Letters to the Editor
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Doesn't anyone get it?
First of all, this strip is meant to be a humorous commentary on Opus' "anxiety closet," not a statement of fact.
Still, underlying the Democratic side of this election there's enough anxiety to go around. I've heard stories from men who served in Vietnam where the brass in some areas had been told "hands off" the black guys for fear the military would be seen as racist. Of course the black guys took advantage (as it's human nature to do when you know you can get away with anything). But the white guys who served in those places under those circumstances came away with the impression that the black guys had successfully demanded all that extra latitude that the white guys couldn't get and are, hence, anxious that Obama will turn the whole country in that direction - where black guys can get away with anything and get all the help they could ever want from the government, even if they're not working, while white guys still have to follow the rules.
When I was studying at a religiously-oriented graduate school a few years back a "men's spirituality" class about which several of our (majority) women classmates commented that they didn't see why there should be such a class since men didn't have spirituality, led to the creation of a mens' support group. Some of our female classmates went marching into the dean's office and tried to have the men's support group banned from the campus. Of course some of them had been mistreated by men in the past, but they were so blinded by those difficult experiences they couldn't see a gathering of men as anything but a threat, even though the men involved were the kindest, gentlest group of men you could possibly imagine and were only seeking ways to become even moreso.
I have no doubt these same women and their friends are all solid supporters of Ms. Clinton. Those of us who know women like that are anxious that, Ms. Clinton will be under tremendous pressure to adopt the perspective of such women, her most avid supporters, and will damage the lives of all our people of both genders and our nation by substituting that strident perspective which angrily casts aside anything that can be identified as male for what's regarded as the "womyn's" perspective rather than considering all perspectives in making choices and designing programs.