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Yanno, Lovecraft was a racist, but I've yet to see Mythos fans try to convince people to read his work by hitting them with On the Creation of N--ggers.* I've certainly never seen them go to a forum dedicated to civil rights in sci-fi or horror literature. Usually the pitch goes, "Hey, check out these super-creepy books about fish creatures ... but watch for the cats with the racist names."
To clarify, other than the Spawn #10 issue with Cerebus as a guest star and bits of Reads before the urge to throw up set in, I haven't read Sim's work. To clarify further, I PLAN to read Sim's work sometime in the future. Not this year. Maybe next year. At least until I've read some Conan and Elric novels so I can get some of the jokes in the first volume.
I approach reading this series with trepidation, like I approached reading Lovecraft with trepidation and I'm also steeling myself to read R. Crumb's stuff. But I have to say, posts from people who DON'T agree with his views on women but talk about his artistic talent? Those make the idea of reading the series actually kind of interesting and exciting.
The posts about how RIGHT his views are and how despite how Sim labels women subhuman void-leeches who should be ashamed of himself he's not really a misogynist because he acts polite to women in real life. Um ... NOT HELPING. You are not bringing deserved publicity to a misunderstood creator. You are being a dilweed. You are being a very LOUD dilweed and if you think you're inciting me to read the work by pitching "More dilweed-ness but now you have to pay for it!" you're dead wrong and you're making it worse for both yourself AND your hero.
Yes, you have the right to your views, as feminists have the right to theirs. But just because you re-state those views ad nauseum does not mean you will change their minds on this. They want to read it, they'll do it on their own terms, and you're probably just going to have to live with that.
Also, please to stop berating the people who say the views would impact their enjoyment of the work so that when they do read it you can then beat them up for not "understanding" it.
And, no, you can't comment here. Go talk about how this is ignorant Feminist-Marxist hate speech and how I'm just a "Simogynist" (which seems like it would technically mean Sim-womanist etymologically or something) on your own blog.
*(Although, when I went looking for that poem somebody put it up on the Stormfront forums. Still that's a for racists-by-racists thing.)
To clarify, other than the Spawn #10 issue with Cerebus as a guest star and bits of Reads before the urge to throw up set in, I haven't read Sim's work. To clarify further, I PLAN to read Sim's work sometime in the future. Not this year. Maybe next year. At least until I've read some Conan and Elric novels so I can get some of the jokes in the first volume.
I approach reading this series with trepidation, like I approached reading Lovecraft with trepidation and I'm also steeling myself to read R. Crumb's stuff. But I have to say, posts from people who DON'T agree with his views on women but talk about his artistic talent? Those make the idea of reading the series actually kind of interesting and exciting.
The posts about how RIGHT his views are and how despite how Sim labels women subhuman void-leeches who should be ashamed of himself he's not really a misogynist because he acts polite to women in real life. Um ... NOT HELPING. You are not bringing deserved publicity to a misunderstood creator. You are being a dilweed. You are being a very LOUD dilweed and if you think you're inciting me to read the work by pitching "More dilweed-ness but now you have to pay for it!" you're dead wrong and you're making it worse for both yourself AND your hero.
Yes, you have the right to your views, as feminists have the right to theirs. But just because you re-state those views ad nauseum does not mean you will change their minds on this. They want to read it, they'll do it on their own terms, and you're probably just going to have to live with that.
Also, please to stop berating the people who say the views would impact their enjoyment of the work so that when they do read it you can then beat them up for not "understanding" it.
And, no, you can't comment here. Go talk about how this is ignorant Feminist-Marxist hate speech and how I'm just a "Simogynist" (which seems like it would technically mean Sim-womanist etymologically or something) on your own blog.
*(Although, when I went looking for that poem somebody put it up on the Stormfront forums. Still that's a for racists-by-racists thing.)
