.. we.. love.. you!

There are so many different cancers, and research ALWAYS goes to the one that pays the most money!

George Carlin already verified that. He said God has to be a man because no woman would “EF” things up so badly.

Well, more representation, but not enough to make much difference. Breast cancer research is now twice that of AIDS, according to the National Cancer Institute.

24 years later, that strip IS a bit dated…

This should be rerun on Sunday, November 3, 2024… just saying.

The legal priorities of the US are weird. 6 amendments to protect the right to vote, and certain politicians are working hard to make it harder to vote. More children die from guns than from anything else, yet certain politicians are more interested in protecting guns than children. (“Blame mental illness”, they bellow, while cutting funding for mental illness.) Their current mantra is how the LGBTQ+ are pedophiles, even though they make up a much smaller percentage of offenders than their percentage of the population. The “party of law and order” who claim that they want to “protect the blue” are calling for the defunding and elimination of many of the justice departments. The party of small government is insisting on eliminating which books you can read, who you can love, your rights of privacy and travel in case you’re pregnant, and your freedom of choice in religion (but you must follow theirs). The states with the highest percentage of teen pregnancies and teen STDs, despite being the only states which deny sex-ed in schools, and who saw those rates skyrocket when they stopped teaching sex-ed in schools, are vocal about what should be taught in schools.Then again, this is the same party whose primary members view Donald Trump as the 2nd coming of Jesus and an executioner of God’s command. Look at how many of them are slavishly trying to appeal to him after his recent 34 indictments. The question of whether you should vote for MAGA or democracy shouldn’t be that hard, but many votes will still go wherever Trump wants them to.

A bit of male defensiveness in the comments I see.

The question is not whether Wiley’s original stats have changed, but how much. Apparently the inequality between genders has improved to some degree, but it is nowhere near equal.

It is likely, Wiley repeated this arc to remind us of that, and not to say that he sees no change.

How about number two on her list?

Did God create the brain or did the brain create God?

Usually I like this strip, but here it is really as blind as justice. Go to Macdonalds or any factory (or school, or post office or taxi company) and see whether the starting salary for men and women is different; it isn’t. It is only in higher levels that the salaries differ truly . But they also differ between the men in a company. DUH!

It took a female Supreme Court Justice to make the imbalance which destroyed Roe vs Wade, so it is NOT just men who have scuttled reproductive rights. Plenty of women are to be blamed too! Specifically Republican ones. Duh!

If 3 out of 4 elderly poor are women, it is not because of salary differences, but the fact that 70% of men (a guess here) die earlier! So of course most of the elderly poor are women… there are no men left! Ask why men die earlier – it might be because they have more stress to deal with! They are shot and killed on a higher level…they are the ones fighting the wars, there are no no domestic violence shelters for men but they make up 50% of those being battered (AND keeping silent about it out of humiliation!). One of the good things about Patriarchy is that women get a lot more protection – automatically! Duh!

AIDS affects men, women and children. It SHOULD get more money as it needs to protect everyone. Breast cancer affects a portion of a portion of society… and it is only because AIDS did get more money that it has now become less lethal. How come this stripisn’t complaining that prostate cancer doesn’t get more money than breast cancer? HMMM?

Women are responsible for most child care – but let’s be honest. The day a couple divorces, WHO almost always gets custody? The woman. Why? Because they have managed to convince everyone that a child needs its mother MORE. You can’t have it both ways! How many men would LOVE to see their kids more, but the courts have made them pay support even without visitation rights. So who’s getting kicked from all sides more from a legal level? DUH!

There has been some progress, but not enough.

Much the same here in the great land of Oz .. along with exceptionally high rental costs, and going up all the time. Women (especially the aged) are the worst hit, and landlords can kick you out without any reason. And don’t try asking for some repairs or renovations for the hovel you HAVE managed to find …

As another very famous comic character said “we has met the enemy and they is us” PogoWe have the government of OUR choosing.

With the removal of Roe v. Wade, it’s gotten worse.

For those who claim pay is equal, since you simply don’t believe some groups get paid less than others, doesn’t make it go away. There are companies who will take advantage of salaries every chance they can.

In the legislative area, they are gaining ground, but with idiots MTG and LB, there is major room for improvement. This is mainly tied to who will follow the orders of the corps and million/billionares.

With a married couple living on SS and the man dies, the woman only now has the one check, her major expenses hasn’t changed that much, rent, auto and health insurance and utilities, only food. So yea, chances are they live in poverty.

Gotten better? The list doesn’t show it.

God is still not a woman (or so we think…)

Just curious, what flavor Kool-Aid are you drinking this morning?

“I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.” – Shirley Chisolm

Many years ago, I saw a bumper sticker stating “God is coming…..and she is really upset”

Yet women in secure marriages do far better when they have a husband who provides for them. Their kids do better too. The nuclear family has been destroyed by the left and feminists and this is the result you get when you ask for the state to be your surrogate.

Women can compete against men in women’s sports now. That’s new since 1999.

Hos many commenters on here TOTALLY missed the point of the cartoon originally having been done in 1999, and then asking what has changed????

God is LGBTQIA+

Nothing but lies and distortion.

All of these claims have a kernel of truth, but are seriously exaggerated, except one, and that one needs additional perspective. I leave the lookups to the reader. This is, after all, a comic strip, a medium that functions through humor, exaggeration and rhetorical flourish, not a source of information from which one would expect careful handling of statistics and balanced presentation of information.

In particular, the final question – how much has changed in the past two decades or so — is intended to elicit a knee-jerk “Nothing!”, not a thoughtful response that would necessarily involve that boring premise, “A lot has changed, a lot hasn’t, and we still are a long way from where we would like to be.” Which is just not a punchline, and therefore will not appear in a comic strip except in the mouth of a character who is being set up for ridicule.

All of which amounts to a strong argument for getting your laughs from comic strips and your political and social thinking from sources better suited to it.

I don’t believe in God anymore. I haven’t since my father died.

Plenty has changed. Have you seen Battlestar Galactica or Ghost Busters lately? Maybe not for the better overall, but things have changed.

I read a lot of history, and it is simply unexplainable to me how half the human race can decide that the other half is second class because it’s different. Also, how can the male half have decided that they want their offspring born out of an inferior other half???? I know, I know—not all men are bad and not all women are good, but it IS the patriarchal half down through the ages who decided who was what and what was who.

In the 1870s, Utah gave women the right to vote.

The “Mormon Women” voting bloc soon became the state’s swing bloc, and they typically wound up voting in favor of plural marriage.

The folks in DC took this as proof that women were too incompetent to be trusted with the right to vote, and so subsequent anti-polygamy laws stripped all women in Utah and all Mormons nationwide of their voting rights.

For obvious reasons, it’s not something the average history book likes to talk about.

God is not the government either and most of the men in Government are not Godly. As long we the people seek equality from the men who create inequality, there will never be equality for men or women. God did create us equal but when ungodly men took over the government, equality was put to rest.

God is not a man, because the universe is not held together with duct tape.

God is not a woman, otherwise why would she create PMS?

I am “writing” a fictional book: “101 Reasons I am Glad I’m Not a Girl.” Number 1 is peeing while standing up. The world is your urinal. Number 101 is not having to find a bag to match my shoes.

In between are 99 more reasons (I think there are more then 99) – some as silly as the ones I just presented, but many are serious like the ones cited in this cartoon.

There are a number of women who are comfortable enough with me that they do not mind discussing some issues which could be considered TMI for a man. When they bring up and issue, I’ll blurt out something like “Reason number 72 why I’m glad I’m not a girl.”

Being married to a nurse, and an avid reader of Scientific American, I am not a doctor, but I do know more than the average person when it comes to health issues.

In the United States, the health system is designed around the 20-50, white male. For all other groups, medications and procedures are technically “off label.”

Health is just one of the several categories in my book.

I must admit that this depresses me. As a woman who grew up in the 60’s I saw the huge strides done to give women equality. Not only legally but also in society. But then things turned around. In the last 20 years or so the whispers about women being whiners and everything is fine has grown to a roar, incels proudly claim that raping is their right, politicians proudly claim that women do not have any right over their breeding capabilities, when women complain about the way they are treated in the street or at the office they are whiners or feminists (an insult now). Yes, things got much better. But now we are slipping back.

God isn’t a man either.

Regrettably, women’s status is sliding back further from that in 1999. But, I love Wiley! Intelligent, creative, talented and humorous.

If there is an actual majority complaining about so many things, it says quite a lot about that majority’s apathy toward change or agreement with the status quo.

Please don’t take this seriously. It’s an old expression from the late 70’s, and partially quoted (relevant to nothing) in the movie DC Cab. “Men want two things—money and pu**y. Why are women complaining? They have half the money in the world, and all the pu**y.”

I highly recommend a graphic novel called The Big She-Bang.

Women earn a bit more now. Otherwise not much has changed. Not mentioned: gun crimes…very few perpetrated by women.

P.S. As congresswoman Pat Schroeder said: “I have a brain. I have a uterus. And I use both.”

So tell me why men want to be women?

Thanks, Wiley, for relisting this. You are the best! The distance between the treatment of women in the US and Saudi Arabia is not all that great. The men in Congress still won’t pass the equal rights amendment. The GOP men in the MO legislature censured the women for inappropriate dress this year and gave them a dress code.

There has been some progress, but not nearly enough. White males, of which I am one, control most governments, most wealth, and most of everything. The feeling of white male entitlement runs back thousands of years.

Today, the GOPs next target is outlawing birth control and freedom of choice nationwide. Which begs the question, how long will women put up with old, white men making their reproductive choices for them, effectively making women reproductive slaves? You have the numbers if you organize and vote.

The Media continues to try to control the minds of Americans. No Change.

and being maligned; Hillary Clinton,AOC, etc

Right until the end, I thought this was new. And to think, some politicians are trying to take away more of their rights. Talk about depressing.

Classic Example of a person putting their mouth in motion before they put their mind in gear.

outstanding comic.. hard to believe from 1999..also sad

None at all. If anything, it’s gotten worse…

Wow. So much has changed.

These days people don’t know what a woman is. Fools consider feelings to be more important that facts.

If we had equality I wonder why women don’t put in more overtime, die in wars, why the population of prison is so lopsided, why so many men win ‘women of the year’ awards. Why biological women are just so inferior to non-biological women in sports.

Who does most of the dangerous jobs? How many women brick layers, sewer engineers, garbage collectors, plumbers, construction workers are there? Why isn’t there equality in ALL jobs? Why are there more women teaching children and being nurses?

The sheer stupidity of the left just boggles my mind. It makes NO sense.

How much has changed since 1999? Everything Wiley mentioned in the toon is IMVPO worse than 24 years ago

2 out of three elderly of any financial group are women, they live longer. Statistics can prove any point you want to make, true or not.

A teeny bit. I was listening to the news this morning and heard a story about the current Southern Baptist convention. A hot topic is women pastors getting to lead congregations. Doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

Very little.

As a woman in Texas, I have fewer rights and less representation (due to gerrymandering & voter suppression) than I did in 1999.

Put the woman in charge.

Ever notice that the guys complaining about people getting paid for not working are the same ones who are perfectly OK with housewives working without getting paid?

Brilliant.

Whoa there W… People might say you’re “Woke” …

Is there something wrong with women being responsible for child care? I see a lot of dads at the family fun center with their kids.

Reproductive rights does not include butchering babies, please use all of the birth control available but don’t butcher your baby

I don’t believe in God (not knocking religious people. Just saying I’m not religious.) so I don’t put the blame there. I put the blame on the cavemen we got as our leaders hell-bent on trying to put us back into the early 1900s.

And yet Justice Brown could not define “woman”. Without a definition, how can there be a difference?

Menstrual periods prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is not a women!!!

Thank you for telling it like it is Wiley. Conservatives are trying to send women back to the middle ages, but we won’t go. And support from brilliant artists like you helps us. THANK YOU!!

To answer the question, dammed little :-(

Acording to Jesus God is a diety thus neither

Men do regulate women’s reproduction rights. Things may have gotten better in some areas but they are back sliding in others.

I have always said that men will rule this country as long as women let them (they do have the right to vote). You tell me who I am insulting.

And once again Wiley Miller brings perspective to our life and times. Thank you for all the great work you do.

The only change is that the few rights women did have are being eroded.

Not much, it still uses lies.

Nice to see propaganda hasn’t changed much since 1999.

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved…(t)hey are, literally, patriarchal—God is the Omnipotent Father—hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. —GORE VIDAL”

And yet women still live longer than men, go figure!

The Woke Cult is making misogyny great again! “Trans women” athletes are stealing trophies and scholarships from women athletes. If women athletes speak out against this travesty, they are threatened with violence by “trans women”. The Woke Cult can’t define the term “woman”; so, it appears they are determined to erase women. Johns Hopkins University has referred to lesbian women as “non-men” in the school’s new LGBTQ glossary. Using the term “non-men” to refer to biological women is as obliviously arrogant as using the term “non-white” to refer to people of color.

Wowsers! over 400 comments on this one hhahahahhahaaha!! amAzing!

Women are just a pawn to the liberals.

Statistics show, that for the same education and experience, women out earn men. The reason men, on average, make more, is that men take on jobs that involve far more danger or travel, etc… The ignorance of feminists (male or female) is just sad!

Nothing has changed – unless it’s to go backwards.

Quite possibly the dumbest strip I have read…congratulations!