ILU Kate Beaton!

[fakely_mctest]

“dear internet, you are well meaning, but I’d like to make a point. when you tell a female creator you like her work so much you want to marry her and have her babies, you’re not doing anyone any favors. first of all, as cute as it sounds in your head, it’s a shitty, disrespectful ‘compliment.’ No one makes comics looking for sexual attention.

Comments

[mercuryfading]

Lol. LOL FOREVER. Also: Cry.

[fakely_mctest]

Let me tell you, internet, it's hard being a straight, white male in America.

[sucrelefey]

Didn't take long for the mansplaining to show up in a comic about it, miss the point much. PZMyers has an outbreak of mansplaining in his comments to.

[fakely_mctest]

I should never ever read the comments but I always do. They exert an irresistible pull.

Tiger Beatdown addresses mansplainers best IMO:

Like, how the fuck do you listen to two women talking about an experience, of feminism, and confirming with each other that they’ve both had similar experiences, and write a post about how they are not being considerate enough to men, and still sign off as a fucking feminist man at the end of the day? You’re not. You are not a feminist. You have, actually, nothing to contribute to feminist discourse. Because, still, the experiences of women are less important to you than how eager those women are to accomodate your personal fucking boner. You want to be a feminist, Freddie? Listen closely, because I’m about to tell you how:

SHUT. THE FUCK. UP.

I mean it. SHUT THE FUCK UP, Freddie. Shut the fuck up and let the big girls talk. Because we know way more about this than you. And every time you want to pitch in with an observation? Shut the fuck up a little bit harder. And maybe, after a few years or

[sucrelefey]

So how long till JF unleashes the Erinyes, that could be good for a laugh.

[fakely_mctest]

This is all over the internet this past couple of weeks and mostly descends into the sort of recursive behavior that the comic depicts.

Perpetual motion machine: INVENTED!

[uberuberhip]

Nice! The day after I realized "I haven't compulsively read Hark A Vagrant" in a couple months, you are there to remind me!

It is the unfortunate side of internet-based attention deficit, that tomorrow I may forget to compulsively read it again. And that I will forget to stop being the terrible chauvinist I always mean to stop being.

[fakely_mctest]

The Dracula comics are some funny-ass shit. Esp. the vampire brides one.

[uberuberhip]

I'm a big fan of Peasant Love/Courtly Love myself, as well as the Dracula ones.