KIERAN’s Reviews > Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned > Status Update

Also, she's killing a mail carrier because she stole a motorcycle from the TERFS. Which, by her own pseudo-feminist standards, makes her arguably just as patriarchal as the men preceding her.

Granted, she seems to acknowledge this when it comes to the idea of "barking orders", but I'm pretty sure that's just a means of manipulating Hero and not true introspection.

Yorick's sister is one of the Amazons? His SISTER?

No. That's stupid. What we've seen of her personality indicated that she was a relatively decent woman who happened to get slut-shamed by her peers on occassion.

She literally lost the love of her life to the disease-why would she turn to the Amazons?

Although, the Republicans' attempted coup and straight-up disregarding the constitution is once again scarily prescient.

Considering that the Republican women straight-up attempted a coup because they couldn't inherit their husbands' seats...even though that's illegal, I'd say they DO deserve to be "lectured by a self-righteous child".

Also, Madam President, you later call them a disgrace to the party, so...

in positive language. No, a world ruled by women would NOT result in everyone "holding hands at the United Nations", because women are HUMAN.

And humans are often greedy, selfish, warmongering, and ambitious creatures.

Gender identity and or sex characteristics don't change that.

I do like that Mr. Vaughan specifically takes time to address the viewpoint that women are somehow less capable of being power-hungry than men, and immediately refute it through the Republican widows.

This is a viewpoint I have heard women who considers themselves feminists utter completely unironically, and it is categorically not true. It's nothing more than a stereotype of women's passivity dressed up

That's a trap this book could very easily have fallen into, and that many "Lady Land" books (looking at you, Earth-One Wonder Woman) have in fact become.

So, kudos for dressing the female characters in a variety of outfits and not making them all sex objects.

I do find the treatment of what is technically sexual assault to be very disturbing, however. Yorick just escapes and zero mention is made of the fact that she grabbed his balls without consent. We just cut to the president assuming office.

Although, as a plus, I do like that the women are so far being depicted with interiority and complexity. They don't feel like sex objects to be ogled, which is nice.

Which is strange, because Vaughan is skilled enough that you can tell his views in other areas.

We know, for example, that he doesn't have a high opinion of pro-lifers, especially not female pro-lifers. Because he made Yorick's mom one, and it's made clear that neither Yorick nor his sister have any respect for his mom's political beliefs.

He even has the hypocritical male Democrat be disgusted by Yorick's mom.

Then again, her morals have disappeared enough in such a short time that she's willing to resort to slavery, so maybe she viewed him as a sex object.

In that case, that is brilliant writing on Vaughan's part. Except not really, because I honestly tell if it's a case of Vaughan not knowing better or the character not knowing better.