Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WDT: June 14-18, 2010 (1686-1690)
Binary:
I hate to rag on Jeph right after his milestone birthday, but... I think this act of self-censorship is unwarranted, and the start of a very slippery slope.
It is also a serious lapse in continuity for Yelling Bird.
Yelling Bird's behaviour in the original strip was much tamer than many of the activities he describes in the QC cast Twitter feed. What he did to Sweet Tits in the original is completely in character - mistreating somebody for his own perverse ends. His behaviour in the revised strip is totally out of character.
Jeph, if you're reading this, PLEASE stop beating yourself up over this one. THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. Ask yourself, if QC fans were put off by your forays into the taboo and the scatological, would you have tens of thousands of loyal readers?
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 18 Jun 2010, 09:26 ---Remember, there are only 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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HAH! Nobody understands me!
--- Quote from: Kugai on 17 Jun 2010, 22:24 ---There is no spoon
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Then what the hell am I eating this cereal with?!
JackFaerie:
Meh. I DID find it needlessly misogynistic and was pretty surprised Jeph would go there, but decided to let it pass as it's Yelling Bird.
However, I think those of you all bemoaning Jeph's decision are being contradictory. No one, that I saw on twitter anyway, complained about it. Thus I accept Jeph's explanation that he woke up and decided it made him uncomfortable to have that drawing up. Thus he removed it. All of you complaining about how he's betraying something or other by removing it? Are pretty much asking him to do something he feels uncomfortable with to please you guys.
But also, self-censoring is not necessarily and instantly evil. Sometimes it's a good thing. Personally, I am glad that he decided to change the comic (and there is a difference between the YB squawking about things and having those things represented).
Binary:
I didn't "ask Jeph to do something he feels uncomfortable with to please you guys." And he's a REAL PERSON with real feelings, so I'm not going to pick apart his motivations in this forum the way we do with the comic characters.
I simply wanted to say (and will repeat): "PLEASE stop beating yourself up over this one." Everything else I wrote was intended to explain why I feel that way.
Y:
It seems that misogyny is a popular word nowadays. But it almost never applies when it's used. Misogyny is hatred of women, and has nothing to do with sexual preferences and promiscuity. Sweet-Tits being submissive to YB doesn't imply that, even while she doesn't like it, she might get aroused by it or like it in some way, or have some need to be controlled. There is nothing wrong with that, except that maybe some religious zealots might not like it because it is something sexual that has nothing to do with reproducingand because they aren't getting any
Same for Faye punching Angus (or Marten before). It's not because she hates males. As for the ST/YB comic(first one) it's a rule 34 thing, and to be honest I looked it up on Youtube to see vids of such thing. I did noticed the majority of the vids were about males that did this.(only found a single female doing it). The second YB/ST(edited one) doesn't make much physical sense to me, as it either the propulsion of the rocket would affect YB and pull him with or would get some kind of rebound effect.
Tuitsuro:
Personally, I blame Jackass the Movie.
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