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).