I was in the books and magazines section at Walmart, and there was a selection of comic books/graphic novels/whatever the hell you want to call them. Yeah, I hang out at Walmart sometimes. So sue me already.
Out of morbid curiosity I decided to look through some comic books. There was one I found where some characters were discussing the following (good God, I wish I were making this up.) They were casually discussing whether or not one of them should marry a twelve-year-old girl. And this one was worried that a twelve-year-old might not be a virgin. Then one remarked that there are ten-year-olds that are already, um, used-up prostitutes, to put it politely.
What in the f---...??
This is the world that creepy, disgusting nerds inhabit that they think is so superior to mainstream entertainment??!
I somehow doubt this was some very rare comic book that has been shunned by most of comic book fandom for being creepy and disgusting. I have a sneaking suspicion that more comic books than I care to count come from writers that see women this way. by no means was this some obscure, hidden away, inaccessible hovering-on-the fringes-of-comic-book-society pariah. this was at freakin Walmart. This was mainstream comic book society.
I hope I'm not confusing you with my use of the words "mainstream" and "counterculture" to describe several different strata of entertainment. There are the following: normal human beings, then football player aholes and hollywood with its sex objects, then creepy disgusting nerd culture, then fringe super-disgusting nerd culture if it exists.
Let me remind you that the comic book inhabits a completely made-up world. Someone in this modern day and age had to sit down at a desk and think this up. Evidently, comic book authors have such vile, nauseating hatred of women that even in this fake world, they succumb to their sickest, darkest criminal tendencies. These are tendencies that they should have just kept secret from the public and instead should have revealed only to their therapists.
Comic books are not real life. Comic books are not news reports, not journalism. The purpose of comic books is not finding out the disgusting truth about backwoods caveman cultures in real life where they murder young girls who are rape victims and call it "honor killing." Or where they think toilet paper is a myth. A comic book author, or video game creator, does not have to follow any plotline that mirrors real-life news discoveries. They do not have to adopt facets of a real-life remote village in Afghanistan where they force little girls into being r-ped by much older males.
Everything, and I mean everything, about comic books and video games came out of a figment of someone's imagination. That means a comic book author has the freedom to create whatever kind of universe they want. They can make people's personalities be whatever they want. They can create a culture that has whatever values the author thinks are important to humanity.
And yet they still, without fail, fully consciously, fully voluntarily, fully of their own free will, choose to crap out a world that treats women like sh!t.
Oh, wait a minute, I see now. It turns out I have already talked about this also, albeit in a different permutation. The perverted disgusting comic-book/video-game types think that because it is outside the mainstream, and they must be somewhat intelligent; after all, they like playing with video games. Therefore by dint of being out in the counterculture, it must by necessity be better. They think that simply because they have a different opinion on entertainment than what the mainstream's opinion is, they must be better by default. Because it is outside the so-called "conservative" mainstream, they think that it must be liberal and therefore by default it must be better. No questioning or dissenting opinions allowed.
They genuinely think that social and moral conservatism is somehow worse than the horrifying videogames where they
violently dismember women and then individually rape each of the separate severed limbs.
There is a bullspit oft-repeated argument that, "oohh they're just releasing their tension and anger and stress with the world."
Guffaw. Tension and angers and stress? Really? You do realize we are talking about are middle-class white kids that live in the western first-world. What in the hell do they have to be tense and angry and stressed about? They have clean safe drinking water, running water at that; it is not water that needs to be pumped; vaccinations; free primary and secondary education; a fairly good economy; job opportunities, most deadly diseases have been eradicated. Releasing pent-up tension and anger? That's a good one.
Out of morbid curiosity I decided to look through some comic books. There was one I found where some characters were discussing the following (good God, I wish I were making this up.) They were casually discussing whether or not one of them should marry a twelve-year-old girl. And this one was worried that a twelve-year-old might not be a virgin. Then one remarked that there are ten-year-olds that are already, um, used-up prostitutes, to put it politely.
What in the f---...??
This is the world that creepy, disgusting nerds inhabit that they think is so superior to mainstream entertainment??!
I somehow doubt this was some very rare comic book that has been shunned by most of comic book fandom for being creepy and disgusting. I have a sneaking suspicion that more comic books than I care to count come from writers that see women this way. by no means was this some obscure, hidden away, inaccessible hovering-on-the fringes-of-comic-book-society pariah. this was at freakin Walmart. This was mainstream comic book society.
I hope I'm not confusing you with my use of the words "mainstream" and "counterculture" to describe several different strata of entertainment. There are the following: normal human beings, then football player aholes and hollywood with its sex objects, then creepy disgusting nerd culture, then fringe super-disgusting nerd culture if it exists.
Let me remind you that the comic book inhabits a completely made-up world. Someone in this modern day and age had to sit down at a desk and think this up. Evidently, comic book authors have such vile, nauseating hatred of women that even in this fake world, they succumb to their sickest, darkest criminal tendencies. These are tendencies that they should have just kept secret from the public and instead should have revealed only to their therapists.
Comic books are not real life. Comic books are not news reports, not journalism. The purpose of comic books is not finding out the disgusting truth about backwoods caveman cultures in real life where they murder young girls who are rape victims and call it "honor killing." Or where they think toilet paper is a myth. A comic book author, or video game creator, does not have to follow any plotline that mirrors real-life news discoveries. They do not have to adopt facets of a real-life remote village in Afghanistan where they force little girls into being r-ped by much older males.
Everything, and I mean everything, about comic books and video games came out of a figment of someone's imagination. That means a comic book author has the freedom to create whatever kind of universe they want. They can make people's personalities be whatever they want. They can create a culture that has whatever values the author thinks are important to humanity.
And yet they still, without fail, fully consciously, fully voluntarily, fully of their own free will, choose to crap out a world that treats women like sh!t.
Oh, wait a minute, I see now. It turns out I have already talked about this also, albeit in a different permutation. The perverted disgusting comic-book/video-game types think that because it is outside the mainstream, and they must be somewhat intelligent; after all, they like playing with video games. Therefore by dint of being out in the counterculture, it must by necessity be better. They think that simply because they have a different opinion on entertainment than what the mainstream's opinion is, they must be better by default. Because it is outside the so-called "conservative" mainstream, they think that it must be liberal and therefore by default it must be better. No questioning or dissenting opinions allowed.
They genuinely think that social and moral conservatism is somehow worse than the horrifying videogames where they
violently dismember women and then individually rape each of the separate severed limbs.
There is a bullspit oft-repeated argument that, "oohh they're just releasing their tension and anger and stress with the world."
Guffaw. Tension and angers and stress? Really? You do realize we are talking about are middle-class white kids that live in the western first-world. What in the hell do they have to be tense and angry and stressed about? They have clean safe drinking water, running water at that; it is not water that needs to be pumped; vaccinations; free primary and secondary education; a fairly good economy; job opportunities, most deadly diseases have been eradicated. Releasing pent-up tension and anger? That's a good one.
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