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Censoring an old strip?
Is it cold in here?:
Does 1524 offend people?
Valdís:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 26 Apr 2013, 20:15 ---I didn't realize a mention of hypothetical rape in a cartoon (literally make-believe within make-believe) was more important than guns within a single level of make-believe.
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Well, you'd be wrong. It has fuck-all to do with some "Inception" nonsense (and you know that). It's about trivializing rape versus you being upset about walkie-talkies.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Apr 2013, 00:10 ---Does 1524 offend people?
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I don't see why it would. It isn't talking about an actual act of it and even with that Dora outright says it's disturbing and Marten facepalms. It was the attitude of real things that was so bothersome in 10, not the mere mention of the word in any context.
Sidhekin:
So, the acts Pintsize draws on paper are not "actual" enough, while the act that Sara hypothesizes in conversion somehow is?
See, that kind of attitude upsets and offends me far more than either Sara or Pintsize's transgressions.
Valdís:
Because porn and roleplay are significantly damn different from talking about the situations of actual rape-survivors. I don't see what's complicated about that.
I don't like the first two things either, but they aren't necessarily the same. Someone saying "this group of people want to be raped / actually enjoys being raped" is a lot worse than saying "I drew crass pictures of schoolgirls molesting tentacle-monsters". Especially considering people are against it right there. Number 10 would read a lot differently if Sara had said more or less both of the things and Faye was disturbed or what-have-you. It'd just be a (terrible) reflection of Sara, not the comic.
Also last I checked Pintsize is neither a schoolgirl nor a tentacle-monster. thank goodness
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 28 Apr 2013, 03:37 ---Because porn and roleplay are significantly damn different from talking about the situations of actual rape-survivors.
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Indeed. "Tentacle-rape" is an often-fantasized act, but the key word is fantazised (meaning it doesn't happen in real life
(thanks to a Geneva Convention ban on genetically engineered tentacle monsters)).
As Valdís points out, Actual rape is different, and can be a touchy subject.
That being said, I know there are a BUTTLOAD of touchy subjects in this world, many of them covered by this comic. I don't intend to extrapolate upon Jeph's decisions, but merely to end on the point that it was an executive decision he made, and what's done is done.
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