mad: Batsanta and Superman (Batsanta and Superman)KILLJOY CANUCK ([personal profile] mad) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2010-10-29 02:40 pm UTC
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Entry tags:medium: webcomic, trigger warning: misogyny/sexism
So, recently Kate Beaton made some comments on Twitter about how sometimes guys that like her work will respond with comments she finds creepy/uncomfortable/offensive.

Gabby's Playhouse then did a webcomic entitled "How Every Single Discussion About Sexism and Woman-Type Stuff on the Internet (and real life) Has Ever Happened And Ever Will Happen, Always, Forever, Until the Earth Finally Falls Into The Sun. (Or until the patriarchy is finally dismantled.)"



Comic by Gabbysplayhouse.com
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I don't quite get that last panel, but the rest of it is kinda recognizable.


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megaspork: "Hello Mr. Hat!" (nowallareone, Shattered Glass)


[personal profile] megaspork
2010-10-29 09:46 pm UTC (link)
After some thought, I realized I can see what you're talking about now Valtyr. It's the fear of the party versus the fear of the street gang comparison that I was blanking over. I can agree to that at least, directly the situation is different in that sense.
I think part of it was my own experiences with my younger sister in the past...We've worked out things since then, but when I was in high school and babysitting her (she's 4 years younger)... there were a few times that I had to physically grapple her off me before she stabbed a screwdriver in my eye for pointing out she had a bed time since she wasn't making grades. x_x;

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[personal profile] valtyr
2010-10-29 10:06 pm UTC (link)
See, I think the problem is that people always relate stuff like this to their experience; and if you're a dude who's been abused by women, then a comic about how men are assholes to women is going to seem unfair, of course. (And I'm sorry about your experiences with your sister, they sound alarming.)

But I think it's important to remember that individual experience isn't group experience, and realise if it's not about you, it's not about you. I doubt anyone in this discussion thinks all men are assholes and all women are reasonable; but this is about the situations where a bunch of men are being assholes to women, so that's what's there.

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[personal profile] darrylayo
2010-10-29 11:09 pm UTC (link)
I've been abused by women but still can relate to the fact that the overarching culture of patriarchal oppression bears down harder on women in general and over all.

I don't think that a personal and anecdotal experience, no matter how horrible, counterbalances the entire history of human culture, which has so much oppression of women and hatred for women ingrained in it, that most people go to their graves not "understanding" "the problems."

I think it's a terrible derailment to call B.S. on a critique of misogyny because of personal experiences of being harmed by women.

Or the short version: Just because women have harmed you doesn't mean that the patriarchal system of destroying women doesn't exist.

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