Was strewing over some idiocy I saw on here, then realised that Solzhenitsyn had perfectly captured my objection, the simplistic attraction of "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us ..."
Quote via #MichaelLeunig originally
#MichaelLeunig got social media long before the current moment
The Australian cartoonist #MichaelLeunig, who died this week, was loved by many. His work gave voice to an outsider’s sensibility in an era of cultural change (1970s onward) that shaped many of our lives.
But remember, for all the joy & exploration of those years, for many of us the culture of the time was not a safe place to be a woman (esp if queer, black, or in any way chosing to exist in ways that did not suit the comfort of privileged white men). For many men, we were visible & permitted to exist only as reflected through their gaze & constructed as a commodity serving their pleasure. Women who thrived did so within this framing, & dissent could be spoken only in separatist (marginalised, belittled) spaces. Many of us carry trauma from those years.
The creative work of so many women - like Michael’s sister #MaryLeunig (whose work is 🤯) - has been written out of the cultural canon while that of often less incisive & talented men has become iconic to the point of cliche.
So with thanks for the joys provided by Michael Leunig’s work & respect for the sensibilities of those grieving his his loss, please remember, not everyone remembers those years, or the cultural moment his work embodies, fondly.
Michael Leunig is dead.
Michael Leunig fired after 55 years of cartooning. Headlines a day or two ago implied he'd retired.
I'm noting this here to say good riddance. No link because Michael Leunig is a terrible person.
During the 1980s, Leunig gained fame as a cartoonist who made political commentary, and whimsical, folksy, introspective philosophy, often accompanied by cartoons of cute animals.
People liked Leunig back when he made amusing drawings of ducks, but ditched him when he showed us his Angry Boomer self. Nobody likes an old, white man who misuses his platform in a national newspaper to promote racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, tinfoil-hat conspiracy, anti-vaccine, anti-science garbage.
Get in the bin Michael Leunig.
There are only two feelings by Michael Leunig
There are only two feelings.
Love and fear.
There are only two languages.
Love and fear.
There are only two activities.
Love and fear.
There are only two motives,
two procedures, two frameworks,
two results.
Love and fear.
Love and fear.
Robert Fairhead
Tom Stafford
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