I found this very funny comic while browsing the September 7, 2015 edition of the New Yorker. The cartoon illustrates two ducks about to cross the street complaining about a sign that has a "mother duck" leading its babies safely across. The caption reads, "Society puts a lot of pressure on women to have kids."
While I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, it is unsure of the cartoon's true message. Is it supposed to paint issues pertaining to feminism so that people laugh? Or perhaps, is it mocking the beliefs of feminism by using ducks?
I think that the cartoon is actually agreeing with feminism but it could be taken as mocking it. The sign is just about ducks crossing the road and the meaning behind it is so that drivers don't hit them. The message behind the sign is not that society puts pressure on women to have children it just represents ducks as having children. The reader of the cartoon might get confused, as I did, of the cartoon trying to label feminists as misinterpreting everything to be sexist towards women. However, I think that it's just a cartoon and is trying to be funny. Everything is open to interpretation.
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