Just pondering John and El briefly, since I started on the archive I’ve been repeatedly pissed at John for his idle sexism, but also at El for her shrillness around her family. Without spoilers both of these improved as the story progressed. Now, in the initial run it was easier to remember that the characters were ‘of their time’, neither of them would have been all that out of place in a family show from the late 70’s. In this strip we see John doing his regular, lazy, ‘needs a woman’s touch’ type statement and our reaction is ’he’s just a lazy almost-mysogynist’ but it’s not like he’s generally just sitting back and letting El do all the work. He runs a business which keeps him on his feet all day working hard, he presumably is doing the business’ paperwork at home, he does most of the home maintenance. It’s not like he’s not doing his share of the work, it’s more that tends to underestimate the amount of work that El has to do as part of her daily life. Here endeth the rant.
Just pondering John and El briefly, since I started on the archive I’ve been repeatedly pissed at John for his idle sexism, but also at El for her shrillness around her family. Without spoilers both of these improved as the story progressed. Now, in the initial run it was easier to remember that the characters were ‘of their time’, neither of them would have been all that out of place in a family show from the late 70’s. In this strip we see John doing his regular, lazy, ‘needs a woman’s touch’ type statement and our reaction is ’he’s just a lazy almost-mysogynist’ but it’s not like he’s generally just sitting back and letting El do all the work. He runs a business which keeps him on his feet all day working hard, he presumably is doing the business’ paperwork at home, he does most of the home maintenance. It’s not like he’s not doing his share of the work, it’s more that tends to underestimate the amount of work that El has to do as part of her daily life. Here endeth the rant.