Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁

• Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t get it

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  • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The little girl is getting kicked out by her parents because she “will never be pretty”, which is all a girl is worth according to misogynist belief.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The punchline is the setup. It’s an anti joke. Perhaps a bad one, even.

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    • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah ok I mean that’s literally what’s happening. But is there a joke? Or something unexpected, insightful, thoughtful, humorous, something special or of any significance other than a random statement? What’s sad about it? Why a robot? Why a liebot? Is he lying?

      Tbh I still don’t really get it.

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      • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thank you, my thoughts exactly. Tragic is not exactly the same thing as sad.

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• SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tbh, I feel like calling this “sad” doesn’t do a good enough job of refuting the underlying misogynist belief (that a woman’s worth is her looks) that the parents have.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Liebot was this vaguely racist Slavic stereotype character that tried to make Phillip (the otter) cry on occasion. This is probably the tamest one.

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