PizzaCake, the artist behind this comic, made another comic a few years back, satirising a bunch of things men say to women to handwave away bad behaviour (think “not all men” kind of stuff). What she didn’t notice was that with her satirisation, she also dismissed genuine issues that society also tends to dismiss relating to mens mental health.
The mods of r/comics went a bit overboard with the moderation (to be fair, an overwhelming amount of moderated comments have been just pure toxic masculinity, but a bunch of people who said that both toxic masculinity AND the intentional downplay of men’s issues are a problem, got caught in the crossfire).
PizzaCake herself had some… less than savoury reactions, all in all it turned into a shitshow that the chuds blew out of proportion, the mods who stepped in were overbearing and obviously prejudiced, and the overall reactions just… weren’t nice. this should’ve been something that triggers respectful discussion, and both sides were unable to do exactly that.
Later on, the manosphere launched what was essentially a mini gamergate against PizzaCake and bam, now we have a bunch of videos and Reddit posts calling her “pathetic” and other select names, while the people posting said content aren’t better by any measure…
PizzaCake, the artist behind this comic, made another comic a few years back, satirising a bunch of things men say to women to handwave away bad behaviour (think “not all men” kind of stuff). What she didn’t notice was that with her satirisation, she also dismissed genuine issues that society also tends to dismiss relating to mens mental health.
The mods of r/comics went a bit overboard with the moderation (to be fair, an overwhelming amount of moderated comments have been just pure toxic masculinity, but a bunch of people who said that both toxic masculinity AND the intentional downplay of men’s issues are a problem, got caught in the crossfire).
PizzaCake herself had some… less than savoury reactions, all in all it turned into a shitshow that the chuds blew out of proportion, the mods who stepped in were overbearing and obviously prejudiced, and the overall reactions just… weren’t nice. this should’ve been something that triggers respectful discussion, and both sides were unable to do exactly that.
Later on, the manosphere launched what was essentially a mini gamergate against PizzaCake and bam, now we have a bunch of videos and Reddit posts calling her “pathetic” and other select names, while the people posting said content aren’t better by any measure…
Thank you for actually giving me an explanation instead of just calling her comics unfunny lol
Yeah anyone saying her comics are unfunny is lying to themself or others.
They’re not gut-busting, side-splitting, laugh out loud funny, but what comic is?
They’re slightly amusing, and more relevant in this case, often politically topical. The latter gets a lot of people very angry.
Have you never laughed at a comic before?