Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for June 01, 2016

You know what I think is sexist? Schoolyard bullies make fun of boys for doing girly things, but you never hear a girl getting mocked for being boyish. The ridicule is all one sided.

Also: KABOOM

Dana talked a little about the differences between boy and girl bullying here. Boys tend to be more physical. For girls, it’s usually more psychological, like name calling and ostracizing. It can be harder for an outsider to spot.

What is sexist, however, is that in adulthood the New Age movement is always telling men to get in touch with their feminine side, but I’ve never seen anybody encourage women to get in touch with their masculine side (other than by using power tools – and then they paint the damn’ things pink).

Oh and also – and I guess Dana is guilty of this too, although she may have been influenced by The Last Unicorn – the New Age movement almost invariably portrays unicorns as female and winged griffins as male because although they think of themselves as feminists, in their hearts they think that anything pretty must be female and anything harsh and bold must be male. But in heraldry, and in Mediaeval tradition generally, unicorns were either a Christ-symbol or a symbol of romantic male sexuality, and winged griffins were brave warlike women. A male griffin, traditionally, has a shaggy coat and no wings.

I can’t believe some people think the TRULY awful thing about bullying is that it isn’t equally distributed among genders.

I need a little help: I’m trying to find the strip that has her asking her parents why they have nunchucks (turns out it was an old phone)

I think it was a Sunday.

There’s your science lesson for today Phoebe.

Is it just me or does Max remind anybody else of Adam (“Mythbusters”) Savage? Especially when he talks about science and things blowing up.

I totally misinterpreted the last panel. ’Nuff said.

I think so Max.

I haven’t commented in awhile I think I’ll- wait. Dana commented on traditional gender differences. The comments are all about gender differences and bullying!? flees

Of course girls like explosions. What did you expect? Such entertainment exploding things in the microwave. And recently, I’ve been taught a few chemical reactions that cause explosions… small ones that is.