• Jayjader@jlai.lu
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    I love when Oglaf does lesbians making fun of hetero men (and/or hetero sex), they always know how to keep the jokes silly and not double down on “gays vs straights” tribalism.

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      It goes beyond that. The Oglaf world doesn’t seem to acknowledge sexual orientation at all. These two aren’t mocking heterosexuality, but a very specific person as revealed in the next part, and neither of them are lesbians.

      Even a comic that gets humor out of god disapproving of anal sex doesn’t seem to imply that it’s homosexuality that’s the problem, but specifically sticking a penis up a butt that he just finds gross.

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        Agreed on this comic and in general, but Ship To Ship seems to me to acknowledge sexual orientation in their world is similar-ish to ours, right down to the petty antagonisms between “incompatible” orientations. If anything, I’d say the Oglaf world does “everyone is some flavor/degree of bisexual”. There certainly doesn’t seem to be any bigotry over orientations.

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          Mm yeah. Also I just remembered the skeletons.

          I mean, obviously people are going to have preferences and some of the cultures are… Odd, like Kronar’s people, so it’s less that everyone’s bi than that there’s little or no stigma.

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            Yeah, I guess calling them bi is more of a projection of our reality onto theirs. I think you’re spot on with it being about stigma (or the lack thereof, rather).