[From “May 17, 2024: Man or Bear”]
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Panel 1: A blond woman with a white dress is just meeting a bear, and shouts “Bear!”
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The next strip is even stupider. Straw trans person attempts to “subdue the beast with my feminine charms” and gets mauled. The enemy is both threatening and harmless. Also possibly cannon fodder.
The next one after that is Goldilocks and the Three Bears, except that “Goldilox” is Jacob Fauci in a wig and a dress. If you don’t know who that is, that’s the heavily-bearded Israeli guy who was captured on camera tying to squat in a Palestinian family home and said “If I don’t steal your home, someone else will steal it.” But if you don’t know who it is, it’s just the fairy tale except vaguely antisemitic and maybe transphobic (note: there’s absolutely no reason to believe Jacob Fauci is trans).
Honestly, I think the “rather meet a bear than a man” thing says more about how people’s perceptions can be influenced than it does about men being dangerous.
As for the comic itself, it’s not just stupid and bigoted, I’m not even sure what it’s trying to say beyond “trans people bad”.
Now that I think of it, a lot of Tatsuya’s transphobia seems to manifest as a very weird (and probably unintentional) message of “If they appear to be an extra-manly man, look out! They might be a trans woman in disguise!” and this is just a particularly obvious example of it. It just adds to the general incoherence, either way.
A bear’s intentions are made known very quickly and they’re apt to leave you alone once they’re satisfied you’re not a threat to them. The bear would also find significant difficulty if it tried to follow you back to civilization and attack you there. A human, if they so chose, would have a much easier time of that. A human’s intentions aren’t always clear and are often completely irrational. For example some people are so bizarrely triggered by the suggestion that women don’t immediately trust every man that walks up to them they will gleefully wish real bodily harm on women so that they may laugh at them being taken down a peg. That’s fucking weird and pretty much exactly the kind of thing that brought this whole question into being in the first place. And following this trend of the insane behaviour of supposedly civilized human beings if a woman survives a hostile bear encounter when she returns to society she won’t get publicly attacked for “leading the bear on” or something nor will some smug shithead take to TV crying about “not knowing what the rules are” and that bears shouldn’t have to live in fear of their actions making women afraid. In a hostile encounter with men women tend end up the ones on trial in the eyes of the public getting character assassinated for years after the fact. An instant mauling is frankly preferrable to suffering that shit.
Okay we caught up? Good, great. Now onto… whatever the hell this comic is.
Other than a clumsy as shit attempt to be offensive for the sake of offensiveness alone I have no idea what the joke is, though Ishida may have unintentionally made the argument that a transwoman isn’t just safer meeting a bear than a random man, but safer than if she ran into another woman on the chance that it’s a Phallus Obsessed Rape-fetishist Karen who might pose all the same dangers of a full-blown incel and think any depravity imaginable would be justified with no immediate witnesses to intervene while still fervently believing themselves the wronged party just for having made eye contact.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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