2012-01-11
| 2012-01-11 |
 Title text: 2012-01-11 |
Votey
Explanation
It's expected that someone educated in sociology would be more tolerant of different people and their identities and sexualities than the average person. However, the father in the comic uses his sociological and statistical education to quantify his own shameless bigotry. For an adolescent, telling about one's sexual orientation (other than heterosexuality) to one's parents for the first time (commonly known as "coming out of the closet") can be an intimidating experience both before deciding to do it and during it, and it has become a more and more common event to depict in media.
The Kinsey scale was devised by Alfred Kinsey to quantify sexual orientation from heterosexuality (0) to bisexuality (3) to homosexuality (6). A rating of 3.7 means that the adolescent in the comic is bisexual and prefers men slightly more than women.
Transcript
- [An adolescent is slightly nervously speaking to his old father.]
- Adolescent: "Dad... I'm..."
- [The adolescent frowns sadly.]
- [The adolescent speaks.]
- Adolescent: "On the Kinsey scale, I'm further right than is socially normative in your place and time."
- [The father shouts and points his finger.]
- Father: "DAMMIT BOY! In this family, we fall within sigma of average local perceived ideal sexuality!"
- [The adolescent speaks.]
- Adolescent: "Dad, I may be 3.7, but I'm still your son!"
- [The father shouts.]
- "I have no son!"
- [The adolescent is visibly shocked and disturbed.]
- [The father speaks as the adolescent is depressed. This panel has the borders of a thought bubble.]
- Father: "Unless he's 1.9 or lower."
- [The adolescent is at an event with other people. He and three of his friends are in the foreground. The circles leading to the thought bubble panel start from the adolescent's head.]
- A friend: "It must've been nice coming out to a dad who understands sociological statistics."
- Adolescent: "Yeah..."
Votey Transcript
- "Statistics: Making social mores feel arbitrary since 1809"
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