December 31, 2013 - I didn't feel like drawing the adoption representative's face, so that's why we just see her shoulder, plus I figured you're mostly supposed to focus on Jen in this comic anyway, so it's not a bad idea to only show her reactions. I'd like to believe most agencies treat biological parents better than the blunt and dismissive attitude depicted here, but as Pete mentioned in this comic there isn't really a go-to domestic adoption resource which means there's bound to be some bad ones. Jen may have found such a place, though I'm not sure her dialogue in panel 3 is at all justified.
I've mentioned before that U.S. adoption policies have major problems regarding how they deal with race, and I want to do more comics exploring this topic a bit more sensitively than Jen screaming racism trying to get an emotional reaction from someone she feels isn't respecting her emotions. But Jen's imperfect, and while I wouldn't consider her outright racist, there are subtle insensitivities she may have towards the issue which I thought might be interesting to lay the groundwork for now. I don't know how much of my audience reads David Willis' Dumbing of Age, but there's a pretty interesting storyline involving racism that's produced a bit of discussion going on over there right now. And I generally everyone start reading the comic anyway, because no disrespect to my own work, but even if I was being totally narcissistic, I'd probably still say Dumbing of Age is currently the best comic on the web.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania a pregnant nurse was fired for refusing a flu vacine over concerns how it would affect her pregnancy. I'm not really going to get into a debate over the necessity of the vacine, she indicates potentially concerns on the lack of research into such procedures but she also theoretically interacts with patients who may be highly susceptable to such diseases or have weakened immune systems and the vacine would limit her risk of becoming a carrier. What I do find most problematic about this event that is she refused the flu vacine on the grounds of wanting a religious exemption she would not have been fired, indicating that others medical care and the will of pregnant women are less important in this country than potentially harmful religious ideologies, which seems particularly dangerous in a place of medicine.
-D
I've mentioned before that U.S. adoption policies have major problems regarding how they deal with race, and I want to do more comics exploring this topic a bit more sensitively than Jen screaming racism trying to get an emotional reaction from someone she feels isn't respecting her emotions. But Jen's imperfect, and while I wouldn't consider her outright racist, there are subtle insensitivities she may have towards the issue which I thought might be interesting to lay the groundwork for now. I don't know how much of my audience reads David Willis' Dumbing of Age, but there's a pretty interesting storyline involving racism that's produced a bit of discussion going on over there right now. And I generally everyone start reading the comic anyway, because no disrespect to my own work, but even if I was being totally narcissistic, I'd probably still say Dumbing of Age is currently the best comic on the web.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania a pregnant nurse was fired for refusing a flu vacine over concerns how it would affect her pregnancy. I'm not really going to get into a debate over the necessity of the vacine, she indicates potentially concerns on the lack of research into such procedures but she also theoretically interacts with patients who may be highly susceptable to such diseases or have weakened immune systems and the vacine would limit her risk of becoming a carrier. What I do find most problematic about this event that is she refused the flu vacine on the grounds of wanting a religious exemption she would not have been fired, indicating that others medical care and the will of pregnant women are less important in this country than potentially harmful religious ideologies, which seems particularly dangerous in a place of medicine.
-D
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