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Raylas Roundbird with knives. Knife Bird. Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Roundbird with knives. Knife Bird.
#27451: Jun 26th 2018 at 9:51:54 PM

[up] Happened to you too!?

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

Dragon573 Sanity not included from Sitting at a bonfire Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Sanity not included
#27452: Jun 26th 2018 at 10:43:27 PM

...This format has changed significantly. It makes me unhappy.

It's kind of funny. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is like sufficiently advanced science; eventually, you find something you can't solve.
YamiiDenryuu Since: Jan, 2010
#27453: Jun 26th 2018 at 11:05:16 PM

There's a thread in Wiki Talk about the new design with a poll asking if it should be reverted. Last I checked it was like 90 something for 5 against. P:

Hexapodia Since: Jun, 2016
#27454: Jun 26th 2018 at 11:14:59 PM

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!"

Hexapodia Since: Jun, 2016
#27455: Jun 26th 2018 at 11:17:30 PM

''There's a thread in Wiki Talk about the new design with a poll asking if it should be reverted. Last I checked it was like 90 something for 5 against. P: ''

Do you have a link to that?

Overlord347 Since: May, 2013
#27456: Jun 26th 2018 at 11:24:01 PM

[up]Same. I'll be honest, I don't really care for this new format.

And yes, I too am getting something of a self-projection with the latest strip.

hayate666 New England Devil Stork Conservationist Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
New England Devil Stork Conservationist
#27457: Jun 27th 2018 at 2:57:45 AM

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!

Hexapodia Since: Jun, 2016
#27458: Jun 27th 2018 at 3:46:12 AM

By the way, I assume people have noticed that Tats has been putting a stop sign and a no parking sign (slashed circle over P) in every comic with a street scene. I read this as a "Stop P" message, where "P" stands for either Patriarchy or Prostitution.

alarkhar Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Desperate
#27459: Jun 27th 2018 at 4:42:46 AM

[up]Or "protesting"

Edited by alarkhar on Jun 27th 2018 at 4:44:15 AM

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TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#27460: Jun 27th 2018 at 5:12:23 AM

[up] 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?

Metalix Since: Apr, 2012
#27461: Jun 27th 2018 at 6:49:54 AM

[up]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.

yamiblade Since: Jun, 2009
#27462: Jun 27th 2018 at 9:36:54 AM

[up]he's been doing it since his first comic in which the Mouth started insulting her audience for not liking her new act.

firewriter Since: Dec, 2016
#27463: Jun 27th 2018 at 10:05:57 AM

Slick's advice to her gets more and more relevant as it shows that it's advice that Tats should take as well.

Hexapodia Since: Jun, 2016
#27464: Jun 27th 2018 at 11:58:08 AM

[up] But in Tats' universe, saying "Don't shoot yourself in the foot!" is "victim-blaming" ...

firewriter Since: Dec, 2016
#27465: Jun 27th 2018 at 12:13:42 PM

Yet, it's not the other way around when his Soapbox blames her former friend for what his evil side did.

yamiblade Since: Jun, 2009
#27466: Jun 27th 2018 at 8:05:05 PM

[up] it's one of the reasons why I am so harsh about the Mouth. You just KNOW if she Does get called on it she'll probably go "Well maybe if you weren't such a creep, I'd have been willing to help you. Basically, I did nothing wrong and you're a monster and deserve this all, Slick."

Hexapodia Since: Jun, 2016
#27467: Jun 27th 2018 at 9:57:29 PM

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?

yamiblade Since: Jun, 2009
#27468: Jun 27th 2018 at 10:08:26 PM

I guess Tats went to his local strip club again.

In other news enjoying the new season of High School DXD wink

firewriter Since: Dec, 2016
#27469: Jun 27th 2018 at 10:27:56 PM

Yeah, as if his straw sexists couldn't get even more stupid.

Metalix Since: Apr, 2012
#27470: Jun 27th 2018 at 10:43:35 PM

[up][up]Strip club? With virtue signaling this long lasting and potent he probably hit up the Bunny Ranch in Vegas.

yamiblade Since: Jun, 2009
#27471: Jun 27th 2018 at 10:45:28 PM

[up] don't be silly. Tats can't afford That.

Metalix Since: Apr, 2012
#27472: Jun 27th 2018 at 11:11:46 PM

[up]Well he clearly did SOMETHING involving prostitutes! He's been going on this stupid tangent for the better part of two months! I can't even get mad at or make fun of it anymore, I ran out of ammo WEEKS ago!

Edited by Metalix on Jun 27th 2018 at 11:14:43 AM

Overlord347 Since: May, 2013
#27473: Jun 27th 2018 at 11:28:46 PM

Ten credits say in the next few strips the Sisterhood will start gunning down the Johnbies with gleeful abandon.

Hexapodia Since: Jun, 2016
#27474: Jun 27th 2018 at 11:39:54 PM

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.

[up] 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

alarkhar Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Desperate
#27475: Jun 28th 2018 at 12:32:28 AM

[up]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 ^-^)

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