A good response to the morally outraged masses

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Originally Posted by 16PMark

What a hoot!
This thread has already become the case in point!

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Indeed. 😁

This works on so many levels.

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Or, we could stress about this one.

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or not.

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Originally Posted by Homestar

So your outrage here is aimed at Leunig overall as you don’t like his work? Each to their own, and that’s fine by me👍. I don’t agree with some of his views but I won’t go condemning him or others for their views - hardly extreme by today’s standards. As I said in my last post, life’s too short to be angry at everyone all the time.

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Who said I was outraged? Or angry at everyone all the time? Don't put words in my mouth - I was providing examples that Leunig has form in anti-female rhetoric, which I'd referred to in the earlier post. I think that, like a lot of the posters on here, you're seeing the splinter in my eye and missing the log in your own.

And I used to think that Leunig was one of Australia's treasures, but why harass women about childcare?

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Originally Posted by bob10

Or, we could stress about this one.

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or not.

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No, that's political commentary - it's fine.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

No, that's political commentary - it's fine.

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I think so too. Did you read the full article , it's prefaced by the statement "Aiming to stir the possum, I got engulfed in free floating hate. " I think he explains himself quite well, bearing in mind the aim of satire should always be the moral reform of society. Unless , of course, the satirist falls victim of the usual delusion of the aging joker, the desire to be taken seriously.

He does take quite the micky out of men too. It's not just one way traffic. I don't agree with everything he prints, but he does make me think, and laugh of course.

I don't agree with everything he prints, but he does make me think, and laugh of course.[/QUOTE]

And that I believe is the point of it all. Thinking is the intention, the laughter is a bonus.

So how would the Pickering calendar cartoons from the mid eighties play to today’s audience.

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Originally Posted by Homestar

Why can’t people just get a laugh out of some observational humour. If he’d used a fat middle aged white guy with glasses I wouldn’t have been offended...

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Look, Gav, I consider myself a modern day thinker so, I'd be quite prepared to be offended for you, even though it has nothing to do with me.