The other day, this comic was posted on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Would you believe those crazy conservatives at the National Organization for Marriage — those blinkered bozos who think letting gays marry will destroy the fabric of society — posted it on their forums?
It's rather strange — the comic shows a bunch of kids who are aghast at the weird old fashioned way babies used to be made. The humor in it is that you have to realize that they aren't at all horrified by their technology, but find the old ways incomprehensible. It's actually mocking the rigid antiques, but NOM just thought it was saying something awful about future developments. Today's comic is on the same theme.
Zach Weiner handled it beautifully. It turns out the NOMers were hot-linking the image, making it easy for the SMBC crew to swap in a new image promoting equality, so the NOMers discovered a liberal message from Thomas Jefferson and a rainbow tainting their blog.
I'm smarter than that. I am not hot-linking the image at all, so Weiner won't be able to change it on me when he discovers that I have a very different interpretation of his cartoon.
It's obvious. The cartoon is telling us that in the future, scientists will resurrect, or build robot duplicates of, Isaac Asimov to teach our children about sex ed. I, for one, welcome our Asimovian sex instructors, and am pleased that Zach Weiner won't be able to modify the illustration above to praise Arthur C. Clarke, instead. Neener neener.
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