15 Graphics Showing The Daily Pressures Experienced By Modern Women Have Been Shared By The Artist

Her creative practice which shows in these comics, has blossomed on the internet.

Maryjane

• Published in Cartoons / Anime
• June 17, 2022

In her continuous series of comics, Lainey Molnar keeps on capturing what it’s like to be a modern woman. Her creative practice has blossomed on the internet, with countless individuals from all over the world following her extremely popular Instagram account, which was initially sparked by the initial coronavirus lockdowns back in 2020.

The progress of her digitalized comics can be credited to their genuineness, understanding, and fundamental messages of strength to all women. Molnar was 31 years old when she began drawing illustrations.

She was a single woman who was confronting a significant number of the expectations that are placed on women, including getting married and becoming a mother. Presently, Molnar is 33 years old, still single, and still not considering having any children.

"I don’t have a degree, I can’t drive a car, I’ve been self-employed jumping around gigs my entire life, I have 57 tattoos, I live out of suitcases, and spontaneously buy one-way plane tickets on a regular basis. I refuse to feel like these life decisions are any worse than anyone else’s," Molnar says.

These personal comics started as a way for Molnar to explore her own life, as she has extended the characters and subjects to show a bigger dialogue of various encounters with women. Below, you’ll get to see some of Molnar’s comics, so keep scrolling and feast your eyes.

A woman that's not afraid to eat alone

The everyday struggles

Molnar says that we all think that we don’t belong, that we are behind, or that we have flaws in one thing or another, and this keeps our development and potential under siege. Molnar proceeds to say that she fights "for the acceptance of everyone’s unapologetic selves—as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, why should we hide or change who we are?"

Couldn't have said it any better

Lainey Molnar is an illustrator who makes appealing comics that reflect the experiences of modern women. One of Molnar’s latest comics has four boards with four special female characters – one character "had an abortion," another "gave the baby up," the third character is a "conflicted mom," and the last character is "childfree."

Reflecting the experiences of a modern woman

A lovely piece...

I want to be a mom...

Molnar makes sure to add a text bubble at the lower part of every scenario in order to feature how the decisions of women are regularly reprimanded, paying little mind to what that decision might be. She handles a range of topics, from self-perception to motherhood to sexism.

See more of her comics below.

Why you think she's single versus why she's really single

As simple as that

Stop the discrimination

Going with the flow

The difference...

Your wedding dress should fit onto you

Same thing all the way...

There is no formula to it

We would still have different body types

According to Molnar, in one of her Instagram posts, she says that "life decisions are not one-dimensional, especially ones as huge as creating a new life." So you can see where her drive comes from through the beautiful comics she creates.

Make sure to follow her hugely popular Instagram account in order to see what she will be drawing next.

Maryjane