Outrage over ‘condescending’ Michael Leunig cartoon
One of Australia’s most loved cartoonists Michael Leunig has been slammed for a mummy-shaming drawing published on Wednesday.
The cartoon, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, showed a woman pushing a pram while looking at her mobile phone. Behind her a baby lies on the ground. It was accompanied by a poem that read:
“Mummy was busy on Instagram
When beautiful bubby fell out of the pram
And lay on the path unseen and alone
Wishing that he was loved like a phone.”
The cartoon has attracted criticism and anger on social media, with some describing it as “sad” and an example of “trite egoism and male frailty rolled into one”.
Feminist witer Clementine Ford slammed Leunig as a “f***ing gronk” on Twitter.
“I bet you never spent hours walking babies around in a pram, feeling isolated and alone and terrified. F*** you and your condescending judgement”.
Another Twitter user commented: “young parents have enough anxiety without this boomer bull***t”.
Some also retailated with their own poems.
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6 comments:
I like the cartoon, but being a old, white male makes my opinion null and void.
as much as they are complaining they know this is so sadly true today. get off the f***** phones and pay attention to your kids
What's a gronk?
If the truth hurts you it's not the truths fault but your own.
Anon 3:56,
According to the Outback Dictionary, a "gronk" is:
Someone who makes poor social choices. Generally they act like a bit of an idiot and make a fool of themselves, which is embarrassing for them as well as embarrassing for other people who are around them.
source: https://outbackdictionary.com/gronk/
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