on body image in comics

[adularia]

I am done reading Questionable Content. Just took it off my syndication list; am no longer going to request any of his T-shirts (I don't own any, and I don't want to

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[catamorphism]

Are you going to write to him to tell him why? If he knows enough people are pissed off, perhaps he'll think twice about doing fatphobic strips.

[adularia]

to jephco@mac.com

[catamorphism]

Good letter! It's forceful without being alienating to the recipient.

[adularia]

Thank you. I'm honestly more bothered by this because, up 'til now, I had a lot of respect for Jeph, which I wanted to get across. I was so pleased he had lesbian and bi characters, and Marten's mom as a fetish porn star who's also a decent person, and mentally ill characters portrayed with more depth than just their disease. So much coolness that I was really surprised he'd go for the fatphobic gag.

[catamorphism]

Yeah, somehow no matter how tolerant someone seems to be otherwise, making fun of fat people is always not just okay but cool and edgy, and anyone who dares to call the writer on it usually gets accused of OMG POLITICALLY CORRECT FASCISM. *sigh*