Comments on: Cartoon: The Straight, Ablebodied, Rich, White Man’s Burden

By: Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples 13 February 2008 « Errantry

Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples 13 February 2008 « Errantry — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:04:47 +0000

[...] different situation than this (maybe relations with Native Americans would be more analogous?). The Straight Ablebodied Rich White Man’s Burden might be closer to what seems (broadly) to be going on in Australia, only imagine that the speaker [...]

By: Myca

Myca — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:41:37 +0000

I see that too, Mandolin, and two of the women are people of color.

By: Mandolin

Mandolin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:26:27 +0000

I count three women & 1 man.

By: fasd

fasd — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:23:40 +0000

Are the other three people supposed to be poor white guys? I think you should have included a couple women.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:01:41 +0000

I like that the guy with the prosthesis is managing to bear his heavy load just as well as everyone else. Including different kinds of bodies with different kinds of capabilities, without pity or patronizing! Good show :D

By: Rachel S.

Rachel S. — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:47:20 +0000

I believe that hell has frozen over because I agree with Robert’s comments.

While we’re talking about suggestions, which I hate making, because after all I think the cartoon is pretty damn good. Rather than having all of the non-privileged people looking angry, I think it would be better to have a couple people looking perplexed–you know like, what the hell is this fool talking about? Or a look of surprise/ ironic shock…….

It may give the mis-impression that people only respond to these comments angrily, but you’ve done enough changes, so don’t change it. I just wanted to point that out.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:40:46 +0000

Very funny! And true to life.. :D

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:26:02 +0000

LOL — love it! This one is so going on my bulletin board. :-D

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:03:13 +0000

Dance for us, puppet, dance!

By: Ampersand

Ampersand — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:05:00 +0000

Thanks for all the compliments. :-D

Dianne, Robert: See the update in the post. :-)

By: Dianne

Dianne — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:13:08 +0000

Love this cartoon. Two specific thoughts: The straight, etc guy’s shoes look a bit like socks. And I wonder if one of the non-straight, etc people could be wearing glasses? Of course, glasses are such a minor prosthesis that I don’t think you lose any privilege points for wearing them, but out of five people shouldn’t one of them have bad eyesight?

By: Ampersand

Ampersand — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:36:43 +0000

Those are shorts, dammit! :-P

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:02:27 +0000

It wouldn’t help with carrying the load, but maybe the guy with the artificial leg would be happier if his creator let him wear pants.

By: Rachel S.

Rachel S. — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:31:45 +0000

That is really good.

By: Madeline

Madeline — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:33:57 +0000

This is amazing. It’s so simple and yet so meaningful. Plus I love the expressions on all of their faces. Great job, Amp!

By: Samuel John Klein

Samuel John Klein — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:21:49 +0000

Niiice.

That’s the reality in America these days. A whole lot of us pulling the load (and there are many “colors” in that boat–some of us have it a little better than others of course) for a tiny ungrateful minority who moan like they have it just as bad as the rest of us if they don’t get what they want all the time.

By: Sara no H.

Sara no H. — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:37:55 +0000

I totally love the guy with the bionic leg. I almost didn’t notice it at first, but it’s a really great detail :)