Shouldn’t he be in the cage? Why should she have to be inconvenienced to protect herself from him?
You’re right of course, but I think the intention was to illustrate that she (like the machine) is a dangerous object that will hurt you if you get too close.
The subtle description of a woman as an object for society to build cages around is visible to me with my current cultural lens.
That makes sense - thanks
its also unrealistic because a real company would come up with a scheme to make her quit so they don’t have any financial obligation to her instead of doing anything about the gropist.
source: seen it twice including a unionized government position where several other staff made witness statements against the guy.
I got sexually assaulted at work a year or so ago. Found out that more than one person had been bothered by the guy that touched me, but only verbally, he hadn’t touched anyone else. Told the HR lady, she launched an “investigation” and determined that, no, I didn’t get sexually assaulted, even tho 3 other women had a complaint about this guy talking dirty, and they had the beginning of my assault on camera. I was told he and I wouldn’t have to work together anymore “because we couldn’t get along”. But we continued to be assigned to the same tasks, often just the 2 of us alone in a wing of the warehouse.
I quit about 6 months after it happened for other reasons, but mentioned it in my exit interview. I said “I got sexually assaulted and you didn’t do anything about it” and this sociopath hr lady looked me in the face and said “we did our due diligence, that never happened”.
Holy shit that is amazing.
Her ‘safety cage’ is both for the protection of herself, and others, hahaha!
And like most corporate safety rules. Doesn’t actually solve the root of the problem.
I love these. Enjoy these just as much as Mr. True.
I do too. I really enjoy the sort of nostalgia-adjacent feeling I get from laughing at the same comics that people were laughing at 70 years ago (or 100+ for many of the Everett True comics).
Pshh, Mr. True would’ve turned this guy into a pretzel and fed him back into the machine.
I’m liking these Jucika comics more and more!
If you have
- read Blindness by José Saramago
- or been an asshole
you know how much high heel kicks hurt
Same force over a smaller surface area = more ouch
