I mean, i dont understand it. How are these women predators? Even if they are looking for attention and going over to socially akward nerds… What is preying about that? Is it because they are fake geeks? Is that it? So are they like metroids or something? Do the exposed cleavage of their boobs leech nerd boy souls? Were these poor defenseless nerds who had to look at boobies, or even felt the magically warm, firm yet squishy boobie brush up against them irreperably damaged if they masturbated after having their nerd soul sucked out by fake geek boobs? Its only at conventions right? My wifes a total dork, but shes hot in this really cute dorky way, but she doesnt know ANYTHING about comic books. I havent been squirting my soul away have I? Cause i dont think i can stop… In fact i kinda want to right now… OH MY GOD AM I A VICTIM OF A PREDATOR!!!

I mean, im a total nerd, but im sure, positive there is TONS of stuff about even my favourite ip’s that i dont know. Except Metroid. I know everything about metroid. If someone tried to tell me i wasnt a real geek because i didnt know certain random trivia… I Cant imagine giving a fuck… What the hell? When did being a geek become the new jock? Isnt it supposed to be synonymous with loser comic book/videogame nerd? That has to be proven now? You have to prove you are a loser? I Dont think anyone can prove loser cred anymore. I mean the bar fir loser has just been set so high i dont think being shy and liking things popular kids used to make fun of you for is going to cut it anymore.

What he said to public audience that follows him was stating an opinion which resulted in immediate anger, and alarming several people. Reading his words, it appears that he had his own, narrow look on the thing, and by taking this view he perhaps missed some facts like that the fandom is not all united in one view of things, and that there’s different interpretations, heck some stories have had so many revisions that there are fans of a particular age between revisions.

For example: I like a fair share of comics, but portrayal of Starfire has changed so radically I wouldn’t read more work featuring her, but I might enjoy work portraying fer as she was -before- those changes. The character isn’t particularily important to me but its one example I’ve sadly come to see in both “before” and “after” views and I wouldn’t blame anyone for not liking the new version, and preferring to stick to the earlier one.

In this case, its a fan’s choice who and what they follow. If Harris has a strict view of what should be followed and what should not, fine. Calling people names is just rising trouble.

I’m trying to be civil about this here, I’m certainly not in favor of Tony Harris on the issue in any way ,but I’m trying to give him a chance on the matter. I cant say I’d agree with him, but I can try to look at the points in general.

The accusation towards women is something that would deserve a public apology. If he was an average person who’s friends, maybe classmates/workmates might read his work, eh well, he might alienate some but be friends with others that agree.

He’s a public person though (albeit a very minor one, only known to the fandom I guess?) so he has followers that listen to him, and when he tries to teach them something that a few people might even label hate-speech, that’s where it gets tricky.

Freedom to say what you want doesn’t mean you can get away with it scot free. You should be free to call the government rotten if you feel that way, especially if you have logical reasons why (but please be prepared to offer a better idea then in turn, how to fix it, not just complain) but when it comes to expressing -opinions- without factual basis, now that is just … rising ire.

I’m familiar with some of the work mentioned, but after all this, I’ll never touch anything he’s worked on anymore. The whole matter brought him up as someone to blacklist on my reading habits. Which is a shame, because if he creates good stories, I should separate the author’s personal opinions and their work, but what happened here was just bad enough to sour my -personal opinion- enough to -sour his work- for me as well.

What an enormous douchebag.