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Interviewer: It seems the women in Oglaf tend to be the bullies and have the last laugh. Is this comic your cruel way to thrash and make fun of us men?
Cooper: No way! It’s just that jerks are funny. Girl jerks are… well, they’re no funnier, I guess, but if you’re doing hetero sex comedy, the other option is woman-as-victim. Doing that and not having it bleak and horrible would need a delicate touch, and hey! Fuck that! That sounds waaaaay too hard. Girl jerks. Easier than working.
Trudy Cooper in an interview (NSFW)

Chris: Barb eventually beats up enough people that one of them calls her “babe,” so she gets to slowly pick up a gun and shoot him six times while he stands there patiently waiting for her to do so.
Matt: And it all ends with a joke about how she broke a nail. This movie.
Chris: It’s very empowering.
Chris Sims and Matt Wilson on Barb Wire

Elliot: Nobody's going to buy that [we broke up amicably]. We should say you threw stuff at me and chased me out of my own house.
Sarah: Oh, sure, make me the crazy one.
Elliot: Well, we can't say I threw stuff at you. I'm a guy. People would flip out.

DISCLAIMER: The use of masculine/feminine pronouns and assignment of gender roles is not intended to preclude a reversal of gender roles. It is, however, intended to offend those who insist that only women are victims of spouse abuse. Nyah.

One of his line implies physical abuse, honestly, I love the fact that the game made the women the abuser and the man the abused, it's rare, yes, but it need to be recognized that men can be abused too
ZE. Brigette on Captain Spaceboy and Sweetheart, OMORI OST - You Cannot Go Back Extended (Space Ex-Husband's Battle theme)

I filed a complaint with the police. The cops were laughing because a woman was abused, people complained, a man was abused, people laughed. I was an abused man.
'Popeck opening up about how his first wife abused and raped him.


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