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Ugh...just...ugh.

Blink!
I'm a few days late with this, but I wasn't here when it came out. There's this too, which while it says some of the same things the first link does, he does get in some other points.

I'm not going to go into a long post here, but again, I wanted to make note of it. I can't believe some people went as far as they did; the written stuff I'm less surprised at (but still disgusted), but actually taking time to draw panels with Jade Raymond in a porn like that takes a certain degree of malice. The comic "artist's" comments on it are even more sickening; as surprising as that may sound. He actually claims there was no malice there, that she's just collateral damage. To paraphrase "I don't think 'collateral damage' means what he thinks it means." The porn comic was about her, how is she just an innocent bystander who happens to get hurt?

I've read about other women's experiences in gaming and comics, running up against sexism. I've experienced it quite a bit myself; from small things like "Dude! It's a chick!" (hence the title of this blog) to blatant discrimination and sometimes even hate (people hate snipers...people hate snipers who are women even more; apparently). This just goes beyond anything I expected. I seriously hopes she sues the "artist" and his host site into oblivion. They certainly have warranted legal action.

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[info]shadefell wrote:
Nov. 26th, 2007 05:01 pm (UTC)
I sure do hate it when those uppity vagina-bearers start doing things other than having sex, bearing and raising children, cleaning and cooking! When they do, they only appropriate course of action is to focus obsessively on how they look to the exclusion of everything else! And remember: the best attack against someone with a vagina is to portray them in a sexually submissive way!! It might make them cry!
[info]final_paradox wrote:
Nov. 29th, 2007 03:58 am (UTC)
I do recall seeing the comic in question a while back. I didn't think much of it because I didn't know who Jade Raymond was and because this is the internet, and there's much worse. What gets me even more is the kind of headlines even the big name gaming sites have been giving her. Kotaku and such. Some creep from the depths of the web was bound to do something like this. This is the internet, we break everything. But I'd expect better from the the likes of Kotaku and Computer and Video Games.
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