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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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I think this is definitely true, but it doesn't just blanket apply to any joke that mentions these topics. Jokes where people "pretend" to say sexist or abusive ideas, but the joke is that "I'm actually a nice person, I obviously don't really mean this" (eg "no means yes, and yes means harder, amirite guys ;-)" or "if there's grass on the wicket, it's ready for cricket, lol"), can definitely be harmful even if not many that way. It normalises those attitudes, and can make abusers feel like they have more support from society than they really do. But in this comic the character comes across as a psychopath, proudly announcing something that is clearly wrong, and the other one calls the police. I don't feel like anyone is getting some message that actually it's totally normal to have sex with ten year olds...
It doesn't matter that the representation is bad.
American History X is a very anti-nazi movie, portraying the main character's growing realization of how horrible a person he used to be.
Yet neonazis of every nation consider that movie a rallying cry, again despite explicitly portraying the main character's past as abhorrent and brutal. Or maybe because of it.
So while you may THINK portraying the pedophile as a psychopath may be good story and representation, a portion of people 'laughing' about it are because they are pedophiles and they enjoy the representation regardless of the context.