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Newsflash: Robert Crumb Is Controversial
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You think that's bad, apparently the Windows 7 marketing team didn't realize that Family Guy was controversial.
Probably because they forgot to include a device driver for that.
Probably because they forgot to include a device driver for that.
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People who are easily offended probably shouldn't go to college and should avoid college campuses in general (except for BYU and similar ultra-lame schools).
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People offended by older men having sex with teenage girls probably shouldn't be reading the bible, either.
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It's probably some College Republican douchebags writing the letters. It's like their full time job, before they graduate to become the future Tim Eymans or Sarah Palins of the world.
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I have that book "My Troubles With Women" (it's a great collection BTW, consider it as a stocking stuffer for the misanthrope in your life), and there is NO "raping of a little girl" in that book. That's either a blatant misrepresentation or just a flat out lie.
I have that book "My Troubles With Women" (it's a great collection BTW, consider it as a stocking stuffer for the misanthrope in your life), and there is NO "raping of a little girl" in that book. That's either a blatant misrepresentation or just a flat out lie.
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The professors response was brilliant. I think this was a healthy exchange of ideas, after all, you don't want those who are advocating censorship to do so from the sidelines until it's too late to stop them.
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Can't wait for Timothy to express his horror and outrage when he has to read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" for his English Lit. class. Why, Swift proposes eating children! SHOCK! HORROR! OUTRAGE! OFFENSE!
Crumb is amazing: he's a stupendous draftsmen and has no fear when it comes to using his art to expose those perverse demons everyone has but prefer to suppress. Expose? Shit, he revels in them.
Crumb is amazing: he's a stupendous draftsmen and has no fear when it comes to using his art to expose those perverse demons everyone has but prefer to suppress. Expose? Shit, he revels in them.
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"Certainly Crumb’s work has played an influential role in world of comics, but being historic doesn’t make it honorable..."
Who said anything about honor? I wouldn't consider the massacre of an entire continent's inhabitants noble, but it is without a doubt historically significant in any high school U.S. History class.
And clearly this guy's view of comic books stops at the front door of DC and Marvel, since Watchmen was anything but "a medium through which society is elevated and the good of the human spirit is proclaimed". You know they made a movie about this one, right? Go watch it.
Who said anything about honor? I wouldn't consider the massacre of an entire continent's inhabitants noble, but it is without a doubt historically significant in any high school U.S. History class.
And clearly this guy's view of comic books stops at the front door of DC and Marvel, since Watchmen was anything but "a medium through which society is elevated and the good of the human spirit is proclaimed". You know they made a movie about this one, right? Go watch it.
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Nabokov didn't rape a 13 year old.
Polanski didn't write Lolita.
Ashe's response is only clever to a credulous PC hack.
Polanski didn't write Lolita.
Ashe's response is only clever to a credulous PC hack.
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@13: Hey Boyo, tain't "PC" to defend Crumb. It's the so called PC crowd, right wing and left wing, that are up in arms over this. But I agree, Ashe's response was weak, but, hey, he's a college prof so his head is up his ass anyway.
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@13: Nabokov's protagonist DOES have sex with a 13yr old girl. You kinda missed the point and made yourself look like an idiot.
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I'm sure Robert Crumb will be lying awake at night over this controversy, surely the first in his career. *rolling eyes*
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