Saturday, January 11, 2025

Muir Gets Some Racism In His Misogyny.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because After Dark in the Playing Fields.

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Well. That bit of awfulness speaks for itself.

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  1. JLGJanuary 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM

    My thoughts turn, once again, to the small number of wimmenz in the Peanut Gallery, who seem to be prime "pick me!" specimens.

    As author Dave Sim became more and more overtly, obsessively, even manically misogynist during "Cerebus's" second half, he did the classic move where if his women readers ever objected, they were by definition proving his points. His typesetter, a woman, held on for a while but eventually had enough and quit, which prompted him to mock her in the next issue of the comic.

    Should any of the women among Muir's sad little audience ever start to feel like they've reached their limit, speaking up in even the mildest ways will likely just have Muir nodding drily at the inevitability of them proving him right, given that that's literally all his characters ever do --- nod lazily as every single thing that happens in the world was expected and unsurprising because it magically fits exactly into their worldview.

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    1. John BallJanuary 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM

      Whenever anything surprising happens in the real world, Muir just ignores it until he can figure out a way to have it fit. Or finds someone else to tell him out it does.

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  2. EurobratJanuary 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM

    "With white men raped by a U.S. legal system if they step up" -- ironic since Daniel Penny got off scot free recently, and in NYC, no less.

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