2011-06-08
Explanation
This comic satirizes the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and American broadcast decency standards. A woman holding a baby threatens a group of people: "Gimme all your wallets, or I'''ll expose my nipple to this baby!" The bystanders react with horror: "No!" "He'''s innocent!" "You monster!" A caption below reads: "The least dangerous disgruntled employees work at the FCC."
The joke mocks the absurdity of FCC indecency regulations, which treat the exposure of a female nipple on broadcast television as a serious offense (most famously after the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident in 2004), while the same exposure in the context of breastfeeding is completely natural and harmless. The comic points out the ridiculousness by staging a "hostage situation" where the threat is merely breastfeeding -- showing a nipple to a baby -- and having everyone react as if it were a genuine danger. The caption about "disgruntled employees" suggests that an FCC worker gone rogue would resort to this as their version of a threatening act, which is laughably harmless compared to actual threats.
The votey panel simply shows the baby happily nursing, reinforcing the point that the supposedly horrifying act is just a baby being fed -- the most natural and innocent thing in the world.