DO NOT FEED

Dave Sim is on the bulletin boards again, brandishing his special brand of delusion like a gleaming, lunatic sceptre, raised high into the sky. Which means, basically, that it's Tuesday. He's holding court over on Sequential Tart about his new comic on women and fashion--which itself is so bizarre that conceptualizing it is kind of like pondering a Zen koan--and it's going a little something like this:

Well, I have to say that one of the problems that I've seen with feminism for some time is the absolutist extremes of its assertions. "If there is no one willing to care for you, you must care for yourself". I think if you start with the supposition that someone being "willing to care for you" (as you seem to) is an instant gratification commodity: Okay, I'm standing here waiting for someone to care for me and when they get here they better have the RIGHT ANSWERS to my Top Ten Feminist Questions, then what you have done is engineered a situation where failure is implicit. Any number of men might have cared for you, but if you subject them to a "my way or the highway" approach that you yourself wouldn't stand for a New York minute, then who's to blame when you don't have someone to care for you?
-Sim

Gail Simone and Heidi MacDonald, two of the strongest and most well-spoken women in comics, both make appearances, but honestly guys--I know Sim is a brilliant creator, but I have no idea why so many people remain compelled to beat their heads against that particular brick wall, particularly when it only feeds directly into Sim's sense of self-importance and persecution.