Actually, most Amazon villages are peaceful. It’s a much better idea to claim you are moving to Antarctica. You can be sure the zombies will deal with the debt collectors.
Turns out I missed a comic, so I had to update the Zombie Tracker:
Unofficial BM Zombie Tracker
Comics About Zombies: 14
Uses of word “zombie”: 48
Number of zombies: 52
… I can’t say I appreciate the blatant caricature and amalgamation of cultures you have going on there. I know you can do better than that. Generic Primitive Culture is a lame trope that could really stand to die out.
I reject the suggestion that to have a sense of humor, one must be comfortable with making insulting generalizations. That you would believe this so sincerely as to chastise another for lacking the same willingness to perpetuate baseless assumptions about sweepingly broad and unrelated groups of cultures and ethnicities… is deeply concerning.
I often enjoy Bug Martini. I simply refuse to enjoy it completely uncritically. Humor is not above critique, and I think Huber did something wrong here.
Meanwhile, it would certainly speak volumes to your character if you were to for some reason feel that a criticism leveled at the cartoon were also implicitly directed at your enjoyment of it, or perhaps even at your comfort with the generalizations noted, and that you would subsequently feel the need to undermine, dismiss, and otherwise attempt to discredit the critic.
In short, yes, indeed; I have no sense of humor, if having a sense of humor entails laughing off the issues that are important to me and remaining silent when I might speak up.
My little 10-word point was not about you, which is why you were not mentioned specifically (quoting you doesn’t automatically make it a personal attack; I was commenting on your point). There was no suggestion there. It speaks volumes about you that you feel that you are being attacked or dismissed, and responded in paragraphs to something that wasn’t even a complete sentense.
My little point was your seeming idea that an obviously goofy joke in an established irrelevant comic somehow must be taken as a serious depiction of a primitive culture is beyond ridiculous. That is a myopic attitude and view on life in general that assumes everybody reading is so ignorant and racist that they view this comic and its humor as a proper representation of reality, and it must be criticized for the betterment of us all.
It is an encouragement for literal, ignorant critical thinking. One that is based in simplistic idealistic interpretation that ignores the humanity involved.
In this case: The “trope” (which, to be blunt, is a critical approach designed to take literature and art out of context) of “General Primitive Culture” is not targeted at a specific people; it is aimed at a outmoded entertainment cliche, which the cartoonist himself is making fun of.
So, go ahead and enjoy your issue-based criticism. It’s is a soapbox of your own devising.
On the contrary, I really don’t think ill of anyone involved — the cartoonist or the readership — for creating or enjoying this strip. I don’t see anyone here as ignorant or racist. Even if I did, I’d be thoroughly mistaken. My original remarks were not intended to read as accusatory, and if they came across that way, that was a fault in my wording.
It was meant to read similarly to, “Hey. So, you could definitely do that, or — hear me out on this — you could… Not Do That.” You might have something going with “simplistic, idealistic”, since I only spoke up on principle; I’m not angry about anything that happened here, but I do sincerely believe that media has the power to shape our understanding of things.
You might have a point about the trope being employed in a way that makes fun of prior media which had used it straight, but I don’t really feel like the cues are there for that. I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but on the other hand, I don’t want to just assume the best because it’s possible they were doing something ironically.
I hope you’ll excuse me somewhat for reading a remark about the death of any sense of humor as calling me humorless.
i think this whole strip is hilarious–i love the natives with their headdress, cook pot, and fork-and-knife at the ready. and i think panel #1 would make a great coffee mug on its own. <3
I say change your address to that of your new postal office… Keep that mail in an infinite loop
Actually, most Amazon villages are peaceful. It’s a much better idea to claim you are moving to Antarctica. You can be sure the zombies will deal with the debt collectors.
Turns out I missed a comic, so I had to update the Zombie Tracker:
Unofficial BM Zombie Tracker
Comics About Zombies: 14
Uses of word “zombie”: 48
Number of zombies: 52
I don’t think that there are any zombies in the Antartic. Definitely not any zombie penguins. What are trying to pull here?
Zombies…no
Horrifying shapeshifting monsters…yes.
The secret zombie base may or may not be in Antarctica.
I think panel four would be good on a coffee mug… I’m just saying!
yesssssssssssssssss
I just took a trip* through the entire Amazon the other day!
It looks like a nice place to settle down for reals.
*a google™ trip.
… I can’t say I appreciate the blatant caricature and amalgamation of cultures you have going on there. I know you can do better than that. Generic Primitive Culture is a lame trope that could really stand to die out.
He uses every lame trope that exists. Why should this one be any different?
You’re just mad cuz you’re a tribal chief who just realized his head dress is a birthday card.
“…that could really stand to die out.”
Along with, apparently, any semblance of a sense of humor.
I reject the suggestion that to have a sense of humor, one must be comfortable with making insulting generalizations. That you would believe this so sincerely as to chastise another for lacking the same willingness to perpetuate baseless assumptions about sweepingly broad and unrelated groups of cultures and ethnicities… is deeply concerning.
I often enjoy Bug Martini. I simply refuse to enjoy it completely uncritically. Humor is not above critique, and I think Huber did something wrong here.
Meanwhile, it would certainly speak volumes to your character if you were to for some reason feel that a criticism leveled at the cartoon were also implicitly directed at your enjoyment of it, or perhaps even at your comfort with the generalizations noted, and that you would subsequently feel the need to undermine, dismiss, and otherwise attempt to discredit the critic.
In short, yes, indeed; I have no sense of humor, if having a sense of humor entails laughing off the issues that are important to me and remaining silent when I might speak up.
You really want to get into this? Fine.
My little 10-word point was not about you, which is why you were not mentioned specifically (quoting you doesn’t automatically make it a personal attack; I was commenting on your point). There was no suggestion there. It speaks volumes about you that you feel that you are being attacked or dismissed, and responded in paragraphs to something that wasn’t even a complete sentense.
My little point was your seeming idea that an obviously goofy joke in an established irrelevant comic somehow must be taken as a serious depiction of a primitive culture is beyond ridiculous. That is a myopic attitude and view on life in general that assumes everybody reading is so ignorant and racist that they view this comic and its humor as a proper representation of reality, and it must be criticized for the betterment of us all.
It is an encouragement for literal, ignorant critical thinking. One that is based in simplistic idealistic interpretation that ignores the humanity involved.
In this case: The “trope” (which, to be blunt, is a critical approach designed to take literature and art out of context) of “General Primitive Culture” is not targeted at a specific people; it is aimed at a outmoded entertainment cliche, which the cartoonist himself is making fun of.
So, go ahead and enjoy your issue-based criticism. It’s is a soapbox of your own devising.
On the contrary, I really don’t think ill of anyone involved — the cartoonist or the readership — for creating or enjoying this strip. I don’t see anyone here as ignorant or racist. Even if I did, I’d be thoroughly mistaken. My original remarks were not intended to read as accusatory, and if they came across that way, that was a fault in my wording.
It was meant to read similarly to, “Hey. So, you could definitely do that, or — hear me out on this — you could… Not Do That.” You might have something going with “simplistic, idealistic”, since I only spoke up on principle; I’m not angry about anything that happened here, but I do sincerely believe that media has the power to shape our understanding of things.
You might have a point about the trope being employed in a way that makes fun of prior media which had used it straight, but I don’t really feel like the cues are there for that. I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but on the other hand, I don’t want to just assume the best because it’s possible they were doing something ironically.
I hope you’ll excuse me somewhat for reading a remark about the death of any sense of humor as calling me humorless.
Ouch. Paper cut to the eyes.
i think this whole strip is hilarious–i love the natives with their headdress, cook pot, and fork-and-knife at the ready. and i think panel #1 would make a great coffee mug on its own. <3