It’s Time to Cancel “Dilbert” — NOW.

Twitter user Kelly Ellis just retweeted something into my timeline about Dilbert creator Scott Adams which should spark an outcry for the strip to be canceled, and which should be condemned by all decent men.

On his blog, Adams suggests that if he could not get laid, he would become a suicide bomber. This is probably the pinnacle of his idiocy and extremism from the original posting. The article above does a pretty good job of highlighting some of the other disturbing comments. Allow me to reflect on the original blog post, as well:

“I wonder if the discussion of so-called radical Islam is disguising the fact that male-dominated societies are at war with female-dominated countries. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Islam doesn’t look so dangerous in countries where women can vote.”

Here, Adams basically suggests that the United States — and, basically, Western society — would not even be at war with ISIS/ISIL/Da’esh if women had no authority in society. In other words, women shouldn’t have any rights; if we were 100% male-dominated, there would be no such crisis.

Now compare our matriarchy (that we pretend is a patriarchy) with the situation in DAESH-held territory. That’s what a male-dominated society looks like. It isn’t pretty. The top-ranked men have multiple wives and the low-ranked men either have no access to women, or they have sex with captured slaves.

While I’m being politically incorrect, let me describe to you the mind of a teenage boy. Our frontal lobes aren’t complete. We don’t imagine the future. Our bodies want sex more than we want to stay alive. Literally. Lonely boys tend to be suicidal when the odds of future female companionship are low.

What I get from this is sympathy for the males lowest on the totem pole in true male-dominated societies — sympathy that they don’t get to have sex with anyone but slaves, if at all. He also doesn’t mince words in suggesting that sex is the thing all men aspire to attain more than anything else (he certainly does not speak for me).

I’m going to let you read the blog post and the story for yourselves, but it’s clear to me that Scott Adams’ views have no place in a modern, civilized world. I would call for all publications which carry Dilbert to cease its inclusion in all future editions and for the comic to be permanently canceled. I, for one, do not intend to read it again. Adams does not speak for all men, and his comments regarding women’s role in society are disturbing. But most offensive is his assertion that it is somehow “normal” for a man to become a cold-blooded murderer if he does not have access to sex. This is one of the most vile comments that anyone could make and an insult both to all women and to all decent men. I can only hope that, somehow, this is some pathetic, misjudged attempt at satire that, somewhere in the multiverse, is just misunderstood. Because if this is what Scott Adams truly believes, he needs to be locked up in a mental ward for a very long time.