New strip: http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-06-27
You know, when Tats and his fictional minions say "Women choose to do it, you know," and we're supposed to believe that's evil bullshit propaganda ... I get the strong impression that Tats means "have any kind of sexual relationships with men" when he says "do it."
Could this be an ego-defense tactic? Could it be that he's thinking "If women don't want to have sex with me, then they must not want to have sex with any man!"
Choice and agency for women are tools of the Patriarchy! Women can't be trusted to make the RIGHT choice on their own!
Tats is dragging trafficking into this now. The whole problem with trafficking is that it's got everything to do with the protection of prostitution as a legitimate profession. Sex traffickers work in the dark. Where prostitutes have no legal protection or recourse the pimps flourish. Even in places where prostitution is legal this is still a problem
Yesterday I read an article that sex trafficking in Amsterdam still exists and the police has trouble getting grip on it, even after a 10-year project to get a grip on it. Want to know the reasons why? The city council has closed a lot of windows, especially the ones where women could work away from the crowds. The huge influx of tourists has made it difficult for women to work in the open, because the constant presence of camera's scared customers away. Pimps from Eastern Europe force Eastern European women to work in the "legal" profession for laughable amounts of money and drive the prices down, turning prostitution into some kind of mass product which again attracts a whole lot of tourists.
In what other profession would these kinds of things be tolerated? Imagine a salaryman at an office. The city council is moving your desk out on the street and most of your co-workers get replaced by Romanian workers that get forced to work there and have to hand off their salary to strange people you've never seen. Meanwhile you get made a tourist attraction by the government and need to keep working on the same place, because your original private office has been turned into a restaurant to attract more tourists. You quit in frustration and the city council keeps wondering why there are so many Romanians working in the office. This must be because the office job is legal, it's the only answer!
As in "stop protesting about where this comic is going, you Knucklehead McSpazatrons. This is my story and in my story, everything I say is law and if you don't like it, you can buzz off, because I don't need you! I don't need ANYONE!"
...So anyway, if someone were to go around saying they've got a fix fic for Sinfest, would Tats riot?
Given how very thin skinned SJ Ws tend to be? He'd be posting comics that ammount to throwing a tantrum about it for months.
New strip: http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-06-28
Well, he did it. Tats now has Johnbies walking the streets of Festerville.
How long before all straight adult male humans are phased out in favor of Johnbies?
You all know where I'm coming from on this ...
I don't think Tats has been patronizing hookers. I think Someone Else read an opinion piece on sex trafficking and wants Tats to generalize it to all Evil Menz. Turning men who consort with prostitutes into Johnbies is his way of deliberately strawmanning them. Now (A) Someone Else is satisfied that he's sufficiently woke, (B) he has "plausible deniability" about being prejudiced ("I wasn't talking about all men, just the ones who support sex trafficking"), and (C) giving himself room to disavow the whole thing at a later date if he wants to ("What? You couldn't tell it was satire?! How much more over-the-top would it have to be for you guys to catch on?").
Or he could be batshit crazy.
Ten credits say in the next few strips the Sisterhood will start gunning down the Johnbies with gleeful abandon.
I'm not taking that bet. If the Johnbies are real, the Sisterhood has already been doing that in order to produce their pirate videos.
By the way, do any of you people not have a cursor when you're composing a comment? I'm wondering if it's a "feature" of the new format.
Edited by Hexapodia on Jun 27th 2018 at 11:47:09 AM
If really there's someone who is inspiring Tats to do all this crap, I hope that they both visit a webcomic artist convention - and, upon learning of that someone's identity and responsibility, another webcomic artist tosses her out in the street - literally. Bonus points if the tosser-out is a girl (like, say, Gisele Lagace or Danielle Corsetto) but I'd be fine with someone REALLY poisonous (I'd say RL Milholland, but I've met him at Gen Con and when he isn't behind the pencil he's positively adorable ^-^)

I just disabled No Script altogether because I couldn't be asked to deal with it's BS.