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I don’t even get this.

…I think…

Okay, hold on, let me open my Mary Poppins carpet bag of ideas -

I think this is a playful jab at that old porn standard that sexy women just hang out together in their sexy lingerie, teetering precariously on the edge of an impending pillow fight or makeout sesh or whatever. Like when you see old pinups a la Vargas and you think, “Gosh, it sure is a stroke of luck for me the viewer that this gorgeous creature happened not to be wearing any panties as she was climbing that ladder to pick that apple.” Likewise when you see two hot chicks just kinda being hot around each other in erotic art you might wonder “What are those bitches talking about so casually and believably in their see-through nighties?”

Or maybe it’s just that New Yorker cartoons are made by an infinite number of chimpanzees collaging their way through an infinite number of quotation books and art magazines.

Hmm.

That might be…it’s hard to say. For a lot of bullshit reasons, Playboy often gets a pass for shitty attitudes towards women over the decades. Yes, they published some magnificent fiction and interviews, and yes, they had some of the world’s best cartoonists, but the whole ‘Playboy lifestyle’ sham was not at all immune to some really crappy ideas about women.

I could totally be wrong, but to me it looks like the punchline is, “Ha, look at those silly WOMEN talking about having CAREERS. HILARIOUS!”

I think the joke is that these women are hot and are being foolish talking about their careers, or in particular placing their career before marriage. I may be wrong, but I suspect there’s a bit of a backhand to the women’s liberation movement…can’t tell what the exact vintage of the cartoon is.

But man, it’s clunky even if you like the premise. It doesn’t scan, the rhythm is flat, the cat adds a distracting element.  It just doesn’t work.

It’s a nice drawing of its type, I just find the punchline baffling!

The artists is Doug Sneyd and one of his reoccurring themes is scenes that take place inside a brothel.  You can tell the ones that take place in a brothel because the women are wearing transparent clothes.  Granted, that doesn’t help the newbie viewer to his work but to fans of his, it is his trademark shorthand.

Since this takes place inside a Sneyd Brothel, the joke is that the women won’t get married because it would interfere with their profession as prostitutes.

Ah, okay, thank you for the context! It’s such a lovely drawing in purely visual terms (dirigible boobs aside, perhaps). But the idea that, ‘Ha! Those dumb prostitutes think they have a career!’ is a punchline is somehow worse. Urgh.