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Nope. And, as a bonus, you're deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying. Cool. Good humor punches up. Making a shirt that makes rape victims uncomfortable i
by drhayes9 13y ago
Nope. And, as a bonus, you're deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying. Cool.
Good humor punches up. Making a shirt that makes rape victims uncomfortable is punching down. Easy, right?
- jlgreco 13y agoI think his point is that the original joke was punching at video game heroes (and the humans who play as them, the same people who are presumably the audience of the comic...), not at rape victims. What followed was obviously a bit less benign... but the original joke was not "punching down". (Also, the quality of humor is pretty subjective, I don't think there is a productive conversation to be had there.)
- drhayes9 13y agoHonestly, I thought the original comic was spot-on and loved it. The dickwolves thing didn't get past my rape joke barometer. Still doesn't. Of course, I'm a mostly-white, cismale, upper-middle class programmer who's never been sexually assaulted so I'm skewered by all kinds of privilege here. But I'm talking about PA's reactions, about what came after. So's the post on Wired. And it seemed clear to me that he was trying to bait me by throwing my words back at me without context without contributing to the discussion.
- jlgreco 13y agoI don't disagree. It seems to me that many people involved in this situation are purposely being imprecise to cause drama. Specifically there are two waves of people who got offended; the people who were offended by the comic, and the people who were offended by the reaction to the first wave. It seems like people like mhurron are purposely conflating the two waves to cause strive, though it is possible it wasn't intentional.