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2014-10-28, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 06:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
Spoiler: Pixel avatar and Raincloud Durkoala were made by me. The others are the work of Cuthalion.
Cuteness and Magic and Phone Moogles, oh my! Let's Watch Card Captor Sakura!Sadly on asmallhiatus.
Durkoala reads a book! It's about VR and the nineties!
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2014-10-28, 07:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
When mainstream media actively decides not to represent certain minorities, it becomes very easy for some people with ugly beliefs to assume that the media supports said ugly beliefs. It's not inconceivable that someone could read the first several hundred strips of OOTS and come to the conclusion that the Giant believes that representation of minorities is bogus. What with all the straight people, white people, man people, straight white people, white man people and straight white man people.
I mean damn, for the first 950 strips or so the most prominent gay character was an Always Evil incarnation of illicit sex who would seemingly sleep with anything that moves.
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2014-10-28, 07:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
I'm happy with this thread, 'cause i was totally missing the tweets.
That said, it's not a so big surprise: the world is (sadly) full of very biased people, no wonder one of them shares with us some common interest.Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2014-10-28, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
professionalism aside, im fairly certain the point of putting it out on twitter was specifically so that Rich knows that his thoughts are out there in one form or another for people to read and understand. No reading through the comic and trying to figure it out, his thoughts are right there and quite clear. Any personal satisfaction he got from the tweets are, im sure, a secondary benefit.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2014-10-28, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
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2014-10-28, 10:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
I hope that some such people do not go elsewhere for their entertainment, because seeing inclusion like this in entertainment they like is likely to be a factor in someone changing their views one day. Such changes happen by accretion.
(To be clear, I'm not saying the tweets were bad. Love 'em.)
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2014-10-28, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, so trying to organize a boycott to blacklist from employment or forcibly silence the "opposition" is a practice I find unpleasant regardless of which side is doing it.
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2014-10-28, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 12:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
How is it unprofessional? It conceals both the identity and the specific content of the email in question. The Giant only stated that an email covering a fairly generalized statement was received, and he felt that he should publicly announce his opinion on the matter for any who felt similarly (who aid also remain anonymous). None of that screams "unprofessional" to me.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2014-10-28, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not doing anything when one sees something offending is like giving them permission to keep doing what they are doing.
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2014-10-28, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, that's fine to inform people of the particular author and work so they can independently choose not to support them, but organizing a boycott of the publisher entirely and everything they publish to attempt to force them to stop publishing an author or work in particular is, oh, I dunno, crowd-sourced censorship?
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2014-10-28, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
Durkon's kind of a medium brown. He's definitely not a white guy.
Anyway, though I think that the Giant is occasionally rather thin-skinned and grouchy about stuff that might better be laughed off or ignored, in this case, I'm glad to see those tweets. The troglodyte who communicated with him deserved every bit of snark that could be tossed his/her way, and then some.
So -- let me say that a straight white guy salutes the Giant for his enlightened approach to inclusion of gay characters and his probable intention to add more in the future. Bravo!Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2014-10-28, 02:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's irrelevant though. What a person finds offensive doesn't need to be based in reason. These people have been indoctrinated into hating gays, so the way they feel is comparable to one's hatred of pedophiles. (Also, I'm assuming pedophile in this context is the same as child molester).
Heterosexual is not rhetorically equivalent since heterosexuals are not viewed as evil by 40% of the US population. If it makes you feel better, a more equivalent comparison would be polyamorous or incestuous characters, although I do not know if you personally would find that distasteful.
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2014-10-28, 03:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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You just said that the two are in no way similar.
You are correct. Stop comparing them, then.
If it makes you feel better, a much more equivalent comparison would be heterosexual characters.
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2014-10-28, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Actually, I think 2/3 is right. Elf, Dwarf and Halfling have their own lands, and are definite minorities in Human lands. Also, in many Human societies throughout history, women are denied advantages that men do. Minority isn't the correct word, but disenfranchised group might work.
Roy is possibly not a minority in his own hometown..
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2014-10-28, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
Sabine seemed very interested in Miko, though. (HERE)
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2014-10-28, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
But other people do think they are similar, so it it justified to compare them to understand how they feel.
If it makes you feel better, a much more equivalent comparison would be heterosexual characters.Last edited by Zmeoaice; 2014-10-28 at 05:26 PM.
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2014-10-28, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-28, 06:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: On the topic of recent tweets sent out by the Giant
I'm pretty sure the main character of this comic is black, his best friend is brown, his father is pretty much the lynchpin to the plot, and the rest of his family has played a role as well. Further, almost all of their main allies and some of their adversaries are Asian, the guy who just swooped in to save the day is Latino (as is one of the gag lawyers), the ellicit incarnation of sex you mentioned is brown, and the dwarf who sacrificed himself to stop the Snarl and the evil gnome who animated trees to kill an equally racially diverse police department were also both black. You cannot find a crowd scene in this comic with all white people.
I understand that these aren't the minorities you, personally, are concerned about. But it's more than a little disingenuous to imply that I have only ever portrayed straight white people. If you're going to criticize my representation even after I've admitted the mistake, apologized several times, and taken concrete steps to address the problem, at least do so accurately.Rich Burlew
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