I have extolled xkcd’s feminist sensibilities before. I must say that today’s strip is both far subtler and far more refreshing.
(And funny. I cringed and laughed at once! As usual, don’t miss the tooltip.)
See, what happens (mild spoilers, so click over now if you’re going) is that a woman goes and does something highly technical as well as highly ironic.
And it’s not pointed out as unusual.
And she isn’t portrayed as unusual. Or undesirable. Or pure T&A. Or brainless. Or the butt of the joke. (If anything, the joke is purely linguistic/social, playing on specialized meanings of “write” and on the sillier things that women are “supposed” to commit to paper.)
More like this, please! And once again, a loud shout out to the extreme awesomeness that is xkcd.
