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[supergee]

On not being creepy

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[laughingrat]

Hm! I am curious about how you interpret this comic. I read it as the male character (and therefore the author) believing that women are mean and spiteful, and that we overreact to male attention in public--presumably because our experiences of harassment in public are actually all made up. But it doesn't seem likely that you'd sympathize with that attitude, because you tend to pass on a lot of feminist links. So I'm thinking there's something here that I'm missing.

[supergee]

I see it as a socially inept guy expecting disaster because that's what I identify with, but I can definitely see your interpretation.

[laughingrat]

*nods* Cool, thank you. I'm glad you felt like you could tell me. I figured there was some gap between how we were seeing the comic! I can see your interpretation as well, now that you point it out. I think where it really goes south for me is that next to last panel. I wonder whether it was just a problematic example, and the comic really is more about social awkwardness than gender?