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Friday, December 12, 2008

Forgot To Get The Memo

I find it very, very interesting that for the last two years, I've been patted on the back and lauded in many circles for my stance on sexist and sexually violent comic book material -- but have recently slammed for a similar stance against illustrated child porn.

This is, obviously, because on the Comics Trendiness Scale™, feminism is only a 7.8, whereas child porn free speech cases ranks a 8.9. See, I forgot to get the memo on that. It's probably the same memo where I'm told what situations I am and am not allowed to hate Dave Sim.

But also, a lot of that sexist stuff is in "low brow," non-ironic comic book material -- you really can't get Moby to give a shit about things like that. And without Moby -- what do you have, really?

And truly, I totally "get" the idea that if I support the sale of vibrators, I should also support the right for people to view Homer shoving his cock down Lisa's throat. It's like if I support the use of medical marijuana, I should also support the use of meth. Right? Yeah, that makes a lot of fucking sense.

Anyway, you may think that I don't sympathize with people who feel their rights to free speech are systematically and daily curtailed. Forced to submit to Groupthink. Bedeviled by the horrors of Doublespeak. Afraid to speak one's mind, for fear of swift censor by self-appointed arbiters of What Is Right, forced to fit a rigid and unbending dogma.

Oh, but I do.

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