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LTTE: Cartoon offensive to women, GLBT community
Issue date: 2/10/09 Section: Opinion
I am appalled. The comic known as "Repeat/Delete," has gone too far. In fact it has been going too far for far too long.
The constant wise cracks against women and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community are offensive and cruel. I cannot believe that you have let this go on for so long.
As a woman I am constantly the subject of ridicule by the artist behind this comic. As a member of the GLBT community, I am also ridiculed.
I am not a sex object, I am enrolled in this university to further my education and allow women to step away from this stereotype. I am intelligent and personally would like to be treated as such.
This has gone on long enough, I am going to boycott the Collegian, and ask all of my friends and any woman and member of the GLBT community that I meet on campus to do the same, until this comic is removed.
I will be doing something and if nothing is done to stop this behavior, I will go further.
Sarah DeShane
sophomore, health and
exercise science
The constant wise cracks against women and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community are offensive and cruel. I cannot believe that you have let this go on for so long.
As a woman I am constantly the subject of ridicule by the artist behind this comic. As a member of the GLBT community, I am also ridiculed.
I am not a sex object, I am enrolled in this university to further my education and allow women to step away from this stereotype. I am intelligent and personally would like to be treated as such.
This has gone on long enough, I am going to boycott the Collegian, and ask all of my friends and any woman and member of the GLBT community that I meet on campus to do the same, until this comic is removed.
I will be doing something and if nothing is done to stop this behavior, I will go further.
Sarah DeShane
sophomore, health and
exercise science
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Craig Hawley
posted 2/10/09 @ 12:41 AM MST
You have learned an important lesson in the decline of morals in this country.
Now I do not know if you were one of the cheering McSwane groupies , who thought it was great journalism to write F BUSH on the cover of the paper. (Continued…)
Maybelle
posted 2/10/09 @ 10:13 PM MST
A) Craig Hawley is an annoyance to anyone looking for intelligent thought in response to these articles. Take your tangents else where.
B) Repeat/Delete is ridiculous with no purpose. (Continued…)
Peace Love
posted 2/10/09 @ 10:49 PM MST
Boo Hoo Whaaa Whaaa Whine Whine.
I'm a woman.
But somebody made a cartoon I don't like.
I'M A member of the GLBT community.
But somebody made a cartoon I don't like. (Continued…)
Katherine-Claire
ronnoco
posted 2/11/09 @ 10:48 AM MST
Peace Love-where is the peace/love?? Consider changing your name.
kyle
posted 2/11/09 @ 11:28 AM MST
Craig, ad hominem much? (Sophomoric observation, yes, but please excuse that.)
Sure, why bother responding to her claim that you don't really address the issues of the original post in your response when it takes a lot less evaluative effort to just insult her and dismiss her argument by claiming through the use of a tired insult and an unnecessarily harsh focus on the one part of her comment that wasn't meant to be substantive?
Also, if you're wondering "What happened to the America where we were civil to each other and cared for eachother. (Continued…)
Liberty Fox
posted 2/11/09 @ 7:46 PM MST
Your thin skinned and get over it. If you find Mr. Woods commic to be offensive, then I suggest you dont read it. We are all the butt end of somebodys joke. (Continued…)
Registered Independent
posted 2/11/09 @ 8:29 PM MST
Folks,
It is incredible that some people have not yet figured out that "cutting edge" is simply a euphemism, quite deliberately coined by Hollywood, which was specifically designed to lend "creative" legitimacy to any movie/play/so-called musical dreck/cartoon/take your pick; which was actually designed specifically to appeal to the lowest of common denominators?
Which is simply a crude, rude, vulgar, glimpse into the behavior of the basest low-lifes of society? As well as being completely lacking in any redeeming intellectual or creative qualities?
Common vulgarity has always been the refuge of the intellectually lazy. (Continued…)
kyle
posted 2/12/09 @ 1:06 AM MST
Craig, I'd like to think I'd be happy to "debate the issues" with you, but to be frank, I'm not sure I'm clear on what the issues are. Something about liberals mucking up the country, being juvenile, profanity, socialism, old-timey niceties, pacifism, Obama, and maybe a bit of he-started-it no she-started it. (Continued…)
A Concenred Citizen
posted 2/12/09 @ 8:46 AM MST
You want it removed? Good luck. They didn't remove Lobster Avenue despite how many complaints THAT got.
Samuel
posted 2/12/09 @ 12:18 PM MST
Dudes, chill. Repeat/Delete is just a comic. I know that I can't throw out advanced vocabulary to make a good counterargument to Craig Hawley, but I can make the point that some of the best humor comes from America's taboos. (Continued…)
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