http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/comic...hates-women-co
A few thoughts:
1) Thank you buzzfeed, for telling me what I am reading. I have enough braincells to translate Tony's blatantly clear cosplay girl rant on my own, thank you.
2) Fuck slut-shaming and everyone who takes part in it. It's far more offensive to me than talking slutty, dressing slutty, or being a female with a sex drive (aka "being slutty").
3) Totally disregarding the "slut shaming" aspect of this, I'm not really a fan of this sort of "I was there first" exclusivity thing that comic/music/movie geeks and nerds do. It's very juvenile. It makes me not want be a part of it.
4) That said, I know what is at the genesis of Tony's rant, and it is something that irks me as well: That comic conventions more and more, are not at all about comics or people who read comics. It's a little disheartening as a comic creator and reader to have your trade shows appropriated by other media and forms of entertainment. Do I agree with the way he's lashing out or who he is blaming, or the juvenile way he is blaming them? Hell no, but I understand where his initial frustration came from. Too bad he's too fucking stupid to know where to place it or how to verbalize it.
There is room for everyone at a comic con. I love that the cosplayers are there, the video game fans, the horror fans, the anime kids. Come one, come all. But yeah, I won't lie: When you're at a PACKED comic convention and absolutely no one cares that you're selling this comic you worked on for months or years, and won't even stop to look at it.... you get a little frustrated. It's like "Why are all these hordes of people at a comic con if they don't give a poop about this medium?". I get that.
Discuss.
A few thoughts:
1) Thank you buzzfeed, for telling me what I am reading. I have enough braincells to translate Tony's blatantly clear cosplay girl rant on my own, thank you.
2) Fuck slut-shaming and everyone who takes part in it. It's far more offensive to me than talking slutty, dressing slutty, or being a female with a sex drive (aka "being slutty").
3) Totally disregarding the "slut shaming" aspect of this, I'm not really a fan of this sort of "I was there first" exclusivity thing that comic/music/movie geeks and nerds do. It's very juvenile. It makes me not want be a part of it.
4) That said, I know what is at the genesis of Tony's rant, and it is something that irks me as well: That comic conventions more and more, are not at all about comics or people who read comics. It's a little disheartening as a comic creator and reader to have your trade shows appropriated by other media and forms of entertainment. Do I agree with the way he's lashing out or who he is blaming, or the juvenile way he is blaming them? Hell no, but I understand where his initial frustration came from. Too bad he's too fucking stupid to know where to place it or how to verbalize it.
There is room for everyone at a comic con. I love that the cosplayers are there, the video game fans, the horror fans, the anime kids. Come one, come all. But yeah, I won't lie: When you're at a PACKED comic convention and absolutely no one cares that you're selling this comic you worked on for months or years, and won't even stop to look at it.... you get a little frustrated. It's like "Why are all these hordes of people at a comic con if they don't give a poop about this medium?". I get that.
Discuss.
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