Episode 335: You Have the Right to Remain Silent
on May 30, 2016
and modified on July 6, 2018.
Hello lovely readers. I’m baaaaack! And for better or worse, so is THE BASE (or maybe more accurately, it never left). I just wrapped up work illustrating a children’s book for this really cool educational nonprofit company. Between that and my job with a different educational nonprofit, I unfortunately haven’t had many moments to spare to work on Gyno-Star. But! The book is just about finished, so I can get back to drawing my favorite thing, dopey social justice heroes. It looks like in the meantime, sober conservatism did NOT win out over good old fashioned racist bile in the Republican primaries. So… that’s good for this storyline, anyway. Hurray…..?
Yay, update 🙂
“PC police” is a argument invoked by people that know they are in the minority, but do not want to admit just how wrong they are.
Like the “Science Thought Police” argument thown out until xkcd comic 955 dealt with it.
Or the “freedom of speech” until xkcd 1357 came around.
Freedom allows you to live your life how you please, as long as you do not negatively affect other peoples lifes. The base clearly violated that last part.
“PC police” is most often invoked by bullies who are trying to make it seem like they’re the victims.
Also by cis white men who are mad that they’re expected to treat the opinions of people who aren’t all of the above as being just as valid as their own.
I like PC police because, here in the UK, PC is what we call our general police officers, so it sounds kind of like nominative determinism to me.
“PC Johnny Police – officer of the law!” :3
That PC is an abbreviation for Police Constable, so PC Police in that context is redundant.
Kinda like ATM Machine.
Hey now! Don’t got telling PC Johnny Police that his surname is redundant! Poor guy’ll get a complex.
So being in the minority of public opinion makes you wrong. Interesting… Let me write that down. Christopher, I think the council of elders will be very intrigued by your proposal here. I’d invite you to our next meeting where we will discuss this but… well you know… you are not eligible to be invited for obvious reason.
Nope.
I said using “killer” arguments like PC police shows that you understand you are wrong and in the minority, just do not want to admit it.
As mechwarrior pointed out, someone using that argument wants to appear the Victim.
And if you have to be that proactive in defending your position, it must be a shitty one.
Is Gyno-Star aware that she’s standing in front of everyone, and coming across as the team leader? Because a straight white cis-female who is way too fast to appropriate marginalized voices in order to fuel her own…
This is Hillary vs. Trump, isn’t it?
Well, in her defense she IS their leader. Considering that she hired them all and interviewed many of them for their positions in the Social Justice League. But, yeah. She does also have a habit of screwing up and being insensitive to those who are not as privileged and are more marginalised than herself. Look at what happened during Annie Ang’s interview. Gyno Star does have many faults (lots of virtues, too). Being unaware of her own privilege and being a little quick to appropriate the voices of the more marginalised as her own could also be her’s.
ETA
Well, she interviewd two of them for their current roles, unless she hired Sex Po, the White Knight and Slackavist as well.
Hooray! 🙂
That would be hilarious, now that Little Shappho is on the scene with The Base, if her gaydar went off. I’m sure a priest in hidden somewhere underneath all of that slime….
I see that The Slacktivist, SexPo, and The White Knight are not present. Did they decide to not join the Social Justice League, or are they busy elsewhere, like, registering Mexican-Americans to vote or something?
The Social Justice League ended up being too large to allow for adequate screen time for each member, so Slacky, SexPo, and WK decided to splinter off and form The Great Lakes Social Justice League.
I remember them! Yay Flatman, Doorman, and Big Bertha!
Well Given their niches SexPo could be participating in a slut walk, while Slacktivist and White Knight could either be destroying MRAs in online debates or making wild passionate love to eachother in one or the other’s bunk
Badges? We don’ need no stinkin’ badges.
Hooray for life imitating art, huh? Hip-hip – oh gawd – hip-hip – we’re all doomed – hip-hip – and in an era of people on the left deciding they’re not even gonna vote at all if their preferred candidate doesn’t win the nomination, too! Good luck, America.
I’m actually reasonably optimistic about your chances – I’m not convinced that enough of the people who prefer Sanders would actually concede to Trump, no matter how they might dislike Clinton, and I’ve seen and heard quite a few right wingers say they’d vote Clinton over Trump… sooo… here’s hoping.
Errr, anyway! I may have been (or may not have been (but totally was was)) in fits of giggles over “what are you… the PC police?” “Yes.”
Every well-meaning, self-appointed police force needs badges! :3
Nah, I’ll just vote for Jill. Thankyouverymuch.Bye.
Well, considering Canada threw out OUR bad man, and I met conservatives who were willing to vote for anyone as long as they had a chance of beating Harper…and I’m not sure if Harper was worse than Trump but he probably wasn’t…I’d give you guys good odds at choosing a sane option.
Provided, of course, you don’t split the vote. Hitler became chancellor without getting 50% plus of the seats in their legislative body (or 50% of the popular vote), and he still eventually wound up rising to power.
New comic strip at last, yes!
Hooray! Welcome back, Rebecca and glad to hear you’re doing well professionally and artistically.
So, Rebecca, I don’t want to pressure you or anything like that, but what kind of release schedule are we looking at for future Gynostars? Once a month? Six times a year?
STOP PRESSURING ME ALREADY… j/k, I’m trying to go back to once/week. What do you think of updating Thursdays?
And so begins the Social Justice League’s unbelievable baptism of fire. Vlad Deferens was a ballboy compared to this ungodly monstrosity.
[checks date of comic] Oh boy. Get comfortable, folks…we’re going to be here a while.