Needs a new pic.: Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male

Well, my old Tiger Rihanna pic was finally taken down. In it's place, I wanna suggest this:

Caption: MTV viewers felt a lot more sorry for this teen dad getting beat down than Snooki getting punched in her face. Guess which scene was pulled because it sent "a bad message."

That image might show "Female On Male Abuse", but not "Abuse Is Okay When..."

I don't know how we're going to show the "okay" part.

Then it can't be done.

Maybe a PvP Online strip in the Jade-thinks-girls-punching-is-okay storyline? (This or that, maybe.) An image of female-on-male violence in some context where Moral Guardian approval is implicit, for instance on a kids' show? Looking through the examples is frequently a good image pickin' strategy, but I am unfamiliar with a lot of them, different eyes would find something else.

edited 12th Dec '10 8:17:16 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I think the two strips given by rodney Anonymous are better than the current image. While the current image isn't terrible, it doesn't really show the point well enough. It just shows an image of woman punching a man.

Not sure which strip to use though...

edited 23rd Dec '10 3:35:12 PM by MangaManiac

The second strip is an extremely good analysis of the phenomenon described by the trope, but it may be a little too opinion-laden for a good page image.

I think there are other (maybe better?) ways to illustrate this, but here is a crop of the first strip:

edited 23rd Dec '10 4:13:59 PM by rodneyAnonymous

And vertical:

edited 23rd Dec '10 4:09:54 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Final frame of this Questionable Coment? Or maybe Frame 2 of this one?

Neither show the woman.

How about this strip from Dilbert◊.

I like both of the strips rodney posted, can't really decide which one I like better.

I'd like a vertical version of one of the strips rodney posted, either one. The article looks long enough for the image not to invade the examples, which is the only problem with some vertical images.

I'd use the last panel of the second strip Rodney suggested. "If she stabs me in the neck a FIFTH time..." seems to fit the trope better than anything else posted so far. Or, maybe the entire strip could be arranged vertically.

The text to just that one frame is: "I'd be like... 'Okay, if this crazy bitch stabs me in the neck a fifth time, I'm going to consider the Clark-Gable slap.' Then they'd find me dead." It is two guys talking about how Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female on Male. I think that is not as good as a strip that feels less texty, and shows a female. Showing abuse would be better still.

edited 24th Dec '10 7:52:19 PM by rodneyAnonymous

How abusive do we need to show, if we're going for the comedy routine? If we don't need it too extreme (and without becoming NSFW), I think something from Haruhi Suzumiya might possibly be applicable. Just a suggestion: [1]◊

I don't think we need another picture of Haruhi pulling Kyon by the tie.

(I'd argue we don't need another picture of Haruhi, period.)

Oh lol that's the girl pictured on Just A Face And A Caption, isn't it :)

edited 25th Dec '10 11:57:29 AM by rodneyAnonymous

I dunno if the Dilbert strip is the best example; it's clearly making her out to be the bitch in the situation, even if played for humor.

I personally think that Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown would be a good picture.

edited 10th Jan '11 12:19:56 AM by Petalklunk

Copywritten image removed.

edited 11th Jan '11 11:17:22 AM by FastEddie

I'm going to go back through the QC archives. There has to be something there of people just shrugging off Faye's habit of punching Marten.

edited 11th Jan '11 11:49:15 AM by Madrugada

I think this would be a good picture for this Trope

http://comics.com/peanuts/1950-10-03/

It is the second Peanuts comic printed and shows a mean little girl (patty) punching a confused little boy (Charlie Brown) for no reason. This was before anything about Charlie Browns charter had been established and he was just a four year old getting beat up by an older girl.

^That works. Hang on. I'll reformat it.

I like that one, though it's a little hard to see the punch panel because of the small size.