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Censoring an old strip?
Is it cold in here?:
The timing is even harder to explain given that Jeph has said he doesn't do archive trawls.
marsman57:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Apr 2013, 10:27 ---The timing is even harder to explain given that Jeph has said he doesn't do archive trawls.
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Maybe that implies that someone DID complain to him.
Anyway, I think those who are offended have forgotten 2003 and are not seeing the comments in the cultural language of the day. My girlfriend back then, and all her friends, always talked about "raping" their crushes from movie stars to anime characters. The word was just at the time used by a subculture of females to casually to describe such things.
The idea behind the comic was never to suggest that Sara legitimately wanted to force Marten into a situation he did not want, but instead indicated her desire to eschew normal romantic courtship and instead make a bold move to indicate her crush.
At least imho.
bhtooefr:
The timing is roughly right when The Oatmeal made a joke about "raping the F5 key" in a comic, and half of Twitter was flaming him to death.
My guess is, someone did see it and e-mail or tweet at Jeph.
Near Lurker:
I think it's nice he changed it - the joke raised my eyebrow a bit back when I first read it (those 90-some strips seemed so many then...), and I wasn't nearly as sensitive about such things then... but what's with the artifacts?
pwhodges:
I imagine he just did it in a hurry to meet the need, and wasn't worried about quality in such an old strip.
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