Fag Champ of the Comicky Realm

[talktooloose]

What is wrong with me? Why do I bother?

In altcomix this guy has been posting his weekly comic. I felt the punchline was homophobic (not to mention unfunny) and responded, first with vitriol, then with calm. He responded in that was I alwasy find so funny: "Some of my best friends are gay.... I'm not a bad het man, I don't watch football".

So, I wrote a long response where I tried my damndest not to start a flame-war.

Why, again, do I bother?

Here's all the fun.

Comments

[epanastatis.livejournal.com]

Your advice was well put, apt, and cogently argued, but I get the feeling that the guy is too dense and convinced of his own genius for it to have any impact.

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[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Aww, shucks. Thanks.

Of course, I'm getting bent out of shape about a strip that doesn't really appeal to me (that's as negative as I care to be at the moment).

But let me take this moment to say that there were lines of breathcatching sublimity in your recent interview answers.

Thank you.

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[snowmit.livejournal.com]

I think that next time you should write a letter like this:

"Dear Sir,

I would just like to comment on your last (comic/essay/opinion column). It was very *funny/insightful/accurate). Man, you are SO RIGHT about those FAGS! LOL! They ACT JUST LIKE that! FAGS, eh? Why do they gotta be such queers?

Sincerely,

n1nj4-k4rl

PS: Eat a dick

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[untoward.livejournal.com]

First, Tim, you are such a total kokgoblin.

Second, I don't know about this comic thing. I know that it is intent that matters, and that just because he's coming from a subsurface homophobic standpoint which allows him to surround himself with "homosexuals" (who, by the way, all seem to be girls of one sort or another who like to have sex with men. ("I'm okay with the gays, as long as they're lesbians?")) doesn't mean that it's any less of a perpetuation of unhealthy stereo-types, but my first and most important issue with the comic was its quality.

The gay joke didn't stand out.

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[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

And I've used that tactic before (http://www.livejournal.com/users/talktooloose/35967.html).

minutia

[briseur.livejournal.com]

> without long discourse, it's impossible to make my point

I don't buy it; your english is better than that

Re: minutia

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I have never before seen "minutiae" in the singular. Thank you, you have opened my legs eyes.

[goodall.livejournal.com]

Forgive me, but I didn't find the comic funny or offensive.

I would think the joke would be more offensive to a straight man than a gay man, as the woman is implying that he is not man enough for her. Then again, maybe the male character really is a very closeted gay guy, and needs some help.

If the shoe were on the other foot, and the male character set up the female character with his butch construction worker pal, that would not offend me either. I interpret either scenario as the gay character actually winning out in this situation. I don't think this guy is intending to make any social commentary.

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[capsuper.livejournal.com]

Good, Goodall. You got it. I'm not making a social commentary. Keep reading the strip. Wednesday's strip will explain the whole thing.

[capsuper.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the ego boost! I had no idea my strip had much more influence on the depiction of gays than Queer Eye or Harvey Firestein. I guess the world does flock to my strip for an accurate depiction of life.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE, RELAX! It's a COMIC STRIP! And it hardly has the number of readers as, say, Boondocks, Andy Capp, or The Wish Twins And Aladdin's Lamp.