Gabby's Playhouse: Discussing Sexism on the Internet

[mad]

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.)"




[Source.]

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

Comments

[halialkers]

Oh, bollocks. This is actually *not* something gender-differences matter in, this is a guy who makes a frankly creepy statement and a bunch of people rally to defend him and excuse it based on gender lines. It's not gender per se, gender is just the excuse used to defend a particular statement based on a feeling of persecution that is not in point of fact valid.

[psychopathicus_rex]

True enough. It wasn't entirely the strip I was referring to - although it was partially that - it was more a general release of pressure, as it were. There have been a LOT of similar things that I've been reading about and discussing lately, and there's just been a feeling of 'oh no, not AGAIN' that keeps washing over me whenever I encounter another one. There are times when I truly despair over whether these matters will EVER be resolved; this was one of them, and it was pretty much all I could think of to say. Maybe I should have just stayed quiet, but, y'know, this is one great big discussion that's involved a good chunk of scans_daily, and I wanted to contribute SOMEhow.