Comics aren't as funny when I analyze them

This comic is very humorous but also very true. It's arguing that these days our society is so obsessed with technology and caught up in being connected all the time that they can be completely oblivious to things going on around them. It's humorous because there should be no way that this could ever happen, but in a way I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen. People are very careless these days and almost every day I see someone on their phone walking and bumping into people or miss something exciting or important because they are too busy checking their messages. The comic is trying to argue that our society is too caught up with being eternally connected and that it is preventing them from actually knowing what is going on around them other than what their friends are posting online or sending them. It is a very similar argument to The Dumbest Generation, but instead of people overusing technology, getting dumb, and not being good citizens; the people are overusing technology, getting dumb, and making it ten times easier for criminals to steal things from them (physically or over the internet nowadays).


Now this comic was also hilarious but had a much lighter argument and tone toward it. In this comic the main character is trying to figure out something a girl said to him, but then just completely blows it off because it was a woman who said it to him and women and men are never on the same page. This takes it a little far but not overly far because it is actually very true. At least the part about how men will never understand women, and vice versa, is true. That is the argument that the author is trying to make, that women and men don't understand each other, but that men don't really care at all. The comic makes it humorous because in this case the woman is correct in judging the tie, but the man just treats it as any situation when a woman tells him something that he doesn't understand or agree with and just ignores it. I think this comic does a great job playing with the relationship between genders in our society, because "women!" pretty much sums up the way that many guys reflect on their interactions with the other sex.