Topic: QC and violence against men. (Read 44204 times)

John911 · « **on:** 05 Feb 2009, 21:39 »

Just a gripe from what I have read and the comments posted in the forum.

QC seems to make a few jokes about violence. Directed at men.

Domestic violence is never funny regardless of the victims sex.

Has this issue been raised before on the forums? I get the feeling that if it was the other way around heads would roll.

Peace out.

kjohnnytarr · « **Reply #1 on:** 05 Feb 2009, 22:14 »

Why can't a joke about domestic violence be funny? Not every discussion of a serious topic needs to be a serious discussion.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #2 on:** 05 Feb 2009, 22:44 »

I'm going to hit you both.

kjohnnytarr · « **Reply #3 on:** 05 Feb 2009, 22:46 »

this ain't funnaaaaay!

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #4 on:** 05 Feb 2009, 23:11 »

Quote from: kjohnnytarr on 05 Feb 2009, 22:14

Why can't a joke about domestic violence be funny? Not every discussion of a serious topic needs to be a serious discussion.

I agree.

Check this out. A man walks into a bar. After he goes home, he beats his wife.

That's shock humor, baby!

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #5 on:** 05 Feb 2009, 23:14 »

I'm going to hit you the hardest. Just shut up.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #6 on:** 05 Feb 2009, 23:23 »

Bang bang

My baby shot me down...

tuna ketchup x · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 08:02 »

REVERSE RACISM

KeepACoolin · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 15:31 »

If the comic supports violence against men, it also supports violence against insane vigilantes on vespas, violence against and by anthropomorphic robots, keeping dangerous weapons in a coffee shop, and using blackmail to get more money at your job (even if it was by accident- ugggghhhh, old people).

JD · « **Reply #9 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 15:42 »

Show me the joke in question.

KeepACoolin · « **Reply #10 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 15:54 »

I can't remember which number (or even where in the overall plot it is). Someone must know: the one at the library where Dora and Marten (ahem) "disturb" the board members?

Dunnoe · « **Reply #11 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 22:36 »

you know, I think whenever we take things too seriously, we miss out on some fun. 'problem is, there are limits, and that depends on the audience. I guess I will draw the line if Dora and Faye really fuck Marten up with metal pipes and chains. Black and blue and bleeding. that kinda stuff. Slapping, pinching, and even punching will be alright with me, as long as teh peepoll consent, or its in because of a joke. Marten isn't crazy aggressive, so there won't be war if Faye yanks on his crotch or something.

JD · « **Reply #12 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 23:02 »

This one?

Or the one right after?

lolwut · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 04:20 »

Quote from: Dunnoe on 06 Feb 2009, 22:36

Dora and Faye really fuck Marten up with metal pipes and chains. Black and blue and bleeding. that kinda stuff.

fuck i caaaaaaaaame

eddie · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 07:08 »

Quote from: Jeans on 06 Feb 2009, 15:55

I think he means the domestic violence one. I can't really remember one either.

Clearly it was subliminal and Jeph wants me to beat my woman.

No, its the other way round Jeph wants your woman to beat you!

lolwut · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 07:23 »

Quote from: eddie on 07 Feb 2009, 07:08

Quote from: Jeans on 06 Feb 2009, 15:55
I think he means the domestic violence one. I can't really remember one either.

Clearly it was subliminal and Jeph wants me to beat my woman.

No, its the other way round Jeph wants your woman to beat you!

No, Jeph wants me to beat off on both your women.

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #16 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 07:30 »

Jeph wants me to break your nose and kick your face in a punch fight.

Dunnoe · « **Reply #17 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 08:06 »

QC Fight Club?! Win!

Surgoshan · « **Reply #18 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 08:16 »

Win? I dunno. Have you ever seen a bunch of pale, skinny dudes waling on each other? Not made of awesome.

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #19 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 08:35 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 07 Feb 2009, 08:16

Have you ever seen a bunch of pale, skinny dudes waling on each other?

Yes.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #20 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 08:50 »

The video was not avaliable in my country!

This haunt me forever now. I shall never know...

Rocketman · « **Reply #21 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 14:17 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 07 Feb 2009, 08:16

Win? I dunno. Have you ever seen a bunch of pale, skinny dudes waling on each other? Not made of awesome.

I dunno about that. I could definitely see Marten as the Narrator.

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #22 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 14:42 »

Quote from: Siibillam-Law on 07 Feb 2009, 08:50

The video was not avaliable in my country!

This haunt me forever now. I shall never know...

It's an animated Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs cartoon. Try Googling "Supernews".

JD · « **Reply #23 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 15:54 »

Norton's video is also a flash game

Superkid11 · « **Reply #24 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 19:53 »

Quote from: Jeans on 06 Feb 2009, 03:58

Hello, George Carlin.

I am posting this because one of the biggest problems in the world is people getting butthurt when people crack jokes, burn flags or do other entirely insignificant shit that doesn't lessen the value or importance of the issue or item being scandalized at all, but somehow ends up making people really really angry anyway. Do you really think any QC fans will suddenly think it's okay to beat their wives or husbands because they read a joke about it in a webcomic, or are you simply taking this as an opportunity to get all high-and-mighty and/or righteous? Because honestly, it seems like the latter.

Agreed. This kind of thing is just being taken way too seriously. Minor woman-on-man violence has always been joked about unless it's extreme. (slapping or quick punching isn't extreme. Shooting is.)
Frankly, I don't remember any jokes about explicitly about that at all in QC. The only times when it's been a joke has been accidental, like Faye crashing on Marty's lap then barfing on him.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #25 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 20:28 »

I think, sir, that you've forgotten an unprovoked, highly vicious purple nurple incident.

What a bitch.

KeepACoolin · « **Reply #26 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 20:37 »

Quote from: John911 on 05 Feb 2009, 21:39

Domestic violence is never funny regardless of the victims sex.

Has this issue been raised before on the forums? I get the feeling that if it was the other way around heads would roll.

First of all, I can think of at least one instance of domestic violence that would be a little funny: if Mike Tyson had been beaten by his wife, I would find that funny.

Secondly, yes, heads would roll if it was the other way (assuming it was presented as a joke), but that's because men are naturally stronger than women (in almost all instances). I for instance, am well over two hundred pounds and over six feet tall. I would be VERY MAD at someone of comparable size with me beating someone as tiny as Dora. It would be unacceptable.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #27 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 21:20 »

I know a woman who was abused by her husband fo years. One day he beat the shit out of her. She got his attention by calling his name. He turned around. She threw an empty beer bottle at him. It hit him in the forehead and he collapsed. She got out.

I don't know if there's anything funny in there, but I do know that, thirty years later, she's happy and so is her daughter.

Dazed · « **Reply #28 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 22:03 »

Domestic violence should never be tolerated, it is absolutely no laughing matter.

Unless they're really asking for it, then I guess it's a judgment call.

SrMeowMeow · « **Reply #29 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 22:20 »

What comic is this rant even referring to?

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #30 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 22:24 »

Quote from: Dazed on 07 Feb 2009, 22:03

Unless they're really asking for it, then I guess it's a judgment call.

So you subscribe to the Sean Connery school of thought, then.

Rocketman · « **Reply #31 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 22:35 »

Quote from: Norton Quintessential on 07 Feb 2009, 22:24

Quote from: Dazed on 07 Feb 2009, 22:03
Unless they're really asking for it, then I guess it's a judgment call.

So you subscribe to the Sean Connery school of thought, then.

I would subscribe to Sean Connery's school just for his voice.

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #32 on:** 07 Feb 2009, 22:47 »

Look up his infamous Barbra Walters interview.

He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Ah think it's OK to shmack a woman if it brings her in laine."

...God, it's hard to type a Sean Connery accent.

lolwut · « **Reply #33 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 04:20 »

Quote from: Norton Quintessential on 07 Feb 2009, 22:47

Look up his infamous Barbra Walters interview.

He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Ah think it's OK to shmack a woman if it brings her in laine."

...God, it's hard to type a Sean Connery accent.

he's scottish, so smacking is spanking, right?

if so i am totally in agreement that more women need to have their asses spanked. preferably by other women.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #34 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 05:23 »

Also something like "It's not the worst thing to hit a woman".

lolwut · « **Reply #35 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 05:31 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 08 Feb 2009, 05:23

Also something like "It's not the worst thing to hit a woman".

i mean i would reserve that category for slavery and the holocaust but i guess domestic abuse is kind of bad?

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #36 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 07:44 »

Quote from: lolwut on 08 Feb 2009, 04:20

he's scottish, so smacking is spanking, right?

if so i am totally in agreement that more women need to have their asses spanked. preferably by other women.

...Jesus, that puts his OTHER quote on the subject ("Some women are just asking for that smack") in a whole different light.

Dunnoe · « **Reply #37 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 09:23 »

Surgoshan, Mr. Jacques probably isn't going in the direction you are thinking about. I don't think we'll ever see domestic abuse against anyone with the magnitude that you used as an example in QC.

Give us the comic number, and we'll post our respective opinions...

FriendlyFireIsnt · « **Reply #38 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 15:16 »

To be fair, Dora whipped out a broadsword on a hapless young woman but a few short comics ago.

Seems it's just violence for violence's sake.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #39 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 18:18 »

People should be able to bash each other over the head whenever they feel like it

KeepACoolin · « **Reply #40 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 18:18 »

For fairness's sake, we ought to mention that Dora never utilized said broadsword, or the Malaysian Battle Spatula.

Jack Faros · « **Reply #41 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 19:58 »

Quote from: Jeans on 06 Feb 2009, 03:58

Hello, George Carlin.

I am posting this because one of the biggest problems in the world is people getting butthurt when people crack jokes, burn flags or do other entirely insignificant shit that doesn't lessen the value or importance of the issue or item being scandalized at all, but somehow ends up making people really really angry anyway. Do you really think any QC fans will suddenly think it's okay to beat their wives or husbands because they read a joke about it in a webcomic, or are you simply taking this as an opportunity to get all high-and-mighty and/or righteous? Because honestly, it seems like the latter.

This. That is all.

Dunnoe · « **Reply #42 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:14 »

whoa. i...er...never saw that.

John911 · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 22:55 »

Quote from: John911 on 05 Feb 2009, 21:39

Just a gripe from what I have read and the comments posted in the forum.

QC seems to make a few jokes about violence. Directed at men.

Domestic violence is never funny regardless of the victims sex.

Has this issue been raised before on the forums? I get the feeling that if it was the other way around heads would roll.

Peace out.

Geez, lighten up would ya.

They are just jokes.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #44 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 15:34 »

What's gone on between Marten and Faye is a long way from the control and terror of actual domestic abuse. Ever hear a recording of a 911 call from a domestic violence situation? A sock on the arm isn't the same thing and it's not even the same kind of thing.

NeverQuiteGoth · « **Reply #45 on:** 11 Feb 2009, 00:14 »

Quote from: KeepACoolin on 06 Feb 2009, 15:31

If the comic supports violence against men, it also supports violence against insane vigilantes on vespas, violence against and by anthropomorphic robots, keeping dangerous weapons in a coffee shop, and using blackmail to get more money at your job (even if it was by accident- ugggghhhh, old people).

that was a bribe, not blackmail.

And hell why wouldn't ya keep dangerous weapons in your coffee shop?

count · « **Reply #46 on:** 11 Feb 2009, 00:18 »

looks like ya all got troll'd

KeepACoolin · « **Reply #47 on:** 11 Feb 2009, 12:15 »

Quote from: NeverQuiteGoth on 11 Feb 2009, 00:14

Quote from: KeepACoolin on 06 Feb 2009, 15:31
If the comic supports violence against men, it also supports violence against insane vigilantes on vespas, violence against and by anthropomorphic robots, keeping dangerous weapons in a coffee shop, and using blackmail to get more money at your job (even if it was by accident- ugggghhhh, old people).

that was a bribe, not blackmail.

And hell why wouldn't ya keep dangerous weapons in your coffee shop?

A bribe is just the other side of blackmail.

wargrafix · « **Reply #48 on:** 11 Feb 2009, 18:05 »

I vote for deathmatch ring

with Deathmole playing over the speakers

Surgoshan · « **Reply #49 on:** 11 Feb 2009, 18:52 »

Marten buys Faye new glasses.
She gives him a purple nurple (aka titty twister).

Reverse the gender.

Chick buys Dude new glasses.
He twists her nipple unto pain.

Why is it no longer funny?

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

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