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Explanation
This comic reimagines a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the play, the witches prophesy that "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth," which Macbeth interprets as making him invincible. However, Macduff ultimately kills him because Macduff was delivered by Caesarean section -- "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd" -- and therefore technically not "born" of woman in the conventional sense.
In the comic, someone (likely Macbeth or an onlooker) asks: "Wait, wait. You alone were able to kill Macbeth because the witches' prophecy said 'none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'?" Macduff responds: "Well, it can be interpreted--" but is cut off: "I had a goddamn C-section in the era before germ theory and you don't count as of woman born?!"
The joke highlights the absurdity of Shakespeare's loophole from a practical standpoint. Cesarean sections before modern medicine were extraordinarily dangerous and almost always fatal for the mother, making the fact that Macduff survived one all the more remarkable -- yet the play treats this as a mere technicality about the definition of "born." The comic also pokes fun at the extremely legalistic interpretation of the prophecy: the idea that a surgical delivery somehow doesn't count as being "born of woman" is, when examined literally, a pretty flimsy semantic distinction. The final line -- "Macduff doesn't tell his mother that story anymore" -- adds another layer, implying his mother would be deeply offended by the suggestion that her harrowing C-section didn't count as giving birth.