The last panel reminded me of almost 20 years ago when the HPV vaccine first came available. Here in the US I remember the conservative backlash over it.
It wasn’t the same as today where conservatives reject the COVID vaccine because that’s how they prove to themselves that their freedom and bodily autonomy are intact or some shit. It was much more along the lines of how they like to see people suffer as long as they can tell themselves it was justified.
So it was basically “my daughter isn’t getting it because she doesn’t need it and isn’t a slut,” and of course they meant it in the way that anybody who IS a slut deserves to be punished with cervical cancer. Back then they didn’t always say the quiet part out loud.
Republicans / religious always treat women like shit. I have no idea why any woman votes R or goes to church. These people literarily think you’re less than them.
Interesting, in Canada the only backlash I really heard (and from my own mother) was that it was too new and we weren’t sure of the longer term effects. I got it anyway since it was being offered for free to people my age (I remember jokes about being guinea pigs). I don’t have HPV and the vaccine doesn’t seem to have killed me yet so win-win I guess.
The last panel reminded me of almost 20 years ago when the HPV vaccine first came available. Here in the US I remember the conservative backlash over it.
It wasn’t the same as today where conservatives reject the COVID vaccine because that’s how they prove to themselves that their freedom and bodily autonomy are intact or some shit. It was much more along the lines of how they like to see people suffer as long as they can tell themselves it was justified.
So it was basically “my daughter isn’t getting it because she doesn’t need it and isn’t a slut,” and of course they meant it in the way that anybody who IS a slut deserves to be punished with cervical cancer. Back then they didn’t always say the quiet part out loud.
Republicans / religious always treat women like shit. I have no idea why any woman votes R or goes to church. These people literarily think you’re less than them.
Interesting, in Canada the only backlash I really heard (and from my own mother) was that it was too new and we weren’t sure of the longer term effects. I got it anyway since it was being offered for free to people my age (I remember jokes about being guinea pigs). I don’t have HPV and the vaccine doesn’t seem to have killed me yet so win-win I guess.