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I'm not exactly sure why the spandex thread was locked, but it seems rather clear that my opinions on the subject aren't appreciated here, so I'd better stop posting on ILC altogether. I don't want to be a nuisance. Bye bye, see you on the mother board!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

checking in on everyone's blood pressure

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've only just read the heated section of the locked thread, and I have to say I do think there was a degree of (rather baffling) Tuomas bullying going on there. He was making a few generalisations, sure, but to say, as some people seemed to be, that the superhero genre is completely free of sexism is faintly ludicrous. I think a few personal grudges came into play there.

Anyway, that's my two cents. I think you should stick around, Tuomas.

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto!

― kenchen, Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

If it makes you feel better--I went through your list of European comics and, while totally agreeing with it, googled or amazoned every title and bought a few of them!

― kenchen, Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that anyone was saying that it doesn't exist. For me it comes down to:

1) I honestly don't think there are sexist/unrealistic depictions of women in a majority of comics that I read.

2) Admittedly, when it does come up it's become kind of transparent for me. You can only see Emma Frost so many times before you stop thinking about the ridiculous outfit and it just becomes a story trope.

Anyway, I agree about the grudges and ILCers (understandably) feeling personally criticized, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not particularly interested in padding anyone's ego, but hopefully cooler heads will prevail. I can't exactly understand what Tuomas wrote that was acting as such an irritant, but I was appreciating how that thread had nearly everyone on the board engaged in answering a philosophical comic. Come back, dude.

― ng-unit, Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I meant philisophical question, not comic. Total Freudian slip.

― ng-unit, Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were calling Tuomas a philosophical comic, you know, as in comedian.

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Did you hear about the dyslexic who worshipped Dog?"

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer to think of myself as a) a bad typist or b) heir apparent to Spooner, but that works, too!

― ng-unit, Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Q. If Hegel had written the Phenomenolgy of Chickens, what would his representative protagonist have been named?
A. Poultry-Geist!

Q. What would you call Franz Fanon's philosophy based on experiential ontology?
A. Fanonenology!

Q. What ideological force keeps gardeners subjugated to their capitalist oppressors?
A. Hedge-money!

Like I said in the above link, THAT THREAD is in a time out. I'll unlock before midnight, PST.

― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 10 February 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Q. Why do Marxists* only drink herbal tea?
A. Because proper tea is theft!

One of my favourite jokes, that.

*Technically it should be Proudhonists, but that's less punchy.

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

There was a great one I saw from ILE a while ago:

I used to be a structuralist, but now I'm not Saussure.

― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 10 February 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

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