Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Meet Davie, some indeterminate years old.
Fed up with women and the way things are going,
he decides to write a long diatribe in Cerebus.
("I can't take this no more, I can't take it no more homes")
But on his way home, he has a sudden change of heart.
And suddenly, his conscience comes into play...
Oh, if only. Dave Sim, normal guy, crazy ideas. He has been writing and self-publishing Cerebus for close on forever, and is finally reaching the end. Whatever your feelings on comics, such an achievement is incredible and no-one else has come near to duplicating it, in a market place when even comics by the regular publishers like Marvel and DC don't survive.
Unfortunately, or perhaps because, Mr. Sim is not a well man. He has several bugbears, the most prominent of which is 'feminism'. To summarise, he mourns that men are not real men, women are behind the modern ills of the world and evolution gave them big buttocks so that real men could spank sense in to them. He set this out in the Tangents essays helpfully reprinted by The Comics Journal. In a follow up interview at Cerebus Fangirl he claims victory because no-ones contacted him to argue that he's wrong, shortly after admitting that he's cut off most of his media links. If you search google for '"Dave Sim" + feminism' you get this, which is a funny and intelligent rebuttal of Sim's position.
I post this in the spirit of 'look at the crazy misogynist dance!' Sim's 'theorys' and 'arguments' are so bad that at no point do they really become offensive, his main technique is to repeat an untruth enough times hoping it will become true. But it's a interesting experience, and just proves that Frederick Wertham might have been right after all...
Fed up with women and the way things are going,
he decides to write a long diatribe in Cerebus.
("I can't take this no more, I can't take it no more homes")
But on his way home, he has a sudden change of heart.
And suddenly, his conscience comes into play...
Oh, if only. Dave Sim, normal guy, crazy ideas. He has been writing and self-publishing Cerebus for close on forever, and is finally reaching the end. Whatever your feelings on comics, such an achievement is incredible and no-one else has come near to duplicating it, in a market place when even comics by the regular publishers like Marvel and DC don't survive.
Unfortunately, or perhaps because, Mr. Sim is not a well man. He has several bugbears, the most prominent of which is 'feminism'. To summarise, he mourns that men are not real men, women are behind the modern ills of the world and evolution gave them big buttocks so that real men could spank sense in to them. He set this out in the Tangents essays helpfully reprinted by The Comics Journal. In a follow up interview at Cerebus Fangirl he claims victory because no-ones contacted him to argue that he's wrong, shortly after admitting that he's cut off most of his media links. If you search google for '"Dave Sim" + feminism' you get this, which is a funny and intelligent rebuttal of Sim's position.
I post this in the spirit of 'look at the crazy misogynist dance!' Sim's 'theorys' and 'arguments' are so bad that at no point do they really become offensive, his main technique is to repeat an untruth enough times hoping it will become true. But it's a interesting experience, and just proves that Frederick Wertham might have been right after all...
