Michael Cavna Talks To Garry Trudeau About Strip Utilizing The Word “Bitch”

I'm a sucker for any article about Garry Trudeau's continued work within and without Doonesbury with members of the Armed Forces, which includes this lengthy post from Michael Cavna discussing with the cartoonist the use of the phrase "Sgt. Bitch" in a recent strip. The implication seems to be that Trudeau's advocacy has purchased him some space to use language like this, particularly in that a previous use of the b-word caused some papers to flip out a little bit. I wouldn't want to put too much into that, as context is everything and papers are used to dealing with Doonesbury some 40 years in, but it's a compelling idea and the general relationship cartoonist to military continues to fascinate.

Wait, I guess someone did object: the update says that Newsday pulled the strip.
 
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