Comment on Burned Loss
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 17 hours agoYou are free to make your own interpretations as far as how he portrays/portrayed women in his comics. It’s been almost 20 years since that comic went up, and standards in social mores and comedy have changed a ton in that time, but when I read those comics back then, only being familiar with Buckley through CAD comics and nothing else, he never struck me as a narcissist or a misogynist. His self-insert character was a Homer Simpson type (“which was the style at the time”), which is hardly the caricature of a narcissist in my opinion. I find it’s very easy to invent a narrative about who someone is from how they portray themselves publicly, and also…it’s been 18 years. Whoever he was 18 years ago is very likely not who he is today. I don’t know that he’s a bad person, I don’t know that he ever was a bad person, and I don’t think it’s admirable to hound someone with a joke about something that they put out into the world so long ago. Surely whatever he learned from that experience has been learned, and we can move on. I didn’t feel good when I saw that comic the first time, nor was I intended to, but I definitely don’t feel great whenever it’s brought back up either.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ok well you keep all that learning and growing in mind while you take a look at this comic that the artist uploaded to his site a few years ago on one of the anniversaries of the original comic.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Which could just as easily be interpreted as steering into the skid, like a strategy someone might use when they’re relentlessly bullied. But you’re clearly more interested in Tim Buckley’s life than I am.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Lmao “relentlessly bullied”.