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Combined with the excessive preachiness, how they never actually give her a personality beyond \
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Combined with the excessive preachiness, how they never actually give her a personality beyond \\\"Radical Feminism\\\", and how she can take up half a week of strips for months at a time when there are better developed, more interesting characters this storyline is either taking time away from or intruding obnoxiously, it creates a situation where the viewers say the EightDeadlyWords whenever this storyline pops up, some bordering on RootingForTheEmpire because we\\\'re so sick of the heavy-handed preaching.
As an alternate example to the above, I snark on Dominic Deegan. One of the more Anvilicious parts of that webcomic is \\\"bigotry is bad\\\". It comes up fairly frequently, the bigots are often one-dimensional bullies \\\'\\\'at best\\\'\\\', genocidal demonic megalomaniacs at worst. Meanwhile, the victims of bigotry are often bland, or are one-dimensional, or do things that make you wonder if the bigotry they get is deserved despite the comic\\\'s tacit approval for what they do, or at least the author would eventually realize that what he wrote was offensive and would backpedal to put the blame on someone else. This culminates with Warlord Damaske, a guy that makes Colonel Quaritch from \\\'\\\'{{Film/Avatar}}\\\'\\\' look restrained, be one of the more popular people among the snarkers, while the orcs, the noble race of persecuted victims, just get nonstop venom save for that one guy who told the eponymous hero of the webcomic to piss off. While the message \\\"bigotry is bad\\\" is not a bad message, if you present it so badly that the viewers start rooting for the strawman bad guys, you\\\'ve screwed up.
As an alternate example to the above, I snark on Dominic Deegan. One of the more Anvilicious parts of that webcomic is \\\"bigotry is bad\\\". It comes up fairly frequently, the bigots are often one-dimensional bullies \\\'\\\'at best\\\'\\\', genocidal demonic megalomaniacs at worst. Meanwhile, the victims of bigotry are often bland, or are one-dimensional, or do things that make you wonder if the bigotry they get is deserved despite the comic\\\'s tacit approval for what they do, or at least the author would eventually realize that what he wrote was offensive and would backpedal to put the blame on someone else. This culminates with Warlord Damaske, a guy that makes Colonel Quaritch from \\\'\\\'{{Film/Avatar}}\\\'\\\' look restrained, be one of the more popular people among the snarkers, while the orcs, the noble race of persecuted victims, just get nonstop venom save for that one guy who told the eponymous hero of the webcomic to piss off. While the message \\\"bigotry is bad\\\" is not a bad message, if you present it so badly that the viewers start rooting for the strawman bad guys, you\\\'ve screwed up.
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I think a major problem is that if the world of Sinfest is so backward that they have to resort to this extremism as the only means of affecting change, then we as the viewers lose a common ground. \'\'We\'\' don\'t live in that world where that attitude is necessary (or at least, we don\'t believe we live in such a world). So we\'re forced to watch a conflict that requires an attitude that many of us in real life are uncomfortable with because of the extremism, and it\'s taking over a work that previously mocked people for such extremism.
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I think a major problem is that if the world of Sinfest is so backward that they have to resort to this extremism as the only means of affecting change, then we as the viewers lose a common ground. \\\'\\\'We\\\'\\\' don\\\'t live in that world where that attitude is necessary (or at least, we don\\\'t believe we live in such a world). So we\\\'re forced to watch a conflict that many don\\\'t connect with, which requires an attitude that many of us in real life are uncomfortable with because of the extremism, and it\\\'s taking over a work that previously mocked people for such extremism.
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Combined with the excessive preachiness, how they never actually give her a personality beyond \
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Combined with the excessive preachiness, how they never actually give her a personality beyond \\\"Radical Feminism\\\", and how she can take up half a week of strips for months at a time when there are better developed, more interesting characters this storyline is either taking time away from or intruding obnoxiously, it creates a situation where the viewers say the EightDeadlyWords whenever this storyline pops up, some bordering on RootingForTheEmpire because we\\\'re so sick of the heavy-handed preaching.
