Why do comic fans get stereotyped so much?
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A friend linked me to this yesterday, and I just had to share. Written and drawn by some guy who works in a comic book shop, Our Valued Customers is a webstrip in which he quotes actual things he's heard his customers say.

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Date: 2010-11-09 11:14 am (UTC)re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4o3yLHCqaI
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 11:19 am (UTC)1. I'd forgotten that clip and the fact that it works so god damn well to this day is magical.
2. If yoou actually use the word "Giggity" when you are aroused be something then I'm pretty sure you've committed a mortal sin and you will be sent to the newly constructed 10th circle of hell.
3. Has a guy, after finding out you're not interested in them from a sexuality standpoint, ever gotten angry at you? I'm sure hat has to end reeeeaaally badly for the whole store.
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Date: 2010-11-09 11:26 am (UTC)2. I know. I think he just is trying to be funny, but it comes off as so obnoxious. I was recommending Life with Archie to somebody and he popped in, and I didn't even see him enter the story, and made the most generic threesome joke ever. I just think it is the saddest thing ever that he exists.
3. I have two coworkers by my side almost always who are incredibly thoughtful and really good at picking up on my discomfort :) and steering away guys who are harassing me. I can stand up for myself, but it actually really helps me out, when they take the burden off of me since I'll just be seen as a bitch or a stick in the mud or whatever. I've had that happen at a lot of other jobs, but never at this job. People have never accused me of leading them on or anything, but I have had the generic "Get your mind out of the gutter, I just wanted to be friends" comments after I refuse to give my number for like the tenth time.
Overall I get slight discomfort from some advances, but most are annoying in their frequency/persistence, but less offensive than what I've experience, interestingly enough, than working in let's say the food industry or retail.
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:43 pm (UTC)"Yeah, green, red, but we're all pink on the inside huh ~suggestive eyebrow waggle~"
"...Funny. Anyway Archie was-"
"Yeah, Betty, Veronica, why do you gotta choose between em ~crotch grab~"
"Wow, thanks for that, you able to find it alright in there? Want me to get Steve to find it for you?"
"Maybe you can find it ~eye waggle~"
"Really? That-that's your pick up line. You want me to find your dick? Like, it's so small you lost it? Should I send a fucking search party out to find your schlong? Can you just leave already?"
"But-"
"No. Just fucking go. I don't need your money, it ain't worth hearing you joke like Dane Cook's secret half brother he has locked in his basement and you smell like Satan's asscrack. So fucking go"
"Frigid bitch..."
"Yeah, I know, I'm so frigid taht I didn't immediatly blow you after you used pick up lines from a dating simulator. They usually work on the maids with huge tits and glasses who call you Onee-chan but not so much in the real world."