Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “bio”, is one of the best ones I’ve seen yet. Pronouns!
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December 22, 2021 • 9:15 am
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Apple? 🙂
Jesus is not … terribly au fait with modern technology and needs the shielding-from-reality of a very sophisticated walled garden of a hardware/ software duet.
Mo (well, Mo’s body double) is the less technical of the flatmates. Moses – an occasional sidekick – hasn’t really advanced much beyond chipping words into rocks.
There may also be a “fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil” joke in there too, but of course, there is nothing to connect that with the genus Malus.
That is a delicious 5/5 spice-level snark.
I am sick and tired of all the meaningless virtue signaling in the face of genuine and worsening crises. The jackboots are on the march, the planet is burning, and millions of Americans have been killed or broken by a pandemic raging out of control, already the worst in a century. I do not care in the slightest about anyone’s complicated relationship with his or her genitals.
Speaking of high-level snark! ^_^ I like it.
Well put Ed. With you a 110%. 👍🏽
Nicely put!
This is, sad to say, the most coherent use of they/them pronouns I’ve run across. Well done.
Most of those who use they/them consider themselves “non-binary:” they do not feel as if they were either a man or a woman. Since it’s normally pretty easy to look down and tell if they’re male or female, what they’re actually experiencing isn’t confusion about their bodies, but discomfort with the roles and attributes culture assigns to the sexes. Men are one way (masculine) and women another way (feminine.) But they aren’t!
There are then two choices if you’re not happy with the binary:
1.) Break out of it. The binary’s right and true, but YOU fit in a different box in between.
2.) Break it. The binary is crap, a man or woman can be any way they are and there are no boxes to break out of.
There is nothing progressive about choosing #1. Nor is it anything special. We’re all non-binary. The boxes are a socially- induced illusion; sex is real.
It would be tempting to list something amusing in emails, and with your name during Zoom meetings. But the joke would not over over well!
I would have thought the pronouns would be capitalized, considering the bio.
Shhhh! Jesus has been punished capitally before and is a bit touchy about it.
It’s a thorny subject.
He’s hung up on it.
“thou / thee“ surely?
Even by J&M’s usual high standards, this is genius.
Plus the “mankind”.