[Electricmastro]

I’ve heard of this title getting condemned for making women look bad before, but after taking a look at it for myself, and understanding there could have been better titles and names chosen at the least, I’m just left wondering what can be said about how a lot of the men are characterized as stupid and incompetent in these comics in comparison to the women.

Link to the book: Dizzy Dames 6

[The Australian Panther]

I'm thinking SAD SACK or his TV equivalent, Gomer Pyle. Neither of which I can abide.

The term 'Boofhead' can be still be found in use in Australia.

  R.B. Clark's daily comic strip. Boofhead ran in Sydney's Daily Mirror and in comic book reprints from 1941 until its creator's death in 1970.

   

I guess a boofhead is what Mark Twain would've called a puddenhead, maybe with some sense of what the Brits call a likely lad. A boofhead is a bit slow, maybe clumsy and unthinking, a likeable clot. It can be a friendly term

Not sure he's right about 'likely lads' - I have fond memories of the British TV show, 'the likely lads'
https://poparchivesblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/boofhead.html

Goofy anyone?

Actually I just went looking for The Likely Lads and found quite a few episodes. There's my evening accounted for.
Here is season 1, Ep 1. Enjoy! British comedy at its 60's best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMY61kS9Qgs

Cheers!
   
 

[Andrew999]

Aren't all women like this? I'm confused

[Robb_K]

 
Aren't all women like this? I'm confused.

Aren't ALL people fair game for parody and comedy?  After all, Humans DO seem to be getting sillier and less wise as the years go by, at least, to older eyes like mine!   

How else can you explain how populist national leaders can manipulate half their country's citizens into believing in false news, and turning their backs against logic and science, to the detriment of all living things on Earth? 

If we think The World is going to the silly dunderheads, isn't making fun of it all, rather than always brooding, cathartic?

[Electricmastro]

I'm thinking SAD SACK or his TV equivalent, Gomer Pyle. Neither of which I can abide.

The term 'Boofhead' can be still be found in use in Australia.

  R.B. Clark's daily comic strip. Boofhead ran in Sydney's Daily Mirror and in comic book reprints from 1941 until its creator's death in 1970.

   

I guess a boofhead is what Mark Twain would've called a puddenhead, maybe with some sense of what the Brits call a likely lad. A boofhead is a bit slow, maybe clumsy and unthinking, a likeable clot. It can be a friendly term

Not sure he's right about 'likely lads' - I have fond memories of the British TV show, 'the likely lads'
https://poparchivesblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/boofhead.html

Goofy anyone?

Actually I just went looking for The Likely Lads and found quite a few episodes. There's my evening accounted for.
Here is season 1, Ep 1. Enjoy! British comedy at its 60's best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMY61kS9Qgs

Cheers!
   

Yeah, and I guess Charlie Chaplin, the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy could also serve as inspiration for stupid and incompetent male characters in a similar vain to Gomer Pyle.

[Captain Audio]

  After all, Humans DO seem to be getting sillier and less wise as the years go by, at least, to older eyes like mine!   

How else can you explain how populist national leaders can manipulate half their country's citizens into believing in false news, and turning their backs against logic and science, to the detriment of all living things on Earth? 

Gee where have you been since the printing press was first invented?
The only factor that gives the appearance that things are worse now than ever is the internet. They say that its better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Now everyone speaks their mind believing there are no consequences. The internet allows the illusion of anonymity to encourage the blithering idiots among us to find those of like mind and build a extended folly.
This has also encouraged irresponsible journalism, once called yellow journalism, to flourish.

[Robb_K]

  After all, Humans DO seem to be getting sillier and less wise as the years go by, at least, to older eyes like mine!   

How else can you explain how populist national leaders can manipulate half their country's citizens into believing in false news, and turning their backs against logic and science, to the detriment of all living things on Earth? 

Gee where have you been since the printing press was first invented?
The only factor that gives the appearance that things are worse now than ever is the internet. They say that its better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Now everyone speaks their mind believing there are no consequences. The internet allows the illusion of anonymity to encourage the blithering idiots among us to find those of like mind and build a extended folly.
This has also encouraged irresponsible journalism, once called yellow journalism, to flourish.

There's also the fact that growing older has a natural in-grown bias that, on average, people feel like their own generation was "better" than the young whipper-snappers.  There were always silly, stupid, illogical, idiotic, superstitious people around, but to us oldies (on average), it seems like they make up a larger percentage of the population these days.  That doesn't just come from seeing them and hearing about them on mass media, but also comes from observing the people we deal with every day.

[Andrew999]

I certainly agree with that.

What I find hardest to cope with in the modern world, so much so that I'm almost glad I won't be around for much longer, is the fake news that is everywhere. Of course, there has always been a degree of bias in the news, but not the complete fakery you get these days where major media outlets manufacture and sell fakery as fact. Things are simply made up. It really gets my goat.

Even the BBC, once a reliable source, has to be carefully cross-checked with other sources for truth. Their news programmes have become a joke amongst the die-hards down my local.