Elise Gravel, a francophone author targeting children, advocating on Facebook for schools to print and hang this extremely misandrist poster on school premises. Then I got cancelled for saying it's a bad idea to endoctrinate children about social or political opinions. (Read my comment for analysis)

LeoneFamily · 2022-09-05T10:57:00+00:00

Important things to notice:

1) Children will mimic the actions of adults around them. This is exactly why things like violence and sex is censored in our society (and why milder things like political, social and religious opinions should only be discussed between adults), because these ideas, when implemented in the minds of young children, often cause extremism. This comic is essentially saying to young boys "you are bad", which will cause lots of insecurity, violence, and other issues when they grow up. At the same time, it's telling young girls the same misandrist narrative that extremist feminists believe, which will create even more extremism and sexism when these young girls turn into adults. Some adults may argue that claim and say "the comic is only targeting men that are violent against women, the only ones who will feel threatened by the comic are mysoginists", but this is simply not true. Most children just won't understand this detail. All they'll see is that men are portrayed as bad in the comic, and therefore, they themselves must be bad too. Adults take for granted the ability to comprehend an untangible message, but the reality is that such complicated subjects simply cannot be grasped properly by young children.

2) Notice the choice of colors. In every children-oriented environments (such as schools and nurseries, as well as children books and media) the colors blue and green are associated with good. The colors red, orange and yellow are associated with something bad or reprimandable. This comic is setting the narrative that every man is bad (because they're all colored in the "bad" colors) while every woman is good (because they're all colored in the "good" color). Even in the image where a man is literally getting bullied and made fun of (bottom left image) he is STILL shown in orange despite him having done absolutely nothing wrong and actually being the victim. Of course, the lady in the same square is illustrated in blue despite being totally unrelated to the bullying going on. The author of the comic being an experienced children book author, she knew FULL WELL what she was doing there.

3) The author seems to have a completely misinformed notion about the definition of the words "simp" and "beta". The comic says that being a good partner in a relationship is being a "simp" and a "beta". Those who actually know the definition of those two words would know that these insults absolutely do not apply to a character that treats others with respect. The use of these words in this context is very confusing, and shows just how awfully misinformed the author is, especially since portraying the idea that good men are being called by these names is harmful to the very message the author is trying to spread. Essentially saying "don't treat women good if you don't want to be bullied!", even though this is absolutely not what would happen in real life, unless of course young children are taught about this misinformed definition of these words and start using them to insult and bully other children (you know, especially if there's literally a comic strip hung on their school hallway wall that show these very words along with the image of someone getting bullied by these words...)

4) My previous point can be further expanded by saying the following: NEVER implement into a child's mind an idea that you don't want them to reciprocate. Every parent should know that. Teaching children these sexist ideas is only going to exacerbate the issues, especially since children mimic the actions and opinions of adults around them. DON'T teach them about the existence of bad words such as "simp" or "beta" as this will only result in them using such words to insult others. DON'T teach them who Andrew Tate is, if the whole point of your narrative is for them to not know who he is (even me, I didn't know who he was until I saw this comic). CHILDREN ARE CURIOUS, I 100% assure you that they WILL look it up. When I was in pre-elementary I wanted to become a firefighter. When our teacher told us "There is a phone number for emergencies. ONLY CALL IT IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. Anyways, firefighters will show up to your home if you call it. The number is 911. Now don't call it!", yeah, you bet that I called the number as soon as 5-year-old me got home.

5) Not only the aforementionned points already implement a misandrist narrative in children's mind, it's doing it in the most evil and heartless way you could influence a child: through fear. The comic is showing everything bad that a children could experience if they don't agree with the narrative being shown, and through a visual support (strongest form of spreading information, especially amongst children). It's telling to young girls and boys too that not only the boys are evil, but that you should also be afraid of them. The very last block has the text "Ça me fait très peur", which translates into "I'm very afraid of that". Already, children will have much more fears than adults (fear of separation, fear of death, fear of the dark, fear of animals, etc.) and it's the adult role to reassure the child and convince them to surpass their fears. The author in this comic is doing the very opposite, implementing a fear into a child's mind, against a specific gender, and fuelled by the fact that this fear comes from the mouth of an adult. Believe me when I say (and everyone who knows children to a minimum will agree) that there is nothing more frightening to a child than something that also frightens adults, who are supposed to be the ones helping you overcome that fear.

6) And of course, the whole comic is filled with the typical sexist complete fabrication misandrist narrative (such as saying women are oppressed, men want to beat up women, men feel superior to women, etc.) which is the first thing most of you will have noticed.

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