Forum Overview :: Rants :: to tide you over, a message from the Other Female on caltrops.

[quote name="up with pod people"]I will believe that these guys are all about bold, unflinching, boundary-challenging humour when they start posting n-word jokes and jewish jokes and then making merch to snidely backhand the people they've inevitably pissed off... or even better, when they make jokes about drug overdoses! but of course, since Gabe's brother went out that way, <i>that's</i> sacred. I am not a survivor of sexual violence, nor have I suffered any violence at all. the majority of the women I know -- I mean a literal <i>majority</i> -- can't say the same. I laughed at the comic, and was surprised by the backlash, the same way I sometimes am surprised to learn when something is racist, due to my inherent privilege. so to me it's the same thing. as simple as "it's not their joke, so they don't get to decide how to make it." of course, if Tycho talks more about the experiences he alluded to <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/2/2/">here</a>, maybe he will be able to claim it: [quote name="Tycho"]<i>I have a daughter who is not yet two years of age, and I am flooded with hormones every time I look at her which say “this, this is why you are here.” I don’t have any intention of going into specifics, but speculating about my own sexual history or the sexual history of the people we know is profoundly unwise. I will also tell you that people deal with horror of this kind in different ways, and one of them is with humor. There’s no monolithic “woman” just as there is no monolithic “feminist” just as there is no “man,” no “true” way of dealing with tragedy. ... But I am who I am, in the end; the comics I make are the result of my damage. I can’t put it any more succinctly than that.</i>[/quote] caltrops is a ridiculous place to be serious about this, but what the hell.[/quote]