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Penny Arcade - Comic - Lurve
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Lurve
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I could see how it could be construed that way if you read between the lines. It's like that episode of Seinfeld where George feels "it" move when he gets a massage from a guy and then spends the episode worrying if he's gay or not and it's HILARIOUS. But, nowadays, it has all these other connotations where it's like "Why is somebody possibly being gay funny? Why is someone being worried about becoming gay funny?"
That being said, I just accept them for a product of their times, and I also accept that there's no malice intended in Seinfeld or this comic. It's just making fun of an awkward situation, and in the comic's sake, miscommunication.
I think that's a bit of a stretch. I think it's a joke about Tycho's ambiguious nature in that department and him teasing Gabe about how uncomfortable he is with the prospect of being seen as gay when he isn't. As an old-hand homo posterior, I do this to my friends all the time.
Except Gabe is the one with the well established bi tendencies.
[/not a Destiny player]
oh it's a Destiny thing?
Okay.
Do you not think that's a massive over-reaction? I don't see anything here that implies being gay is bad. Only that Gabe is completely oblivious to a very famous gay movie, which Tycho is using to tease him. I'm trying to bring up another strip that sounded insulting to gay people, but the only thing I can scrape up is that dick joke strip. But that would've been equally funny executed by a woman, because I think the humor was more that it sounded like something dirty. I'm not even sure how some people can tolerate being on a site with so much naughty humor, if so easily offended. I mean, isn't someone on tumblr missing you, anyway? Sheesh.
Pretty sure the point of the joke is Gabe's ignorance and insecurity.
Gee, way to break the continuity, guys!
And giraffes.
Of course, anything with a long neck is always tantalizing. Now that dogs are once again fair game, I'm really glad I'm not a Whippet or Italian Greyhound.
Such a raucous hullabaloo will most assuredly result from this ribald and salacious tomfoolery! The bourgeoisie won't stand for it I say!
Controversy always attracts more attention than quality; that's the motto of American media, and Penny Arcade isn't free from it.
So many good moments of beating a stealthy jerkbag and stealing capture points on High Pass Cemetary right out from under someone's nose.
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If a person says "oh good, more awful to be gay jokes", the best response isn't to say "no it isn't."
Nor is it to say "go back to tumblr!"
They've already been offended. They already perceive the joke that way. You don't get to decide they're not offended, and just flat out telling them they're wrong for being offended gets you basically nowhere.
You could, instead, try to engage someone if they're upset about something like that. Rather than flat out telling @Magic Pink he's wrong, any one of you (including Tube) could have asked him why he sees the joke that way. That he does is a matter of fact. You can't "correct" him about it if you don't even stop to ask why he feels that why. There's no dialogue there, just people telling each other they're wrong, most notably people who are not offended telling the offended parties that they shouldn't be.
Ask yourself, has that sort of counter argument ever worked? Someone says "that offends me" and someone else says... "Well it shouldn't because you're wrong."
Something to consider the next time you try to tell someone who has had to listen to bullshit homophobic humor their whole life that it's "just a joke"
Straight people, especially straight men are often uncomfortable with the idea of being gay. It doesn't mean they hate gay people or anything, it's just how they grew up. Occasionally comics will poke fun at this. Some of the time, like in this case, it will even be amusing.
One guy being upset isn't much of a "controversy" so I guess they need to try harder.
Or a borzoi. They're basically the horse of dogs.
I have a coworker who breeds Borzois, they sound pretty badass. They originate in Russia, where they were bred to kill wolves. You'd have a few of them that just lived on your property and killed any wolves (and probably whatever/whomever else) foolish enough to come calling. Very similar to Afghan Hounds they have very low Breed Intelligence ratings. Except they are actually quite intelligent, but they just don't generally care about pleasing people so they are hard to train. They have long necks and jaws to give longer reach in combat. So they can land the first bite.