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Be Offended. Nothing Happens
14 years ago
This refers to something that recently happened on my Deviant Art page - yes I have a DA account FA overlords, please don't ban me for disloyalty to the furry art reich.
I've had someone, who I'll not name as they don't watch me and as far as I can tell has never been on my page before, send me a PM telling me that my Deviant ID picture offended them.
You know, the picture of me with a fag up my nose staring into the ether like a drunken savant?
http://whatupwidat.deviantart.com/ That one.
I tried to get them to explain to me exactly what offended them about it. Was it my drunkenly gormless face? Was it that my hair is parted on the same side as Hitlers? Was it my friend's disgustingly upholstered sofa that looks like it was stolen from a blind man in the 70s?
No, apparently it was the fag - or cigarette for those of us too stupid to realise some words mean different things than they do in Amernica. They told me that I was "glorifying smoking" and that I had "offended them".
Firstly, if that picture glorifys anything then I'm Jesus of fucking Nazareth and secondly, so bloody what?
Be offended. Nothing happens.
I'm sick of whinging little fuckers complaining about every little thing that it offends them like they deserve to be taken into consideration. I don't care about your opinion, and I hope I offend you again soon.
This however doesn't mean that I don't care if people have an opinion on my glorious webcomic - the now world famous "Reuben Swears" incident was a miscalculation on my part and for the fans that wrote in not one of them said they dissagreed with it because they were offended but more spelt out that it was a stupid idea to throw an established fact (ie, the characters do not openly swear) and throw it on the dung heap of history.
For their part, the fans that wrote in (all four of them, which I assume means that one of my three fans wrote twice under an assumed name) were very articulate, calm, and non offensive to me about it. There was no flaming, no crying out for an apology, and as a result I listened to them, I agreed, and I changed it back.
Surely that's a better way to be than being a whiney little shit, eh?
I've had someone, who I'll not name as they don't watch me and as far as I can tell has never been on my page before, send me a PM telling me that my Deviant ID picture offended them.
You know, the picture of me with a fag up my nose staring into the ether like a drunken savant?
http://whatupwidat.deviantart.com/ That one.
I tried to get them to explain to me exactly what offended them about it. Was it my drunkenly gormless face? Was it that my hair is parted on the same side as Hitlers? Was it my friend's disgustingly upholstered sofa that looks like it was stolen from a blind man in the 70s?
No, apparently it was the fag - or cigarette for those of us too stupid to realise some words mean different things than they do in Amernica. They told me that I was "glorifying smoking" and that I had "offended them".
Firstly, if that picture glorifys anything then I'm Jesus of fucking Nazareth and secondly, so bloody what?
Be offended. Nothing happens.
I'm sick of whinging little fuckers complaining about every little thing that it offends them like they deserve to be taken into consideration. I don't care about your opinion, and I hope I offend you again soon.
This however doesn't mean that I don't care if people have an opinion on my glorious webcomic - the now world famous "Reuben Swears" incident was a miscalculation on my part and for the fans that wrote in not one of them said they dissagreed with it because they were offended but more spelt out that it was a stupid idea to throw an established fact (ie, the characters do not openly swear) and throw it on the dung heap of history.
For their part, the fans that wrote in (all four of them, which I assume means that one of my three fans wrote twice under an assumed name) were very articulate, calm, and non offensive to me about it. There was no flaming, no crying out for an apology, and as a result I listened to them, I agreed, and I changed it back.
Surely that's a better way to be than being a whiney little shit, eh?
"There are many things I will do, sir, but I won't do that" - Wing Commander Meatloaf, 1942