It’s good to see that everyone sees the point of the joint statement and has decided to avoid the more childish ways of responding to disagreements like attacks on appearance and photoshops and caricatures and similar. Well maybe not quite everyone…
Sometimes I’m glad that I have issues with non-literal language.
Since no one is actually banning the criticism hairstyles (rather they are criticizing the use of insults in place of discussion over disagreements, and the use of deliberately cruel or dishonest characterizations that are meant to emotionally exhaust and similar), am I right in assuming that this is a hyperbolic exaggeration of the request to not act like what is in my parentheses?
Blanche Quiznosays
@ Brony …um…yes?
Blanche Quiznosays
And just because I can’t leave a Master of the Obvious moment just lying on the table, the “cartoonist” is apparently attempting a wry parody of the excellent, insightful, and genuinely funny “Jesus ‘n’ Mo” comics, while failing miserably and only managing to attain a rude and boorish caricature.
Not particularly funny, no, but interesting in what it reveals about the peculiar delusions of the “artist”. There’s a large bank of assumptions, all false, that you need to make for the humor to work at all.
Blanche @ 9 – yes it is, of course; we already knew that, because this is just one from a series, which I’ve reported on before. It’s all the more ironic, or something, because the Jesus and Mo cartoonist is a friend of mine.
Blanche Quiznosays
Sorry, it was the first I’d seen 🙁
But like I said, a Captain Obvious moment 😀
Stacysays
There’s a large bank of assumptions, all false, that you need to make for the humor to work at all.
True of all their attempted humor, and of just about everything else they say as well.
Al Dente says
A little humor there. Very little.
chigau (違う) says
Pitiful.
John Morales says
chigau, the picture is from a hobbyist’s site.
(Guess what their hobby may be? 😉 )
Marcus Ranum says
Whoever did that wasted maybe half an hour of their life, and they’ll never get it back.
chigau (違う) says
John Morales
Feminist Hair?
chigau (違う) says
Kind of a weird hobby, though.
Brony says
Sometimes I’m glad that I have issues with non-literal language.
Since no one is actually banning the criticism hairstyles (rather they are criticizing the use of insults in place of discussion over disagreements, and the use of deliberately cruel or dishonest characterizations that are meant to emotionally exhaust and similar), am I right in assuming that this is a hyperbolic exaggeration of the request to not act like what is in my parentheses?
Blanche Quizno says
@ Brony …um…yes?
Blanche Quizno says
And just because I can’t leave a Master of the Obvious moment just lying on the table, the “cartoonist” is apparently attempting a wry parody of the excellent, insightful, and genuinely funny “Jesus ‘n’ Mo” comics, while failing miserably and only managing to attain a rude and boorish caricature.
PZ Myers says
Not particularly funny, no, but interesting in what it reveals about the peculiar delusions of the “artist”. There’s a large bank of assumptions, all false, that you need to make for the humor to work at all.
Ophelia Benson says
Blanche @ 9 – yes it is, of course; we already knew that, because this is just one from a series, which I’ve reported on before. It’s all the more ironic, or something, because the Jesus and Mo cartoonist is a friend of mine.
Blanche Quizno says
Sorry, it was the first I’d seen 🙁
But like I said, a Captain Obvious moment 😀
Stacy says
True of all their attempted humor, and of just about everything else they say as well.