When gender is an open option in an editorial cartoon, the cartoonist will usually depict whoever in the cartoon is lazy, foolish, selfish, stupid, etc., as a man. Indianapolis Star editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel does this, both in his cartoon “Cell Phones” and above in “Voter Interest.”
Yes, I’m sure male voters are just as likely to be lazy and uniformed as female voters, but somehow the stereotypical lazy voter is almost always male.
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