Jeanne's Comix | Tag | trans etiquette

Scanners Stare

This one was drawn a while ago but I was nervous about running it for various reasons. This is silly, though.

Obviously Cathy is being an awful creep here. But she is being a creep in a way I identify with, and maybe you will too? Like it is sad, living in the South, to not really be in an environment where there are a lot of trans people around, so it’s like when someone shows up who seems to maybe be a trans lady, it’s like whoaaa what if that lady and I were to be FRIENDS and talk about things we have in common, such as oppression! Yet it’s this awful catch-22, because it is really not proper to speculate about whether someone is or isn’t trans. It’s not like a Golden Rule thing because I personally don’t mind people doing this to me, esp. if it’s another trans person (and generally not that much if it’s not another trans person as long as they follow the basic rule of “never ask ever.”) There should be an Emily Post book maybe

The joke is also more about how Cathy is being an awful jerkface to Mona. I am just so paranoid about ever writing about My People ever for some reason, and thus have to include fun little essays like this one

such fun!

Let Your Indulgence Set Me Free

Comics are power fantasies! Everyone sez so

I don’t have a ton of news! There was a neat Boat Girl update the other day, for those who missed it. I don’t even know who reads this these days.

WORLD TOUR SCHEDULE upcoming:

New Orleans: later today until Sunday
New York: early June
WHO KNOWS WHAT, AFTERWARD

New comics coming sometime soon! There are a bunch in a half state of completion. This one was like completely done tonight, though, in an eerily short space of time. I wish Cathy had her own fun strip full of mean-spirited trans adventures sometimes

SEE YOU ALL SOON.

Snow Cone

The point Cathy is making is that it is not actually respectful to be misgendered, and that the implication that a person is being respectful by assuming that you’re a member of what they take to be the ruling gender is not really that cool. NOT AS COOL AS THE DELICIOUS SNOW CONE SHE’S PURCHASED, ANYWAY

RANT: I mean really, is this hard? If you don’t want to ask what pronouns someone prefers because it would be an impossibly brief customer service style interaction and therefore awkward, which I get, then here’s a tip: if you can tell that someone is trying to project signals of being one gender or another, go with that! If someone is obviously dressed in a female manner, use female pronouns. Your RATE OF GIVING OFFENSE will probably not be zero, but it will be substantially lower than it will if you decide to go the SLY DETECTIVE route and say what’s “really” going on. (If you don’t want to ask what pronouns someone prefers when you see them regularly, or if you know what pronouns they prefer and just decide that it’s too hard for you to use the right ones, then MAY SEVEN BLIGHTS DESCEND ON YOU)

I understand that it is human to want to Solve Mysteries, but it’s maybe irritating also. I promise that I will try to be funnier on this subject in the future. IN THAT VEIN, please tune in THURSDAY, when Mona and Inez try to put together a flyer for a local event.