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Jane's World: Straight girl issues

Trish Bendix

This is part of an ongoing series of Jane's World comic strips posted every Thursday on AfterEllen.com.

For more Jane's World, visit PaigeBraddock.com, and read our previous Jane's World blog posts.

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Trish Bendix

on August 7, 2008 - 11:00am.

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Very cute

Submitted by

RavenDenise (39 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 11:21am.

Love this one, very cute.

aww hehe

Submitted by

Kama (24 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 11:42am.

Where can I find more of this? This is some funny stuff. I like it =)

Janes World

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girl2grl (1 post)

on August 7, 2008 - 12:37pm.

Kama,
If you want to find more Jane's World Comics, you can visit Paige Braddock's Website. There are also 8 Jane's World books out, which you can buy online or at most bookstores.

loved this...painful reminder of something...

Submitted by

Brutal_Romance (127 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 1:39pm.

i used to read...Seventeen. *cowers in a corner with shame*

just

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Amy (12 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 1:47pm.

lol!

Should I be ashamed that I occasionally flip through my sisters cosmopolitan for a few fashion trips? I guess so...

ahhhh!

Haha

Submitted by

Lacey (242 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 2:03pm.

I actually like cosmo

sometimes :/

i didn't find this very

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rita (52 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 2:47pm.

i didn't find this very funny...it's kind of making fun of all of us femme girls. ://///

It IS making fun of femme

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Malia Kuuleialoha (55 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 3:01pm.

It IS making fun of femme girls. Although I'm a femme, I still think it's funny. I don't find it offensive. I think it's making fun of the butch girl as much as the femme. Maybe you should be a femme with a sense of humor.

It is NOT making fun of femme girls -- Feminism 101

Submitted by

Hollywood Marie (91 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 3:18pm.

I'm (one of) the femmest of them all, and I would NEVER read that misogynistic crap magazine. THAT MAGAZINE is making fun of femme girls, actually all females (and laughing all the way to the bank); the comic is making fun of people who try to achieve that fembot image. I would never keep that thing in my apartment either. It's degrading to all women. It doesn't just make fun of women, it oppresses them. Just another tool of the patriarchy.

Yeah, to say this is making

Submitted by

Kathryn (8 posts)

on August 7, 2008 - 5:00pm.

Yeah, to say this is making fun of femme girls is kind of ridiculous. I think it's more of a comment on the fact that there are a lot of things that are seemingly 'taboo' to lesbians, and a subscription to Cosmo is one of them -- not because it's a "femme" magazine, but because it promotes unsavory things like mindless consumerism, weight and "beauty" obsession, low self-esteem, and misogyny. Not to mention the fact that other than those reasons, it's a magazine that is supposed to be for "women" but clearly only caters to straight women.

That having been said -- this totally happened to me the other day. A straight friend brought over a cosmo and left it, and when a gay friend saw it she made fun of me mercilessly for it!