The picture above refers to women in the 1950's period. The words on the picture, "That awkward moment when you realize you spend all of International Women's Day IN THE KITCHEN", is a type of propaganda that is possibly made by male who is biased towards women being the inferior gender in society during that time. However, the cartoon has no purpose of attacking an enemy, it is merely insulting women. In this case, women's role in the 1950's were very limited. They are not treated equally or in other words, have no rights. The phrase, "in the kitchen," is today's common slang phrase of how men in society look down on women as only capable of doing housework. Not only that, the phrase is also emphasized extensively through the use of capitalization and size in this cartoon. Therefore, the common use of "in the kitchen" in the modern society has become very insulting and offensive to women.
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Some might not understand this cartoon because they do not understand how the phrase is perceived in society. Therefore, the meanings presented can be a total misconception.
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