Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Before messageboards, comic book letters pages was one way for geeks to argue and put forth their faceless opinions. One comic that seemed to have a really, well, interesting letters page was Dave Sim's Cerebus.
Dave Sim is a pretty complicated guy. Most of those complications stem from his treatise on women, 'Tangent'.
Some highlights include:
All I got out of that research, I already knew: a) women want to be raped by rich, muscular, handsome doctors b) women are completely self-absorbed and, thus, see themselves in everything around them and c) feminism is no different from communism in that all of its literature is founded upon convoluted syntax, bafflegab and academic jargon which paints a false (albeit attractive) picture of an unattainable utopia which can be achieved - easily! - by everyone in the world simply and simultaneously (in both feminist and communist literature the "crux point" is invariable) changing their basic nature overaight. Acknowledging - (grudgingly) the small likelihood of so sweeping a societal change coming about on its own, "a rigorous and thorough program of (communist and feminist literature share an admiration for the euphemism) re-education may be called for." That is, all "non-comrades, non-fellow travellers" must be subjected to unrelenting political indoctrination, sloganeering and brainwashing ("A woman's right to choose! A woman's right to choose!").
His thoughts on government funded daycare:
not only is it fiscally irresponsible and an inherently unfair use of public funds (benefiting only those mothers who choose to work), it is diametrically opposed to a central tenet of any civilized society: that children are the responsibility of their parents to rear. When was the last time you even heard it described as 'rearing children'? 'You rear children. You raise hogs.' What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong. Just hand the kids over to the voodoo profession, social workers, government bean counters and go along with whatever happens to be the Ethical Consensus du Jour. 'Raise' boys to be girls, 'raise' girls to be boys.'"
Read 'Tangent' in its entirety here.
After 'Tangent' it seemed like The Cerebus letter column just got sort of wacky. It's pretty much the only reason why I read Cerebus. I skim the story and skip right to the letter column. It's nice way to have all of your convictions challenged and then realize that quite literally the majority of the men writing in who have disparaging things to say about the feminist movement or feminist theory really don't have very much interaction with women. It's hard to take someone's "straight up account of what feminism really means to men" seriously when they have never seen women as having anything more than instrumental value in the first place.
So why am I thinking of Dave Sim today? Lots of reasons, but one is that there's an interview with him in the latest edition of the Onion. Read it because it's a lot better than last week's feature interview with Jason Bateman.
Dave Sim is a pretty complicated guy. Most of those complications stem from his treatise on women, 'Tangent'.
Some highlights include:
All I got out of that research, I already knew: a) women want to be raped by rich, muscular, handsome doctors b) women are completely self-absorbed and, thus, see themselves in everything around them and c) feminism is no different from communism in that all of its literature is founded upon convoluted syntax, bafflegab and academic jargon which paints a false (albeit attractive) picture of an unattainable utopia which can be achieved - easily! - by everyone in the world simply and simultaneously (in both feminist and communist literature the "crux point" is invariable) changing their basic nature overaight. Acknowledging - (grudgingly) the small likelihood of so sweeping a societal change coming about on its own, "a rigorous and thorough program of (communist and feminist literature share an admiration for the euphemism) re-education may be called for." That is, all "non-comrades, non-fellow travellers" must be subjected to unrelenting political indoctrination, sloganeering and brainwashing ("A woman's right to choose! A woman's right to choose!").
His thoughts on government funded daycare:
not only is it fiscally irresponsible and an inherently unfair use of public funds (benefiting only those mothers who choose to work), it is diametrically opposed to a central tenet of any civilized society: that children are the responsibility of their parents to rear. When was the last time you even heard it described as 'rearing children'? 'You rear children. You raise hogs.' What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong. Just hand the kids over to the voodoo profession, social workers, government bean counters and go along with whatever happens to be the Ethical Consensus du Jour. 'Raise' boys to be girls, 'raise' girls to be boys.'"
Read 'Tangent' in its entirety here.
After 'Tangent' it seemed like The Cerebus letter column just got sort of wacky. It's pretty much the only reason why I read Cerebus. I skim the story and skip right to the letter column. It's nice way to have all of your convictions challenged and then realize that quite literally the majority of the men writing in who have disparaging things to say about the feminist movement or feminist theory really don't have very much interaction with women. It's hard to take someone's "straight up account of what feminism really means to men" seriously when they have never seen women as having anything more than instrumental value in the first place.
So why am I thinking of Dave Sim today? Lots of reasons, but one is that there's an interview with him in the latest edition of the Onion. Read it because it's a lot better than last week's feature interview with Jason Bateman.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 12:03 PM 
