Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁

negativenull@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This goes right to the top with Liebot

  achewood.com/2003/06/02/title.html

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  • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t get it

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    • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The little girl is getting kicked out by her parents because she “will never be pretty”, which is all a girl is worth according to misogynist belief.

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      • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah ok I mean that’s literally what’s happening. But is there a joke? Or something unexpected, insightful, thoughtful, humorous, something special or of any significance other than a random statement? What’s sad about it? Why a robot? Why a liebot? Is he lying?

        Tbh I still don’t really get it.

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The punchline is the setup. It’s an anti joke. Perhaps a bad one, even.

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  • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tbh, I feel like calling this “sad” doesn’t do a good enough job of refuting the underlying misogynist belief (that a woman’s worth is her looks) that the parents have.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Liebot was this vaguely racist Slavic stereotype character that tried to make Phillip (the otter) cry on occasion. This is probably the tamest one.

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