Not Everyone Has To Deal With Abuse And Harassment, But Enough Do That Twitter Must Take Action. In A

Not everyone has to deal with abuse and harassment, but enough do that Twitter must take action. In a disproportionate amount of cases of harassment, those individuals are women, LGBT individuals and people of color. These individuals find value in the service, but the problem is their attackers mean as much to Twitter as they do. The weapons to fight abuse must be kept locked up, for the good of the product. This tacit statement that profit comes before people has to stop.

- Ben Kuchera, "Twitter can fix its harassment problem, but why mess with success?" (via femfreq)

Allstate recognizing the struggle of living with yaoi hands

http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/96713940785/at-gdc-i-cited-a-study-where-men-exposed-to-sexy

At GDC I cited a study where men exposed to sexy women in games reacted more negatively towards a recounting of a woman’s sexual harassment

— Manveer Heir (@manveerheir)

September 4, 2014

If you don’t see the relation to the way “gamers” treat the women on the web and OUR content in...

http://lettherebedoodles.tumblr.com/post/92030709095/over-the-last-year-i-have-had-a-lot-of-eye

(( Over the last year, I have had a lot of eye opening experiences and personal conflicts that I’ve had to deal with, some self inflicted and others inflicted upon me, and I’d like to, for a moment, address a few observations I’ve had, and a few lessons learned.

It is amazing to me that someone...

I'm not trying to dispute the special white boy problem but I will say that Metz has a reason for being all shocked by the customs. He has some sort of amnesia and doesn't remember anything from before he was found and almost sacrificed to the god of death.

Considering his mysterious background, I sort of get the feeling that Metz is a character that represents our time and through which the modern reader can explore the story's universe. It is pretty sad though that the artist thought he had to be white for that.

Even so, the racial representation in BTOM is better than most webcomics where people of color are often solitary, token characters. Here we have almost an entire cast of interesting, complex Aztecs and one white guy. It's a bit annoying that he's so speshul but I do appreciate the thought that went in to not only the fantastic setting but the other main characters who frankly are a lot more intriguing than Metz.

Special White Boy Syndrome

I have a webcomic rant, but if you’re a postive thinking person who can’t stand to see any artist criticized, then kindly ignore this. I don’t want to be a hater, but I am also an opinionated person with lots of feelings.

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Pogo feeding grapes to Merritt. ;)

To celebrate 100 pages of Demon of the Underground, I’m holding a special sketch request event.  The rules are simple: follow step 1, step 2, and step 3 above, and reblog this post with your selection typed out at the bottom.  (e.g. “Pogo petting Annie”.  And yes, if you really want to, you can request something like “Troy feeding grapes to Troy.”).

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-Only one request per reblog

-You can reblog more than once, but please request something different each time

-Maximum 1 reblog per day

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Requests are open until next Monday August 11 at 11:59pm CT.  I will randomly pick one winner on Tumblr and one winner on Facebook, where the celebration is also running.  Each winner will be posted respectively to Tumblr or Facebook that Thursday, August 14.

Did you request something awesome that didn’t get picked?  If I’m inspired, I might still use it for a future TWC voting incentive.

So there you go!  Request away, and let the weirdness begin! :D