History ComicBook / WhateverLoveMeans

* ''Ja Till Liv!'', 2011. "Yes to Liv!". The title is only two letters short of "Ja till Livet", which means "Yes to life" and is the name of Sweden's only big anti-abortion organization. A deeply conservative organization dominated by a church named "Livets Ord" - "The Word Of Life", concidered by mainstream society to be a dangerous cult.

* AggressiveCategorism: The rant about Jihad Jane plays this on two levels. First, Liv accuse mainstream society of doing this to arabs and muslims, assuming that they are all terrorits in spite of knowing that they are not. Second, she focus on the fact that Jihad Jane was blond, female, middle aged and dressed in a certain style common among western women. Having established that, she move on to portray a scenario where all western women with this style are treated as if they were terrorists.

* AuthorAvatar: Liv pop up quite frequently in her own comic. Not as a regular character, but as the self-insertion version popping up out of nowhere. Her function is usually either to say something sractastic to one of the regular characters or to hold an...

* CrapsackOnlyByComparison: Inverted - Western civilization is prortrayed as being non-crapsack only by comparison. See "No Womans Land" below.

* InternalizedCategorism: Much of these comics are about women learning to hate themselves for being the gender that society consider less valuable.

* NoWomansLand: Western civilization is sometimes portrayed as this. The rest of the contemporary world is ''not'' portrayed as better, the attitude is more of "lets clear up our own very real mess instead of boasting about being better then Saudi Arabia".

* SourPrudes: Liv portray this mindset as an effect of patriarchal repression: Everyone want to have some control, and having been denied any other way to power a woman's only remaining option is trying to control her own sexuality and the sexuality of others. Also, women who are not sexually repressed becomes a very real threat when your sexuality is the only thing you have to bargain with: Like any other market, it's a matter of supply and demand, and minimizing supply is their only way of increasing her market value.
* StrawFeminist: The author call herself one in one of the strips. Not surprising, since irony is one of the main pillars of this work. See LampshadeHanging above.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: Played for laughs, with academics and Christians portrayed as marginalized subcultures that people know nothing about and consider scary (in the same ways as immigrants and muslims are sometimes regarded in real life Sweden).

* PropertyOfLove: Deconstructed to the UpToEleven level where it's not even funny anymore. Strömquist claims that love, in itself, is about property/possessiveness. And thus love, in itself, is a BAD thing.

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--> ''The entire dialog of the first page of the album Prince Charles Känsla''

"Whatever Love Means" is the name of a theatrical play based on the graphic novels by Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist, as well as the collective name for these comics. ''Whatever Love Means'' is the exact title, in spite of the play itself being in Swedish. The albums are called:

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Activists are sometimes portrayed either as being this or as being unjustly perceived as this. It [[ZigZaggingTrope zigsags]] a lot.

* ThighHighBoots: Liv plays this trope for dark comedy, joking about how some filmmakers seem to be obsessed with having prostitutes wear such boots, incorrectly believing themselves to be radical when they put screentime focus on the boots.

-> '''Prince Charles and Princess Diana''': ''(*awkward silence*)''

* PityingPerversion: In one strip of The Feeling Prince Charles Had, a heterosexual character talks to a homosexual and holds a little well-meaning rant about how he thinks it's okay to be gay, ending with wondering when we will ever get rid of homophobia and start treating homosexuals as equals. The reply: "Maybe when you no longer feel you need to give me permission".

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Many male characters are portrayed as having this mindset, especially in regards to prostitution.