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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).