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So, yesterday, stuff happened.
Here are some comic book professionals takes on yesterday’s goings-on.
I’m coming out of convention retirement, putting on my Emma Frost costume, & I’m going to stand in front of Tony Harris’s table and grind it
— BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (@BRIANMBENDIS) November 14, 2012
Knowing that any number of talented cosplayers of my acquaintance are suffering under the disapproving glower of men with issues enrages. — Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen) November 13, 2012
Comics artist in grotesque misogynistic rant over fake nerd girl cosplay. I can’t even. facebook.com/tony.harris.31…
— Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) November 13, 2012
Tony Harris’s comments are bad not bc he dislikes cosplay (whatever) but bc he sees women as vampiric predators exploiting powerless men.
— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) November 13, 2012
No—can’t find good anthropomorphic-aardvark photoref. RT @robmitchum @theseantcollins Is Cerebus being reissued with Tony Harris covers? — Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) November 13, 2012
Can’t hear/read/think about all this icky this Tony Harris stuff without seeing this: bit.ly/W2qY9X — Si Spurrier (@sispurrier) November 13, 2012
Ranting about cosplay girls who aren’t pretty enough for your tastes and who you can just tell aren’t real fans isn’t about cosplay.
— Kurt Busiek (@KurtBusiek) November 13, 2012
Too disgusted to even respond. Cosplayers, do what makes you happy, you don’t owe anyone else a goddamned thing.
— GailSimone (@GailSimone) November 13, 2012
I CAN’T JERK OFF IF YOU ALL KEEP BEING SO FUCKING UGLY WITH YOUR BEARDS AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT BATMAN AND SHIT. — Laurenn McCubbin (@laurennmcc) November 13, 2012
Sociologists, there’s a thesis or dissertation in this: “Male Territoriality in American Subcultures” would be the title after the colon. — Jennifer de Guzman (@Jennifer_deG) November 13, 2012
When the rest of the world decided they wanted to be geeks too: that was us *winnng*.
— Paul_Cornell (@Paul_Cornell) November 13, 2012
@storrieville @faitherinhicks The rage over nerdbaiting, positing female fans as sexy consumables, is a front for gatekeeper behavior.
— Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) November 13, 2012
If it was about cosplay, you’d include guys, and you wouldn’t judge knowledge on looks. It’s about judging and excluding women, shitheel. — Kurt Busiek (@KurtBusiek) November 13, 2012
Also: Pretty damned creepy to insist that women who aren’t interested in sleeping with male fans don’t belong. Pretty majorly damned creepy. — Kurt Busiek (@KurtBusiek) November 13, 2012
That’s right, folks, Kurt Busiek said “shitheel”. He’s never even called me a shitheel. Is he becoming Warren Ellis? Tony Harris added a further reply, saying;
So I guess I broke the Internet in half today . Lots of interesting commentary, to say the very least. Didn’t realize that many people would care about one guys opinion. Also extremely savaged and humbled by the vicious response that went so far beyond any reason whatsoever, with personal attacks on my family, my sexual history, and accusations of advances being rebuffed cosplayers, which has never ever happened. My candor and my delivery of most things can be and usually is quite blunt. Can’t help who I am, but what I’m not, and never have been is a misogynist or sexist or any number of things I was called. I have the utmost respect for all the women in my life from my mother, my sister, motherinlaw, my wife and wonderful 2 daughters. This is my final word on the subject so move on. I won’t address it again.
Gail Simone had found a positive outlook from it however. She tweeted;
I say today is COSPLAY APPRECIATION DAY. Seriously, post your favorite cosplayers on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr to show you support them.
— GailSimone (@GailSimone) November 13, 2012
It kinda took off and began trending. And out they came from so many people. Here are just a few.
Ooh, look, Mitchell Hundred.
