Comments on: Sake

By: CanvasWolfDoll

CanvasWolfDoll — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:12:28 +0000

i recall this strip! i made a grammar correction to it in june of 2012! good times.

By: Historyman68

Historyman68 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:32:09 +0000

Yeah, you’re at a comic where a character LITERALLY exists because another character needed a Lesbian. And who has become an integral and multifaceted part of the cast.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:24:48 +0000

“creating a character whose initial brief is “To Be Female” is sexism.”
No, that’s called “bad writing”

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:22:19 +0000

It’s truly amazing how many people fret over their inability to write the opposite sex or another race “accurately” – by which they mean differently from the way they write their own gender and race – and meanwhile, they’re friends with plenty of totally normal people of different races and genders who would be considered “inaccurate” by their own definition of reality.

By: LiamKav

LiamKav — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:06:02 +0000

From what I can see, we have two choices. We make groups perhaps a bit to earnestly multi-ethnic, multi-gender and multi-sexual, or we only have groups of straight white men.

While the former might not be as ideal as writing people as proper characters, it’s still better than the latter and doing a “Midsummer Murders” (topical British TV reference!)

By: LiamKav

LiamKav — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:04:01 +0000

It’s a bit of a shame that the only way TF fiction can make a female who isn’t defined by her gender is by taking a man and redubbing it.

I mean, even Beast Wars (glorious, glorious Beast Wars) put both it’s female characters in relationships, because GIRLS need BOYS.

Hmm. Does Sari count?

By: Derik

Derik — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:17:38 +0000

Star Trek did this for the Deanna-Troi-disguised-as-a-Romulan episode. (The ship commander was written as a male Sean Connery type.)
They cast a woman and didn’t change a single line of dialog. Worked fab.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:58:18 +0000

But wouldn’t it be so much better if every female character were Athena?

By: David Willis

David Willis — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:21:33 +0000

I’d really like to hear more about this “danger of tokenism.” What is the danger, exactly, in not having an all-white, male cast just because we choose not to? Can you tell me what that harms? Who is threatened? What do we lose?

By: Chumpy

Chumpy — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:08:35 +0000

“I didn’t NOT become friends with someone just because on the most basic levels we were the same. Oh sorry, white guy my age, but I’m really looking for a Japanese girl to fill the hyperactive otaku role in my collective here.”

What?

I’m assuming you wouldn’t NOT become friends with a Japanese girl with whom you had stuff in common, so that doesn’t work at all.