I managed to make it through 12 pages of the pdf before my mind revolted and forced my eyes to close in self defence. What a mess of an "essay." I'm embarassed to see that the guy is Canadian, and unsurprised to see that he is divorced.
Yeah. Of course, that wasn't relevant. Her disgust was /obviously/ due to her emotional weakness and inability to see the manifest truth of his greatness.
I especially admired his often-expressed thesis that anybody who disagreed with him was incapable of reason, if female, or brainwashed by the power of sex if male.
In other words, "Yeah, more than half of humanity thinks I'm wrong but that's because they're all stupid and weak." Well reasoned, my friend, well reasoned.
Perhaps. So what? That fact certainly isn't mentioned in the essay, which is floating around out there being read. I may have some sympathy for the guy's condition but that doesn't make his writing any less stupidly misogynist.
Dave Sim is ... well, hell, he's a nutjob if you just read his writings. And granted, I haven't spoken to the man since his, uh, conversion? to whatever faith he dreamed up. Once apon a time he was a rather personable, if somewhat cantankerous fellow. I met him at a retailer's convention in Atlanta and he hosted a party in his suite along with Coleen Dorran
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Dave Sim is ... well, hell, he's a nutjob if you just read his writings. And granted, I haven't spoken to the man since his, uh, conversion? to whatever faith he dreamed up. Once apon a time he was a rather personable, if somewhat cantankerous fellow. I met him at a retailer's convention in Atlanta and he hosted a party in his suite along with Coleen Dorran <sp?> and came across as a really nifty guy. The odd thing is...I don't think it was the divorce. I met him post-divorce and he wasn't this apparently ... whatever he is that's wrong with him. Regardless, he's gone around the bend.
He's also extremely talented, and certainly a pioneer in comics. One hopes that his wacko views won't keep his work from the recognition it deserves (so far it hasn't.).
I see him as sort of a male compliment to Andrea Dworkin, though at least Dave hasn't filed any false police reports about crimes that occured entirely in his head. To my knowledge.
Despite Dave's apparent ludite inclinations, he has a blog. <a href="http://davesim.blogspot.com/"> Dave's Blog </a>. Have a look.
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Hmm...I think I'm still going with 'idiot', myself, formal mental diagnosis or no.
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I especially admired his often-expressed thesis that anybody who disagreed with him was incapable of reason, if female, or brainwashed by the power of sex if male.
In other words, "Yeah, more than half of humanity thinks I'm wrong but that's because they're all stupid and weak." Well reasoned, my friend, well reasoned.
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I won't even go into the fact that this is some of his less misogynistic writing after the psychotic break.
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He's also extremely talented, and certainly a pioneer in comics. One hopes that his wacko views won't keep his work from the recognition it deserves (so far it hasn't.).
I see him as sort of a male compliment to Andrea Dworkin, though at least Dave hasn't filed any false police reports about crimes that occured entirely in his head. To my knowledge.
Despite Dave's apparent ludite inclinations, he has a blog. <a href="http://davesim.blogspot.com/"> Dave's Blog </a>. Have a look.