Cerebus to explore issues concerning women.
Sim's self-proclaimed "misogyny" reached a crescendo in issue #186, in
which Sim dropped his fictional shell entirely and spoke in the first
person. Sim described what he sees as the archetypal male-female
relationship, in which the "Female Void devours the Male Light."
But let's hear Dave Sim speaking for himself . . .
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"Emotion, whatever the Female Void would have you believe, is not a more
Exalted State than is Thought. In point of fact, I think Emotion is
animalistic, serpent-brain stuff. Animals do not Think, but I am
reasonably certain that they have Emotions. 'Eating this makes me
Happy.' 'When my fur is all wet and I am cold, it makes me Sad." "Ooo!
Puppies!' 'It makes me Excited to Chase the Ball!' Reason, as any
husband can tell you, doesn't stand a chance in an argument with
Emotion... this was the fundamental reason, I believe, that women were
denied the vote for so long."
"Behind this...lies the Greater Void, the Omnivorous Engine which drives
every... institutionalised waste of human time and energy, which drives,
in point of fact, our entire degraded society. The wife and kids."
"In one of those Poor Us studies for which the Emotional Female Void is
notorious, it was pointed out that after a divorce, the average male
standard of living rises... the average female standard of living
drops... I think the...exp
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