• Microw@lemm.ee
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    What always bugs me about this is that they had the boys in underwear. Like, if it’s fine to symbolize with clothed girls, why do you need to do it differently with boys?

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      100% with ya, the double standards are kinda crazy. The differnce between the first two panels is pretty stark in regards to the kid, even if the point is essentially the same.

      My take is that male bodies need to exposed in order to be sexualized so they read vulnerable, but female bodies are can be read as sexualized and vulnerable regardless how they are presented. But that doesn’t really explain panel 4 & 6.

      Weird choices. If anyone knows who the artist is, I’d be curious how they would talk about this.

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        With the priest it makes sense to me considering they are infomas for being pedophiles but the rest yea why couldn’t they have been clothed

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          Especially since #1 and #2 are both instances of sexual violence.

          I’d have dresses #1 in a choir boy outfit, #4 in a hospital johnny, and #6 can wear whatever honestly.

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    Kind of fucked up that the child in the bottom right has to pose for something he’s already experiencing

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    Really unsure about the symbolism here. Didn’t Jesus die on the cross for our sins to be forgiven or something along those lines? So this kinda implies the abused children die to give forgivness to the people they are nailed to here…

    Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve never been to a church and neither has anyone I know.

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    I dont understand the middle one in the upper row and the left one in the bottom row. The rest are pretty obvious to me.

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      Bottom left looks like forced organ harvesting? Not sure how often that actually happens to children, but the world is a fucked up place so it’s possible I suppose.

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        That kid is way too young for organ harvesting though. Most of the demand for organs is from adults who need adult sized organs and kid organs won’t keep growing in a body that’s long stopped producing all the hormone indicators to signal for growth.

        or… or, so I’m told.

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        But what’s the context? I’m completely unaware that doctors were murdering or sacrificing children to steal their organs.