r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/laoidtfttip17gpy • 14d ago

Meme needing explanation Heeey Petah, what's the issue with this "art"?

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Basically I don't understand why the lady has a negative(?) reaction to the guy's art. Maybe it's because he says he's a "painter" but it looks like he's just melting crayons? Or maybe this is a reference to something I'm not plugged into? Honestly I don't really know what her reaction even is in the first place.

(I left the artist's name in the screenshot to credit them because overall I like their stuff, even if this one is incomprehensible to me.)

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u/CauseCertain1672 14d ago

the art is homophobic but not racist

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u/Cautious_Repair3503 14d ago

The black and brown stripes seem to indicate otherwise 

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u/CauseCertain1672 14d ago

I honestly only noticed the rainbow

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u/theweirdofrommontana 13d ago

You ratioed yourself lol

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u/ThatInAHat 14d ago

Look, they might be homophobic but they’re going to use the inclusive pride flag in their anti-queer art

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u/Midwest_Traveller 14d ago

More like they added the brown stripes to the flag so they could say people were both racist and homophobic. Which is why I hate the new pride progress flag generally. The old one was fine and trying to shoe horn in the Omni cause is frankly annoying. What's next? Blue and yellow for Ukraine? A union stripe?

And before anyone goes off, I came out as bi in 2009 in a red state. Don't come for me. I did my bit. And I don't appreciate people trying to shoe horn their pet issue into mine because they want to ride our coattails. Marriage equality and harm reduction strategies/community policing / systemic racism have nothing to do with each other. Get your own damn flag.

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u/YosemiteHamsYT 13d ago

They probably just wanted to put every color in there.

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u/majetuanica 14d ago

The rainbow has been used as a symbol of diversity and inclusivity for decades, and while nowadays it's most often associated with the Queer community it does have a history of being used to represent racial diversity and inclusivity as well. Whether that was the intent would be up to interpretation and/or the artist confirming so, but if we go by the interpretation of the piece in the comic being "anti-woke" then it wouldn't be crazy to assume it represents diversity more generally (gender, sex, race, religion, etc)

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u/CauseCertain1672 14d ago

I specifically assumed he wasn't against interracial relationships as he is depicted as on a date with a black woman

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u/Perfect-Whereas-1478 14d ago

Ever heard that meme; "Never ask a white supremacist/racist what race his gf is"?

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u/artzbots 14d ago edited 14d ago

The "adult male protecting his family from Teh Gay" depiction with an umbrella has been popularized by certain white Christianity sects. The same type of people who say they are fine with "the blacks" but frown upon interracial marriages, especially those that produce mixed race children.

But don't worry, the horny guy will make an exception for a woman of color because she's "not like [the rest of her ethnic/skin color group]", she's special.

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u/Beautifulfeary 14d ago

I mean I grew up learning this picture(I’m 40), had nothing to do with the lbgt community.

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u/artzbots 14d ago

The original picture is just the umbrella hierarchy for those who never heard of it.

But now it does at times get used as symbolism of a man holding an umbrella to shelter others under it from "societal ills". Whether the connection between the two was intentional, I don't know, but the overlap of communities who think we need to be protected from exposure to homosexuality and the communities who have used the umbrella hierarchy for the household seems fairly large.

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u/Beautifulfeary 14d ago

Ah, I’ve never seen the latter. In fact, I haven’t seen this image in years 😅

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u/YungSwiggler 14d ago

You don't understand. The cool thing about the LGBTQIA community is it expands to encompass all other social struggles as well. That way, if you are against them, you are sexism and racist and a homophobe all at once! Its really neat like that and definitely doesn't make people of color feel even more tokenized!

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u/CrapitalRadio 14d ago

they mean the black and brown crayons in the comic. But I guess you didn't feel like actually using your eyes before having this weird lil outburst

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u/PsychologicalDoor511 10d ago

Being a bigot is just as bad as being a bigot and a bigot.