I just wanna say...

[katranna]

I don't really know how to feel about Questionable Content--partly due to my immediate prejudice against its views on vegans, and partly due to some of its overly cutesy self-satisfied indie/hipsterness mixed with its strangely non-ironic melodrama. So on the one hand, I don't really want to be seen as unconditionally promoting it

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[glamourcorpse]

Oh god the last panel made me choke on my captain crunch, Damn you. :)

partly due to my immediate prejudice against its views on vegans

What's that? I'd read through to find it, but I have a trillion school related things I should be doing besides reading comics. *grin*

[katranna]

Well, there are several strips. Basically, it's not a very pro-vegan comic, in a somewhat stupidly annoying way.

[glamourcorpse]

I can't say I'm very pro-vegan myself. I mean all the ones in RL I've met are not nice to people who eat meat and make it this HUGE moral thing of it and accuse me of being a bad person. I already hate myself enough, I don't need someone making me feel bad because I eat something. (I'm lucky I can eat meat! My eating issues are insane. I'd die with out it.) I know this isn't true for all Vegans. My ex was a vegitarian and knew that everyone makes their own choices, and that's cool. But sadly in those I've encounted when it gets to the vegan point, it's war on the "evil" meat eaters. I bet the author has had the kind of experiences I have. It's sad those kind of people ruin it for others.

You haven't done a lot of writing, since I got here, on your veganism. I would love to get your take on things. You are very eloquent and thoughtful.

[katranna]

Well... I would just like to point out that for some vegans, since they honestly do see eating meat as murder, it's kind of hard to keep one's mouth shut. Same for a lot of pro-lifers. I try not to get upset when anti-abortionists make claims of murder, because in their opinion, that's what it is--and I'd be sad if people felt so contrained by social pressure to conform that they'd not speak out against something they saw as murder. I don't know about accusing others of being bad people, but if it's something you're passionate about, there's something to be said for not keeping quiet

Love the irony of my icon.....

[glamourcorpse]

I would like to note though, that in general, I feel vegans/vegetarians get a lot more flak from meat-eaters than they dish out.

Yah see. That's my issue. It's like the whole Phat-girlz revolution. It's apparently okay now for over-weight girls to be visciously mean to skinny girls because they've had a rough go. It's okay to say "skinny bitches" and laugh. Oh boo hoo someone was mean to you. Everyone is mean to everyone, and EVERYONE has a hard time! Why don't they calm down and instead of passing that angst, why don't they try and be the bigger person and not be a jerk to the next person they meet that's different to them. Before I met my first vegan I had no preconcieved notions, and then when I did, all I got was flak. Tons of it. But you know what? Meat eaters are wrong, those bastards, and so are Vegans. In summery humans such and need to dump their damn baggage. *needs sleep desperately.*

so it's not so much the killing of the animals as the manner in which they're treated and the infringement on their autonomy that bothers

[rachiestar]

why don't they try and be the bigger person

Ohhh BURN. :-P

Lemme try again...

[glamourcorpse]

I didn't mean it as a burn. I meant it literally. That's the way I was brought up. Cry in the bathroom, love in your heart, deal with your shit and take care of those around you. I have an insane amount of issues that enrage and hurt me, but some how weak little me manages not to lash out like some people do. I wish more people would try that. It's a very hard thing to try and do believe me. Loved ones constantly get to sit back and hear my rants about my day. How jerk A littered, or how jerk B was on his cell phone while ordering a sub at subway, or Jerk B with her mouthing off to the teacher. There is too much *meaness* going around, I constantly look for ways to deal with my problems as MY problems. It's so sad people don't want to even try.

[rachiestar]

That's cool. I mean, I just thought it was funny.

[glamourcorpse]

PS: I love you. I adore well thought out conversation.

[bandit_de_coeur]

i think that comic is the worst thing i've ever read. it feels to me like it was created by someone who feels like he/she isn't a part of any particular scene and is trying to hide the fact that they secretly long to be by making a snarky comic about them. i mean, "the darkness"??? quote--indie--unquote kids don't listen to the darkness. ridiculous, irony-soaked, myspace-hipster types may...

oh, nevermind.

i just think it's ridiculously lame that people incessantly make social commentary about these sorts of scenes when it doesn't matter at all. sure, we all laugh to ourselves at some of these types of people, but when you make an issue out of their "subcultures" you're just adding fuel to their fire.

[glamourcorpse]

ridiculous, irony-soaked, myspace-hipster types may

Hee hee. I listened to a couple of their songs. They are all the same after "I believe in a thing called love." YAWN. But IBIATCL is a funny song and I run around dancing like a crazy person to it.

[bandit_de_coeur]

well, i'd say that if you genuinely enjoy those couple of songs and aren't listening to them because they're a fad, then you're alright!

[katranna]

this following comic? Is so me.

i think that comic is the worst thing i've ever read

Thank you, Richard. :-P

I think what's going on is that the boy is indie, the brown-haired girl is indie-hipster (they do exist), and the black-haired girl is nominally-goth-but-not-entirely. Or something.

[rachiestar]

Personally, I think both indie-rock girl butts and donuts have intrinsic worth.

[katranna]

That's cause you're totally the brown-haired chick. :-P

[katranna]

Try to deny it! I can post pictures!!!

[rachiestar]

Personally I think Molly from Achewood is my personal webcomic doppleganger. But that's just me.