Sunday, December 21, 2008

December 21st, 2008

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bad_service: EEEWOMGVIOLENCE!!

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7 comments:

Gene Phillips said...

Re: EWWOMGVIOLENCE--

I really feel for the guy manning the register. Obviously he was afraid that somehow the buyer was going to come back and give him shit for having sold her a violent comic.

Thanks, feminists!

Ken Lowery said...

Gene:

On what planet does any combination of your sentences make any sense whatsoever?

Gene Phillips said...

The same planet where the collective fear of being politically incorrect (admittedly only brought on *in part* by extreme feminists) makes a shop-seller leery of selling a sex-and-violence comic to a woman.

Once the fangirl in question said it was for herself, he may've thought she was a cop out to bust him for selling such a taboo work.

It's not that far a stretch from the real-life case where a comics shop sold a taboo book to an adult buyer who turned around and busted the shop for selling porn to minors. WTF?

Ken Lowery said...

The same planet where the collective fear of being politically incorrect

So not Earth, then.

Once the fangirl in question said it was for herself, he may've thought she was a cop out to bust him for selling such a taboo work.

Have... you even read SCUD? Because you would know how absurd this stance is if you had.

It's not that far a stretch from the real-life case where a comics shop sold a taboo book to an adult buyer who turned around and busted the shop for selling porn to minors.

It actually is so much of a stretch it snaps, but if you're the kind of guy that can make that shit-ass crazy comparison in the first place...

Gene Phillips said...

"So not Earth, then."

It's the same Earth where, in Neil Gaiman's words:

"Mike Diana was prosecuted -- and found guilty -- of obscenity for the comics in his Zine "Boiled Angel", and sentenced to a host of things, including (if memory serves) a three year suspended prison sentence, a three thousand dollar fine, not being allowed to be in the same room as anyone under eighteen, over a thousand hours of community service, and was forbidden to draw anything else obscene, with the local police ordered to make 24 hour unannounced spot checks to make sure Mike wasn't secretly committing Art in the small hours of the morning"

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html

Gene Phillips said...

Ken,

For my own info, is your problem with:

My saying that the dealer referenced may've been afraid of being sued or otherwise persecuted.

Or

My saying that certain extreme feminists have brought about a climate of fear about being sued or otherwise persecuted?

notintheface said...

Gene, reread that post. The poster clearly stated that the cashier asked her to show her ID, which she did. Then the cashier checked the ID to verify that the poster was 18. He exercised all the due diligence necessary to avoid legal trouble. As our president once said, "There, you've covered your ass now." From that point all he had to to was let her buy the damn comic.