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I was more referring to ancillary incidents like the GTA V recall with the line about protesting etc, but come on. There has probably never been more comics ava
by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I was more referring to ancillary incidents like the GTA V recall with the line about protesting etc, but come on. There has probably never been more comics available for young girls in history. That article reads as half "I took my kids to a seedy place because I'm a shitty parent that can't be assed to do any kind of research, and it's your fault" and half "I'm wildly exaggerating my experience because it will make for a great piece of anti-sex feminist agitprop."
> “All their…” …and her voice dropped to a whisper… “boobies are hanging out, Dad. These can’t be for kids, and comic books are for kids, and kids aren’t supposed to see that. That Wonder Woman looks like she’s in a video, and I don’t know who that is, but it’s not Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn wears clothes.”
Yeah, I'm sure his kid said this.
EDIT: Damn, random anonymous downvoter on HN, downvoted within less than a minute of my reply to an article that fell off the front page hours ago. This is not the first time you've done that, either. Do you just sit there refreshing the comment pages of "problematic" posters all day? Do you have an RSS feed of my posts? Did you actually write a downvote bot to police a glorified reddit clone? I'm flattered to have made your list, but jesus christ, go outside or something.
- maxerickson 12y agoThe article is not anti-sex. Lots of people surf https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments, I wouldn't read too much into rapid downvotes.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoYou're probably right about /newcomments, but it seems uncannily common recently, even with posts that have nothing to do with politics. As for the article, I would summarize it like so: "I'm drawing a link between mild fanservice in superhero comic books and male chauvinism and sexual harassment in the tech industry, and also think of the childrens." Seems pretty anti-sex to me.
- DanBC 12y agoDownvotes can be accidental; incorrect downvotes are normally corrected pretty quickly; commenting on your downvotes is risky because that can attract more downvotes; downvoting for simple disagreement is acceptable on HN.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoI'm well aware of all that, but with all of the intentional unjustified downvoting that goes on around here, I'm happy to burn some meaningless internet points calling people out on it from time to time. Downvoting for disagreement is allowed, but I still think it's a dumb policy. I upvote people I disagree with all the time for moving discussion along with pointed questions, so it's saddening to see people downvoted or be downvoted myself merely for holding an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Not because I give a flying fuck about internet points, but because it reflects poorly on the community and its capacity for debate. But then again, I think upvote systems are dumb to begin with.
- maxerickson 12y agolink is too strong a word. He draws a parallel between the situations, but doesn't say the one is causing the other, just that they have some similarities.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoIt's kind of hard to "draw a parallel" when your writing implement of choice is a giant image macro.