Reading Response 4 - Page 840

After looking at the cartoons from “Making a Visual Argument: Gendering Language: Women and Men Speaking in New Yorker Cartoons,” I am reminded of how different Men and Women are. 4 out of 5 of the cartoonists in this piece are men. The similarities and differences in their cartoon styles are obvious. While both men and women are aware of their communication differences, the way they display it in their art is even different. At the same time, the similarities are there as well, being that all the cartoons are funny exaggerations of how men and women try to communicate.

Roz Chast is the only woman cartoonist in the displayed cartoons and her picture is a bit different. It’s more colorful and has more in depth conversation between the man and woman which makes it funnier and more attractive to me, being a female. It also uncovers possible deeper issues that men and women encounter on a daily basis, which makes hers more interesting than the other plain, one sentenced cartoons.

Although all the cartoons are funny, the male cartoonists’ pictures seem a bit more boring than Roz Chast’s picture. The lack of details and the short worded cartoons are also another obvious typical male trait. Forgive my generalization, but many men don’t want to talk a whole lot about anything and you can see that in these cartoons. That fact in itself is funny.

Yes, I am aware that men and women communicate, think and sometimes speak differently and these cartoons are a perfect example of that. It’s a bit funny when you think about it, even through their art, men and women cartoonists speak differently.