Comic #2319: 2011-09-19

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Okay, I think we can agree on this legislation." Person 2: "Great, I… OH NO."

Panel 2: Person 2: "What?" Person 1: "It's the contextualization fairy!"

Panel 3: Contextualization Fairy: "This is now a classism issue!" Person 3: "ELITIST!"

Panel 4: Person 4: "Oh… I'm not really in the mood tonight, honey." Person 4: "That's okay, I—"

Panel 5: Person 5: "This is now a gender equality issue!" Contextualization Fairy: "Why does our sex life hinge on YOUR mood?"

Panel 6: Person 5: "Because it's my goddamn body, that's why!"

Panel 7: Person 6: "I know contextualizing can be bad if done to excess, but assigning labels is important for getting any social change to actually happen."

Panel 8: Person 7: "Well, there may be many approaches to—" Person 8: "This is now an intellectual integrity issue!"

Panel 9: Contextualization Fairy: "To betraying the cause!"

Panel 10: Narrator: "The Contextualization Fairy; ruining discourse since always."

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