• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    Peppa pig isn’t real. This isn’t a situation that could ever happen

    Can you suspend your disbelief so hard that a doctor turns your child into processed meat because of a misunderstanding?

    If I try, I don’t know how to empathize with the situation except to be angry at the doctor, or the fact that a hospital offers that service at all. It’s an absurd premise

    This isn’t a joke about a mother’s pain. It’s a comic about wordplay, and the disturbing implications of “our world but everyone is pigs”

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      13 hours ago

      Its not real so empathy is irrelevant?

      Its not a joke about wordplay because if you take away the dark humour context - the loss, the reaction of the mother - it’s got nothing other than ‘lol a word has two meanings’.

      If the mum was cut out of the last panel - then yep you could pass it off as absurdist humour, but as it is I don’t think thats fair, an easy out - the humour relies on her reaction. I appreciate you engaging as I thought it was an interesting conversation, but most have really taken it to heart it and attacked me for finding a comic distasteful. Counter opinions are very unwelcome here like most comms on Lemmy. My last reply about it but I did want to thank you if but to disagree politely. 👌