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What an odd comparison. Doom Patrol had a moinkey fighting a robot, for example, and it was not held up as an example of comics being more like Mrs Dalloway. Seems like a bit of a straw man argument, or rather big-nosed drowned straw women. Like Aunt Sally.
Briefly, because sleepy:
So, Heidi MacDonald doesn't know anything about the superhero genre?
I said we shouldn't make assumptions about her one way or the other
You said that a review from somebody who knew nothing about the superhero genre would be as useless as a review of an NFL match by somebody who knew nothing about American Football. This was predicated on ythe assumption that Jess Lemon was ignorant of superhero comics (and a real person, or a complete homunculus). However, since you also want Jess Lemon to be Heidi MacDonald, this analogy falls apart if Heidi MacDonald knows anything about superhero comics. I was asking whether it was the case that Heidi MacDonald knows nothing about superhero comics. If you do not know the answer, be so good as not to try to belittle the question because it problematises your doublethink. You have already made assumptions about the reviewer. Yours just happen to be self-contradictory. If you do know the answer, be so good as to share it, and we can see which of your Schrodinger's disses is correct.
Then, you attempt to argue that if Heidi MacDonald *does* know something about superhero comics, this makes her assumptions about what sonebody who did not know anything about superhero comics unsafe. This is true, but so blindingly obvious that I really didn't think it needed to be uncovered. I believe I used the term artifice what feels like three years ago.
I guess we just disagree. We see this in other markets as well.
Bad rhetoric, or bad English. If we just disagree, then you believe that we see this in other markets as well. If we do in fact see this in other markets as well, then we do not just disagree; one of us is manifestly wrong. The fact that you have yet to identify any situation in another medium in which this situation has played out in this manner is not enormously relevant either way - perhaps pop music would be a fertile ground for exempla?
It's so broad as to be useless.
It is sufficiently broad that it might be discussd in any number of ways. You have chosen, predictably, to go for the personal attack, the unsupported statement, the incoherent arguments defended with intransigence and abuse, and have succeeded, I think, in boring me comatose. For you, the thread is indeed useless, and you have prevailed by making it useless for me by depressing the Hell out of me with the standard of discussion. Ah well. Back to whether Grant Morrison could beat Alan Moore in a fight, I suppose. |
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