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WCDT Strips 3211 to 3215 (2nd to 6th May 2016)
vodyanoi:
I'd be willing to laugh it off as the bartender being an awful person if Jeph's own words didn't offer a level of justification. At the very least I hope the reaction to the strip prompts some level of self-reflection on Jeph's part. The first version came from an especially dark place.
BenRG:
Okay, just to make something absolutely clear here: Jeph's footer notes on the strips (the text next to his copyright notice) are very rarely, if ever, serious. It's an author's extra punchline, that's all. So, he's not making a racially profiling comment about white men. He's not justifying Bar Lady's actions. He's making a humorous remark on the strip, that's all!
blt:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 May 2016, 03:29 ---Okay, just to make something absolutely clear here: Jeph's footer notes on the strips (the text next to his copyright notice) are very rarely, if ever, serious. It's an author's extra punchline, that's all. So, he's not making a racially profiling comment about white men. He's not justifying Bar Lady's actions. He's making a humorous remark on the strip, that's all!
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I think so too, but there's also a trend in "feminist"/social justice circles that you can say whatever uncool things you want about white men without a hint of irony. Even if just above it in the comic, he's been threatened with bodily harm/death, completely unprovoked, just for showing human emotions. I wouldn't be surprised if people just nodded along with that at face value.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Tova on 03 May 2016, 00:08 ---Unless I'm misremembering, the original version not only had her with a shotgun, it also had her hovering over him with it telling him not to "waste his beer," forcing him to drink it.
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Yes, it did. And after Clinton had indicated his desire to leave the premises too, so she was constraining that too. Not cool at all. Perhaps the bartender is a latter-day Ahab, obsessed with the pursuit of vengeance over the Great White Male, though Clinton seems a bit small for the porpoise.
--- Quote from: blt on 03 May 2016, 03:55 ---I wouldn't be surprised if people just nodded along with that at face value.
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You mean apart from the people who remarked here on her inappropriate behaviour?
Momatottotiasos:
"To be fair, angry young white men ARE quite dangerous."
Dammit, what is wrong with you Jeph?
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