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Kudos to Zits

June 8, 2012/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

Teenage pregnancy is a tough topic to discuss.  That’s even more true when your medium of discussion is a comic strip.  So I want to take just a brief moment to highlight today’s Zits strip.

Pregnancy-related humor often relies, sadly, on making the pregnant woman the butt of the joke.  I am happy to see that the authors of Zits did not take that pitiful shortcut.  The pregnant student is not portrayed as an oddity or an object of ridicule.  She is not portrayed as a slut.  She is not portrayed as “ruining her life” (implication: she should have had an abortion).  She is portrayed as a regular person doing her classwork. 

As I interpret this, the butt of the joke is the school, for failing to provide her with a decent desk.  Hello, it’s 2012!  Don’t you know that some of your students are going to get pregnant?  (And stay pregnant?)

Well done, Zits.  Well done.

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https://i0.wp.com/secularprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Zits_pregnancy_desk.gif?fit=400%2C128&ssl=1 128 400 Kelsey Hazzard https://secularprolife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SecularProlife2.png Kelsey Hazzard2012-06-08 14:04:002021-11-08 12:42:32Kudos to Zits
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  1. Anonymous
    Anonymous says:
    June 8, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Check out the strip from 6/01/12; it also deals with the pregnant teen without ridiculing her. I love this comic strip.

    Nancy Perez

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  2. Kelsey
    Kelsey says:
    June 8, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    Good catch, Nancy!

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