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*facepalm*
Mar. 8th, 2009 03:50 am"Bottom line: If you're a "Watchmen" fan, there's something sick about you. You're sick if you enjoy watching wanton rape, torture, and murder, no matter what the background for it is. I don't care if it first appeared in a warped comic book paraded with a high-brow euphemism for comic book."
- Debbie Schlussel, found here
This is why I can't fucking stand far-right conservatives. They don't even try to see the other side. They don't listen. I can totally understand how someone could not particularly like the graphic violence in a movie like Watchmen. They have the right to not see it, just as I have the right to see it. I don't judge that. She, however, has passed blanket judgement. We're all "warped and stupid" and "maybe your sister should be fed to dogs and your mother raped and your brother should have his arms sawed off. You know, just to make the point."
She also has completely, completely missed the point of the comic. For one, it actually did seem quite right-leaning to me. Secondly...I'm a writer. I know good writing. I'm a student of philosophy. I know deep, interesting ideas. This story has both. Calling those who do see that stupid just because you don't is absolutely the height of irony.
*deep sigh*
Seriously. This chick's nuts.
- Debbie Schlussel, found here
This is why I can't fucking stand far-right conservatives. They don't even try to see the other side. They don't listen. I can totally understand how someone could not particularly like the graphic violence in a movie like Watchmen. They have the right to not see it, just as I have the right to see it. I don't judge that. She, however, has passed blanket judgement. We're all "warped and stupid" and "maybe your sister should be fed to dogs and your mother raped and your brother should have his arms sawed off. You know, just to make the point."
She also has completely, completely missed the point of the comic. For one, it actually did seem quite right-leaning to me. Secondly...I'm a writer. I know good writing. I'm a student of philosophy. I know deep, interesting ideas. This story has both. Calling those who do see that stupid just because you don't is absolutely the height of irony.
*deep sigh*
Seriously. This chick's nuts.
