Neither of these really work, but the first one at least makes some sense. So why did he follow it up with the second one? What the hell does it mean?
Apparently Sean Delonas is now on Cagle.com.
1) What does this say about Daryl Cagle that he’ll support someone the NY Post washed their hands of?
2) I guess I’ll be including his work here now, assuming I don’t end this blog once Google Reader goes bye-bye.
(I’m half-serious there. While I get a number of shitty cartoons from Gocomics.com’s daily emails, I’ve gotten a lot more from the Cagle.com and AAEC RSS feeds. If anyone can recommend a good, free RSS reader besides Google Reader, I’m all ears. If not, I might just be cutting back on this blog.)
Oh boy, another “Facebook proves people don’t want privacy” bullshit argument.
Do people not understand what ‘privacy’ is? It’s an individual’s right to withhold information of their choosing from others. Just because people are tweeting about their lunch or telling anecdotes on Facebook doesn’t mean they’re giving up their right to privacy. It doesn’t mean they are suddenly sharing every last detail of their life.
How many people on Facebook are recounting every masturbation session, every time they drunk dial an ex, every sexist or mildly racist thought they have, or their entire browser history?
No matter how open an individual seems, it is a guarantee that there is something they are keeping from the public at large. Something they only share with their closest confidants, if at all.
And it is their choice what to share and what to keep private. It is only their choice. Regardless of how open they decide to be they never cede privacy completely.
Not the best analogy: saying “People are on Facebook, therefore they don’t care about privacy at all” is like saying “Her clothes are too revealing, therefore she doesn’t care if she gets molested.”
Yeah, you fucking whale who looks only negligibly larger than that guy.
So here’s the question: Is this cartoon horrible because
a) Stahler is dredging up the “Woman unhappy with her body” idea, which is simultaneously one of the oldest, lamest cliches in comedy AND an actual problem that actual women have to deal with every day.
b) Stahler couldn’t be bothered to draw the woman looking anything approaching properly obese, which means that she doesn’t need to go on a diet so much as she needs psychiatric help for her unwarranted body image issues. (And maybe a good first step would be dropping the 150 pounds that is her boyfriend/husband, who seems eager to encourage her inevitable eating disorder.)
c) It’s yet another example of Stahler being just a shitty, shitty hack with no respect for his own work.
d) All of the above?
“Yeah, I couldn’t think of anything to say about the shredding of the Fourth Amendment and the dissolution of the concept of privacy, so I just made a couple lame jokes a guy’s name and the NSA being blatant in their spying. I think I earned my paycheck.”
-Dana Summers
The NSA did not prevent the Boston Marathon bombing. Is that what Deering is getting at here, or is he ignoring that obvious fact?
EDIT: Doh! “…no more secure.” Missed that when reading this the first time, though in my defense putting A GIANT EYEBALL in the middle of the panel was kind of distracting, Deering.
No, he didn’t. At least, not a complete fabrication that could not come true. Orwell wrote about his times, but from a skewed angle. 1984 and Animal Farm were fiction in that animals cannot talk and Ingsoc never held power in Britain, but Orwell’s writing was a lens held up to the world as he saw it.
He wasn’t writing fiction. He was warning us. Danzinger presents him here almost as if he’s saying “What are the odds my dystopian future where privacy is but a memory would ever mirror reality? Crazy, huh?”
The dialogue should read “Don’t say you weren’t warned.”
Seriously.
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