http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/11/the-oatmeal-strikes-back Comments On: The Oatmeal Strikes Back by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
So. Link to this specific joke. If it's so offensive link to it rather than have us rely on your word of how bad it is. Or at least describe it in detail - since it might have pulled down. Let us judge what was so offensive.

Shit. I bet you never even SAW it the first place.
Posted by tkc]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:07:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by suddenlyorcas]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:16:21 -0800 The Stranger however, the original article was such a piece of shit, I feel the need to defend some of his action in responding to it. Applying malice to actions (or inactions) willy-nilly doesn't help anybody in this argument, and I was simply clarifying a point that has been misstated several times.
Posted by stirwise]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:21:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Josh Bis]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:29:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by stirwise]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:02:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thene]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:25:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Josh Bis]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:24:59 -0800 The Stranger
Just as everybody has the right to tell you to take your faux outrage and self-serving pose as defender of the oppressed and shove it. And you have the right to say "No, I don't think I will shove it, thank you very much." And then they have the right to say "Well, screw you, buddy!"

Ad infinitum.
Posted by Free Speech For All]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:33:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by McGee]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:30:41 -0800 The Stranger
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/miracle_whip

Come on, that's funny! If you don't find it funny then you need to stop being a pretentious prick and give yourself permission to laugh at silly absurdities.
Posted by brandon]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:40:17 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by beef rallard]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:32:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tigntink]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:29:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by blip]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:22:01 -0800 The Stranger
Inman makes a very small amount of money from advertising, and most advertising that pays well requires people to take actions. Simply bringing people to his site who then leave isn't valuable.

Inman makes the majority of his revenue from people who like his stuff buying merchandise. People who do drive-by visits because of a controversy are unlikely to buy his merchandise.


Posted by GlennFleishman]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:06:03 -0800 The Stranger
Literally EVERYBODY has something that pisses them off. So when everybody get's an equal chance to shout somebody down you realize that leads witch hunts which essentially kills anything artistically edgy or innovative. And before you say it everybody thinks their outrage is justified. Everybody feel righteous.

See what you DON'T have a right to do is create a knee-jerk internet posse and declare liberal fatwa and demand "There has to be CONSEQUENCES!" to get people fired or shamed every time you think some joke is shitty. Because some times - more than you seem to admit to - you're wrong. The internet makes this shit all too easy. And too easy to spiral out of control.

There is such a thing as being reasonable, rational and assuming the best intentions of other people before leaping to red alert. That's the very definition of BEING progressive. And the criticism of this dumb web comic doesn't come close to crossing that threshold. Nobody is getting raped because of the Oatmeal. So calm the fuck down. the only thing getting violated is logic.

There is a large portion of the web - your posts among them - that feel's the compulsive need to takes sides over petty cultural minutiae and scream about an offense literally every day. And in media scape so loud your views deserve no more a fair hearing than the rest of the noise.
Posted by tkc]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:46:19 -0800 The Stranger
Inman's recurring conflict cycle drives traffic.
I'm just going to assume that Inman paid Stuef for the profile.
Posted by dirge]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:30:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:23:38 -0800 The Stranger
For the billionth freaking time, he has every right to make stupid, shitty jokes. And everyone else has just as much right to say, hey, your jokes are stupid and shitty.
Posted by johnjjeeves]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:13:54 -0800 The Stranger
I assure you that we will wait with baited breath.
Posted by bearseatbeats]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:13:39 -0800 The Stranger
tl:dr

After dinner, I promise.
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:48:10 -0800 The Stranger
Screw the passive-aggressive, chronically offended asshats who feign hurt feelings to manipulate and control others.

@10: The Oatmeal is usually intelligent and funny, whereas SMBC, Toothpaste, and Perry Bible are usually not.
Posted by seandr]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:36:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pheeeew!crack!boom!]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:35:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by blip]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:30:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:28:23 -0800 The Stranger
So, I'm guessing you read the Buzzfeed hit piece but not Inman's response, right? "I did SEO for 6 months in my early 20s, sucked at it, and got banned by Google. End of SEO."

I agree that the rape joke was in quite poor taste and that his initial response to the backlash was rather inadequate, but in his defense, he did apologize more completely later on and did remove the offending panel.

But, seriously, this is just some guy trying to make a living on the internet by making cartoons he thinks people will like, and he's obviously quite successful at it. Those cartoons are often lewd and probably offensive to some group or another (other than the rape joke). This is not new. He went overboard this time, true, but this Buzzfeed piece is nothing short of a poorly researched hatchet job meant to further the writer's own career and generate click views for Buzzfeed, ironically one of the very claims leveled at Inman.
Posted by bearseatbeats]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:26:28 -0800 The Stranger