war-2
Explanation
This comic tackles the claim that "women-ruled societies would be less war-like." In the first panel, someone makes this assertion. A woman responds with a skeptical "SRSLY?" (a texting abbreviation of "seriously"). In the next panel, we learn that "war is for schmucks" and there's a gendered discussion about conflict.
The punchline comes in the final panels, revealing that the supposedly peace-loving women leaders have not actually eliminated conflict or power games -- they've just rebranded them. Instead of war, they engage in targeted propaganda, and one leader "appears to have been visiting his mistresses and doing drugs." The final line, "Please stop getting more specific," suggests the details are getting uncomfortably revealing.
The humor works by deflating idealistic claims about gender and governance. The comic doesn't argue that women are just as warlike as men, but rather satirizes the naive assumption that simply changing who's in charge would eliminate the fundamental human drives toward power, manipulation, and scandal. The leaders haven't transcended politics -- they've just changed the medium. It's a commentary on how utopian claims about any demographic group tend to ignore the universality of human nature's less flattering aspects.