Why do comic fans get stereotyped so much?

[superboyprime]

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.



Some other stand-outs beneath the cut...

Comments

[janegray]

We'll have to agree we completely disagree on that one. I don't see how a bunch of "people" having sexy hijinks all together means that the females in the group are only there to give pleasure to the males. "Fun times are had by all" does contain the words "by all."

Frankly, I find your comment creepy and sexist, as it implies that a woman should never freely express her sexuality around men because that would necessarily reduce her to a sex slave.

[greenmask]

It's not so much, I think, that orgies cannot be consensual or that ladies should never get sexual, but that buying a female character-figure for the express and only purpose of shelf-fucking is less than savoury.

Buying a female character-figure because they are a neat character and then thinking "o hey, and they can DO IT with my other figures! lucky!"? Sure, unsketchy. Buying a representation of an established character just to be a sex decoration for already owned dude-toys.. sketchy.

[janegray]

I don't know if I'm in denial or just naive, but to be honest, I can't imagine anybody buying an action figure for the express and only purpose of shelf-fucking. It really does seem to me like the most likely explanation is that the guy was just making a harmless joke and people jumped to the worst possible conclusion.

Of course, I've been wrong plenty of times before, and I stubbornly keep expecting people to be good and sane when I really should know better, so there is that...