Forum Overview :: Rants :: here read this bit by lum the mad

[quote name="jeep"]It's the <a href="http://www.brokentoys.org/2011/02/01/dickwolves/">same thing</a> zseni says but in probably a clearer way if you can't deal with the fact that zseni said it. The key thing is I don't read or worry about Penny Arcade 99% of the time. I don't hate it, it just isn't worth following. So the only time I hear about it is when they stir up a controversy. The pattern is always the same: 'edgy' comic, offended 'reader', wounded blog post by writer, nasty comic response to reader, frenzied fans delivering goon justice, commemorated and capitalized by a t-shirt. This is normally fine because it's how a lot of fun stuff on the internet happens. The initial comic was fine and didn't really fit what she was attacking. Her response was internally consistent and rational, but isn't reasonable as a response to that comic panel. If you read what she wrote, it's as if she had it ready for the next time the word 'rape' popped up on PA. They should have spotted that and walked away, because there's no way to for their normal pattern to help them navigate it without the internet version of hitting a chick. Instead they got baited into very publicly sicking their retard horde on a woman whose sole hobby is complaining about how retard hordes treat women. For six months now! She knows she has them, too, because there she is waving her arm like Eric Idle's peasant in Holy Grail, yelling "now we see the violence inherent in the system." Anyone can make any joke at any time. Tone deaf shit like their comic response to her is up for reasonable - or even loud and unreasonable - public criticism, just like racism or any other assumption of privilege is. /jeep/ ...thinks maybe the thin skin is on the other chapped ass this time around[/quote]