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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

His audience was a bunch of childish crass pussies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He should have know is audience were that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We should not default to respecting that audience's reaction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We also should not default to tonguing the author's ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You think that gross description is what I'm doing here?

Go hike and barbeque in bear country. Leave it out for the night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Interesting way to tell someone to rope themselves 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That was the intended audience for the comic at the time, though.

CAD was very much immature nerd humour (as was the style at the time), and it'd be inevitable that a sudden tonal whiplash to a serious tragedy around a miscarriage, out of seeming nowhere, would be received poorly.