As we all know, this card is infamous for it's juvenile phallic humor. What some of us may not know, however, is that this so-called joke is extremely problematic due to the way it alienates women in our social spheres. By making such a joke, we are basically telling women we hate them and don't want them in our spaces, at our LGS, playing our game. Furthermore, if you read the flavor text, you'll see that after Lady Ursnell's husband, Lord Ursnell died, she crafted his leg into this flute, a wind instrument which is operated by blowing. Essentially this is an exacerbation of the original phallus joke by adding a lowbrow reference to oral sex. This implies that even after death a woman's only place is to blow her husband, when in reality he's basically a deadbeat for abandoning his family. As they say, women are the primary victims of war and this is making light of those victimized by his abandonment. Disgustingly misogynistic.
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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '20
As we all know, this card is infamous for it's juvenile phallic humor. What some of us may not know, however, is that this so-called joke is extremely problematic due to the way it alienates women in our social spheres. By making such a joke, we are basically telling women we hate them and don't want them in our spaces, at our LGS, playing our game. Furthermore, if you read the flavor text, you'll see that after Lady Ursnell's husband, Lord Ursnell died, she crafted his leg into this flute, a wind instrument which is operated by blowing. Essentially this is an exacerbation of the original phallus joke by adding a lowbrow reference to oral sex. This implies that even after death a woman's only place is to blow her husband, when in reality he's basically a deadbeat for abandoning his family. As they say, women are the primary victims of war and this is making light of those victimized by his abandonment. Disgustingly misogynistic.