teahousecomic:
In the last few months several of our friends have said to us, “I do not know how you handle all of the crap you guys get on the internet.” Most of the time our response to them is, “We do our best to try to ignore it, but it is surprisingly hard.”
I’ll be honest. I was a nerdy kid and I was…
As a writer, I find the comments attached to this original post disgusting. These people who write and draw Teahouse are fallible human beings like everyone else. They are not perfect, they aren’t even public figures. They create a webcomic that is, to a large degree, free, for anyone to read. It is warned, very well, that it is adult in nature and if you’re not old enough, don’t enter. It’s also another situation where, if you don’t like what you read, hit the fucking back button. No, you don’t have to spew your 50 million reasons you have a problem with the comic at the creator. You’re not going to stop them from drawing and writing it, you’re not going to change their minds about what makes good reading/viewing. All you’re going to do is bully someone. And if you want to stop something, YOU have the be the one to start. You don’t want bullying? Don’t bully. I don’t give a rat’s left testicle if you think you’re justified in your hatred or vitriol. It does not give you the right to spew and bully that other person.
If you write it, they willfind reasons to hate it. It’s that simple, I don’t care what it is. If you write about an otherwise innocent magical world, the religious fanatics will scream about how satanic it is. If you write about a typical teenage girl and give her what she wants and don’t make her some super-heroine who is awesome and super-talented, you’ll get shit. (For the record, I’m *not* a Twilight fan, but when you break it down, that’s what the story is.) If you write about a woman who is into BDSM and submission, suddenly she’s anti-feminist and in an abusive relationship (50 Shades of Gray). It doesn’t matter how good the writing is or not, they’ll find something to hate about it.
And if you write a comic that obviously takes place in a time and location akin to Victorian England, and don’t include obviously anachronistic black people, then apparently, you’ve whitewashed the cast because historical accuracy is much less important than political correctness.
I tell my daughter this all the time. If you want to end racism, it has to stop being recognized period. Not just stop with white people picking on black people, but the other way has to stop, too. You can’t “celebrate” being another color if you don’t want other people to have a problem with it. It all has to go away. My daughter, when she was little, didn’t even recognize race until a little black boy at her day care refused to be her friend because “she was white and he was black and they couldn’t.”
If you write it, they will complain. Period. I don’t care what it is or what it’s about. The simple fact is, if you don’t like it, don’t read it. You have as much right to read something they don’t like as they do to create something you don’t. Someone compared the responsibility of creation of a comic like this to creating kiddie porn. Really? Kiddie porn is illegal. Creating a comic about a whorehouse isn’t. Get over it people and go read Charlotte’s Web, instead.
I liked this reply very much, and I totally agree with it, so I’d like to keep it.