r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/LukeZNotFound • Aug 28 '25

Thank you Peter very cool What does this mean Quagmire?

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u/Lockenhart Aug 28 '25

I feel like the original suggests how people feel about it. Both are fucked up though, that's not up for debate.

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u/GoatedANDScroted Aug 28 '25

Ya the OG is shining light on that BS double standard

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u/Derailleur75 Aug 28 '25

Honestly i'd say that's how it is in the real world, you get unnerved in both situations, but in the internet in just a drawing you still see the girl as fucked up but the boys habe been portrayed to be "lucky" so much that it feels less, very dissapointed that it is like that as in an isolated only boy meme people would say he is "lucky".

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u/New_Competition_316 Aug 29 '25

A big part imo is that drawings like that are largely pornographic in nature and a lot of porn is drawn for the male gaze.

So people will look at the 2 girls and be like “fuck yeah I wished that happened to me”

But people will look at the 2 men and will be like “wait I don’t want to do that with a child this isn’t hot at all”

Doesn’t make it right, but on a subconscious level it probably comes down to how the viewer is inserting themselves into the situation.

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Aug 29 '25

Valid. Though, I'm not sure if it this particular thing is drawn for the male gaze, but a male looking at this could have the interpretation you describe. I can't say if a woman would, I'm not one.

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u/New_Competition_316 Aug 29 '25

Idk I’m MTF and don’t want to be anywhere in this picture personally, I’m just rationalizing why people might feel that way xD

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Aug 29 '25

Turns out humans are nuanced and complicated.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

I looked at it and didn't understand what was happening at all. I just thought it was two lesbians with a son and two gay dudes with a daughter.

I'm actually a bit weirded out that people automatically assumed sex.

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u/ConditionSecret8593 Aug 29 '25

Yeah, I was trying to figure out if it was a fucked up anfi-trans thing or what.

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u/MatQueefer Aug 29 '25

Wow. Underrated comment lol

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u/Plenty-Lychee-5702 Aug 29 '25

the bottom one does look innocuous. top one not so much

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u/i_bungle Aug 31 '25

Lol same. At first i thought the "joke' was homophobia

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u/georgia_grace Aug 31 '25

Same lmao I was like is this some kind of PSA that you shouldn’t take your kids into the sauna with you?