Anti-Male Bias in Editorial Cartoons--Gary Varvel (Part I)
June 26th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families
I've written numerous times about anti-male bias in editorial cartoons. When gender is an open option, whichever character in the cartoon is lazy, foolish, selfish, stupid, etc., is invariably a man.
Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel's "Cell Phones" above is an example. Women spend considerably more discretionary time on the phone than men do, yet when we depict a motorist who has caused an accident with cellphone chatting, the motorist is, of course, a man.
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