Talking about heavy-handed metaphors…
by Professional Mole
OH TEH SUBTLETY
There’s a lesson here, kids. And the lesson is: if you watch smut, people get hit by computer desks.
It all makes sense now…
by Professional Mole
OH TEH SUBTLETY
There’s a lesson here, kids. And the lesson is: if you watch smut, people get hit by computer desks.
It all makes sense now…
4 comments
Sinfest used to be subtle, with moments of cleverness. And now it has been reduced to this.
The only thing worse is browsing their forums nowadays. They make the xkcd sycophants look positively reasonable.
Well no, Sinfest wasn’t exactly subtle before. But It never had a comic about a “Dudebro” factory brainwashing men to be more dominant and jerky with porn to represent… that porn brainwashes men into being more dominant and jerky.
Sinfest keeps getting worse and worse as it becomes more and more apparent that the author has no idea what feminism is about, and really just wants to be the good guy. Key examples include:
-Changing the main female lead’s entire personality because he now thinks that ALL women hate being treated as sexual objects.
-All sexism comes from men. Not like “all sexism is the result of the patriarchy”. No, just straight out only men are sexist.
-Porn is incredibly brainwashing, and will destroy your sense of empathy, potential for love, make you think of women as objects, and make you aggressively dominant.
-Third-Wave feminism is evil because it disagrees. I have no idea why he didn’t think there was something contradictory about that.
It’s like when B.C. became overly obsessed with Christianity. But if it was Scientology instead.
I think the thing that frustrates me the most about Ishida’s latest predilection is that it’s a wrongheaded approach being told beautifully. I almost wanna give him a pass for the craft, but then I look at how ‘Nique, who I saw as an interesting expression of owning one’s sexual self and identity, has been having a forced identity crisis over Ishida’s issues and not her own.
That and nameless tricycle girl. She is just so… irritatingly made out to be righteous and courageous and badass, without any reason to have earned it. I mean in a comic where God and Satan can be shown as both serious and silly her character seems to be written as “badass” and little else.
That may have come off a little heated, but it’s just getting frustrating.
So, until now, my only experience with Sinfest had been through this blog. I figured since Mole had so much to say on the matter, I should take a look.
Christ.
Does the author…know…things? I mean, some of the earlier comics are passably clever, but the newer stuff is just…ugh. Preachy doesn’t begin to cover it.
As far as I can tell, if you admire the female form in any sexual sense, you are “dudebro” scum and have been brainwashed by the porn industry. Is the author aware that naked people and pornography are different things? Not to mention the fact that he doesn’t seem to acknowledge the possibilities of alternate sources of porn beyond the (admittedly repellent) North American* industry.
This is just bad, and it’s shoving-itself-down-your-throat-bad, which is worse.
*”North American” isn’t really accurate, because most of the porn tropes depicted in this comic are used beyond the western world, but I couldn’t think of a better term.
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