Why Postmodern Barney hates comic books

[rivkat]

Bookslut blog had this link and I --

Well. Apparently all comic book fans think alike (also, I appear to have misplaced my penis, which PMB assumes is a necessary attribute of comic fannishness), and that makes them racist, homophobic, and intolerant of change. But it's really not our fault, because we probably have Asperger's or some mild-spectrum autistic attributes. Which is "not to say I’m trying to pathologize super-hero fans and their behavior." Really, PMB? Because I'm sort of interested in what trying on your part would look like.

Comments

[popfantastic.livejournal.com]

I've SEEN comic book fans say shit like this on-line

Once again, I'm glad not to be so much involved the online comic fandom.

I have seen *plenty* of bad behavior from comic fans IRL, as we have discussed in the past, but it tends to be directed against mundanity (in the sense of not being in the fandom...and, okay, in the usual sense too) rather than at specific gender, ethnic, etc. groups. I in no way doubt its existence, but it seems to me that the good behavior at least in terms of outright homophobia, sexism, racism have vastly outweighed the bad, and I'm offended on behalf of my experience of Average Comic Guy.

Of course, I am lucky in that one of my local comic book stores is beside a college campus and staffed by folks I've come to know who would pretty much kick out anyone at the first use of the word fag. But we're not particularly urban or enlightened, so I don't know that this is so far from the norm.

[danielleleigh.livejournal.com]

I think they would turn out folks like that at my comic book store as well...somehow on-line has turned into a "safe" place to vent one's disgusting attitudes.