• Tattorack@lemmy.world
    7·
    20 hours ago

    This may be controversial to ask, but…

    What’s the difference? Isn’t love just love? Should there really be a distinction? Won’t that only cause more divide? Does this comic imply that one loving relationship is better or more special than another?

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      One of them could get you shot, or worse, if the wrong person sees it. It’s not better, but it’s arguably more brave. So yeah, I’ll celebrate that one a little bit more.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      19 hours ago

      @BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world has one take on it that may indeed be accurate. My take was just queer representation. I have the same reaction as a gay dude. Seeing queer couples out and about both makes me happy that we’re moving in a direction where that can happen without constant fear and because I get to see people like me and don’t feel so alone

      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Representation is something I get.

        Other than that, I really don’t care who is in a relationship with who if it’s not my relationship.

        I don’t have to be attracted to that partner, so it doesn’t matter to me what gender that person has.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      3·
      19 hours ago

      I love this. Your comment and questions warm my heart.

      Let me show you darkness. There are people that view queer love as evil or contemptible, not only “lesser than” straight love. This comic plays on that idea by shifting the other direction. If straight love is “normal” and cute, then queer love is “radical” and defiant. This is the joke.

        • romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          20 hours ago

          Yeah I know what eyebrows are. Maybe it wasn’t clear from my writing but I’d like to know what OP mean by “nice touch”. I noticed queer love one has thicker eyebrows. Or is OP referring to difference in face expression of the viewer achieved by her eyebrows

          • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            12 hours ago

            My own comment was also ambiguous but I was referring to the noticeably thicker eyebrows, not only in the third panel but also in the second and fourth. I don’t know the artist’s intent and I am prone to overthinking but it seemed to me like it might be a subtle way to indicate differences between the bodies of the characters.

      • MaxMalRichtig@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Not sure and not queer here.

        But my guess is, that the woman in the cis pic has very trimmed, slim eyebrows - while the others have more natural looking brows. Maybe because the queer folk don’t need to play the “stereotypical female game”. They are defining their own sense of femininity, so no need for conforming with patriarchal stereotypes?

        Again, just my guess. If I’m wrong: please explain. I’m always willing to learn & evolve.