4-48:What are you doing here?
Okay I’m really tired as I’m typing this. I just have one small announcement,
I’m selling originals!
I’m in the process of moving the store. The new store is at Storeenvy and you can buy the literal original drawings for the first 10 pages of this comic. I will be gradually adding more over time.
she’s being a little shit. that’s what she’s doing there.
Uh, is (talking about) sex still so taboo?
if you are making some one squirm like that, yes it is!
making inapropriate sexual jokes and fetishizing gays (as in: “They are gay? Then it’s obligatory to make their sex life a panel filling topic as a funny”) is only cute when Nicole does it. Others are little shits, don’t forget that.
deliberately bothering someone because of their sexuality is a little different than being a nosey dork.
“It’s not OK to be an asshole. Unless you’re funny with it. Then it’s kinda totally OK.”
-Handsome Jack, “Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel!”
Okay, let me get this straight:
A friend of mine got together with her first girlfriend a while ago. She is open about it, and openly happy. So when I, as a good friend, asked her “and, had a nice, naughty weekend with your girl? ;)” I was an evil person?
But it would totally been cutey-dorkey if I had turned to another friend, making jokes like “wonder if they weren’t online a few days ago because they were so busy figuring out ‘the scissors’ if ya know what I mean hehehehehe”?
No, Orin. I know that people here refuse to find any fault with this. But the way gay relationships are treated here is: to be the butt of a joke for the popular character, and fethizin in general, for the audience so they can go “d’awww look, they are gay, and there’s a remark about their love life hot hot hot”.
BTW – I miss a lesbian couple, after all, this is meant to be so open minded? Or is it not d’awww enough because gay relationships in this story don’t exist to display diversity but to please the gay-fetish?
The way the gay couples are presented in Worst is not because, well, gay people happen. Look at Cynthia. She stands well for diversity. It’s not always emphasized she’s not a normal human. She’s just there the way she is.
It’s not always “Cynthia, who is the dark skinned catgirl we love anyway and think is cool because she’s this way”.
But with both gay couples it’s different. When one of them, or only a part of a couple enters the scene, there is always a reference to their gay relationships and love life. Why? Because it makes you all go d’awwww gay, that’s so hot.
That’s fetisizing. Do I have a problem with gays in stories? Not at all. If the context is fitting. They all can be gay and lesbians, but does it matter for the plot to always emphasize it? Nope.
Does it matter for the plot of sin parase? YES! That’s why it absolutely makes sense to explore the sexual aspects of their lifes.
Here? It’s meant to be a comic about adventures with paranormal creatures, diversity and racism. And obviously, about gay couples as a turn on.
That’s that.
Again, Abbi vs. Nicole. If you think it’s cool for a friend to snicker about your love life behind your back, but it’s not cool for a good friend to ask you about your love life (and respects your boundaries if you say you don’t wanna talk about it – we don’t know if Abbi would have reacted like that, we weren’t given the chance! The scene was not about that. It was about showing Abbi is immature and about showing how cute it is when the kid feels shy)?
Sorry, I cannot believe that. I’d rather have friends ask me if they want to know something, than joking about me, in front of friends AND strangers.
it’s would be a jerk move to to this to a straight person, to enjoy making some one squirm is mean. Gay or straight it’s no different, embarrassing someone for fun is cruel.
Um…you guys are reading waaaaay too much into this. I ask my friends all the time, straight/gay/etc about their love life if we are comfortable about that topic.
Yes the character is over stepping her bounds as is apparent by his reaction, but that isn’t fetishizing or anything like that… o.o;; People on the internet these days.
Agreed. People are so oversensitive these days, it’s ridiculous. Abigail’s comment was nowhere near ”cruel” or implying ”fetishization” of homosexuality, and if one truly thinks it was, then they might as well never go outside anymore because the real world would overwhelm them.
Erm, a bit late on this and while I’m not sure if it’s quite fetishization, I think Abby represents heterosexuals here pretty accurately. A lot of het people think they’re entitled to answers about our lives, because WE’RE the ones that are different, so we OWE them answers. So it’s not the same thing regardless of sexuality. Like not at all. We’re made to think we have to hide, that what we do is taboo or sin, that we’re only acceptable if we don’t talk about our love lives or we’re shoving it down people’s throats, so putting us on the spot, when you don’t know what it’s like, is really insensitive. I get that close friends just do that and it’s not a big deal, but she very clearly did it to be shitty to him. What seems like reading into things too much to you is reality for us.
So yeah, Abby was just being shitty, but this kinda stuff happens to us a LOT and it feels awful.