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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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submitted 6 days ago by m_f@discuss.online to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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“Now let me get this straight. … We hired you to babysit the kids, and instead you cooked and ate them both?”

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some background on this comic:

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I took some heat from a few parents about this cartoon, but this is one that remains one of my personal favorites. It's just such a ludicrous situation trying to pull itself off as a serious one.

I wanted to write back to a couple of these people (I never did) and say, now, c'mon: look at this cartoon: First of all, this cartoon "couple" have not hired a witch-like babysitter to watch their kids—they've hired a witch! Secondly, they're not horrified at what's occurred, as we might suspect, but mostly indignant. And lastly, they're especially upset that the witch ate both their kids—as if to suggest one would have been pretty bad, but both is really unacceptable.

It's even more interesting to me that fairy tales themselves, frequently full of violence and scary things, are directed at children—which is mostly condoned. This cartoon, on the other hand, is merely satirizing a common fairy tale them (e.g., "Hansel and Gretel") and directing the humor at adults. Now that's confusing.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Also I have a feeling in recent generations that parents have not been introducing their children to old-timey child-hating murderous fairy tales.

I started birthing children in 2003 and never had the urge or lazy predilection to read them old fashioned fairy tales.

Use critical analytical thinking when choosing media & books to entertain our children with. Consider the long-term effects of everything that children's developing minds process.